The nursery school welcomes children at the start of compulsory education, which begins at age 3. Kindergarten is an essential step in the students’ journey to guarantee their academic success. Its main mission is to make children want to go to school to learn, assert and develop their personality.
It is a school where children will learn together and live together. They develop their oral language and begin to discover writing, numbers and other areas of learning. They learn by playing, thinking and problem solving, practicing, recalling and memorizing.
Elementary school welcomes children aged 6 to 11.
The programs are national and compulsory for all teachers and students.
The courses are designed by cycle, lasting three years:
- Cycle 2, or fundamental learning cycle, includes the preparatory course (CP), the first year elementary course (CE1) and the second year elementary course (CE2);
- Cycle 3, or consolidation cycle, includes the first year average course (CM1) and the second year average course (CM2); the consolidation cycle continues in college, in the sixth grade.
The college is the secondary level establishment which, at the end of elementary school, welcomes all school children. They attend four years of schooling there.
The college accepts all pupils at the end of primary school without a passing exam. It allows all students to be educated in a single setting.
College education has four years: 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd.
Compulsory education is organized in three-year cycles, which give the time needed to learn better. In college, the sixth is the last year of cycle 3, the other levels make up cycle 4.
At the end of middle school, students can continue their education in a general and technological school or in a vocational school. Schooling takes place in three years: the second, the first and the final.For more info :
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