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The school is a bilingual French-English institution located on the Lighthouse International School campus in Phuket. Class sizes are limited to 12 students per level. The program integrates the French national education curriculum with daily English immersion through the Lighthouse campus. The campus is calm, green, and human-scaled to support personalized learning.
Sports and physical education are part of the program and are conducted in collaboration with the Lighthouse campus, where anglophone peers participate in activities.
The curriculum follows the French Education Nationale program. Instruction is bilingual with about 60% of teaching in French and 40% in English. Elementary classes CP through CM2 have up to 12 students. In the collège, French and mathematics are taught in small classes by French teachers, while English and history-geography are taught by anglophone teachers on the Lighthouse campus. The first year of collège includes a 6e class with tariffs the same as elementary.
The school offers activities in arts, culture, and sports as part of its program, and emphasizes initiative, confidence, and cross-cultural exchange through an immersive bilingual environment.
École Française Jean de La Fontaine is a French-English bilingual school located in Rawai, Phuket. It was founded in 2021 by Julien Bliècq and follows the official French national curriculum. The school serves students from CP (around age 6) through to early secondary levels (5ème), with instruction delivered 60% in French and 40% in English. Each class is limited to a maximum of 12 students, and the daily schedule runs from 08:20 to 15:00 with lessons divided into 50-minute periods. The school shares a green, open campus with a Canadian programme and includes meals, snacks, and uniforms in the tuition fees. There is no boarding or school bus service. The academic programme includes core subjects as well as music, art, and physical education. Tuition ranges from THB 260,000 to THB 340,000 annually depending on the payment schedule. Admissions are ongoing and certain year groups are at full capacity.
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