iaia
outdoor education
IAIA is a nursery school immersed in the greenery of Baldissero Torinese (only 15 km from Turin), designed to educate children aged 13 months to 6 years in a happy, natural and stimulating environment. At IAIA children can freely enjoy their childhood in close contact with nature and learn English and Italian through a playful-sensory approach and a structured pedagogy that respects each child’s learning pace and individuality.
Our educational choices reflect some specific children’s rights that are of paramount importance to us:
Right to enjoy nature
Right to be children
Right to choose freely in the futureby learning English at an early age
“You will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters”.
– Bernard de Clairvaux –
“The muscular energy of the children, of even the smallest, is greater than we imagine, but in order that this is revealed to us it must have free play.. when children are placed in natural surroundings, then there is the revelation of their strength”.
– Maria Montessori –
Our location
The location is quite special! We are in a 19th century farmhouse whose interior spaces are designed and furnished to be child-sized. The indoor spaces include a comfortable and wide play area, a “soft” area for reading time, a tiny wooden sleeping house, an amphitheatre, a reception to welcome parents, and bathrooms for the children and teachers.
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Iaia’s most remarkable aspect is undoubtedly the wide range of natural environments available: a well-equipped fenced courtyard with an innovative playground area, endless lawns, a small forest and the vineyard, which suggest the priceless feeling of being surrounded by nothing but nature. This is the excellent educational setting where many of our educational activities will take place.
IAIA OUTDOOR EDUCATION
IAIA SRL SB – P.IVA 12306570016 – C.F. 12306570016 | Sede operativa: strada Pino Torinese 61 – 10020 Baldissero T.se (TO) – Sede legale: via Cavour 41 – 10123 TORINO