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Nein, ich bin Kanadier, aber ich spreche Deutsch. French Immersion is a programme that has existed in Canada since the late 60's thanks to Pierre Trudeau. Students in our Board begin to do all their courses in French at Grade 4 level. At Grade 7, a couple of courses revert back to English, and by Grades 9 and 10 they do about one-third in French - Language, Geography, History, Business, Dramatic Arts, Civics and Careers - courses like that. But it does depend on the school and the board. Some high schools offer math and science in French or art and phys ed. We are more oriented towards the social sciences. Some boards also introduce immersion much earlier at kindergarten.

Hi Pamela. You can contact me at nancy_castonguay@sd34.bc.ca if you have questions pertaining to FI. Best, Nancy

I will be very happy to help you out Pamela! Helene

Hey Pamela,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

Hi Pamela! Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your colleagues, or students would be interested in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get New York students involved. Please let me know! Thanks!