Pre-Primary
2-5 Year Olds
A very special feature of the French system is that it offers education to children as young as two years old.
The objectives of the pre-primary school program are for your child to acquire a rich oral language, to learn to socialize, to exercise their motor skills and to begin sensory, emotional, relational and intellectual development.
To meet the diverse needs of young children, EFIB encourages learning through games, art and craft projects, fun and varied plays and songs, all of which help to enrich the training of their personality and cultural awakening. A solid academic foundation also begins in the pre-primary program with the introduction of early numeracy skills as well as phonics training and literacy. These early foundations are in both English and French.
The teachers focus on making children comfortable with their learning of a new language and ensure each one of them is given both a schedule and the autonomy to live his own experiences and yet foster the acquisition of knowledge, which will be be systematically learned during the Primary.
The program
The Pre-Primary structures its program in five main domains, each one of them being essential to the development of the child and constituting the foundation for their learning. Each one of these domains actively participates and complements each other in the acquisition of language skills and anchors its use in authentic communications, by experience and by action:
- Language at the heart of all learning
- Living together
- act and express yourself through your body
- Discover the World
- sensibility, imagination and creation
At EFIB, three teachers helped by four pre-primary assistants follow up the students promoting a peer learning environment fostering solidarity and ensuring all children are properly catered for and listened to.
The classes
Beginning of the next school year, the classrooms will be structured as follows:
- A TPS class led by Mounia and Anshu
- A PS class under the leadership of Anshu and Denis
- A MS class under the responsibility of Matilda and Amrita
- A GS class followed by Matilda and Amrita
Twice a year, parents are invited to speak about their children's progress and receive the official grading booklets, which evaluate the acquisition of knowledge and competencies as described in the official programs of the French National Education.
