Extracurricular Activities

To occupy non-teaching hours, AIS offers a library, study and support rooms, and extracurricular activities, as well as leisure spaces and outdoor playgrounds.

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The practice of yoga promotes the psychomotor and emotional development of children.

Objectives:

  • Help babies sleep better;
  • Activate the digestive system and relieve colic and constipation;
  • Boost the immune system;
  • Promote calmness in babies, reducing restlessness and irritability;
  • Encourage good posture and muscle stretching;
  • Support muscular and joint development;
  • Provide a general sense of well-being for babies.

Judo was created in 1882 in Japan by Master Jigoro Kano.

It is a method of self-defence based on physical and mental harmony, which involves using the movements of an opponent to defeat them. It prioritises technique over strength or, in philosophical terms, culture and intelligence over violence.

Practising Judo develops high levels of endurance, strength, and flexibility while also providing the motor skills needed for effective defensive techniques.

Objectives:

  • Promotes self-esteem and well-being;
  • Stimulates physical fitness;
  • Encourages determination, persistence, and resilience;
  • Fosters respect, sincerity, honour, and friendship.

Frequency: Twice a week

Target Audience: From 3 years old

The children’s classical ballet classes, through playful and educational activities, exercises, and sequences, stimulate the development of creativity as well as the physical and artistic abilities of the children.

Objectives:

  • Focus on stretching and flexibility;
  • Enhance motor coordination and balance;
  • Promote musicality and a sense of rhythm;
  • Contribute through exercises in concentration and memorisation.

Target Audience: From 3 years old

Frequency: Twice a week

Piano is a musical activity that, through the acquisition of musical knowledge and practices, works on multiple skills, stimulating motor functions, hearing, reasoning, notions of proportion and rhythm, emotions, and sensitivity. This process engages various areas of the brain simultaneously, enhancing the sense of rhythm and sound.

Objectives:

  • Development of cognitive skills, hearing, vision, and spatial reasoning;
  • Motor coordination;
  • Improvement of concentration;
  • Stimulation of creativity.

Target Audience: From 4 years old

Frequency: Twice a week

The practice of Football (Figo’s School) in the early years of development has benefits for students’ physical, psychological, and social development.

Physical Benefits:
It increases muscular power in the legs, improves cardiovascular capacity, and stimulates reaction speed and motor coordination.

Psychological Benefits:
It develops children’s and youths’ peripheral vision, stimulates cognitive skills, such as the need to quickly plan each play, and helps build confidence, self-esteem, and discipline. Additionally, it contributes to the development of social skills.

Socialisation:
This activity encourages children to work together towards a common goal, promoting sharing and responsibility.

The Figo’s School at AIS implements an exclusive methodology designed by Luís Figo, consisting of training sessions supported by special multimedia content, as well as training and social events with other academies.

Objectives:

  • To create healthy habits of engagement, where friendship and social interaction prevail.
  • To provide access to football practice for all children and young people aged 3 to 14, regardless of gender.
  • To develop game techniques and tactics;
  • Concentration;
  • Development of peripheral vision;
  • To enhance unpredictability;
  • Speed of decision-making;
  • To learn the rules.

Target Audience: From 5 years old

Frequency: Once a week

Chess is a game that originated in Europe in the second half of the 15th century.

It is one of the games that most stimulates children’s memory, concentration, and reasoning skills. Children can learn the movements of the chess pieces from the age of 5.

Objectives:

  • To stimulate the child’s attention and concentration;
  • To instil the value of respect towards their opponent;
  • To promote patience;
  • To enhance memory;
  • To increase self-esteem;
  • To stimulate the child’s logical reasoning;
  • To encourage decision-making;
  • To foster deductive abilities;
  • To improve the child’s ability to anticipate or observe something in advance.

Target Audience: From 5 years old

Frequency: Twice a week

 

In the field of English, AIS offers courses from the University of Cambridge, ranging from Young Learners to more advanced professional examinations.

AIS also provides courses in German, French, and Portuguese for foreigners, with the same aim: to ensure the teaching of these languages to our students.

Target Audience: From 5 years old

Frequency: Twice a week

The Astoria Choir is a free extracurricular activity aimed at exploring different musical repertoires. Students have the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and vocal techniques.

This project will be presented to the school community on previously selected dates.

Objectives:

  • Development of sequential memory
  • Improvement of diction
  • Development of improvisational skills
  • Promotion of concentration
  • Contact with other cultures
  • Stimulation of creativity

Target Audience: From 4 years old

Schedule: Once a week

Rugby is a sport that promotes the development of physical condition and essential educational and social values, such as solidarity, discipline, rigor, and team spirit, facilitating inclusion and personal fulfillment.

Objectives:

  • Create healthy occupation habits that foster friendship and social interaction.
  • Develop techniques and game tactics.
  • Enhance concentration.
  • Develop peripheral vision.
  • Foster unpredictability.
  • Improve decision-making speed.
  • Learn the rules.

Target Audience: From 5 years old

Schedule: Once a week

Enrollment Form

Pre-Registrations Open

  1. The enrollment of new students can be done throughout the year in accordance with current legislation.

  2. After the family fills out the enrollment form, AIS will send an email to schedule a visit with the Psychology and Guidance Department, where the AIS educational project and admission conditions will be presented.

  3. The student’s enrollment will be completed after an in-person visit to the school, upon completion and signing of the necessary documentation for enrollment at AIS.

  4. The enrollment fee includes the cost of school insurance.

  5. In the event of withdrawal/transfer of the student to another educational institution, the enrollment fee will not be refunded.

  6. Enrollment, which grants the status of a student at Astoria International School, implies acceptance of the legal rights and duties applicable under the Internal Regulations.