École Notre-Dame Des Vallees

Great school, highly recommended for any French background families. There is a preschool program available through Les Petites Abilies which is also great.

The are things I love about this school and things which I would love to be changed without delays.

Great thing at this school:
1. Mme Melina - absolutely amazing teacher. I feel she was born to teach kids - passionate about teaching, full of positive effective ideas how to communicate with kids, relaxed and happy person who does care about children, who never even think to raise her voice on kids, but instead motivates them and finds ways to heart and brain of each kid. Very talented teacher.
10 out of 5 to her. Thank you Melina for being a Great Teacher to our child!

2. Another Great teacher there is Mme Amelie - also a real treasure of this school. Full of creative ideas and positive, relaxed ability to communicate with her students and their parents.

3. I really like that kids get outside walk time before lessons begin when it is not too cold and it is upto 3 days a week. Very cool!

4. School principal is an active mind sport oriented person which is very healthy for kids and teachers I beleive.
At my child class they have stability balls and other good funky chairs for kids to help bodies developing balance and a bit help preventing posture issues appearance, brilliant kid's size spinning bike with safe adjustments.
- I love this.
School also creates sporty programms during school time like rollerskating lessons, swimming, even basketball and floor hockey.
- brilliant!

Thing need to be changed there -
this is one of the fact which influences on my mark 3 out of 5 stars:

Pop youtube type of music which pretends to be "kids for" but really - often has adults body shaky shake movements which kids listen, watch and repeat during their recess.

I'd rather prefer them to play their Kids games or to be involved in classical team games like basketball/any ball game, skipping rope and other skill developing activities.

I think this school has a nice Physical Education Teacher Mme Adele, and I beleive she could help with sport activities during recess.