School Hours:
From 7.30am to 4.30pm every day.
Initiation to English on Friday morning.
- Possibility to register for mornings only
- And/or three to four days per week
Calendar
The calendar follows that of Lycée Français Marguerite Duras in Ho Chi Minh City. Click here for the 2019-2020 calendar. The calendar for the academic year 2020-2021 is now available.
Holiday camps are organised on the second week of school breaks (optional) at an additional cost. Camps are usually theme-based – sports, arts or culture – and are managed by staff from the school as well as guest teachers and coaches. Additional fees apply.
A typical day at the nursery:
- 7.30am to 9am: Arrival of the children, outdoor play
- 9.00am: Circle time, rhymes and songs
- 9.45am: Indoor free play
- 10.15am: Morning rituals (roll call, weather, colours book)
- 10.20am: Activities around the 5 senses
These activities are:
- Hands-on (water play, seeds, rice, pasta, play dough, ice cubes…)
- Visual Arts
- Cooking
- Music, songs, story time
Other activities include:
- Fine-motor skills (stacking, beading…)
- Sorting games (colours, shapes, sizes)
- Visual recognition games (lotto, memory)
- Graphism
- Mathematics….
Friday morning: initiation to English
- 11.00am: Lunch
- 12.00pm: Going home for children registered on half-day plan
- Nap time for the remaining children
- 2.00pm-2.30pm: Waking up slowly
- 2.30pm-3.30pm: Quiet games
- 3.30pm: Snack and free play
- 4.00pm-4.30pm: Going home