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Lisbon, Portugal · Private
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L'École Trilingue stands in Restelo - a leafy residential district of Lisbon with good public transport and museums nearby. The school takes children from 2 to 11 and carries them through the French curriculum: the stages are named on the French system, from très petite section to cours préparatoire, that is from the nursery group to the first year of primary school. The school calls its teaching trilingual and states it as accredited by the French Ministry for Education and certified by the Portuguese one. Lessons run in French, English and Portuguese together: the school states teaching in three languages by immersion, the pages for parents are kept in French and English, and the stages themselves carry French names. The school grew out of a partnership between the founders of L'école bilingue in London and the consultancy firm Turenne Consulting; the founding teacher is an early years specialist trained in Belgium, with further qualifications in the Montessori method and in teaching yoga to children. The school occupies a refurbished and extended old house: classrooms are laid out for group work and for teaching each child individually, around them a large garden where children grow plants themselves and observe animals, with play areas and a separate zone for the youngest. Tuition is 7000 EUR a year for the nursery group and 9500 EUR a year for the other stages, from petite section to cours préparatoire; it is paid monthly or termly.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 132–11 036 a year
7 000–9 500 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French, English, Portuguese
Stages and year groups Grades TPS, PS, MS, GS, CP. The stages carry French names: très petite section - the nursery group from the age of two, then petite section, moyenne section, grande section and cours préparatoire, the first year of primary school. The school states that it takes children from 2 to 11, and its price list sets out the stages up to and including cours préparatoire.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · membershipschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
AEFEAgency for French Education Abroad
It runs the network of French schools worldwide, while the accreditation itself, the homologation, is granted by the French education ministry and inspected by French state inspectors. A leaver from a homologated school moves into a school in France without an entrance examination. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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The state programme of France. A school is homologated by the French ministry of education, and a leaver may move into a school in France without entrance tests. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What this means for this school. Which year groups of this school are covered by homologation - only the primary ones, or all the way to the final year - is not stated here. The difference matters: it decides whether the school takes a child through to the French baccalaureate or hands them on to another school halfway.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: The school occupies a refurbished and extended house in the Restelo district of Lisbon; classrooms are laid out for group work and for teaching each child individually, with a large garden around them holding beds for the pupils and habitats for observing animals, play areas and a separate zone for the youngest, from two to three years old.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Early years training obtained in Belgium, qualification in the Montessori method, qualification in teaching yoga to children.
The founding teacher is an early years specialist: she trained in work with young children in Belgium, and to that are added a qualification in the Montessori method and the right to teach yoga to children. Teachers at the school work as facilitators rather than as deliverers of finished material.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)65 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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