Our edu­ca­tional pro­gram involves both French and Eng­lish, but with more time given to French in the early grades. This will not be detri­men­tal to your child’s acqui­si­tion of Eng­lish since what is taught in French is trans­ferred to the child’s Eng­lish lan­guage study. In a car­ing, nur­tur­ing envi­ron­ment designed to stim­u­late curios­ity, pro­mote cre­ative think­ing, and develop social and aca­d­e­mic skills, the chil­dren build a foun­da­tion for suc­cess in both lan­guages. In order to guar­an­tee suc­cess, French and Eng­lish class­room teach­ers work together with art and music teach­ers often on com­mon themes or projects thus bring­ing the teach­ing core together and mak­ing the learn­ing process more mean­ing­ful to each child.

We feel strongly about our goals of bilin­gual­ism since bilin­gual edu­ca­tion encom­passes much more than the learn­ing of another lan­guage. With a truly bilin­gual and bi-literate edu­ca­tion through­out a child’s years of school­ing, the ben­e­fits are many.

1. Chil­dren become open-minded towards the world around them.
2. They become flex­i­ble thinkers.
3. As their knowl­edge of the sec­ond lan­guage becomes more solid, their under­stand­ing and knowl­edge of the first lan­guage becomes stronger, deeper, and more complex.
4. A reg­u­lar use of two lan­guages enhances children’s supe­ri­or­ity in the areas of abstrac­tion sym­bol­ism, flex­i­bil­ity with con­cepts, and problem-solving.
5. Intel­lec­tual stim­u­la­tion of bilin­gual­ism is par­tic­u­larly remark­able in mathematics.