Welcome to our website. Here at the Brightside Academy, we’ve forged together a happy team of well qualified staff from far and wide. Together, we pride ourselves on how we respect the individual needs of every child in our care.

 

We look forward to welcoming you and your children to visit us and see for yourselves.

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Biography

​Though I’m originally from the West of France, I was fortunate enough as a child to be able to do some of my schooling in the small town of Beamsville, Canada. After eventually moving back home to France, I attended university and studied digital graphic design.

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However, it was during the summer holidays away from campus where I first discovered what would later become my passion and my future career. Whilst working as a reception director for minors and BA-FA training, I unearthed a zest for teaching young children.

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Back at uni for the start of a new term, I continued to develop my interest, initially working part-time with disabled children in Nîmes. After graduation, I went on to do more work in this field.

I passed the National Education Concours in 2011 and acquired full teacher status (CRPE) in France. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to have experienced teaching in New York as well as in France’s first bilingual state funded school in Paris where I took ownership of a pilot class for “reading and writing in kindergarten”.

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In 2014, I joined my long-term partner here in Haute-Savoie, where I have spent the last eight years working very happily in local bilingual schools.

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In my spare time, I love drawing, literature and spending time with my young family. I also write children's books.

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I am a very positive person. I always look on the proverbial ‘bright side of life’. That is why it’s been such a thrill these last few years working as head teacher of a school so aptly named, the Brightside Academy!

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Julie Cartier, Headteacher