Mosaic School

Mosaic’s mission is to contribute to the child’s global development in partnership with and in complement to the family. The school aims to stimulate and facilitate the child’s intellectual learning, artistic aptitudes, relational sensitivities, and emotional richness.

In the long term, Mosaic will ensure the emergence, the harmonious development and the mastery by each child of his/her competencies. In the immediate term, Mosaic aims to stimulate the child’s global vision of life and to provide a comprehensive choice of tools to pursue self-fulfillment, along with the means to face his/her future social responsibilities.

Our values that make Mosaic a unique school.

• Multiculturalism: In a world where migration – voluntary or imposed – becomes normality, Mosaic school aims at making children aware of the richness of our differences and prepares them from the very beginning of their school experience, to develop an in-depth knowledge of their own culture as well as of those they will be in contact with.
• French-English bilingualism: Our bilingual programme gives our students the opportunity to master both French and English throughout their primary classes, and offers them a wide choice of secondary schools, with a French, English or bilingual programme.
• Multiple Intelligence: The school system, as well as society in general, values logical and language intelligences. However, research by psychologists and neurologists indicate that humans use a much wider scope of intelligences. Each is particular and requires a specific environment to develop. Mosaic school supplies this.

Ethics are in the centre of Mosaic’s values : respect and autonomy. Respect is a right, autonomy is a duty. When an individual chooses to free her/himself, as much as possible, from her/his conditioning, he becomes autonomous. The ethical question is  “what should I do?”

• Education: We are all responsible—families, teachers, schools and students—because each acts as a role model for the other. Individual decisions, actions and omissions bear consequences.
• Tolerance: Tolerance is essential because no rule exists that fully directs the student, nor anyone else, to develop a conciliatory attitude enabling him/her to act responsibly, honestly and righteously.
• Humanity: It does not stop “here and now”, but remains a collective global biological, cultural, historical, geographical and social process.
• Independence: Autonomous judgments must come with the capacity to take responsibility for one’s own choices.
• Culture: Central to our teaching, cultures are carriers of knowledge and stand witness to the idea that individuals belong to a larger community.

Mosaic School offers a  bilingual program  based on the  PER – Plan d’étude romand  and the  English National Program. In order to allow each child to fully benefit from Mosaic’s bilingual program, the school has set up a compulsory language  tutoring program  for students from 3P (6 years old) who will not have spent 3 full school years in a French / English bilingual education.

Our academic program is supported by  three projects (Foreign Languages & Civilizations, Science – in cycle 3, and free project in cycles 1 and 2 – and the End of Year Show) which bring the school together around transdisciplinary subjects.

We also take into account the  diversity of intelligences  and offer our students an enriched program of theater, dance, music, non-Latin languages (Arabic, Russian and Mandarin) and various sports (swimming, sailing, climbing, PSE).

Furthermore, our programme answers the challenges of a changing world (migrations, artificial intelligence, social networks, etc…) by developing attitudes and skills in students that will be increasingly valuable in tomorrow’s world.