Glossary

School stationery

Classeur grand format

Classeur grand format

Carton à dessin

Cahier de travaux pratiques

Protège cahier

Cahier de textes

Feuilles (copies) doubles
Feuilles silmples

Très grand cahier (24x32cm)
Grand cahier (21x29.7cm)
Petit cahier - Petit format

Très grand protège cahier (24x32cm)
Grand protège cahier (21x29.7cm)
Petit protège cahier-Petit format

Ardoise effaçable (Velleda)

Protège livre

Papier calque

Papier millimétré

Papier à dessin (Canson)

Intercalaires en carton

Pochettes transparentes
Grand format

Porte vues /
Protège document / Lutin

Porte vues /
Protège document / Lutin

Blouse de chimie

Trousse

Boite de feutres

Boite de peintures - Pinceaux

Crayon à papier HB ou 2B - Gomme

Fiches Bristol

Chemise à rabats et à élastiques cartonné

Règle double décimètre -
Rapporteur - Equerre

Surligneur - Ciseaux à bouts ronds - Crayon à papier HB/2B - Gomme - Taille crayon avec réservoir - Tube de colle blanche

Stylos à bille (bleu, rouge, vert, noir) - Post-it - Effaceur d'encre - Stylo plume (à encre)

Basic School Glossary

Classeur : Binder or loose-leaf ring binder

Compas : Compass

Copie double : Double loose-leaf sheet

Crayons de couleur : Colored pencils

Crayon à papier : Pencil(HB=nº2)

Dossier : File

Double décimètre : 20 cm ruler

Effaceur : Ink eraser

Equère : right angle triangle

Eponge : Sponge

Feuille blanche : White paper

Papier calque : Tracing paper

Feuille canson : Construction/drawing paper

Feuille double : Double loose-leaf paper

Feuille mobile : Loose-leaf paper

Feuille simple : Simple loose-leaf paper

Grand format : Big size(21x29,7cm=A4)

Très Grand format(maxi) : Big size(24x32cm=maxi A4)

Grands carreaux (ou Seyes) : Normal lined paper

Petits carreaux : Graph paper

Feuille volante : Loose-leaf paper

Feutres : Markers

Gomme : Eraser

Intercalaire : Subject dividers

Papier millimétré : Millimetre graph paper

Perforée : With holes

Perforeuse : Hole puncher

Pour la peinture : For painting

Chiffon : Old cloth

Couleurs primaires : Primary colors

Gobelet/Godet : Cup for water

Pinceaux : Paint brushes

Tablier : Smock(overall)

Tubes de peinture : Tubes of paint(often gouache for primary school)

Vieille chemise : Old shirt

Protège cahiers : Notebook covers

Pochettes transparentes : Clear plastic folders to protect documents in a binder

Avertissement : An official warning which is the normal sanction for misdemeanors by pupils ranging from minor transgressions to major breaches of discipline; many students collect one during their school career; more than one on the record is dangerous, and three can result in expulsion.

Bulletin scolaire: Report card

Bureau de la vie scolaire: General administration office for middle school student concerns-room 206 in the Lycée International main building.

Classe de neige/Classe transplantée : 2 to 3 weeks' stay in the mountains (or seaside) for the whole French primary class

Collège : Jr High School (6th - 9th grade), middle school

Carnet de correspondance : A booklet serving as a communication link between parents and teachers (for students in secondary)

C.G.E.A, C.S.O., Cars de Chatou : Three main bus companies( see also APELI information sheet)

Conseil de classe : Meeting of teachers towards the end of each term in order to discuss the performance of a class as a whole, and of individual students in particular, prior to the sending out of report cards.

Contrôle : Test

Controle Conseiller(e) principal d'éducation : School academic counselor

Délégué de classe (élève) : Class representative elected by students at the beginning of each school year, usually one girl or boy per class.

Directeur : Principal of an elementary school

Enseignement national(EN) : National Section Literature Instruction;

ENH : National Section History class

Externés : Students going to a local school, but attending national section classes at the Lycée International campus twice a week (6 hours per week). Applies to primary classes only.

Parent délégué : (Homeroom class/contact parent) parent class representative of the National Section.

PEC : Parents class representative for French Education.

Intendant : School financial administrator

Informatique : Computer Programming

Loge : Concierge's Office

LV I (Langue Vivante I) : First foreign language after National Section Language and French

LV II (Langue Vivante II) : Second foreign language after National Section Language and French

Mario's : Café on the second floor of the CDI building on the Lycée International campus

Maternelle II : Pre-Kindergarten

Maternelle III : Kindergarten

Mention : Honors (Félicitations, Compliments or Encouragements)

Moyenne : Average

Note : Grade

Permanence : Free period between classes which should be used for private studies

Pion : Student slang for "surveillant"

Portes Ouvertes : Open House Day

Principal : Principal of a middle school

Professeur principal : French homeroom teacher in Secondary school

Protal : Student slang for proviseur

Rapporteur : protractor

Stylo plume : fountain pen

SURVIVAL GUIDE 2010/2011

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