Intensive Core French

Last night there was a presentation at the school about the Intensive Core French (ICF) program that we would like to start here in the fall. ICF is only done in Grade 6, so in order to introduce it at Lake Academy, we need enough of you guys to register for it to make a class. Here's a little summary of what it is all about:

• In the ICF program, students would spend 60% of their day, from September to January, learning to speak, read, and write in French. Starting in February, they would go back to the regular English program.
• Math and Science would still be done in English.
• While Language Arts would be done in French for the first half of the year, the skills that the students learn and practice are the same skills they would normally learn and practice in English and will transfer from one language to the next.
• All students start off the program at the same level - the differences between "strong" students and "weak" students are minimal, often resulting in a confidence boost.
• Students in the ICF program perform as well or better than their non-ICF peers on the Grade 6 CRT's. No students in the ICF program do worse.
• No students who have participated in the ICF program do worse in the English portion of the year. Most perform better in the English portion of the year than they did in the past.
• The ICF program is taught through a lot of hands-on, authentic activities and is often fun.

Please call the school if you have any questions!