Spain, Bilbao
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The main building houses primary and secondary students, along with administrative and management services. The infants' building has been expanded and renovated to provide modern, bright, and safe facilities for all activities. Three libraries serve different age groups—the children's library for ages 2-5, the BCD for ages 6-10, and the CDI for ages 11-18—managed by two librarian teachers who collaborate with staff on age-appropriate projects. Four independent dining rooms accommodate students by age, with a daily healthy menu prepared in the school kitchens and a nutritionist available to support dietary needs. A covered courtyard and a gym on site, along with laboratories, technology spaces, and outdoor play areas, support both learning and recreation.
The gymnasium is on site and forms a core part of the sports facilities. The campus includes a large outdoor courtyard and a playing field for outdoor games and physical education. In the main building, dedicated sports facilities are available to support physical education lessons and sporting activities. A range of sports spaces is accessible to students across all levels, as highlighted in the virtual tour of the campus.
Laboratories provide scientific spaces for experiments and investigations. Libraries offer study and research resources across age groups. Technology spaces support digital learning and various technical projects. Three libraries serve different age groups: the children's library for ages 2-5, the BCD for ages 6-10, and the CDI for ages 11-18, managed by two librarian teachers who collaborate with teachers on age-appropriate projects.
Thanks to its extracurricular activities program, developed in collaboration with the Association of Families of Students (AFA), the Lycée Français de Bilbao offers a wide range of sports, creative, and technological activities that provide additional balance and well-being, nourish growing passions, and allow students to experience new things. Better expression, interaction with others, developing creativity and pushing themselves are skills that students can acquire and develop fully outside the classroom. All activities offered by the school are supervised by experienced instructors and are open to students from kindergarten to high school. The adventure continues with holiday campuses, with themed and sports activities during vacation periods and holiday camps for students and families.
Lycée Français de Bilbao is a private French international school in Zamudio near Bilbao, serving ages 2 to 18. The curriculum is French with plurilingual education in French, Spanish, English and Basque. It offers the Baccalauréat Français International in two pathways, trilanguage and quadrilingual, with language targets B2 in two languages for trilanguage and B1/B2 in C for quadrilingual. The European English program, launched in 2023, provides history-geography and mathematics in English from 6e to 2nde, with PARLE recognition. An official dual diploma in French and Spanish supports university access worldwide, alongside active pedagogy and modern facilities. The campus includes libraries, laboratories, technology spaces, dedicated dining rooms, a gym and outdoor play areas. Extracurriculars cover sports, arts and creative activities, and technology clubs, with partnerships through the Association des familles d'élèves. The school promotes citizenship and intercultural understanding, and provides age-group libraries and a nutritionist to support dietary needs today.