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Elementary School

Operating mode

How the elementary school operates ?

FASN offers classes for children from kindergarten to Fifth grade. FASN students attend classes from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (times vary from school to school).

Children first follow the American immersion program in the American class to which they belong. They follow, in their FASN class (which is located within the American school), the French curriculum 1 hour during the American course and after the end of the American courses.

The French subjects taught are French, mathematics and history-geography. Theres is no CNED.

Approximately 3 hours a day are devoted to the French program, which means that every day an American slot is replaced by an FASN class. In FASN classes, students are in small classes and can sometimes be in multi-levels.

Worth knowing: On arrival, and until their level of English is deemed sufficient, students are supervised by a teacher specialized in teaching English to non-English-speaking children (English Second Language Programme, ESL). This teacher will help them integrate into the school and make them more comfortable with the English language.

American and French equivalents

1st grade is CP
2nd grade is CE1
3rd grade is CE2
4th grade is CM1
5th grade is CM2

 

Advantages of this approach

  • Avoiding a break with the French school system, and making it easier to return to French schools;
  • Almost total immersion in the American system;
  • Relieving the burden on parents and children, as French courses are taught by FASN (no online courses)
  • Develop children’s adaptability, as they gradually learn to juggle two different systems in terms of pedagogical, social and linguistic codes;
  • Build relationships between Americans and French.

Elementary School

Operating Mode

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