I moved to France four years ago when my children were 24:14 My husband has just been released and it was a "now or never" moment - we knew if we would have expected more children have a setting very difficult time. Here are my experiences with the French school system.
The system is in French Maternelle cm, split high school and college. School children start at about three years. Go to college at the age of 11 stay, usually until they are 14 and then goin high school. The villages often have their own maternelles and CM, however, when children go to school, often at some distance from their home, their stay in the "internat", which is the equivalent of the college and will be monitored closely with 'supervisor. "
At the end of college kids take a test called Brevet, which consists of three parts: French, mathematics and science. There is no equivalent of GCSEs. Passing the certification is to promote scientific study, but preferred to walk, it is essentialdo for those who, as appropriate, because it showed evidence of suitability for further study.
Children do not automatically rise at the end of each academic year. If teachers do not feel that your child is ready for progress, it is customary to amplify "or repeat the year. This means that there is in every class of the College is a spread of ages.
French school is very formal. Children are the head when he enters the room. The lessons are very chalk and groupsWork / essay does not happen. Drama, and religion are not part of the curriculum. The practice of going to school the morning of Saturday is now rare. Before college, kids are free on Wednesdays. In college, Wednesday afternoon, usually with many sports are offered for free. The curriculum is very French academic focus - my children were now 11 languages (English, French, Spanish, Latin and Occitan), 6 hours Mathematics (at a level much higher than required in England), 3Hours of sports and the rest was divided among civics, Arts, Science & Vie Hall.
Progress is monitored by "controles", periodic tests, and there are regular parents 'evenings'.
After the freedom of the English educational system, to be honest my children do not thrive, and did was not only because they do not speak the language - after a year, were both succeeded very well. They felt oppressed by the rigidity of the structure and the inability of the system to allowIndividuality.
With 14 or the age at which a child has finished college, is a decision to be taken to continue with formal education in high school and go to the general baccalaureate, or go into an apprenticeship or go to school and one Professional work to learn. Here the French system is characterized. The number of courses available is truly mindboggling, and ensures that a child who is not a university, you get to do useful work.
My oldest, theis now almost 18, went to High School Professional Certificat d'Aptitude and received a professional (CAP) into electricity and has now gone to Brevet d'Etude Professional (BEP) into electricity. Continues the work experience and is regularly gaining in confidence every day.
My youngest, now 16, has made head-way in the system and started the International School in Bordeaux last year. He studied International GCSE and resumed after a year in which he won an A *. He Frenchis a class of 6 and is very happy. He boards with a family, the French look after him very well and comes home on weekends. Occasionally, he gets on the wrong train and called me to say it is a bit'..... will
I have not regretted it takes him to France. Children are hard-working and respectful. If you do not want to be classified 10% of the unemployed. They do not hang around the streets drunk on weekends (although this will happen during the weeks of celebration). I can not rememberThe last time I saw a guy pushing a stroller. I'm not obsessed with shopping. I know that if we were in England, that my oldest would result from the system with nothing. In a large English, a child can be easily lost in a thousand more children. In college he went to the French, the white leaders of every child - not as difficult as it is only 80 throughout the school - and any charge quickly nipped in the bud.
If you're wonderingwhether to make the move, I would say "it" Go!
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