Little Philo School Montessori

What Little Philo School Montessori offers English speakers in Antibes

Little Philo is a small bilingual Montessori school in Antibes taking children from two to eleven, arranged in four multi-age groups with no more than ten children in a class. French and English run as separate curricula rather than one translated into the other, each taught by a native speaker, so a child follows both languages with someone who has that language as their own.

Mixed-age classes are standard Montessori practice: younger children watch work they will come to later, older ones consolidate what they know by explaining it. At ten to a group there is room for that to actually happen. The school also runs philosophy sessions with children from age five, which is where the name comes from and which is unusual enough at primary level to be worth asking about on a visit. For a family arriving in Antibes without French, a group this small alongside a genuinely split bilingual timetable is the practical draw, since a child who understands little of what is said gains nothing from sitting in a class of thirty.