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Bilingual education - a new opportunity for your child

The Wix school bilingual stream offers an opportunity that is unique in the UK. It offers the possibility for your child to be taught alongside a mixture of English and French pupils, using an equal balance of French and English as the medium of education.

We have studied the national requirements of both countries carefully and have made certain that our course will comply with both. So, as far as national educational requirements are concerned, pupils when they leave will be full equipped to continue into a secondary school either in France or the UK. They will have completed both the UK's Key Stages 1 and 2 and the similar demands of the French educational system (CP/CE/CM).

Who will benefit

The overall objective of bilingual education is to bring the students to a point of balanced bilingualism, which is the ability to acquire comparable skills using both languages in all the subjects taught in the chosen curriculum.

Throughout bilingual education, it is not only a matter of teaching a language; it is equally important to conduct educational activities in that language and to continuously support it by every-day activities, so that the students are learning the language in a natural and direct way, similar to how they learned their mother tongue. This kind of a process has to be put in place over time and to be based on a single teaching programme.

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