Les cycles d'enseignement à l'école primaire et au lycée
CYCLE 1 | CYCLE 2 | CYCLE 3 | CYCLE 4 | ||||||||||||
The first steps to school | Learning the fundamentals | Consolidation | Broadening the knowledge and skills | ||||||||||||
Petite section (PS) | Cours préparatoire (CP) | Cours moyen 1 (CM1) | Cinquième (5ème) | Seconde (2nde) | |||||||||||
Moyenne section (MS) | Cours élémentaire 1 (CE1) | Cours moyen 2 (CM2) | Quatrième (4ème) | Première (1ère) | |||||||||||
Grande section (GS) | Cours élémentaire 2 (CE2) | Sixième (6ème) | Troisième (3ème) | Terminale | |||||||||||
école maternelle >>> | école élémentaire >>> | collège | lycée |
At the end of compulsory education (up to 3ème), the common base of knowledge, skills and culture must be acquired by each student. It is structured around five areas that provide an overview of the objectives of the Elementary School and the Middle School’s programmes:
1. languages for thinking and communicating
2. methods and tools for learning
3. formation of the person and the citizen
4. natural and technical systems
5. representations of the world and the human activity
Level/Year/Grade/Age
Equivalents
FRANCE | UNITED KINGDOM | USA | Age | |||
Maternelle
(Primaire) |
PS | Nursery school | Nursery | Kindergarten | Pre-school | 3-4 |
MS | Reception | Pre-kindergarten | 4-5 | |||
GS | Year 1 | Kindergarten | 5-6 | |||
Elementaire
(Primaire) |
CP | Primary school | Year 2 | Elementary school | 1st grade | 6-7 |
CE1 | Year 3 | 2nd grade | 7-8 | |||
CE2 | Year 4 | 3rd grade | 8-9 | |||
CM1 | Year 5 | 4th grade | 9-10 | |||
CM2 | Year 6 | 5th grade | 10-11 | |||
Collège
(Secondaire) |
6ème | Secondary school | Year 7 | Middle school | 6th grade | 11-12 |
5ème | Year 8 | 7th grade | 12-13 | |||
4ème | Year 9 | 8th grade | 13-14 | |||
3ème | Year 10 | High school | 9th grade | 14-15 | ||
Lycée
(Secondaire) |
2nde | Year 11 | 10th grade | 15-16 | ||
1ère | Year 12 | 11th grade | 16-17 | |||
Terminale | Year 13 | 12th grade | 17-18 | |||
Baccalauréat | A-levels | High school diploma |
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