ABOUT BLUEBONNET

Bluebonnet School was born to believe that education is the only way for transformation. We believe in the crucial importance of early years in the future potential of the child.

Brain development occurs through education. Under this approach, Bluebonnet guides the learning process to take advantage of what neuroscientists call "windows of knowledge", which occur in the critical period that goes from 0 to 6 years of age, when brain activity is more intense by formation of interconnections among neurons.

Learning English as a second language takes the specified window that opens at that stage, thus occurring in a natural, spontaneous and unbiased way and without language vices. Once that window is closed (when the children are around 10 years old) learning will become progressively more painful. From the neurological point of view, nothing prevents the child from learning two languages simultaneously.

One of our differentials is to be able to provide the children with English immersion through projects and everyday life routine. These are the ideal years to lay the foundations of logical and mathematical thinking, to explore the child’s "Multiple Intelligences", which involve everything from classical music to the development of projects, through activities in the Arts Studio, in the Toy Library, Gardening and Cooking, which aim to arouse the children’s multiple talents, encouraging their creativity, sense of initiative and responsibility.

Our educational philosophy is based on the Socioconstructivism concept, in The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Education Projects. Bluebonnet offers work propositions where every child is an active agent of his knowledge, seeking answers to problems, situations, taking initiatives and assuming responsibility. We guarantee the construction of meaningful knowledge in a stimulating challenging, safe, dynamic, and, above all, happy environment. We appreciate the investigative approach, the formation of attitudes and values, the concern in exploring multiple talents, independence, creativity and quality of teaching and learning in a bilingual context.

Bluebonnet Bilingual School (Elementary School) was born from the need to continue the work already done in Preschool. Thus, the school will continue to respect and fully develop the mission to sharpen in the students the value of the importance of knowledge, making pupils agents of their own learning.

With a differentiated methodology, interweaving the bilingual curriculum, along with the pedagogy of projects and the Multiple Intelligences, we have as foundationsof our educational pedagogical proposition four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, learning to be.

LEARNING TO KNOW

In this type of learning, there is the concern of waking in the student willingness to learn, to want to know more and better. The ideal will always be that education is seen not only as a means to an end, but also as an end in itself. This motivation can only be aroused by competent educators, sensitive to the students’ needs, able to present to them appropriate methodologies, illustrators of the subjects of studies and facilitators of retention and comprehension of all of them. It is intended to awaken in each student the thirst for knowledge, the ability to learn better and better, helping them to develop the weapons and intellectual and cognitive devices that enable them to build their own opinions and critical thinking.

LEARNING TO DO

Learning to do is essentially implementingin practice their theoretical knowledge. For this to happen, a key point to focus on this learning is communication. Not only retaining and transmitting information but also interpreting and selecting the flow of often contradictory information, which we are bombarded with, analyzing different perspectives, and rebuilding their own opinions through new facts and information. Learning to do involves a series of techniques to be worked.

LEARNING TO LIVE WITH OTHERS

This area of learning is a major challenge for educators, as it focuses on the attitudes and values. In this field we may name tackling conflict, prejudice, or ancient rivalries daily. We bet on education as a vehicle of peace, tolerance and understanding.

LEARNING TO BE

This type of learning depends directly on the other three. Like learning to live with others, here we talk of education in values and attitudes, but no longer directed to the social life in particular, but specifically for individual development. It is intended to form autonomous individuals, intellectually active and independent, able to establish interpersonal relationships, to communicate and evolve constantly, to intervene in society in a conscious and proactive way.