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Parents want their children academically learn a second language, including performing answer questions relating to thematic units such as prepared with the 21st-century skill better than monolingual students on tasks that numbers, colors, food, school, clothing, hobbies, set to compete and succeed in a global involve divergent thinking, pattern recognition, and occupations. They are also learning to read, marketplace. PVSchools provides students with and problem-solving. write, and present their work in the language they the pathway to achieve this goal with Mandarin are learning. Immersion at Whispering Wind Academy and Studies also suggest that children who learn a Spanish Immersion at Sandpiper Elementary world language receive cognitive benefits that The school day is structured so that students spend School and Sunrise Middle School. extend to learning in other subjects. Immersed 50 percent of the day learning subjects in English, students typically demonstrate higher mental and the other half of the instructional day learning WHY CONSIDER A DUAL LANGUAGE flexibility on tasks, the ability to problem-solve subjects in Mandarin or Spanish. IMMERSION PROGRAM FOR YOUR more fluidly, and better communication skills. CHILD? At the middle school level, a block of classes, Younger learners have the capacity to develop A SNAPSHOT OF THE DUAL LANGUAGE including Science, Social Studies, and Spanish near native-like pronunciation and intonation IMMERSION PROGRAMS AT PVSCHOOLS are taught completely in Spanish. Students work in the new language. Being bilingual enhances From the moment students step into one of our on conversational skill development and explore opportunities in government, business, law, immersion classrooms, they are fully immersed Spanish-speaking cultures and societies around the medicine and health care, teaching, technology, in the language and culture. Classrooms are world. the military, communications, industry, social decorated with purpose and are stocked with service, and marketing. instructional materials to help support each child’s Learn more about PVSchools Dual Language learning in the classroom. Immersion Programs by scheduling a tour: Research shows that the best time for a child • Mandarin at Whispering Wind Academy: 602to learn a second language is from birth to 12 In kindergarten through 6th grade, students 449-7300 or www.pvschools.net/wwa years old, while a child’s brain is still developing in the Mandarin and Spanish Dual Language • Spanish at Sandpiper Elementary School: 602language skills. Immersion Programs are learning to talk about 449-6300 or www.pvschools.net/spes themselves – their name, age, family, hobbies, and • Spanish at Sunrise Middle School: 602-449-6100 There are many long-term benefits for a child to community. Students are also learning to ask and or www.pvschools.net/srms
For every child at every grade, PVSchools will help unwrap your child’s gifts.
• Award-winning Fine Arts programs • Language Immersion (Spanish and Mandarin) • Preschool to 12th grade gifted services • District-wide STEM/STEAM programs • K-12 International Baccalaureate programmes • Suzuki Strings, a violin program • Career and Technical Education programs
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