Our Lady of Fatima offers a bilingual -Two Way Immersion Program in collaboration with Boston College and the TWIN-CS (Two Way Immersion Network for Catholic Schools). Our program is a 90/10 Two Way Immersion Model in which students learn content in more Spanish in earlier grades and increase instruction in English with each consecutive grade until they reach 50% in English.  Next year, the program will expand to 1st Grade, and so on, until it reaches 8^thgrade and all grades are dual language. Students will learn, pray, and play engaging in both languages.   Dual Language programs seek to promote linguistic equity and multiculturalism in students. 

We will have bilingual, self-contained classrooms and our staff will teach their homeroom class in both languages depending on the content. Beginning in kindergarten, students learn to read in both English and Spanish. We enhance the curriculum with cultural studies and authentic texts from Spanish-speaking countries. Our program will be regularly evaluated and teachers will receive continual, high-quality professional development in language instruction with the support of an experienced mentor.

It is important that children learn to read in their native language where their vocabulary is already established and where parents can continue to help them develop. Additionally, we know what children learn in one language will transfer to their second language. In other words, children only learn the process of reading once. 

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/sites/roche/Programs/twin-cs.html