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As a parent , I cannot recommend Eifa enough.
Acadamic wise, they are extraordinary. When our child joined Eifa , he did not know a single word of French. After one year, thanks to excellent teachers and their innovative program, he now masters the language perfectly as a native speaker .
The curriculum is delivered in english and french daily, with extra classes of German/ Spanish and Latin. Enrichment sessions are a great occasion for students to challenge themselves in different subjects like archeology, coding , journalism and many more .
The environment is nurturing and extra positive.
They invest a lot in empathy and pastoral care .
Students feel really part of a big family. Classes are small: this allows teachers to support on daily basis every single student, leaving none behind, while students work together closely creating extraordinary bonds of true friendship.
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Eifa is such a wonderful school. As kids grow up we need to change school. But sad to leave the atmosphere and the quality of learning. I recommend this school.

The school has very strong and engaged teachers, a strong bilingual program, and an active parent community. The result is an environment of balanced, polite and well educated children. I think the small size is beneficial to learning and creating a wonderful environment. The biggest challenge is the size of the school (even physically) as the children get older means they can perhaps miss out on broader school experiences elsewhere.

My two sons have been at EIFA School since nursery. I have been a parent at EIFA for five years, and it has been a very nurturing school, offering warmth and care to both children and parents. My children love going to school.

We are not a French-speaking family, but my eldest (now in Year 2) speaks good French, thanks to the school. My little one (nursery) picks up very quickly.

The parent community deserves special praise—they do so much for the children and foster a strong sense of family and community.

The teachers are nurturing, firm when needed to encourage discipline, but also fun for the children. They are approachable for parents and genuinely care.

What matters to me is that there is no atmosphere of stress or competition over tests, grades, or admissions, unlike many other London schools.

I am happy to have found such a school for my children.

My daughter started school this year and she has been very very happy with the school (teachers and students) since the first day. She did not speak any English but she has very well coached since day one! Now almost bilingual in English and French.

Eifa is a great school. It has a very special community that I haven’t seen in any other school in London. Teachers are excellent and carefully chose and children are all very happy to go to school.

EIFA's student-centered approach helped our older son who had suffered greatly in the rigid and punitive French school system. He has now left EIFA and is a confident student performing well academically in his new high school.

Our second son is still in EIFA and the school environment has also suited him. While there were initial concerns about the small class sizes in Middle School, this has posed no issues for him. It is a luxury to have this level of support compared to many schools charging the same tuition but cramming 25-30 students in one classroom.

The school also applies an interdisciplinary approach to their courses which results in very well-rounded students who know information beyond the basic core curriculum (politics, human rights, geogrpahy, journalism, coding, etc.). Lastly, the PTA is very active at EIFA. They organize parties, talks, and educational seminars for the kids and parents which is not very common in other schools.

EIFA International School's bilingual, positive and "growth-mindset" fostering approach to education contributes to a unique learning experience and environment, nurturing children on all aspects - from literacy and numeracy to sports, arts and music - on both the academic and the personal development front.

Thanks to its excellent quality teachers and staff, an impressively high staff-to-children ratio, children develop this rare ability to explore, question, discern, think outside the box and create by themselves - well beyond bluntly memorising and reproducing text books - all with passion and confidence. In turn, as they feel safe and cared for, children learn seamlessly, with pleasure.

The primary school's bilingual curriculum has been efficiently designed, leveraging both the academic rigour of the French education system and the positive approach of the British and Amer... read full review

Our children went to EIFA school during our two years stay in London.
They had a wonderful experience and we were very satisfied with the teaching level, the availability of the teachers and the shared human values.

We have been delighted by the warmth, personal attention and bilingual curriculum of the school in our nearly five years there. The school's small size gives it a familial feel and the children know not only their classmates, but also those in the other grades from shared activities and after-school clubs. The school celebrates cultures, languages and different backgrounds to help all feel welcome and appreciated.

Being born in London and having grown up throughout the English primary school system (state school), going to EIFA was an amazing transition to secondary for our daughter in September 2020.

Until then, we had managed her learning of the French language via Saturday schools, private classes and, later on, CNED tuition, so joining EIFA then was a step up into a fully integrated bilingual education.

The fact that kids have uneven level of French or English was handled well by the school and never at the expense of academic progress. In hindsight, probably an asset to be able to collaborate with diverse profiles.

Overall, EIFA offers the best of the IB curriculum with the added bonus of bilingualism, opening even more opportunities down the line to go back to a particular educational system (e.g. UK, FR or IB).

Finally, under new leadership with Francoise and Stephane, the scho... read full review

The school is entirely bilingual and offers to our children the best of both world: a combination of the strong French academic approach (but which can be sometimes narrow) with the balanced, opened-to-the-world British approach: both in the values and in the fact that sport, oral expression, art, drama etc... are seen as important topic, along with sciences and human sciences topic, to help children become rounded individuals able to adapt to different cultures, study paths and work environment.

We have 3 children who each are very different but all thriving at school as the school as well as each teacher is keen to understand each pupil: while there is a strong and clear framework and program, there is never a one-size-fits all approach to the pedagogy.

Finally seeing children switch naturally from English to French with no accent, while many of them come from yet another country and master already another language is very impressive.