OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM

A French education in a multilingual and multicultural environment

From Maternelle to Terminale, our students benefit from a rigorous teaching, based on the French curriculum drawn up by the French Ministry of National Education. Students prepare the Diplôme national du Brevet (last year of lower secondary education) and then the French Baccalauréat (final exam before finishing high school).

Our school is also recognised by the ARACIP (Romanian Ministry of Education)


The Maternelle, for children from 2,5 to 5 years old:  the first learning cycle

The French education system provides teaching to children from the age of 2. This is the first cycle of primary school and the first learning steps that come with it. The Maternelle is divided into 3 different age groups:

  • la très petite section (Nursery class – 2,5 years old)
  • la petite section (Nursery class – 3 years old),
  • la moyenne section (Reception class – 4 years old),
  • la grande section (1 year class – 5 years old)

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What are the main objectives at this stage?
  • To provide children with an atmosphere and a living environment conducive to their autonomy and their first experiences
  • To bring about situations in which children will be encouraged to interact with their environment, mainly playing, verbalising carrying out group activities, searching on their own, and making sensory and physical experiences
  • To encourage children’s participation by switching between guided, partially guided or unguided workshops planned during the day, in accordance with the teacher’s objectives.
  • To foster both their socialisation and their discovery of the world, which will ultimately lay the foundations for their future knowledge acquisition.
Five priority learning fields:
  • Handling all language combinations
  • Taking action, expressing oneself and seeking to understand through physical activities
  • Taking action, expressing oneself and seeking to understand through artistic activities
  • Providing children with the right tools to structure their thinking/mind
  • Exploring the world

In Maternelle, children do not actually learn how to read, instead, they are taught to decode written words and should be able to do so by the end of the cycle.

Assessment

The assessment is based on our daily observation of the children. They progress at their own pace to acquire new skills in each one of the 5 priority fields. Children take part in their own assessment by completing their “Cahier de réussite” (Achievement notebook).

Timetable

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday :

  • 8:20am : opening of the school
  • 8:30am : beginning of classes
  • 3:20pm : End of classes

Wednesday: classes finish at 11:50am

Detailed program