We welcome children attending other schools than the EFDB for after-school activities.
Thank you for contacting us in order to enquire about availabilities:
- For children from 3 to 6 years old (maternelle), please call +41 61 271 75 72
- For children from 6 to 12 years old (elementary school), please call +41 61 311 07 30
2025/2026 Program – Maternelle
Note: The activities start at 4pm and come after a 30-minute break for snacks and recess.
Every Day
Morning childcare
Price: CHF 230/year for for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 7.30am to 8am
Team: early childhood professionals
A morning care is available from 7.30am to 8am.
Children can play freely and get gently active before starting their day at school.
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Evening childcare
Price: CHF 670/year for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 3:30pm to 5pm and / or 5pm to 6.30pm
Team: Early childhood professionals
Children are all day long attending various activities demanding focus, energy and patience. Our playful and creative workshop give them relaxing moments or, in the opposite, allow them to play while remaining in a secure environment that the children are used to. Going out to the park, DIY activities, group games, supervised activities or free play: a wide range of options.
Note: the playful and creative workshop provides drinks but snacks are to the parents’ attention.
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Monday
Musical awakening workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Monday from 3:30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Breuillot
Little exploration games, sounds inventions, and lullabies to encourage listening and speaking. Calm moments with music (stories with sounds, musical activities to relax) and body expression games.
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Tuesday
German workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mme Niglis
On top of the 9 weekly hours learning German, each child can also attend an optional German class, taught by our teacher Melanie NIGLIS. Learning German at the Maternelle happens via poems, songs and lullabies. Throughout the year, various teachings and various steps follow one each other in order to allow children to acquire basics such as: introduce themselves, greet, thank, or count, recognize colors…
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Circus Art workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Weiss
The objective of these circus workshops is to allow children to develop their motor skills through the playful universe of circus (Balance and acrobatics games)
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Thursday
Yoga & relaxation workshop in German
Price : CHF 780/year
Schedule : Thursday between 3.30pm and 5pm (two groups alternating between 45 mins lesson and 45 mins evening care)
Team : Mme Reingruber
German class via yoga, dance and gymnastics. We create yoga movements series from short stories and images. Stories and music inspire us to dance. Relaxation and breathing exercises help children relax and become aware of their bodies. Children try to express their feelings with words after the exercises. Gymnastics gives them the dynamic dimension. Little DIY exercises are made in connection with the stories told during the workshop.
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Friday
Discovery of fairy tales and creative design throughout the seasons
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Friday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Menu
This workshop is a fun, playful, and relaxing experience that allows children to imagine, create, and express themselves through various listening and creative activities.
We follow the rhythm of the seasons to guide our workshops and help children understand their place in time.
Every Day
Morning childcare
Price: CHF 230/year for for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 7.30am to 8am
Team: early childhood professionals
A morning care is available from 7.30am to 8am.
Children can play freely and get gently active before starting their day at school.
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Evening childcare
Price: CHF 670/year for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 3:30pm to 5pm and / or 5pm to 6.30pm
Team: Early childhood professionals
Children are all day long attending various activities demanding focus, energy and patience. Our playful and creative workshop give them relaxing moments or, in the opposite, allow them to play while remaining in a secure environment that the children are used to. Going out to the park, DIY activities, group games, supervised activities or free play: a wide range of options.
Note: the playful and creative workshop provides drinks but snacks are to the parents’ attention.
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Monday
Speaking workshop – French support
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Monday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Cuche
While playing, we bring to the children joy, happiness, fulfillment and motivation to learn or reinforce their French skills.
Proposed activities:
Using play areas, lullabies, images, books without text to tell stories. Practicing echo books (life stories about real situations that were photographed).
Card games, theatre, cooking, cooperative games… and many more.
Objectives:
Enrich the vocabulary. Develop language skills. Work on syntax and articulation. Improve speaking fluidity…
How:
By performing the language activities in the context of real life situation, by living the situations, by experiencing. By creating for each child the greatest possible number of situations where verbal exchanges are required in order to produce rich and understandable conversations. By following the progress of each child.
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“Let’s discover with nature” workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Monday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Kern
The target is for the children to go out and get some fresh air (except under heavy rain), to play. We do various activities such as cooperative games, observing and collecting natural objects, visiting farm animals, scavenger hunts, land art, ice skating in winter, yoga… Clothes adapted to the weather are indispensable (rain paints, rain coats with hood, boots).
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Tuesday
English workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Moggs
Children can follow an English class (optional). For Moyenne and Grande Sections, it is a true immersion in the English language. Along English stories, we discover vocabulary via images, repeated and integrated in listening and repetitive games. Children discover lullabies, songs and fingers games. We play educative games such as Memory, Bingo and other games helping with learning the vocabulary.
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Dance workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Aublé
The target is to discover classical dance with simple movements, in a space following the rhythm of music.
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Thursday
German workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Thursday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Niglis
In addition to the 5 weekly hours of learnign German, children can attend a German class (optional) taught by our teacher Melanie NIGLIS. Learning German at the maternelle happens thanks to poems, songs and lullabies. All along the year, different learnings and different steps follow one each other in order to let children acquire fundamentals such as introduce oneself, greet, thank, count, recognize colors…
——
Circus Art workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Thursday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Weiss
The objective of these circus workshops is to allow children to develop their motor skills through the playful universe of circus (Balance and acrobatics games).
———
Friday
Yoga workshop / relaxation in German
Price: CHF 780/year
Schedule: Friday between 3.30pm to 5pm (two groups alternating 45 mins of class and 45 mins of child care)
Team: Mrs Reingruber
German class via yoga, dance et gymnastics. We will create a series of yoga poses from stories and images. Stories and music inspire us to dance. Relaxation and breathing exercises help children relax and become aware of their bodies. Children try to describe their feelings after these exercises. Gymnastics bring the dynamic side. Little DIY activities are done in connection with the stories told.
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Textile workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Friday from 3.30 to 5pm
Team: Mrs Benoit
Several objectives will be targeted through this workshop:
- Learn to create by oneself through creation and by arousing one’s autonomy.
- Development of creativity and fine motor skills, channeling of energy
- Discovery of a means of self-expression and artistic.
- Learn how to transform raw material into useful and creative accessories.
Children will be able to discover and learn about textile creation.
Activities will be adapted according to their age and ability.
The rhythm of the children will be respected while encouraging them to discover new techniques and to have the pleasure of learning and creating by themselves.
Every Day
Morning childcare
Price: CHF 230/year for for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 7.30am to 8am
Team: early childhood professionals
A morning care is available from 7.30am to 8am.
Children can play freely and get gently active before starting their day at school.
——
Evening childcare
Price: CHF 670/year for a once a week registration
Schedules: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 3:30pm to 5pm and / or 5pm to 6.30pm
Team: Early childhood professionals
Children are all day long attending various activities demanding focus, energy and patience. Our playful and creative workshop give them relaxing moments or, in the opposite, allow them to play while remaining in a secure environment that the children are used to. Going out to the park, DIY activities, group games, supervised activities or free play: a wide range of options.
Note: the playful and creative workshop provides drinks but snacks are to the parents’ attention.
——
Monday
Speaking workshop – French support
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Monday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Cuche
While playing, we bring to the children joy, happiness, fulfillment and motivation to learn or reinforce their French skills.
Proposed activities:
Using play areas, lullabies, images, books without text to tell stories. Practicing echo books (life stories about real situations that were photographed).
Card games, theatre, cooking, cooperative games… and many more.
Objectives:
Enrich the vocabulary. Develop language skills. Work on syntax and articulation. Improve speaking fluidity…
How:
By performing the language activities in the context of real life situation, by living the situations, by experiencing. By creating for each child the greatest possible number of situations where verbal exchanges are required in order to produce rich and understandable conversations. By following the progress of each child.
———
“Let’s discover with nature” workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Monday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Kern
The target is for the children to go out and get some fresh air (except under heavy rain), to play. We do various activities such as cooperative games, observing and collecting natural objects, visiting farm animals, scavenger hunts, land art, ice skating in winter, yoga… Clothes adapted to the weather are indispensable (rain paints, rain coats with hood, boots).
———
Tuesday
English workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Moggs
Children can follow an English class (optional). For Moyenne and Grande Sections, it is a true immersion in the English language. Along English stories, we discover vocabulary via images, repeated and integrated in listening and repetitive games. Children discover lullabies, songs and fingers games. We play educative games such as Memory, Bingo and other games helping with learning the vocabulary.
——
Dance workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Tuesday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Aublé
The target is to discover classical dance with simple movements, in a space following the rhythm of music.
———
Thursday
German workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Thursday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Niglis
In addition to the 5 weekly hours of learnign German, children can attend a German class (optional) taught by our teacher Melanie NIGLIS. Learning German at the maternelle happens thanks to poems, songs and lullabies. All along the year, different learnings and different steps follow one each other in order to let children acquire fundamentals such as introduce oneself, greet, thank, count, recognize colors…
——
Circus Art workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Thursday from 3.30pm to 5pm
Team: Mrs Weiss
The objective of these circus workshops is to allow children to develop their motor skills through the playful universe of circus (Balance and acrobatics games).
———
Friday
Yoga workshop / relaxation in German
Price: CHF 780/year
Schedule: Friday between 3.30pm to 5pm (two groups alternating 45 mins of class and 45 mins of child care)
Team: Mrs Reingruber
German class via yoga, dance et gymnastics. We will create a series of yoga poses from stories and images. Stories and music inspire us to dance. Relaxation and breathing exercises help children relax and become aware of their bodies. Children try to describe their feelings after these exercises. Gymnastics bring the dynamic side. Little DIY activities are done in connection with the stories told.
———
Textile workshop
Price: CHF 860/year
Schedule: Friday from 3.30 to 5pm
Team: Mrs Benoit
Several objectives will be targeted through this workshop:
- Learn to create by oneself through creation and by arousing one’s autonomy.
- Development of creativity and fine motor skills, channeling of energy
- Discovery of a means of self-expression and artistic.
- Learn how to transform raw material into useful and creative accessories.
Children will be able to discover and learn about textile creation.
Activities will be adapted according to their age and ability.
The rhythm of the children will be respected while encouraging them to discover new techniques and to have the pleasure of learning and creating by themselves.
ALL SECTIONS: After school on Wednesdays
Price: CHF 1620/year
Schedule : 1.30pm to 6.30pm
Team : Professionals specialized in young children care.
Wednesday afternoons are reserved to sports and play time.
Notes: parents can pick up their children from 5pm. If you have to come before 5pm, thank you for notifying the supervisors or secretariat in advance. Any exceptional registration must be announces before 12pm on the day before.
Moyenne Section and Grande Section : Swimming
Price : CHF 1830/year
Schedule : 1.30 to 4.30pm
Team : 1 swimming coach and 3 assistants specialized for young children
Children registered at the swimming class can either come back to school after the class until 6.30pm (at no additional charge), or leave from the swimming pool with a person authorized to pick them up.
Notes on all extracurricular activities proposed :
- Extracurricular activities will start on the first day of class.
- Depending on the number of students or the availability of rooms, extracurricular activities may be subject to changes in days and times, or may be cancelled until the end of September.
- The desired activities will be defined at the beginning of the school year and will be valid for the whole year.
- No cancellations or exchanges of days or activities will be possible during the year. However, an additional activity may be chosen, provided there are still places available in the desired group.