The French School in Panama City

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		The French School of Panama: an education from nursery to high school graduation. A first class education preparing your children to enter post secondary education in the country of their choice.
	PARENTS/SCHOOL PEDAGOGIC AGREEMENT School Operation The Paul Gauguin school, LYCEE FRANCAIS PAUL GAUGUIN DE PANAMA under transformation process, is managed by the parents association, a non-profit association which approved an agreement with AEFE (Agency for French Learning Abroad). The financial management of the establishment is directed by a Board of Directors consisting of 5 parents (elected during a general assembly) in which the school Director participates as a representative of the French Embassy in Panama. The most pedagogic topics are dealt in the school Council which consists of a pedagogic staff and elected representatives of the parents of each classroom. So the parents are very involved at all levels of operation of LYCEE FRANCAIS PAUL GAUGUIN DE PANAMA .- Parents/School Agreement IN THE CHILD’S INTEREST FOR A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL COURSES, THE PARENTS AND THE SCHOOL CONVENE THE FOLLOWING MORAL CONTRACT: The school binds itself to do all, as possible with the available means, in order to achieve student’s BEST LEARNING. The school binds itself to regularly inform parents of the child’s EVOLUTION OF RESULTS. The school responds systematically to PARENTS DEBTS both at academic and pedagogic level. The parties bind themselves to respond in a positive manner to communication request by the school. PARENTS ARE INVOLVED IN SCHOOL COURSES attended by their son/daughter; to become interested in what the child narrates of his class day, to look and sign the works taken home, to purchase the necessary material for the child, to bring things that would enrich the class life. PARENTS TO ACCOMPANY YOUR SON/DAUGHTER IN THEIR LEARNING out of school schedule: to develop a taste for reading, for creative and artistic activities, to awake his/her curiosity, to use French at home whenever one of the parents is a French speaker, to verify home works with adults. PARENTS TO BE CONCERNED for the child’s rhythm; enough time to sleep, to limit television time. Parents to respect SCHOOL SCHEDULE (a child who reaches late loses the welcome time and necessary conditions for a good day of learning) and shall ensure the child WEARS THE SCHOOL UNIFORM DAILY. Advices to non speaking French parents Accompanying the child by the parents in their acquisition of maternal language, even though different from French, is of great importance (to tell stories to the child, review books with him, to make him express what has been read to him). All that shall be done to develop the mastering of the maternal language shall make easy the learning of French, after the other languages. The mastering of a foreign language passes through the phase on which the child records the words before being able to express himself, he will need time. The child shall be sensitive to the fact that his parents, as possible, to make the effort to initiate him or herself to the language and to the French culture by means of the French Alliance for example). The professors shall give to the new parents of pre-school all the necessary advices for a good adaptation of the child to the school, particularly regarding how to help him or her to obtain his her autonomy.
	Pedagogic Team
The French School of Panama. Calle A, Parque Lefevre, behind Parque Omar, Panama City, Panama Tel : (507) 224-6231 Fax : (507) 224-3070
Lycée Français de Panama/Liceo frances de Panamá/The French School of Panama 2008 by Cartooch