The Bethlehem French School
Ecole du Petit Prince
Kindergarten
Children begin the Infants section at age 3 and leave kindergarten at age 6.
The role and mission of kindergarten is to help each child grow, develop autonomy and acquire the attitudes, skills and competencies that will enable him to build fundamental learning skills. Kindergarten draws on the child’s capacity to imitate and to invent, and on the pleasure of action and play. It provides a wide range of opportunities to stimulate the child’s desire to learn and to enrich their experience and understanding. Activities are designed to be appropriate to the child’s own rhythm of development and growth.
The kindergarten curriculum is covered through a flexible timeframe. It lays out the major cognitive, social and motor skill areas to be developed over the three-year program, defines the objectives to be reached, and the skills to be acquired before the child enters elementary school:
- Developing language - the heart of learning skills
- Learning to live together
- Expressing oneself with one’s body through movement
- Enriching sensitivity, imagination, creativity
School year calendar 2008-2009
|
Classes begin |
Tuesday 02/09/2008 |
End of school year: |
Friday 26/06/2009 |
|
Terms |
1st Term |
from 01/09/2008 to 28/11/2008 |
2nd Term |
from 01/12/2008 to 20/03/2009 |
3rd Term |
from 23/03/2009 to 26/06/2009 |
|
Vacations |
Autumn |
from 17/10/2008(a) to 27/10/2008(b) |
Christmas vacations |
from 19/12/2008(a) to 08/01/2009(b) |
Winter vacations |
from 13/02/2009(a) to 23/02/2009(b) |
Spring vacations |
from 03/04/2009(a) to 20/04/2009(b) |
|
Holidays |
Eid Al Fitr |
Wednesday 1/10 to Friday 3/10/2008 |
Palestinian Independence Day |
15/11/2008 |
Eid Al Adha (3days) |
Monday 8/12 to Wednesday 10/12/2008 |
Al Mawlid Al Nabawi |
Monday 9/03/2009 |
Workers day |
Friday 01/05/2009 |
Armistice 1945 |
Friday 08/05/2009 |
Ascension |
Thursday 21/05/2009 |
(a) After the class
(b) In the morning |
School year calendar 2007-2008
|
Classes begin |
03/09/2007 |
End of school year: |
20/06/2008 |
|
Terms |
1st Term |
from 03/09/2007 to 30/11/2007 |
2nd Term |
from 03/12/2007 to 14/03/2008 |
3rd Term |
from 17/03/2008 to 20/06/2008 |
|
Vacations |
All Saints |
from 26/10/2007(a) to 05/11/2007(b) |
Christmas vacations |
from 21/12/2007(a) to 08/01/2008(b) |
Winter vacations |
from 15/02/2008(a) to 25/02/2008(b) |
Spring vacations |
from 18/04/2008(a) to 05/05/2008(b) |
|
Holidays |
Armistice 1918 |
11/11/2007 |
Palestinian Independence Day |
15/11/2007 |
Easter |
24/03/2008 |
Ascension |
05/05/2008 |
Workers day |
01/05/2008 |
Eid el Fitr |
3 days |
Adha |
2 days |
(a) After the class
(b) In the morning |
