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As the start of the 2025-2026 school year, the Ministry of National Education made public the official lists of school supplies for students from the three teaching cycles, which are already available on the department and official pages of the department. This is what a statement from the ministry said this Wednesday.
The ministry said that these lists must be “strictly respected” by teachers, specifying that they represent “the threshold necessary to adopt, in accordance with the needs of educational programs of each level and each sector, especially for the general and technological secondary cycle”, informed the same source.
It has also been specified that this announcement is part of a process of rationalizing purchases and protection of student health, heavily assigned in recent years by the excessive weight of their satchels. Thus, the stake is double, on the one hand reducing the financial burden that weighs on families and on the other hand prevent the health risks linked to the port of satchels too heavy often at the origin of scoliosis in young schoolchildren.
In addition, the ministry said that “each list has been designed taking into account the educational, social and health dimensions”, recalling that many notebooks remain partially virgin at the end of the school year. This new approach thus aims to optimize the use of equipment and relieve parents, often forced to multiply purchases outside of official prescriptions. In other words, it will no longer be tolerated to demand additional supplies, often expensive and unused at the end of the year.
School, college and high school directors are now responsible for ensuring the rigorous application of these orientations. Teachers, for their part, will have to fully comply with the published lists. The ministry also encourages the dissemination of these documents through the display in establishments and provision on various supports, so that each parent can easily consult the requirements for the level of their child.
For the primary cycle, the lists are standardized and simplified. In the first and second years, they are limited to the essentials, some notebooks mainly of 64 pages, notebooks, pens, paper pencils, erases and colored pencils. Nothing superfluous, in order to preserve the health of children whose skeleton is still fragile.
From the third year, the needs are gradually evolving with the introduction of new materials, in particular foreign languages, such as French and English. The classes of fourth and fifth years adopt a common list, designed to support the rise in complexity of the programs while remaining measured.
In college, the list of supplies is the same for the four years of the cycle. With mainly notebooks of 120 and 192 pages. The purpose of this standardization is to harmonize the needs of students, to simplify the task of families and to guarantee equity between learners. Parents will no longer have to wonder about differentiated purchases from one year to another, or to bear additional expenses deemed non -essential. This measure is a relief for homes, often forced to review their budget on the eve of each school year.
It is at the level of secondary that differentiation becomes more marked. For the first year, two separate lists have been planned, adapted to literary sectors on the one hand, and scientists on the other. From the second year and until the final year, each specialty benefits from a personalized list. The approach takes into account the educational specificities of each branch, whether they are exact sciences, letters or technologies, in order to provide students with the tools really necessary for their learning.
With the publication of these lists, the Ministry of National Education reaffirms its commitment to establish a balance between academic requirement and social responsibility. Lightening satchels, reducing expenses and harmonization of supplies respond to the same logic, that of protecting the student and supporting the family.