Their school has been so fantastic. Sonny's teacher is so patient (tough, shouts and strict) but patient. The trips they have been on are just amazing. I offer these photos (click on the word photo) of their trip to the Vanoise National Park as one small example.
The 30 little blighters are only 5 and they snow-shoed all day from 9 30 to 3 30pm with an hour for a picnic lunch. We saw bouqetin, chamois, eagles, fake marmottes!
Another morning I dropped sonny in late, she was teaching them about rhythm on drums she brought back from Senegal.
Most mornings she had a selection of world music playing, including irish!
In terms of concrete outcomes for the year sonny learned to:
- Understand and speak french well from scratch.
- Write (badly, but his teacher says with computers now, not to worry)
- Ski Alpine, cross country and snow shoe.
- Swim (badly)
- Appreciate nature in the flesh.
- Discipline
- Make recycled paper
- Make natural paints
- Present the above at the County Science Expo in french.
- Understand about their twin school in Senegal and the different plants, dress, culture, lifestyle.
- How to make apple juice from the local farmers
All this on the public education system.
We paid €33 for them to have breakfast at school for the year (obligatory)
Really I cannot see the irish education system living up to this.
I am destined to start every sentence in future parent's committee meetings with ...
"When I was in France...."
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