Elementary School

The elementary school welcomes children aged 6 to 11.

The school considers the plurality and diversity of each student’s aptitudes. In addition to reasoning and intellectual reflection, the sense of observation, the taste for experimentation, sensitivity, motor skills and creative imagination are developed.

The teaching is done in French in accordance with the French National Education programs, but from the primary cycle onwards, the teaching of modern languages is a priority, to give the students, from their earliest years, the keys to the international environment in which they evolve.

Thus, students are required to have BHS language classes , starting from the kindergarten, taught by a native Bosnian teacher. From the middle section onwards, English is added, which is practiced uninterruptedly until the end of the school year.

The learning areas are based on:

• French
• Mathematics
• Modern languages
• Physical education and sports
• Art education
• Moral and civic education
• History and geography
• Science

Note the implementation of an FLE-FLSCO system (linguistic support for teaching French as a foreign language) intended to give allophone students a smooth transition to French immersion, involving the intervention of a bilingual teacher in support of the class teacher.

English language is added in the middle group, the study of which is uninterrupted until the end of education.

An important note regarding the study of FLE (language support for the teaching of French as a foreign language) allows students, with another mother language, to easily adapt to the teaching of French. Namely, the child who does not learn from his mother language without the cultural characteristics of his environment, and has become part of an unknown language world, can be insecure and find itself in a situation of failure. Hence the application of the FLE system, which enables the involvement of a “bilingual teacher”, as support for the class teacher.