Educational Background

The Language Journey

At the Lycée Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Santiago, speaking multiple languages comes naturally. Learning one or more languages is easier when it begins at an early age. Being bilingual or trilingual stimulates brain function and gives children greater ability to concentrate, reason, and solve problems.

Our school offers trilingual education from kindergarten through 12th grade for all students. Starting in the first year of preschool (at age 3), all students begin a total language immersion experience, through which they fully discover the three languages we offer: French, Spanish, and English. They listen, speak, and write in French—our primary language and the language of instruction throughout their schooling—as well as in Spanish, which is the country’s official language, and in English. Throughout their school years, from the youngest to the oldest students, they progressively refine their proficiency in these three languages.

The Arts and Culture Education Program

From elementary school through high school, the Arts and Culture Education Program (PEAC) aims to promote equitable access to the arts for all students through the development of a personal artistic culture.

At our school, this translates into a body of knowledge acquired by students, hands-on experiences, and encounters in the fields of the arts and cultural heritage—both within the classroom setting and through specific projects and educational activities—with school and after-school time working in tandem.

The Arts and Culture Education Program

The Health Education Program

From preschool through 12th grade, this curriculum aims to ensure health education, prevention, and the protection of students’ health, taking into account children’s environments and the relationship between the different stages of their lives. This curriculum prepares students to take care of themselves and others and to become responsible citizens in matters of individual and public health.

The Health Education Program

The Civic Tour

This educational program aims to prepare students to become free and responsible citizens. As part of the educational curriculum—specifically in the areas of moral and civic education (EMC) and media and information literacy (EMI)—it helps instill republican values and principles by addressing the key areas of citizenship education: secularism, gender equality, mutual respect, the fight against all forms of discrimination, the prevention and fight against racism and anti-Semitism, the fight against homophobia and transphobia, environmental education, and the fight against bullying and abuse. This program also relies on student participation in the social and democratic life of the classroom and the school.

The Career Guidance Pathway

At our school, career guidance is provided progressively throughout high school through the “Parcours Avenir” program—a path toward the future—and enables students to get to know themselves better, explore the professional world, and understand their options for higher education, whether in Chile, France, or other countries abroad.

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The Career Guidance Pathway