être élève en France

Here is the first little "cultural" intervention I made about schools in France.
The normal day for a pupil is going to school from 8.30 to 11.30 and from 13.30 to 16.30. (with breaks at 10.15 and 15.15 for nearly 20 minutes each). Pupils are usually going to school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings, Thursday and Friday (sometimes the Wednesday morning is replaced by Saturday mornings.).
Basically during those days they will study French (a lot of grammar and how to conjugate, "la dictée",...) Maths, History and Geography, a little of english, Art, and Music (jut a few hours per week).
Here are the classes that you have:
Maternelle, consisting of 3 years
petite section: starts are 2 or 3 depending on the number of places the school has.
moyenne section
grande section

Cours Préparatoire (CP) where you learn how to read.
Cours Elémentaire (CE) The "Cours élémentaire" is in two years:
CE1
CE2
Cours Moyen (CM) here again in two years:
CM1
CM2

After the CM2 you go to the "Collège" (Secondary school).
That's a bit tedious but i thought it was important to introduce the general context of "les écoliers en France"!