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Aix-en-Provence school phone : 04 42 600 300
Marseille school phone : 04 91 530 000
Aix-en-Provence school phone : 04 42 600 300
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What do French children do upon completion of EPIM schools?
Even though International Schools were originally created to serve the needs of children of diplomats and expatriate parents, today they also welcome children from local families seeking quality education that will prepare their children to continue their schooling in the French school system. Such is the case at the EPIM Schools where French children go forward, armed with solid primary learning and a completed educational program from a serious private French school.
[21/06/2009]
The educational program implemented by EPIM Schools was developed over the course of several decades by experts in International Schools around the world, pooling the best practices from their respective country's schools.Two educational approaches currently « dominate » the world, both sharing the same primary objective of providing international children, who customarily follow their parents from one country to another every two or three years, with the possibility of finding the same educational program wherever they go in the world.
It is reassuring to know that these two programs are identical; educational experiences and best practices around the world converge toward a single approach, exemplifying pedagogical good sense. Yet, France stands out an exception having elected its own method.
It is also reassuring to know that these two International Programs, one of which is implemented at EPIM Schools, are not the brainchild of a single pedagogical expert promoting a would-be miraculous method that could marginalize children and from which children never fully escape. The educational program implemented at the EPIM does not marginalize children. Its clearly-defined pedagogical approach has been tested the world over; its objectives are the same as other pedagogical programs around the world, notably that of France: acquisition of fundamental learning, the growth and well-being of the child, to a greater or less degree of success. Thus, French children are not marginalized upon completing their primary education at the EPIM.
Furthermore, an important objective of the International program is to enable children to feel at home everywhere in the world. In order to achieve this, the best preparation is for children to learn how to learn and to love learning. Children having completed their primary education at the EPIM are capable of going to the other side of the world and feeling at ease, and they are capable of attending the French public school across the street.
Finally, a major concern at the EPIM is to ensure, thanks to half of its French teaching team trained in French curriculum and experienced in French schools, from nursery school to middle school, that the program implemented, while compatible with the International School approach, includes all of the requirements of the French National Education Program and covers all the skills and competencies it demands.
Thus, the level of EPIM students is formally evaluated according to the criteria of French National Education. EPIM teacher also give students the evaluations established by the Academy.
Finally, the report file that follows students throughout their EPIM schooling is in two languages: half in English according to the standards of International Schools, and half in French according to the criteria of French National Education. Therefore, these reports can be submitted to any public or private French school.
Upon completion of their studies at the EPIM, children can enter an International school, which today exist in every corner of the world, or a French school offering the same educational approach, as well as any public or private French school.
