BROWNIES, CUBS, GUIDES AND SCOUTS
Are there English-speaking browny, cubs, guiding or scouting activities not yet listed here, but catering to the British Community where you live in France? If so, we’d like to hear from them. Why not ask their Chairman or a committee member to contact the British Community Committee by e-mailing us on britishinfrance@gmail.com
British Guides in Foreign Countries (B.G.I.F.C.)
B.G.I.F.C. Ile de France District of the Girl Guides Association comprises Brownie Packs, Rainbows, Girl Guide Companies, and Ranger Units, which are run at the Junior and Senior British School of Paris and at Holy Trinity Church, Maisons-Laffitte.
Mrs Christine Salisbury
brownowl78600@hotmail.com
The Friends of British Guiding in the Ile de France
The mission of this association is to provide support and encouragement for the leaders of Rangers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, through fund-raising activities to pay for their training. We are part of the British Guides in Foreign Countries. We believe that through our activities we raise the profile of guiding as an important part of childhood experience. We are overseen by Christine Salisbury who is District Commissioner; and our Honorary President is Mr Richard Woodall MA.
Mrs Christine Salisbury
brownowl78600@hotmail.com
Scouts
Scouting is the world’s largest youth movement with over 20 million active members. It offers a challenging and exciting programme of activities to girls and boys from 6 years of age. British Scouts in Western Europe has four active groups in France: in Chantilly, Bougival, Maisons-Laffitte and Toulouse. We also welcome offers of help from adults.
Mme Gillian Barratt
80 rue des Morillons, 75015 Paris
01 45 33 92 87
gillian.barratt@sfr.fr
Holy Trinity Church, Maisons-Laffitte
Holy Trinity Church is situated about a hundred yards from the Château at Maisons-Laffitte. We offer a warm welcome for all English-speaking Christians.
In addition to the regular church services and weddings, baptisms and confirmations, there is a well-supported Sunday school for children of all ages from Sparklers to Pathfinders. The Church Hall offers a warm venue for these and other frequent festive events for the congregation and wider community throughout the year. There are also Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies, Guides, Mothers and Toddlers and Play Groups. Services with Holy Communion are held every Sunday at 10.30 am, and in addition on the first Sunday of each month there is an All Age Communion at 9.30 am.
15 avenue Carnot, 78600 Maisons-Laffitte
01 39 62 34 97
htcml@aol.com
www.htcml.com
SPRINT
A professional organization for children with special needs.
SPRINT is a non-profit organization founded in Paris in 1986. It is a group of English-speaking and bilingual professionals who work with children of all ages with special needs.
WITHIN THIS GROUP ARE:
- Clinical Psychologists
- Educational Psychologists
- Family Therapists
- Speech and Language Pathologists
- Learning Disability Specialists
- Special Educators and Tutors
- Psychomotor Re-educators
- Occupational Therapists
- Social Workers
- Art Therapists
- Music Therapists
- Osteopaths
- Alternative Therapists
SPRINT's aims are two-fold. It offers the Anglophone community information and referral services and presents specialists with an opportunity to network.
sprint.france@free.frsprint.france.free.fr/
The British School of Paris
The British School of Paris (BSP), a non-selective co-educational school, proudly provides quality British education for students, aged 3 to 18 years, from all over the world. The BSP, founded in 1954, is situated in the picturesque suburb of Croissy-sur-Seine, 25 minutes from Paris.
The BSP offers an extensive range of academic, cultural and sporting opportunities for each of its students. The Junior and Senior Schools are situated alongside each other on the leafy banks of the river Seine.
The cacademic programme is largely based on the English National Curriculum adapted to the special circumtances of the international clientele. The School embraces the high degree of flexibility within its well-balanced curriculum. Being a holistic educator the BSP has a strong extra-curricular base with a special focus on music and drama as well as a large variety of sports. The school strives to build strength in mind and body in all members of the community, Validus, Corpore, Animoque being the sub-text in its logo.
Senior School
38 quai de l’Ecluse, 78290 Croissy-sur-Seine
01 34 80 45 90
Junior School
2 rue Hans List, 78290 Croissy-sur-Seine
01 34 80 45 90
Registrar
01 34 80 45 96
registrar@britishschool.fr
www.britishschool.fr
The English Speaking Mother's Group, Lyon
The English Speaking Mother's Group is a support group for English speaking families and their children living in the Lyon area. Our group aims to provide a supportive, relaxed and friendly environment for English speaking parents and their children. We meet regulerly to let our children meet and play with other children in English, help newcomers to Lyon, give support, exchange information.
It is run by a small committee of parents who organise activities with the help of named "coordinator" members, although most members organise outings or host events for the group. Our "base" is a twice monthly playgroup and get-together-held in a hall attached to a garden in Lyon 8em. These "playgroups" ara always held on the first and third Wednesday afternoons of each month, from 2;30 pm to 5.30 pm. Toys are provided and an activity is organised at most meetings for the older children. Refreshments are provided, together with a children's library containing over two hundred books in English.
Other activities and events are regularly organised such as : an over 6s club called 'Magic Key Club', music groups for children, coffee mornings, baby group, English book, exchanges and outings for children, parents or the whole family.