How the elementary school operates ?

FASN offers classes from kindergarten through fifth grade.

Our students are immersed in both the American and French educational systems, receiving approximately 3 hours of instruction per day in our 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.

The French subjects taught are French, mathematics and history-geography. The CNED is not used in elementary school.

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.

A Day at FASN’s Elementary Program:

FASN students start their school day at 8:05 AM.

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

The day concludes at 4:15 PM.

American and French equivalents

Kindergarten is the “grande section”
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.