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Jacques Cartier French Immersion School (JCFI) is a start-up private French immersion school located in Richmond Hill, Ontario. JCFI was founded on the concept of early academic intervention within a bilingual setting. Its highly enriched French immersion academic program begins in Senior Kindergarten.
JCFI is the only school in York Region to offer French Immersion at the Senior Kindergarten level and also the region’s first private French Immersion School. JCFI offers a unique enriched French immersion program that enables children with no previous knowledge of French to read and write in French by the end of Grade1.
Students in French Immersion programs receive most of their instruction in French from teachers who speak French fluently. Designed specifically for children whose first language is not French, such programs empower children to become functionally bilingual.
Language learning is a natural state of development in young children. The process of language learning works best when the learner is engaged in vital, necessary communication, such as that offered by the Jacques Cartier program. Early Immersion provides more time to work and to think in the second language—and more time results in greater learning! Students’ success in learning a new language corresponds directly to the amount of time they are exposed to the target language. Simply put, children enrolled in Jacques Cartier French Immersion School learn to speak French more quickly, more frequently, and more fluently.
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