Too many lessons at school, then skip a lesson!

I think that it is fair to say that French children have a longer school week than French children. I thought that collège hours were long enough (8h00 – 16h30) but lycée (6th form college) hours are even longer (8h30 – 18h00). On some days Iona has 9 hours of lessons in one day. I still can’t fathom out why the French expect their children to work so hard yet their 35 hour working week is set in stone. Anyway I digress…..

Tomorrow Iona starts school an hour later as she has done too many hours this month!….

So, there is somewhere written down, the exact amount of hours a child of 15 years old has to attend school and somewhere there is somebody calculating exactly how many hours each child has attended school and should that child exceed the prescribed number of hours then they are given a free period !…. Only in France!

Circus stars performing in Playground

I have just received a text from Iona, this morning a circus arrived at her lycée and has been performing throughout the day in the playground!..

So anyone with a free period can watch them. I also think some lessons have been abandoned so the students can watch these flying acrobats!

Apparently no one knew about the arrival of the cucus apart from the Headmaster… he arranged the whole thing as a mid term surprise for the students!..