In our school, we follow standard pedagogical models, such as the Reggio Emilia pre-school curriculum, focusing on the child's all-round and balanced development (cultivation of cognitive, emotional and social intelligence), using creative activities as a basic tool.
The visual arts offer opportunities for comprehensive and meaningful learning, since the child becomes familiar with different expressive possibilities, cultivates his/her imagination, becomes aware of the environment in which he/she lives, discovers himself/herself and the relationships he/she wants to build with others.
In the workshop, the goal of the teachers is active learning, providing children with the appropriate stimuli so that they can freely choose the materials they will use to give form to their thoughts and feelings.
By painting they come into contact with different materials, such as oil pastels, inks, finger paints, chalks , they learn different techniques of use, as well as original combinations of these with other materials such as sponges, potatoes, rolls, fabrics, foam, sand, salt, flour and ice.
A variety of plastic materials and materials from the natural environment and industrial production are spread out on the workbenches, providing children with the opportunity for free choice and experimentation.
What matters is not the result, in the dominant sense of beauty as perceived by adults, but the process and all the themes and work projects organised are carried out entirely by the children. The educator intervenes simply to suggest solutions and alternative directions.