The Educational Program

At Da Vinci Private School in Castelnau-le-Lez, the week is split in equal halves, one in English and one in French — every child has an English-speaking teacher and a French teacher.

An international programme, adapted to France

Beyond fully bilingual immersion, the school draws on a teaching programme developed over some sixty years, kept continuously up to date, and followed by international schools worldwide. Thanks to this teaching, children can move back with ease into a national curriculum they left a few years earlier.

The programme is interdisciplinary: each subject is approached alongside the others as a coherent whole — mathematics, for instance, is also approached through science, and geography through music. The programme also incorporates the essential points of the French Éducation Nationale curriculum, so that it prepares children equally well to continue their schooling in a French or an international institution.

Assessment that makes teaching individual

The programme uses a range of assessment tools that measure precisely where each child stands and make it possible to tailor the teaching that suits them. Through daily activities, teachers continuously gauge the children's progress and organise the class into groups working at the same level, while progress is reported to parents at regular intervals.

The primary-school programme places the emphasis on critical thinking, personal responsibility, curiosity and a willingness to help others — it draws the child in so that they take an active part in their own learning and become the one driving it.

A driver of academic success

Individualised education in a stimulating environment is one of the major advantages of Da Vinci Private School. Immersive bilingual schooling from early childhood, through the powers of reasoning, abstraction and memorisation it calls upon, leads to stronger performance across every subject taught — including the mother tongue.

From today, the school prepares each child for school exchanges between countries, for European university mobility and for professions that are becoming international, while offering them a wide choice of teaching activities — spontaneous and collective — so that they learn to enjoy learning.