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British school gets award set up by Napoleon
Sunday January 01, 2012 09:06:25 PM,
IANS
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London: A school in
London where pupils learn all subjects in both French and English
has won a prestigious award founded by French emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte.
The Ecole de Wix, part of the Wix Primary School in Battersea,
south London, received the Ordre des Palmes Academiques after
teaching French and English for the past six years, the Daily
Express reported Sunday.
The school, the first such joint language institution in the
country, teamed up with Lycee Charles de Gaulle in South
Kensington to help pupils become fluent in French at an early age.
Marc Wolstencroft, head of Wix Primary School, and Paul-Marie
Blanchard, director at Ecole de Wix, were given the award by the
French embassy in London.
The Ordre des Palmes Academiques was founded by Napoleon, who used
it to honour eminent academicians.
Both schools follow a special curriculum that meets the
requirements of both the British and French national curricula. In
the first few weeks, pupils learn reading and writing in English,
with French introduced as soon as they have a grasp of their
mother tongue.
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