The Première class introduces specialty subjects while maintaining a strong core curriculum. It becomes a key stage in choosing a career path.

The Terminale class reinforces specialization with a view to higher education. This organization of courses offers bridges from one series to another.

Program

EDUCATIONFIRSTTERMINALE
French4h/
Philosophy/4h
History-Geography3h3h
Modern languages A and B* (French and English)4h304h
Science education2h2h
Physical and Sports Education2h2h
Moral and civic education18:00 annual18:00 annual
* Modern language A: English
* Modern language B: Spanish, German, Italian

Choice of route

Options: 3h/week
Specialties: 4h/week in Première and 6h/week in Terminale

In Première

⮚ 3 specialties to choose from
⮚ 1 option maximum

Final year

⮚ 2 specialties to keep
⮚ 2 options maximum

Options

Students can supplement their education by choosing optional subjects. Grades do not count towards the BAC diploma.

Optional courses in Première and Terminale: 3h

OBJECTIVES

  • Enrich your artistic culture and broaden your cultural representations
  • Develop the ability to produce a personal response and express it sensitively through a visual work of art.
  • Linking skills and knowledge to an artistic orientation project

CONTENTS

  • Choose and experiment with, mobilize, adapt and master the languages of the arts and the body through a variety of visual media (painting, volume, mixed media, photography, digital arts).
  • Implement a personal or collective artistic project
  • Be sensitive to the reception of works of art, the conditions under which they are received, and take part in the debate sparked by the artistic experience.

OBJECTIVES

  • Develop skills in mastering and conveying emotions, body and voice
  • Develop your cultural knowledge
  • Embarking on a collective adventure

CONTENTS

  • On-set practice
  • Cultural component (spectator school: 3 to 6 shows a year)
  • Partnerships with local theaters and professional artists

OBJECTIVES

  • Develop your cinematographic and audiovisual culture
  • Master technical and artistic vocabulary (shot scale, angle of view, connection, etc.).
  • Learn about the major milestones in cinema and the evolution of genres throughout history
  • Improving aesthetic interpretation skills
  • Learn about dramaturgy and the various practices involved in film writing (treatment, script, cutting, storyboarding).
  • Discover the different professions in the film industry

CONTENTS

  • Making a short film
  • Writing a script
  • Study cinematographic techniques and film extracts

OBJECTIVES

  • Discovering sports professions and related training courses
  • Exercising responsibility in sport
  • Deepening two physical and sports practices

CONTENTS

  • Raising awareness of career guidance: partnerships, exchanges with professionals, etc.
  • Knowing and respecting yourself
  • Enhance motor skills and maintain physical condition

OBJECTIVES

  • Discovering everyday, authentic language
  • Discover Italian civilization and culture
  • Attain level B1 by the end of the final year of secondary school

CONTENTS

  • Reading and writing
  • Understanding and speaking
  • Interact

Second series of options in final year, to choose from: 3h

  • Expert mathematics
  • Complementary mathematics
  • Law and major issues of the contemporary world

European section: 2h

  • In-depth English
  • Subject taught in English: history-geography, earth sciences, mathematics, physics-chemistry

Specialities

Students must choose 3 specialty courses in première (4h) and 2 in terminale (6h).

OBJECTIVES

  • Enrich your audiovisual and cinematographic culture by broadening your cultural representations
  • Develop the ability to produce personal cinematographic works
  • Link knowledge and skills to an artistic orientation project

CONTENTS

  • Express and present a personal aesthetic point of view by comparing it with other points of view
  • Understand, study and criticize a variety of audiovisual and cinematographic works from different genres and periods in the history of cinema.
  • Analyze cinematographic works by commenting on staging effects
  • Experiment with, develop and choose various forms of scriptwriting, measuring the effects produced
  • Create with images and sound while developing your editing skills in a relevant and demanding way
  • Produce film projects with the help of professionals

OBJECTIVES

  • The main objectives of this specialization are artistic practice and the development of cultural knowledge. It enables students to combine a career as spectator and actor, and to improve their oral, analytical and creative skills.

CONTENTS

  • Actor's course: weekly sessions with professional actors in connection with the year's program.
  • Theoretical background // Première: discovery of two periods in the history of theater // Terminale: two works or questions on the program
  • 3 "lab" half-days a year, in partnership with Le Grand T: meetings with theater professionals to discuss the shows studied.

OBJECTIVES

  • Teaching to understand and analyze the contemporary world. In Première, students analyze a political system: democracy. They study the international power of states, political frontiers, the challenges of information and the relationship between religion and power.

CONTENTS

  • Understanding a political system: democracy
  • Analyze international power dynamics
  • Studying the world's political divisions
  • Being informed: a critical look at sources and modes of communication
  • Analyzing relations between states and religions

OBJECTIVES

  • This specialization is based on major cultural issues and personal reflection through works of art. The themes of the program are addressed in relation to the history of culture: "the powers of speech" from Antiquity to the Classical Age, "representations of the world" in the Renaissance, Classical Age and Enlightenment.

CONTENTS

  • Study of the powers of speech: the art of speech, the authority of speech, and the seduction of speech.
  • Studies of representations of the world: discovering the world and the plurality of cultures / describing, depicting and imagining man and animals

OBJECTIVES

  • This specialization develops a taste for mathematics, an appreciation of its approaches and concepts, and a mastery of abstraction. The program is organized into five main sections: "Algebra", "Analysis", "Geometry", "Probability and Statistics" and "Algorithms and Programming".

CONTENTS

  • Develop your ability to think logically and find solutions
  • Study and use of computer tools/software
  • Understand and use all the essentials of mathematics (algorithms, statistics, geometry, functions, etc.)

OBJECTIVES

This course enables students to acquire the concepts and methods that underpin the scientific and technical dimensions of computer science. Students also acquire the scientific knowledge and know-how that will enable them to use IT responsibly and critically in everyday and professional life.

CONTENTS

  • Understanding the concept of data: what types of data are there and how to interact with them?
  • Study of computer architecture
  • Understand how a web user interacts with a web page
  • Learning a programming language

OBJECTIVES

This speciality course is based on experimental practice and modelling activities to enable students to establish a link between the world of objects, experiments and facts and that of models and theories.

CONTENTS

  • Study of the constitution and transformations of matter
  • Motion and interaction studies
  • Wave and signal study
  • Study of energy and its conversion

OBJECTIVES

This specialization enables students to acquire a scientific culture based on the fundamental concepts of biology and geology. Students deepen their scientific knowledge and know-how, enabling them to take responsibility for the environment, health and safety.

CONTENTS

  • Discover the major phenomena involved in coding and reading genetic information
  • Understanding geological plate movements
  • Understanding the planet's contemporary issues: the essential concepts of ecology
  • Discovering the human body and health: the consequences of DNA modifications
  • Understanding how the human immune system works

OBJECTIVES

This specialisation sheds light on the major economic, social and political issues of contemporary societies. It reinforces and deepens students' mastery of the concepts, methods and problems of economics, sociology and political science.

CONTENTS

  • Study of the market, economic financing and money
  • Understanding social ties and their implications
  • Exploring the formation of public opinion and voting mechanisms
  • Study of company organization and risk management

OBJECTIVES

This speciality enables students to gradually achieve a secure command of the language and an understanding of the associated culture. It prepares students for further study and mobility.

CONTENTS

  • Practice all the skills involved in learning a language (written and oral comprehension)
  • Analyze and relate documents while taking part in an in-depth study of the language
  • Refine linguistic correction and develop more fluent, authentic pronunciation

OBJECTIVES

This specialization enables students to explore and put into perspective the language, cultures and societies of the English-speaking world, as well as enriching their understanding of their relationship with others and their representations of the world. It is also designed to prepare students for mobility in a wider European and international context, and to enable them to establish relationships of comparison, rapprochement and contrast.

CONTENTS

  • Analyze and relate a variety of media to address contemporary issues
  • Develop students' reading and listening skills, critical thinking, analytical skills and independence
  • Master the language in everyday contexts, in communication situations requiring sufficient knowledge of the issues and nuances between the different regions that make up the English-speaking world.

International

During their school careers, our Year 11 and 12 students have the opportunity to undertake individual or group mobility abroad.