Welcome to the Anglophone Section of Fontainebleau.
Who we are
The Anglophone Section is an integral part of a French State School, in fact, three schools which are on the same site: the Ecole Primaire Internationale Léonard de Vinci (Primary/Elementary level), the Collège International de Fontainebleau (Middle School) and the Lycée François Premier (High School).
The Section operates at all levels from CP (First Grade) through to Terminale (Upper VIth/ 12th Grade), guiding students from 6 to 18 years of age through a totally bilingual course of study.
All students are full members of a normal French class, following the French State Educational programme, but in parallel, they spend a minimum of 6 hours per school week in Anglophone Section classes taught in English. Under the terms of the agreement with the French Education Ministry, the Section recruits British or American specialist teachers to teach English Language and Literature, History/Geography in English to fluent English-speaking pupils. The section is therefore fee-paying, governed by an Association responsible for recruiting and paying the Section teachers and administrative staff.
What we do
The basic aim of the Anglophone Section, at all levels, is to help instill a love of learning and to create a secure and caring educational environment within the wider school framework.
Our Aims and Objectives, the fruit of intense discussion and collaboration between parents, students, teaching staff and the Parents’ Board state clearly our desire to
“promote the pleasures and values associated with intellectual curiosity, creativity and learning” and “to facilitate the students’ social and moral development and mutual understanding and tolerance within a multicultural framework”.
Our students
Currently the section has around 400 students, approximately 150 in Primary and College and 100 in Lycee. There are 20 different nationalities represented within the Section.
Fluency in English is the first principle for admission and English written and oral tests form the backbone of the admissions process.