The name of our middle school is François Rabelais.

It is located in the village of l'Escarene, near Nice.

The principal is Daniel BARBIER. There are about 400

pupils in the etablissement.

In our class, they are 26 students (16 girls and 10 boys).

The batiment is composed of:

- hall - hallways - classes - gym - playgrounds - canteen

Localisation of the middle school

French student star school in september whereas American students start in August.

We have 5 holidays. (each holiday contains party states). In the 22 october we have 11 days of vacances and we can

celebrate Halloween one 31.In december, at christmas the vacances are more long than

october and account 2 weeks full.We have also holidays, in february for Valentin day and

Candlemas and in avril for easter which are as long as those of December.

Summer vacation begin at the biginning of July and the school resumes in September.

At 7:20, we take the bus for go to school then arrive at 7:45.We stay to the playground andwhen the bell ring (8:00) we aregoing to line up for our firstlesson. In France, every lesson lasts1 hour.Lunch break is at noon at the Canteen. We have near 45minutes to eat except when wetake back lessons at 12:30 likeon Tuesday and Thursday. We finish at 4:30 pm exceptMonday and the Friday when ourlessons end at 3:30 pm. Then asin the morning, we take the busand come back home.

Every wednesdayafternoon,Some pupilsstay in the middleschool forparticipated at sportsActivities in gym.There are:- badminton- climb- cross- circus And full others still!!!

. First there was the raceOf the fourth girls andThird girls to finish then the fourth boysfollowed by the thirdboy.

At the end of the racethe first, second andthird ranking studentwas rewarded with atrophy. This year theleaders and teachersdecided to give aprice to the mostpowerful class and itwas our class, 3rd B

Only the third and

fourth are involved. It's

a race that takes place

on the hill village

about 1 hour walk on

Wednesday morning.

This year it is on a

length of 1800 m for

girls and 2000 for

boys that students

have ran.

Approximately 90

Students participated.

The cross is carried

into 4 parts

This year, at the mid-october us did aweek of observation ina company chooses.This week we haveplease and we hadmunch input.In November, 15th wehad make a probationReport.Manon do herinternship in thetown hall of Drapwhile Laurie do in our middle school

The « Brevet » ofmiddle school is adiploma that we passat the end of the third.It must for going onhigh school and pass Tray.

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