French Maternal School

PROGRAMS

The French Maternal School’s approach provides for two teachers in every classroom. The low ratio of teachers to students (1:6) allows for small group learning and individual instruction, meeting the needs of each student.

Petite Section (3s)

The French Maternal School’s curriculum for 3s is designed to introduce children to school gradually. It offers a loving and nurturing environment where students learn to build relationships with their peers and develop community-based routines. The curriculum offers formal and structured activities for further developing reading and writing skills: promotion of phonological and phonemic awareness and building of alphabetic skills including letter identification. Calligraphy and pre-writing are also introduced.

Moyenne Section (4s)

The curriculum prepares 4s for more formal and structured activities of Les Grands. The program emphasizes the acquisition of the fundamentals: letters & numbers, math, problem solving, creative thinking that provide numerous avenues leading toward the goal of literacy. The program increases letter, syllable and word recognition and solidifies alphabetic knowledge.

Grande Section (5s)

The third year of the Maternelle heavily reinforces all aspects of learning and development and more especially language structure and time and space concepts. Music and drama are included in the curriculum as a way to support learning of the arts and individual creativity.