About the Saskatoon French School



The Saskatoon French School was founded as a private school in 1966 and became a non-denominational associate school of the Saskatoon Catholic School Board in 1983.

There are 250 students attending our Type A French Immersion K-8 Program.



 

Kindergarten – 28  students
Grade one -  34 students
Grade two – 35 tudents
Grade three - 30 students
Grade four - 36 students
Grade five - 28 students
Grade six - 31 students
Grade seven - 15 students
Grade eight - 16 students
 

Mme Jacqueline Castilloux - Principal
M. Chad Sawatzky  - Vice Principal
Mme Annette Forcier – Office Coordinator

 

Why Choose Saskatoon French School?
To provide the best possible education that allows children to grow with diversity and challenge, SFS offers the following:

  • Strong Academic Program: An accelerated, challenging academic program.
  • High Quality French Instruction: All French is instructed with a high degree of fluency by all staff and is spoken in and out of the classroom.
  • High Quality English Instruction: English is taught one hour a day from Grades 2 to 8 by a complementary and exemplary English language staff with emphasis on vocabulary, grammar, composition and study.
  • Smaller Class Size: Class size in the lower grades is 15-20 students. The school believes that a quality education is best delivered to smaller groups of students allowing staff to focus on individual differences, potential and need.
  • Full-day Kindergarten: Full-day Kindergarten is currently offered either Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday with and additional day alternating Mondays.

 

What is Type A Immersion?
It is an approach to second language learning:

  • where 80% and often more, of all classroom instruction is in the second language;
  • where excellence in English becomes a set priority which is monitored;
  • based on the principle that children learn a second language most effectively when using it in meaningful interaction in and out of the classroom;
  • that provides the opportunity for students to learn world languages and to experience the educational, economic, personal and cultural benefits of knowing more than one language.

 

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