Why Christmas comes early this year. We introduced “theme weeks” this year, to have some over-arching structure on classes that otherwise can become pretty splintered as the age difference in the group is so big. It’s nice to work on something together. It quickly transpired that this age group needs much more than five days …
Category Archives: Bon à savoir
Renovation update
One parent commented to me once, in a fragrant French accent: “When I first came to the school, I thought it was so cool. And also so ugly.” We are extremely proud to announce that we are now less ugly. We have upgraded the entrances, cleaned and tidied up the school’s wardrobe beyond all recognition …
All aboard
Today, we could finally hold a morning assembly with both the kindergarten and the school kids at the same time. Age integration is an important pillar of L’école franco-danoise. Smaller children get approachable role models, larger kids get experience in helping smaller ones and the chance to demonstrate competence and responsibility.
Adding some colour
A couple of years of kids’ play, scotch tape and blu-tack ages a wall pretty fast. We touched up one of the classrooms with some green. We have also created a brand new room for the kids, the “HUM lab”. This was a room with a vague purpose that over time had metamorphosised into a …
Quick fix
A school is like a home, in the sense that stuff adds up and a lot of things that may have had a purpose previously just end up taking a lot of space and getting in the way. Some parents and staff have let themselves loose at the school premises these days. One central goal …
Well yes, but what do they do all day?
A quick guide to the daily schedule at school. Because your kids think this is natural and aren’t going to tell you anything. There will be more in-depth information and discussion about the different points in the schedule later. 09:00 – 09:15 Morning assembly: As you all know, we start our days with a réunion …
An introduction to tickets
Not everything about the ticket system we use at school is entirely self-explanatory. Here’s a short guide for the perplexed parent. EFD has used so-called “tickets” since 2012. But it became seriously implemented during the first corona lockdown. to track what the students do, and for the kids to monitor themselves and make sense of …