James Cook International School
Private bilingual school with French habilitations
Bilingual french / english education from preschool to high school
Noumea, New-Caledonia
James Cook International School is an active bilingual school, where your child learns to discover himself, and to make choices for him/herself and/or others. From Kindergarten on, the pupils build their capabilities to make the right choices and gain understanding to respect the constraints that are present whilst working towards certain goals (...)
EIJC has allocated the necessary resources to put in place a pedagogy of excellence and to continue to adapt to our students needs as the school develops towards our goals. You may have decided to enrol your child in our school for personal reasons but it is important for us to remind you that we have (...)
Being a primary school teacher in the public sector for more than 10 years in Nouméa but also Lifou, Vanessa Gervolino came across many children with the same regrets: “ the classical French method of teaching is good and rigourous, but is missing certain energy and motivation for the students.” (...)
In the French system entry into the first year of school is during a students third year. The compulsory element to enter school at James Cook is that the student is no longer dependent on nappies and therefore is toilet trained (...)
As in our infants school, Primary, from Grade 1 to Grade 5 have a maximum of 20 students per class. The English speaking students are able to follow the Australian Curriculum for English and Maths whilst the French Speakers (...)
At present our High School has classes from Year 6 to Year 11. We will open a Year 11 and 2015 Year 12 class – French stream system. The first graduates of the French baccalaureate with EIJC will be in December 2015.e (...)
James Cook International School was founded on pedagogy of learning in a bilingual situation and the exposure to an open-mindedness relative to the world around them. The pedagogy of using projects creates emulation with the children equal to none the school (...)