EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Outside of school hours, AIS has a library, study and support rooms, and extracurricular activities, in addition to leisure and outdoor playground areas.
Yoga practice promotes psychomotor and emotional development in children.
Objectives:
- To help babies sleep better;
- Activate the digestive system and relieve colic and constipation;
- To support the immune system;
- To promote tranquility in the baby, reducing restlessness and irritation;
- Promote good posture and muscle stretching;
- Favor the muscular and articular development;
- Provide a general sense of well-being to babies;
Judo was created in 1882, in Japan, by master Jigoro Kano.
It is a method of self-defense based on physical and mental harmony, which consists in using the opponent’s movements to defeat him. It favors technique over strength or, in philosophical terms, culture and intelligence over violence.
The practice of Judo develops high levels of endurance, strength and flexibility, while providing motor acquisition of effective defense techniques.
Objectives:
- Promotes self-esteem, well-being;
- Stimulates physical condition;
- Encourages determination, persistence, and resilience;
- Promotes respect, sincerity, honor, and friendship.
Schedule: twice a week
Target group: Aged 3 and up
Children’s classical ballet classes, through playful and educational activities, exercises and sequences, allow us to stimulate the development of creativity and the children’s physical and artistic condition.
Objectives:
- To work on stretching and flexibility;
- Work motor coordination and balance;
- Promote musicality and rhythm;
- Contribute with concentration and memorization exercises;
Schedule: twice a week
Target group: Aged 3 and up
Piano is a musical activity that through the acquisition of musical knowledge and practice, works multiple skills, stimulates motor skills, hearing, reasoning, the notions of proportion and rhythm, emotions, sensitivity and thus makes several areas of the brain work simultaneously developing a rhythmic sense.
Objectives:
- Development of cognitive skills, hearing, vision, and spatial reasoning;
- Motor coordination;
- Improve concentration;
- Stimulate creativity;
Target Group: Aged 4 and up
Schedule: twice a week
The practice of Football (Escolinha do Figo), in the first years of growth, has benefits in the physical, psychological and social development of the students.
Physically, it increases the muscular power of the legs, improves cardiovascular capacity, stimulates reaction speed and motor coordination.
In the psychological domain, it develops peripheral vision in children and youngsters, stimulates cognitive skills, such as the need to quickly plan each move, helps develop confidence, self-esteem, and discipline, as well as contributing to the building of social skills.
In terms of socialization, the practice of this activity encourages children to work together towards a common goal, promoting sharing and responsibility.
Escolinha do Figo at AIS implements an exclusive methodology, conceived by Luís Figo- composed of training sessions supported by special multimedia content and collaborating with other academies.
Objectives
- Create habits of healthy occupation, where friendship and social interaction prevail.
- To provide access to the practice of football to all children and young people – from 3 to 14 years old, of both sexes.
- Develop game techniques and tactics;
- Concentration;
- Develop peripheral vision
- Develop unpredictability
- Speed of decision making
- Learn the rules.
Target Group: Aged 5 and up
Schedule: Once a week
Chess is a game that appeared in Europe in the second half of the 15th century.
It is one of the games that most stimulates memory, concentration, and reasoning in children. Children are able to learn the movements of the chess pieces from the age of 5.
Objectives:
- To stimulate the child’s attention and concentration;
- Teach the value of respect of the child towards his opponent;
- Promote patience;
- Stimulate memory;
- Increase self-esteem;
- Stimulating the logical thinking of the child;
- Making decisions;
- Stimulate the ability to deduce;
- Increase the child’s ability to predict or observe something in advance.
- Target group: Aged 5 and up
Schedule: Twice a week
For English, AIS offers Cambridge University courses, from Young Learners to the most advanced professional examinations.
AIS also offers German, French and Portuguese courses for foreigners, with the same objective: to ensure that our students are taught these languages.
Target group: Aged 5 and up
Schedule: Twice a week
The Astoria Choir is a free extracurricular activity that aims to explore different musical repertoires. Students can acquire new knowledge and vocal techniques.
This project will be presented to the school community on previously selected dates.
Objectives:
- Development of sequential memory;
- Improve diction;
- Develop the ability to improvise;
- Promote concentration;
- Contact with other cultures;
- Stimulation of Creativity.
Target Group: Aged 4 and up
Schedule: Once a week
Rugby is a sport that promotes the development of physical fitness and essential educational and social values such as solidarity, discipline, rigor, team spirit, facilitating inclusion and personal fulfillment.
Objectives
- Create habits of healthy occupation, where friendship and social interaction prevail.
- Develop game techniques and tactics;
- Concentration;
- Develop peripheral vision
- Develop unpredictability;
- Speed of decision making;
- Learn the rules.
Target Group: Aged 5 and up
Schedule: Once a week