Our mission
Enable each pupil to achieve their full potential.
Founded in 1905 by the Missionaries of St François de Sales, Florimont is a Catholic school that has had a lay management team since 1995.
Since the beginning, our driving force has been to enable each pupil to achieve their full potential in a warm and welcoming environment.
We have always known how to draw on the best aspects of our past and incorporate it with the present to give our pupils a comprehensive education. In an atmosphere of mutual trust, we encourage open-mindedness and adhere to firm principles in all we undertake.
We do not compromise on standards – not for ourselves nor for our pupils – so that we can get the best out of everybody. We support our pupils throughout their time at school and ensure that they are successful in all they do. From the very beginning, we have shared a real “Flo Spirit” with our community: we are connected to our families, our local institutions and our cultural, sporting and artistic partners.
Sustained by our strong values and the support of our trusted partners, all our pupils are able to bring out the best in themselves. Here at Florimont, school is not limited to academic subjects: it is a process made up of the art of learning, the art of living and the art of being oneself. The heart of our mission is to give individual attention to each of our pupils so they reveal the potential that will lead to fulfilment throughout their lives – well beyond our Institut’s walls.
Our values
Aspire for the best
Aspiring to be the best version of ourselves by constantly challenging not only our students but also ourselves as a school.
Nurture trust
Building trustful and durable relationships with our families, our students, our partners.
Promote open-mindedness
We always promote the humanist values brought to us by Saint François de Sales Missionaries.
Spirituality
Flo spirit
The Flo spirit is our driving force. Being open-minded, altruistic and know when to challenge oneself is what defines our community.
We take it to heart to promote the Flo spirit wherever and whenever we can, through our teaching methods in class, or outside the educational framework during events we organise inside and outside our campus.
The congregation of the missionaries of Saint François de Sales
The first missionaries were priests from the diocese of Annecy, brought together by Father Pierre-Marie MERMIER (1790-1862) in order to go from parish to parish and promote the church’s evangelical mission aimed at reviving the faith after the troubles of the French Revolution.
The first missionaries were priests from the diocese of Annecy, brought together by Father Pierre-Marie MERMIER (1790-1862) in order to go from parish to parish and promote the church’s evangelical mission aimed at reviving the faith after the troubles of the French Revolution.
In 1838, this group formed a religious congregation under the patronage of St. François de Sales, a bishop and apostle in this region from 1602 to 1622.
The new congregation was approved both by the bishop of Annecy, Monsignor Pierre-Joseph REY and the King of Sardinia, His Highness Charles Albert. (Savoy was not French until 1860.)
Saint François de Sales
Saint François de Sales was born in 1567, five years after the death of Calvin.
He was ordained as Bishop of Geneva in 1602, three days before the famous Escalade that marked the final independence of the city from Charles-Emmanuel, the Duke of Savoy. He died in 1622 on returning from a diplomatic mission.
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