Lycée Louis Massignon (also referred to as LLM) is one of two

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, United Arab Emirates - the other being Lycée Théodore Monod. It was established in 1972 as the École des Sociétés Françaises and grew out of an initiative of the Société des Pétroles. In 1982, the school was renamed in honour of Louis Massignon, a noted French scholar of

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. From 1992, it has been managed by the Agence pour l’Enseignement Français à l’Etranger (AEFE), the agency within the French Foreign Ministry charged with overseeing French language education abroad. The Lycée's structure and curriculum are based on the French educational system. It comprises the "Maternelle" and the "Primaire" (essentially kindergarten ("Petite section") through fifth grade ("CM2"). As well as the Collège and the

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, essentially sixth grade ("Sixième") through twelfth grade ("Terminale"). In 2022, the school had more than 2,100 students.

Education

Instruction is almost entirely in French; 3 hours a week of Arabic language classes are compulsory and English is taught from the

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, an SIB course is available from the first grade onto the

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. A third language is introduced in the sixth grade: Spanish or German. Latin and Russian are optional additional languages. Regarding the other subjects, in collège, instruction is as follows : - 4h30 of French - 3h30 of History-Geography, Mathematics - 3h00 of Arabic, English, PE - 2h30 of German, Spanish - 2h00 of Social Studies, Latin, Russian - 1h30 of Biology-Geology, Physics-Chemistry & Technology - 1h00 of Arts, Music The school's gates open at 7:30am, classes start at 8am. For the primary students, school ends at either 1:15pm or 3:30pm. For the secondary students, school ends either at 3:15pm, 5:30pm or 7:30pm. On

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, school ends at noon, although secondary students have online classes through Zoom from 2pm to 6pm: it is the only school in the UAE to do so.

References

Website of the Lycée Louis Massignon

Headmasters and direction

Lycée Louis Massignon has had many headmasters since its establishment. The current headmistress i
Anne-Sophie Gouix
and the co-headmaster being Frédéric Chanut.

External links

Lycée Louis Massignon

Lycée Louis Massignon
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