Welcome to St-Charles !

A word from the Head of the Elementary School

  an opening to the city of Orléans, thanks to its central location close to the Médiathèque, the arena and the museums ;

  an opening towards people with a respectful education and an encouragement to listening and helping each other ;

  a dynamic teaching team that caters to our pupils with activities which respect our religious orientation ;

  a welcomed participation from parents as they are a true part of our educating efforts.

 “Lest we forget that a child is nobody’s thing.

We need to serve them, considering what they are and, triggering their energy, help them become what they should be.”

Father Laberthonnière

Our Teaching Project “Be an active student” at St-Charles”

Instruction : Provide all students with general training allowing them to acquire both the knowledge and the knowhow on community living.

Education : Develop every student’s personnality in order to help them become free and real actors in society.

Socialisation : Promote socialisation and comprehension of today’s world. Allow each student to acquire thenecessary references to become a well informed citizen.

Pastoral : Offer everyone a trust based and evangelical working climate allowing for a common and personaldevelopment of faith.

Orientation : Allow all students to acquire the required orientation references prior to their cultural, social and professional insertion.

Our objective : when hosting a student at the collège is to help them go through this metamophosis from being a child who just left a known environment, the primary school, to the soon to be teenager, with their frequent doubts, worries, feelings of incomprehension as well as enthousiasms.

Our ambition : through those four years at the collège is to help them not only to acquire knowledge and skills but also to feel integrated, responsible and respectful in order to be respected, using both firmness and consultation with the families’ trust.

Our goal : progressively lead the student towards being a responsible and autonomous lycée student in a mutual trust environment by teaching them working methods and skills to understand, analyse, comment and write.

Classes at the Collège

There are 4 classes per level at the collège for a total of 16 classes. Classes run for 4 days and a half on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning, Thursday and Friday.

Timetable: morning from 8:10 to 12:05, afternoon from 1 or 1:55pm to 5 or 5:55pm.

Please note: the school’s sports association proposes activities on Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 4:30pm.

Different proposals allow to customise the student curriculum according to their level and aptitudes.

The collège has 4 training proposals :

Ancient Languages :

● elective latin option in 5e which implies carrying on through to 3e except for students who wish to switch to Greek in 3e.
● possibility for non latin students to start Greek in 3e.
● possibility to carry on at the lycée...

Language Teaching at the Collège

Mission Statement Priority Orientation n°3 : “International opening : thinking in a different language”

Objectives:
● Thinking in a foreign language
● Experience language immersion through partnerships with school abroad.

Pastoral

Orientation n°2 of our Mission Statement : “accompany and give meaning to life through all aspects of personality.”
Objective n°7 of our Mission Statement : “associate religious culture and catechism to gospel and sacraments participation.”

The collège is open to all and each can benefit from the pastoral project.

 Sport and Activities

Priority Orientation n°1 of our Mission Statement : “Learn to work together in the dynamics of projects.”

1°) Physical and Sport Education (EPS) : physical and sport education is handled by a group of teachers headed by a coordinator. Each 6e student does 4 hours weekly, 3 hours for the 5e, 4e and 3e.

2°) Sport Association (L’A.S.) : the sport association of St-Charles is a non lucrative “bill 1901” association which aims at promoting sport and educational activities in accordance with our Mission Statement. Headed by the Principal and handled by the PE teachers, this association offers :

●specific time slots for extra sport practice

●inter school events

●school championship participation

3°) Choir : the collège choir is coached by a music teacher. They traditionally meet on Mondays over lunch time and caters particularly to 6e students.

4°) Nature Club : this Nature Club is managed by an Earth and Life science teacher (SVT) and provides extra curricular activities. The objective is to give first hand experimental practice in concrete situations, for example the creation of green areas or looking after fish tanks.

5°) Chess Club : each week, our chess players meet to practice their sport. The collège strongly supports this initiative. To operate, this club benefits from :
● the use of the cultural practice room (CDI) and supervision by the document teacher
● initiation to chess in Spanish language. This is a pedagogical initiative headed a Spanish teacher and a chess master from the Loiret chess federation.

Information and Document Centre (CDI) at the Collège

Mission Statement Prioriry Orientation n°1: “Learn to work together towards a common goal”.

The Information and Document Centre (CDI) is fully integrated to Cours St-Charles. A specialised teacher, who heads the CDI, looks after providing multi disciplinary resources for school projects.

Objectives
● Methodology: Teachers build up sequences along with the the head of the CDI in order to develop varied skills such as multi support research, team work and collective written productions.
● Cultural opening: The CDI is fully wired and allows students to do research on softwares or websites that respect our internet charter. Exhibitions are held too.

● 6 classes in 2nd
● 6 classes in 1ère (L, ES, S)
● 6 classes in Terminale (L, ES, S)
As mentionned in our Mission Statement, we invite each student to join in the “en route” project while
helping them to grow in all aspects. For this, the Lycée offers :

High quality individual construction

Real human construction

through learning how to be responsible, live harmoniously in groups and experience a rich spiritual life.

Word from the Principal

Pascale PERROT, principal of the Preparatory Classes   

        Welcome to CPGE at St-Charles

       "Become an engineer, a researcher, an officer, a teacher, a financial specialist,... May everyone find their way to success: this is our goal in scientific preparatory classes.Admission to preparatory classes doesn’t require a specific “format”, each student having a unique profile. Common aspects do link them though: a real taste for science, authentic motivation and involvment as actors of their personal project and finally get into a “Grande Ecole” by succeeding second year tests or continuing evaluation with our partner schools."

Preparatory Classes fot the linked MPSI-MP

Conditions to succeed :

A love for maths and physics
A will to progress and succeed

Your two years of preparation at St-Charles will help you to develop your attention, work and organisation skills, a plaesure to work individually and in teams. A student in Terminale S, willing, serious and curious, will integrate, within 2 or 3 years, a Great Ingineering School.

Organisation of studies
A “preparatory class to Great Schools” (CPGE) is a two year program which prepares students to sit the admission tests to the Great Schools. Our preparatory class focuses on MPSI/MP meaning “maths, physics and engineering science” in first year and “maths, physics” in second year.
To guaranty our students’ choices, we have signed agreements with 3 Great Schools (HEI, ISEN and ISEP) who pre-enrol students at the end of Terminale year. Thus, at the end of the two year programme, students are admitted by decision from the class council (not through tests) to one of the 3 partner schools. But, of course, being prepared for this, they can still sit other school tests if they so desire.
This is why our preparatory school is “linked ans open”: linked to our 3 partner schools and open to other Great Engineering Schools through tests.

For 20 years, our students have joined
● Engineering schools that lead to carreers in industrial research, production and distribution in a range of domains such as aeronautics, chemistry, computer studies, public works, mecanics, electronics, nuclear power, textile, statistics, finance,...
● University or Superior Normal Schools, leading to teaching and research carreers.
● Military school : Saint-Cyr, Navale, Air school …

Organisation of studies

● develop personal, individual and team work ;
● put in perspective several skills such as autonomy, initiative, arguing and communicating both orally and in writing ;
● match the acquired skills to different disciplines.

The “EXTRA” at St-Charles:
Bilingual English Section (ASB) :  2h weekly and Human Development for 1h.

Continuing evaluation
● oral tests or “Khôlles” : each student presents one or more exercises to the teacher (develops oral skills, presenting ideas, initiative, quick thinking, ease to speak, checking lesson comprehension)
● supervised homework: 1 a week, 4 hours on Saturday mornings.

Personal Help Provided
Help provided to students in CPGE

“Lead students towards more meaning to life in all aspects of their personality”

● A pedagogical team made up of associate professors, fully mobilised for your success.
● A pedagogy based on motivation: pedagogical help, several evenings a week, to ensure motivating work atmosphere and solve eventual difficulties, team work, a dynamic and convivial setting: a “human” preparatory school.
● Reasonable number of students per class: personnalised advice and encouragements allowing you to find you own work method and rythm so that you can give out the best.
● A management and teaching staff available for any issues regarding school, administration or personel.

A Human Training
A fully intellectual training with real emphasis on languages: preparation for certifications, study trips, mandatory third language (LV2), and :

● An introduction to business through visits and an apprenticeship in second year ;
● Time given to sports for a well balanced life : 2 hours a week set in the timetable ;
● Pastoral participation: conferences, celebrations, strong events ;
● Participation in Orleans’ higher education inter-school meetings (ESCO).

Partner schools to our preparatory classes
Students in the “linked” preparatory classes follow the MPSI curriculum in the first year and the MP curriculum in the second after which they can join an engineering school (HEI, ISEN or ISEP) provided this is validated in the class council.

HEI : Created in Lille in 1885, HEI has developed its activities to train general engineers, open to the world, humanists, able to listen, who use a manager’s approach with an international profile.

ISEN : ISEN’s teaching teams and staff have chosen 5 ambitions for your training that aim to make you a professional engineer and humanly responsible.

ISEP : a great school in engineering and digital technology :
● computer studies
● telecommunication and network
● electronics
● on-board systems, signal and image processing
● project management

Contact us

Write to Mrs Pascale PERROT
Head of CPGE School
Lycée Saint Charles
“Parc Léon Chenault”
31 Avenue Saint Fiacre
45100 Orléans
Tel: 02 38 51 98 00
Fax: 02 38 51 87 41

We accept Children from 2 to 19 years of age from Primary School to Senior School. With 1600 children, we are one of the biggest Private Schools in the Loiret.

Our first speciality with more than half of our students belonging to the Bilingual Section is English. Our Teachers are all native speakers and teach exclusively in English. To attain a high level in foreign languages and a real knowledge of the Saxon and Latin culture, we organise Trips to America, Australia, England, Germany, Turkey, Italy and Spain.

Our second speciality is science where students study astronomy, aeronautics and aerospace science.

Finally, we are a Catholic School with Catholic values and we expect everybody to respect these values.

We welcome every family who accept our project !

History

Cours St-Charles was founded in the heart of Orléans following a request made by the St-Paterne parrish. Today, the school is under guardianship of the Dioceses’ Catholic Teaching Boards of Loiret and Berry.The nuns les Filles de la Sagesse opened the first classes in 1767. From its early history, Cours St-Charles has been equally transmitting education, instruction and pastoral awakening to the young. Since then, our teaching community has been elaborating, within teams, a pedagogical "savoir faire" based on our Mission Statement and an international opening. The lycée, in the St-Marceau area, was created in 1990 following a strong request made by the Diocese’s Catholic Teaching Board. At the same time, our school opened itself to scientific excellence, inaugurating preparatory classes to great engineering schools (CPGE MP / MPSI). Since the years 2000, families have been offered an organizational coherence with 4 sites : the kindergarten school on Croix de Bois street, the primary school on Stanislas Julien street, the collège on Grands Champs street and the lycée CPGE on St-Fiacre Avenue.

Cours St-Charles has kept up its strong educational and pedagogical traditions, respectful of the Gospel. Innovations are deeply rooted in our teaching, educating, administrative and technical team work. Cours St-Charles develops several partnerships with other areas as well as other schools both in France and abroad. May everyone feel welcome to join the march with Cours St-Charles and reply with generosity to the needs of our pupils and students.

 Our Project

A Welcoming Establishment

● A friendly and lucid outlook on the young and the world
● Listen and stay close to students
● Respect for the whole educational community
● Promote multiple intelligences and talents
● Forward confirmed and varied knowledges
● Develop personal thinking capacities
● Offer both collective training and quality individual programs
● Dialogue with other cultures through bilingual teaching excellence
● Lead students to deepen their faith and communicate with other Christians, religions and
atheists
● Truly live and share

 An establishment which helps to grow

● Face contemporary world issues
● Lead and help everyone to settle in society
● Grow our strength within, put both having and being in perspective
● Support families in their endeavor to promote their faith
● Match what is said to what is done
● Celebrate events and encounters through simplicity and open mind

An establishment that shines

● Be an actor in our mutating world
● Speak publicaly with a precise, structured and comprehensible language
● Acknowledge that the community is an opportunity to individuals
● Make choices which require community and self involvement

 International activities for the Collège and the Lycée

To develop a better understanding of today’s world important issues, we train new generations of students able to perform in foreign languages in cross cultural exchanges. Cours St-Charles’ international projects allow for exclusive pedagogical and cultural stays abroad. Our language teaching team includes fifteen foreign teachers, recruited for their competence and specific implications in international training programs.

Some pedagogical objectives

● Class immersion which never relies on translating
● Acquisition of specific cultural realities through the target language
● Preparation to international certifications
● Opportunity to prepare and live exclusive pedagogical stays abroad

Cours St-Charles has strong ties with both public and private institutions selected for their quality, the proximity of their educational projects and our common views on linguistic ones.

List of partner countries over five continents 

EUROPE: Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Greece
AMERICA: United States of America
ASIA: China,
OCEANIA: Australia, New-Zealand
AFRICA: Several countries in relation to annual pastoral projects

“A warm welcome to Anglais Section Bilingue”

Admission

To Register in ASB

Enrollment in ASB starts in kindergarten. As of year 4 (CM1) enrollment follows an ASB admission test.

Teachers in ASB

Demonstrations and Activities in ASB

Christmas Market

In kindergarten and primary, for the Christmas market, pupils sing Christmas Carols in front of parents and teachers.

  Plays

During the year, one or two plays are performed by primary pupils.

The Big Challenge

At the collège, 6e students take part in the national competition of “The Big Challenge”, a fun and pedagogical multiple choice question game in English. Each year, our students get high results and
are ranked in excellent position on both national and departmental levels.

Penpals

The pupils in 5^ème ASB correspond as pen pals with pupils of their age at Oundle School. In this way, the English students improve their French and as our students reply in English, both have a meaningful way of improving their English- and having fun at the same time!

Immersion Sessions

These immersion sessions, 2 or 3 days long, can be set up for students during holiday periods.

 Diploma Ceremony

All Cambridge or Pearson Test graduates are invited to attend this ceremony, organised twice a year, which congratulates them for their school success. Parents and teachers also attend.

ASB Magazine

Lâcher de colombes

Linguistic Stays and Exchange Programmes in ASB

For further information on Marryatville High School, please visit www.marryatvillehs.sa.edu.au

For each one of those trips, students are required to fill a logbook in which they write about their visits, feelings, activities … These exchanges are real opportunities for our students to open up to the world, discover and live another way of life. They remain magical, extraordinary and unforgettable memories for each participant.