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The 100 Languages Exhibition

The 100 Languages Exhibition

Every year at Claymore, we wrap up the school year with our cherished tradition—the 100 Languages Exhibition—a meaningful celebration of children’s learning. The “100 Languages”, a poem written by Loris Malaguzzi, represents the endless possibilities for children to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas, enabling them to gain new understandings of the world around them, whether through the language of paint, wire, movement, or other creative forms.

This exhibition is an opportunity for the entire school community to come together, where children excitedly showcase their learning to their families, and teachers and parents connect to unpack each child’s unique learning journey. The school is transformed into a vibrant gallery, with children’s work aesthetically displayed in classrooms or shared learning spaces, highlighting the rich inquiry-based learning that has taken place throughout the year.

The meaningful moments of the exhibition don’t end there—after the event, children’s art pieces remain on display throughout the school, continuing to reinforce their sense of ownership and belonging. This tradition not only celebrates the diversity of expression but also strengthens the bond between home and school, creating a lasting impact on everyone involved.

– EtonHouse International Pre-School Claymore

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Exploring the Meaning of Mark-Making

This exhibition presents:

  • moments of the Earliest Encounters with marks, realised by children from 6 to 18 months
  • learning journeys of children from 4 to 6 years old, making sense of The Marks of Culture using culturally significant mark-making materials.

This exhibition aims to make visible how mark-making offers opportunities for children to develop understandings about functions of tools, cause and effect, imaginative expressions, social relationships and the joy of simply being with familiar people and places.

– E-Bridge Pre-Schools

By invitation from REACH in the spirit of the 2024 conference ‘In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: Listening to Children’s Languages through the Mosaic of Marks, Words, Material’, we were very excited to bring together our very own poetic mosaic with thoughtful projects that captured the complexity of children’s thinking and learning. 

Our exhibition celebrated the many ways children notice, analyse and communicate with the magic and unlimited potential of marks in diverse ways!

As we pondered about marks and their powerful potential, we invited our EtonHouse educators to discuss and dialogue as we asked, ‘What does a mark mean to you? Using responses from our educators, we were excited to launch our ‘More than just a Mark’ poem as a celebration of perspectives to honour the exhibition and provoke many conversations into the future.

“Marks are clues! They are messages… but you have to slow down to see them!” Willow, 7 years old

– EtonHouse International Schools and Pre-Schools

Many people may not know Reggio Emilia. Reggio Emilia is a small town, but for us preschool educators, it is a place where a legend began.

I feel like the whole town is maintaining, developing, and running this education system as a big group. Reggio Emilia people turn their educational “characteristics” into a “highlight”, and eventually build a “selling point” and promote it to the world.

We don’t just need to learn from Reggio Emilia’s approach that “every child is unique” and how to integrate the natural environment into our teaching; It is also important to learn from the efforts of Reggio Emilia educators in promoting their own teaching systems.

或许并没有很多人知道瑞吉欧.艾米利亚这个小城市,但是对于我们幼教者而言,却是一个传奇开始的地方。

我觉得整个小镇都在维持、发展、经营这个教育理念。瑞吉欧人把自己在教学上的“特点”变成一个“亮点”,最终打造成一个“卖点”,并推广到全世界。

我们不止要学习瑞吉欧在教育理念中所提倡的“每个孩子都是独一无二的”、学习如何将自然环境融合在教学中;同时也要学习瑞吉欧的教育工作者在推广自身教学体系中所付出的努力。

Reflection by:
Xu Liping 徐莉萍
Mandarin Curriculum Coordinator
EtonHouse Pre-School Newton