The Middle School (college) is 4 years organized into 3 cycles.
The Transition Cycle
The 6th grade (6eme) is a transition year, using some of the teaching methods of primary school and introducing newer, more mature ways of teaching.
The students continue to study English as a foreign language (langue vivante 1 or LV1).
The Middle Cycle
In grades 7 and 8 (5eme and 4eme), children advance their learning skills and develop a sense of importance for education and their role in society. In the 9th grade, students begin studying a second foreign language, either Spanish or German, depending on the students’ interests.
The orientation cycle
The 9th grade (3eme), students begin to pursue their subjects of interest. At the end of the year they sit their examinations to enter upper school.
The Arthur Rimbaud French School
Starting from September 2006, a new French-Cypriot program with full time instruction will be added in the 6th to 8th grade.
The 9th grade is currently a correspondence based program with the CNED (the French distance learning program) in Rennes. Pupils receive correspondence modules that they work on in class and must complete them in a specified time. Their work is either corrected by the teachers at the school or sent to the CNED.
Each semester, two progress reports are provided by the CNED; this compliments the teachers’ assessments of the pupils.
In the final year of the 9th grade, students must write a final examination held at the French Cultural Center. No one to date has ever failed!