French Immersion Program
Mdme. Leila Bogoreh  - French Immersion Coordinator

The French Immersion program offers students the opportunity to "immerse" themselves in the spoken language of French, one of the most useful of the modern world languages.

Students begin with a full-day kindergarten and are taught entirely in French by a bilingual teacher. As students advance from grade to grade, math, reading , language arts, social studies and science are taught in French.

Additionally, in grades 2-6, Language Arts is incorporated into the curriculum and taught in English, with French Language Arts taught in French.

French Immersion is designed to be a K-12 Program. Children starting the program in kindergarten can acquire a fluency in French by the third grade and be bilingual at the end of grade 6.

Our goal at Shadyside Elementary School is to insure our students academic success by challenging them daily to reach their full academic potential. French Immersion students are encouraged to express their ideas clearly in French in a variety of of oral contexts and to apply active listening skills to the analysis and evaluation of other ideas.