| L'École Bilingue Elementary[1] | |
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| 1166 14th Ave W Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 1P6, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School number | 3939043 |
| School board | School District 39 Vancouver |
| Principal | Mr Burt Frenzell |
| School type | Public Elementary school |
| Grades | K-7 |
| Enrolment | 457 (January 16, 2006) |
L'École Bilingue Elementary is a public French immersion elementary school in Vancouver, British Columbia part of School District 39 Vancouver.
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L'école operates in a three-storey brick school building formerly called Cecil Rhodes School. During L'École Bilingue's first year in the former Rhodes building (1977–78), two monolingual, multi-grade Rhodes classes remained in the school. After that year, students who had not begun kindergarten in French immersion were not permitted to remain in the school. In September 1978, all remaining Rhodes students were dispersed among various monolingual elementary schools.
L'école has historically operated a French immersion program, where grades K-3 are taught completely in French, and 4-7 taught in half French and half English. In the early 90's, an ESL program was added. The French immersion program prided itself on French instruction in all subjects, including computers, gym and music. For grade 4 students, math was changed from French to English and English class was added as well as instead of playing games during gym, the kids did different sports every month. They also have 3 different before and after school care programs called Kindercare, "LGE", and La Garderie.
L'Ecole Bilingue has 3 after/before school daycares.
"Kindercare" is for Gr. K-1. "LGE" is located in the school primary cafeteria and is for Gr. 1-3. And finally, "La Garderie", which is for Gr.3-7. It is located near the school's intermediate cafeteria.
L'Ecole Bilingue's sports groups include cross-country (long-distance running), which does a final meet at Trout Lake for a final run. Volleyball teams start afterwards until December. Basketball starts in January and finally Track and Field which has a meet at Eric Hamber school in June.