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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What grades are you interested in, and are your kids already French-speaking?  [/quote]
My child willl be entering 2nd grade next year. He attends a public French immersion school now and has been in the school since PK 3. Parents are not native speakers but his dad took enough French in college/ lived abroad and can read at a lower ES level. Our child can speak, understand the language (watches tv in French) and reads A/B level books - equivalent to early K level reading. He can’t really write or spell but his English spelling is not very strong. I’m wondering if it would be a good fit. We are also considering WIS but missed the application deadline (we probably missed it for Rochbeau too). We are considering it because school is all virtual and we think it might be that way next year too. Thanks for any information you can share.[/quote]

Hi - our child is in 1st grade this year and we've been happy with the experience so far. Rochambeau has rolling admissions and a spot may open up (contact Valerie - the Admissions Director). As the other PP mentioned, there is a French language assessment (conducted virtually during pandemic), based on which they'll recommend whether to start your son in immersion or the regular French classes. Even within the regular French class, students who need some additional language help can work with support teachers in pull-asides (pace during class can be pretty fast). The 1st graders are learning French reading, grammar, spelling, and cursive writing. Math is currently double-digit addition/subtraction, comparisons, etc. We don't speak French at home (have a French speaking babysitter for the time being), but our child came in from another immersion program and is doing fine in the regular class. Hope this helps. Happy to answer other questions.

You can find some info about elementary school schedules and curriculum here: 
https://www.rochambeau.org/academics/back-to-school-2020/elementary
https://www.rochambeau.org/academics/elementary-school/our-curriculum
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Valerie, is that you!? :D [/quote]

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