The foundation: the national programme
- Lessons in Arabic, on the official timetable
- The ministry’s coefficients and report cards
- End of primary, BEM and Bac prepared well ahead
Our school
A school to grow straight and aim high.
Nakhla welcomes children from 4 to 18, from Nursery to the Bac, on a single campus. The whole national programme, languages to open up to the world, and adults who know every pupil by name.
One campus, fourteen years of school
Our vision
Walking the same road together, from 4 to 18.
A school is judged over time. A child who joins us at four can sit the Bac here: their teachers talk to each other from one stage to the next, their file follows them, and nobody meets them afresh in September.
We want pupils who are sound in the fundamentals, at ease in several languages, curious about the sciences and the arts — and families who know, every evening, what happened in class.
- The national programme, in full
- One adult who answers for each pupil
- Parents informed every day
Why the palm
A tree that grows straight, towards the light.
In the middle of the courtyard stands a date palm planted long before the school. It gave the school its name, and its motto.
It grows straight
Uprightness first: telling the truth, keeping one’s word, respecting others. Discipline is a frame that protects, not a threat.
It reaches for the light
Ambition for everyone: aiming for the best in oneself, not in one’s neighbour. Each pupil has a goal their own size, and someone to help them reach it.
It bears fruit for a lifetime
What is learned here should serve for a long time: knowing how to read, to reason, to work alone and with others, long after the Bac.
Teaching
The national programme, and everything we add to it.
Nakhla teaches the Ministry of National Education’s programme, with its hours, coefficients and exams. The enrichments come on top, never instead.
The enrichments
Four languages, and a fifth
Arabic, French from P1, English and Tamazight; Spanish at lycée in the Foreign languages stream.
Coding
With blocks in primary, in Python in middle school, and a project each year the school actually uses.
Robotics
Build, program, fail, try again — then present the robot at the regional competition in spring.
The arts
Visual arts, music and drama, with an exhibition and a performance every year.
Sport
Two hours of PE, a gym, a covered court, and swimming at a partner pool.
Our values
What is not up for negotiation.
Kind rigour
We expect a lot of every pupil, and give them the means to get there.
Respect
For pupils, families, the school’s adults — and for what belongs to everyone.
Openness
Rooted in one’s own language and country, curious about other people’s.
Transparency
Marks, absences, payments: families see what the school sees.
The campus
On the heights of Algiers, facing the bay.
An enclosed, tree-lined campus a few minutes from Ben Aknoun, El Biar and Hydra: a stone courtyard around the palm, bright classrooms, two laboratories, a library, a gym, a cantine, a prayer room and an infirmary.
In figures
A school on a human scale.
- 14year groups, from Nursery to the final year
- 24pupils at most per class
- 5languages taught
- 35teachers
- 7after-school clubs
- 3bus routes
From the first villa to today’s campus.
fictional history- 2009
A villa and four classes
Pre-school and the first primary years open in a villa in the district, around an old palm tree.
- 2013
The middle school
The first pupils start 1AM: the school becomes a school group.
- 2017
The first BEM, and the lycée
The first cohort sits the BEM; the lycée opens in September with two common cores.
- 2020
The first Bac graduates
The lycée’s first cohort passes the Bac, in a year nobody will forget.
- 2023
The science building
Two laboratories, a computer room and a covered gym are built.
- 2026
The platform
Parents, pupils, teachers and the direction work in the same online space.
This history is invented for the demonstration, like the school itself.
Come and see the school one morning.
A visit takes an hour: classrooms in the middle of lessons, the cantine, the courtyard at break, and time to ask the direction every question you have.
visits run Sunday to Thursday