NATÀLIA PERARNAU, kids&Us' mum
I still remember the thrill I felt when I opened my own language school (English Study Centre) when I was only 23 years old. I was young but English had always been my passion and teaching would be the perfect excuse to practise it and would enable me to widen my knowledge.
In the beginning, my school was targeted at teenage and adult public but it didn't take me much time to confirm what news headlines claim: in spite of the years our students spend learning English, the average level of competence in English is very low! What a disappointment! I did not want to resign myself to thinking that my students would be part of the statistics that confirm the failure of the system and the traditional methodology.
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Therefore, in 2000, after having my first baby, I started getting interested in early stimulation. I was willing to offer my child the best and, when it came to teaching English to her, it could not be any different! Therefore, it was that same year when I decided to extend the facilities of my school and be able to offer English lessons to children from 3 years old (Kids). Having seen that there was not a high-quality product for my students in the market and seeing how my child was learning English, I decided in 2003 to develop and start to implement my own methodology, kids&Us english for little people.
Three years later, I decided to offer it to other language schools around Catalonia so that I could have the resources to keep developing it and thus guaranteeing its quality.
Currently, Kids&Us english for little people is being used in 35 language schools in Spain, and more than 5.000 children are learning English with this methodology. What a responsibility! I cannot stop working and developing new ideas to go on offering the best to all of those who have relied on Kids&Us as the best product.