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I have taught as a preschool and primary school teacher in France for 7 years until I moved permanently to Australia with my family in 2007.
After a short teaching experience at Killarney Heights primary school, I realised that a structured French environment was missing in Sydney to help children with a French speaking background develop French speaking and get ready to learn reading and writing skills in French once they enter primary school. That is why I created Les Petites Classes, at first, for my own children and their playmates.
Over the years, my preschoolers have grown up and, as a result, I have developed reading and writing classes for them. And over the years again, my students grew up and entered High School encouraging me to create High School classes. My motivation is to offer a quality learning environment that allows francophone children to cherish and expand their mother tongue.
I am also the happy mum of four children.

Fun fact: From the region of Nantes, I love cooking crepes and savory buckwheat crepes!

After four years of teaching in Marseille in different preschools and primary schools, I decided to come back to Australia where I had set myself the challenge of accompanying trilingual French / English / Finnish children a few years earlier.
My teaching experience in schools welcoming students with learning disabilities gave me the opportunity to build a pedagogy adapted to each student. After that experience, I felt ready to take up the challenge of working in Les Petites Classes and adapt my teaching to help each student. Teaching bilingual and bi-cultural children is so exciting!

I am also following my studied in Australian practices in the Early Childhood sector, I hope to bring my skills to young Francophones in Sydney.

Fun fact: From Marseilles, I am an excellent cook of Soupe au Pistou, a traditional dish from the south of France!

« After three years’ experience in a Parisian High School as a year coordinator and principal’s assistant, I moved to Australia in early 2009. I first taught for LCF (Le Club Français) and then worked at Beauty Point Public School as a French teacher with pupils from K to Y6.
I subsequently specialised in private tutoring to help French-speaking families develop their written French. I am aware that a bilingual background is a wonderful opportunity for children; nevertheless children often face difficulties in establishing French as part of their daily routine. My motivation at Les Petites Classes is to support children and give them all the necessary tools and linguistic capabilities that they need to incorporate french language into their daily life. »