« SEVENS ACADEMY » Section Sportive Haut Niveau RUGBY à 7
Located at the « Lycée International de VALBONNE » Sophia Antipolis (a state school)
(Nice Board of Education)
Academic programme : leads to the French baccalaureate L, ES,S or OIB . Five international programmes are offering the international version of the French baccalureate: Anglo-American, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
Admission and enrolment in 2° ,1°, T .
Entrance test arranged in 2° (OIB)
Some Sections are co-run (Anglo-American section, German Section) by Boards of parents and need annual tuition fées
Curricular Sport : first sport activity in France enabling girls and boys to practice Rugby Sevens at a high level. It will soon be an Olympic game.
Two training periods a week offered : Tuesday Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Plus one with the rugby league of the school every Wednesday from 1.30 to 4.3 p.m.
Sport activities : offensive and defensive principles of Rugby Sevens. Individual bearings as well as collective ones, individual technique, mind and body preparation. Competition, tournaments…
Close partnership with IRB Sevens , FIRA-AER European Sevens, FFR and the the French Riviera and local département Committees.
Admission applications to be sent to the school :
please submit :
details of schooling, school reports covering the last school year.
Samples of recent sport schooling and activities ( profile of sport performance, different posts : local leagues, regional or national ones )
covering letter in support of the candidateship
Applications to be submitted by April 20 2012
Admisision held by a commisson presided over by the Headmaster will examine applications by May and retain 20 boys and 20 girls for the school year 2012 2013.
