Kære politikere, I 2020 blev vi på Den dansk-franske Skole udsat for et voldsomt retsligt og økonomisk overgreb: STUK (Styrelsen for Undervisning og Kvalitet) fratog os vores statstilskud og anvendte efterfølgende friskolelovens hårdeste sanktion ved også at fratage os vores status som friskole. Vi valgte imod alle odds at fortsætte vores virke, rent juridisk under …
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Kommunalt tilsyn 2021
I december afsluttede vores tilsynsførende Knud Nordentoft sit tilsyn med skolens undervisning. Knud har en lang karriere bag sig, bl.a. som skoleleder på en række skoler, pædagogisk chef, lærer og certificeret tilsynsførende. Det er altid en fornøjelse at have Knud på besøg. Han indgår relationskompetent i interaktionen med børnene, forstår de subtile spil i gruppen …
Priming your child for a day in kindergarten
Just some ideas for things you might find fun: The week’s morning song. If possible, get your child acquainted with the song (usually mentioned in the weekly EFD Newsletter). Some of you are clearly doing this already. Many of the kindergarten kids contributed fiercely to “Go Down Moses” last week! Talk about what day today …
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Revenge of the EFD robots
We will be represented at the first Maker Fair in Copenhagen this weekend. We will have our own stand, and so will our own Nell, “Little Pink Maker”. Here’s a sampling of what we have to offer: “Maker fairs” are gatherings of assorted creators, inventors and tinkerers. There will be quite a lot of interesting …
An experimental excursion
Just checking the waters here: Maybe it would be nice to visit museums and exhibitions more. But school time is limited, and not every exhibition is interesting or relevant to every student. Furthermore, our field trip competence is now a little bit low after corona. To cut through this Gordian knot, I thought we’d start …
SCRATCH that itch
We had a presentation of quite a few Scratch projects today. The students explained their objectives, and described their coding. Check out Stefan’s ticket, to see (and maybe play) all the projects for yourself!
No screen-SFO
For a month now, we have had no screens during SFO in the mornings. And with the advent of real summer temperatures lately, no screens during SFO in the afternoons either. This has partly been to raise awareness about screen use for our “Internet topic week”. The no-screens policy has been almost astonishingly easy to …
Some small changes
Some parents have commented on how their children have become decidedly one-sided in their academic pursuits. Concentrating on one subject at a time is not problematic in itself. And as many parents discovered during lockdown, alternating constantly between subjects can actually be seriously inefficient. But there’s a limit to everything. We previously had STEM-subjects upstairs …
Towards normalcy
Ever since corona, we’ve had the morning meetings in the gym. This has been decidedly sub-optimal. The acoustics there are horrendous, and many kids have had to start the réunion du matin in a state of exalted, but abruptly interrupted horseplay. But now we’re back in the kindergarten, in the sweet, calm atmosphere many parents …
Steam camp 2021
Projects before, during and after the camp: https://gitlab.com/ecolefrancodanoise/steamcamp21 Photos from last year: http://blog.ecolefrancodanoise.dk/steam-camp-2020-photos