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School hours and attendance

The school year

Rentrée details are posted on this website in late August or early September. The rentrée is in mid-September, giving primary students a period of one or two weeks in their French primary school during which they do not have to deal with the extra demands of English National lessons.

Holidays within the English National primary Programme are those which apply to French secondary schools.

Holiday dates are on the 'Important Dates' page of this website: there is a link to the official website giving all secondary school holidays for this 'zone'.

Times and places

Primary lessons take place on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons, between 1:45pm and 4:45pm in the Lycée / Collège International in Ferney-Voltaire.

Parents are responsible for bringing and picking up their children. You should use the lower gate of the Lycée. This is immediately next to the sports grounds and near the swimming pool. Please park safely near this entrance, and use the marked pedestrian crossings if you need to. The gate will be open from 1:35pm. Stay with your child at the gate, and then bring him or her into the waiting area, where you will find the classes lined up in rows. Children will wait with their teacher just inside the gate until 1:45pm. The teacher then takes the class to the classroom.

At the end of school, classes line up with their teacher just inside the gate, as at the beginning of the afternoon. The gate will be open from 4:45pm so that you can come in and collect your child. Once you have picked up your child, please leave the Lycée site as quickly as possible, and in any case before 5:00pm, at which time this gate must be locked.

We ask families to declare, via the Parent database, who is authorised to pick up their child each week. Teachers will not let a child leave with someone who is not on the pick-up lists. Please signal any exceptional arrangements to the Programme by note or by telephone before the end of the school day and please ensure you update the information on the Parent database whenever necessary.

The Programme cannot take responsibility for any child dropped off or collected in a manner which does not comply with the arrangements described in the preceding paragraphs.

Staff will, of course, deal with emergencies, but parents must not expect them to supervise and be responsible for children on a routine basis beyond the times stated above.