The team

Lucile
Charlotte
Caroline
Baya

My name is Lucile. I’m French and I worked as a papermaking production manager before changing career and entering the teaching world. I completed a training on teaching French as a foreign Language and I taught French before taking the responsibility for the role of director (at both Petite École de Reigate and Language School). I’m glad to be able to share my language, experience and culture with the children.

I have been a full-time teacher at a large primary school in Surrey since 2019. I previously trained in France in small private schools and progressively moved to the UK to gain a broader experience of teaching. I was fortunate enough to be raised bilingual in a Franco-British family and one of the inevitable knock-on effects was the discovery of my passion for languages. Teaching French allows me to thrive by doing what I enjoy while transmitting my infinite passion for languages to children.

I have been teaching fifth grade since the beginning of the 2018 school year. I am French and have been living in West Sussex since 2010. With a literary background and a BTS in communications, I became interested in language teaching by giving private French lessons to adults and children. Recently, I became the manager of a franchise "La Jolie Ronde" which allows me to work regularly with young children, a work that I am passionate about, and I find it very rewarding to pass on the knowledge of French and Francophone culture to the bilingual children of La Petite École and to help them develop their own culture. Passionate about the arts and theatre, these are two subjects that I try to transmit during my lessons.

My name is Baya, and I am the mother of two teenage daughters. I qualified as a teacher in France 15 years ago and thought English as a foreign language to primary school children.  When My husband and I decided to move to England a few years back, Petite École de Reigate offered me a great opportunity to teach French to bilingual children and also French as a foreign language.  The last five years have been a wonderful experience, seeing how much the children gain in confidence throughout the years. It is quite rewarding listening to them singing and reading in French with so much ease and enthusiasm.