The provincial government says new test results show the revamped French Second Language program introduced last fall is working. 58 per cent of Grade 5 anglophone classes were either at or above the target level of basic French within the first year of the Intensive French program. Previously, only two per cent of students reached the same target after four years in the former Core French program.
In the Intensive French program–which begins in grade five–students learn in French for 60 per cent of their day during half of the school year, while the other half is in English. The changes met controversy last year.
