With deep gratitude and respect, we are honoured to be learning and unlearning on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh  Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). 

L'École Bilingue is a single-track French Immersion school, nestled within the hub of the community, located on West 14th Avenue between Granville Street and Oak Street, with a well-established French Immersion program that opened in 1973.  With entry into French Immersion being restricted to Kindergarten and Grade 1 students, most of the approximately 400 students remain with their Kindergarten cohort throughout the grades, and staff work very collaboratively to ensure connections throughout the grade levels.  

Some highlights of our program include team sports (cross-country, volleyball, basketball), extracurricular activities (scratch club, creative writing club, chess club), project based learning such as passion projects, and working with our community partner EarthBites in the on-site community garden, where students learn about growing and harvesting vegetables. Students also enjoy field studies including our Grade 4 and Grade 7 overnight camps.

Our Grade 7 students play a very important role within the school and serve as leaders in many ways such as organizing and running school wide assemblies, preparing daily announcements, and volunteering as Hall Monitors. 

Most of our divisions are paired with a buddy class, where the intermediate classes work with a primary class weekly, on literacy and numeracy skills. This also fosters relationships between the older and younger students. 

Parents enjoy helping around the school, as parents coaches for team sports, helping with hot lunch programs. The LEB Parent Advisory Committee (PAC), coordinate community building events, such as the Welcome Back BBQ and the Halloween Haunt, as well as providing funds to enhance students’ learning experiences.