I want to do a series of episodes on schools such as how do foreign children adapt to French schools, but first I want dedicate this episode to describing the French school system.

My typical student at the moment is a foreigner in a relationship with a French person and moved to France with their partner. Some of them have children who obviously end up joining the French school system.

I’ve noticed something, it’s that they can almost never tell me in what grade their kid is. I always end up explaining how the French school system works because they find it confusing. 

So today’s episode is a bit different from the others, because I simply want to describe the French school system and compare it with the British school system. I selected 15 facts about our school system that are different from British schools and maybe from the schools in your country.