Since the very beginning of its existence, Little Fox Nursery School has focused on teaching English and Czech languages in the form of bilingual education. We are a Czech-English kindergarten with Czech teachers and native English-speaking teachers in our classrooms. The children thus encounter the English language and gradually acquire it in the natural context of everyday life. Here, the language fulfils a clear communicative goal that is clearly understandable or easily inferred from the context. Repeatedly matching certain expressions to situations follows the natural way of acquiring the mother tongue and thus proves to be the most natural and effective method of teaching a foreign language. 

At Little fox kindergarten, we lean towards bilingual education using the OPOL method!

According to various surveys, this method of bilingual education is the most widely used today. This pattern works very successfully with families where each parent has a different native language, but both want their child to speak both. Each parent therefore speaks to the child in his or her own language from birth and the child acquires both languages at the same time. In our kindergarten, we apply this principle by having each teacher speak exclusively in their native language. The languages are therefore not mixed during instruction, which allows children to naturally perceive and acquire both languages in an authentic environment. As a result, children learn English in the same way they learn their mother tongue – spontaneously, without translation, and with understanding.
English makes up 50% of the educational program, and native speakers spend a significant part of the day with the children – sometimes even the entire day, several times a week. We provide children with a wide range of resources for bilingual education – books, games, audiovisual materials, and thematic corners that support the natural acquisition of both languages.