France/ Calvados school earns accolade for sustainable development work
Among the projects for this 2024-2025 school year, the Val d'Arry (Calvados) school will be continuing its work on sustainable development, for which it has been awarded a label.
As elsewhere in France, pupils at Val d'Arry elementary school (Calvados) in Noyers-Bocage were back in class on Monday, September 2, 2024.
A total of 235 pupils have returned to the school, in the school's ten classes, from Petite Section to CM2. Numbers have been " stable over the last four years", says Headmaster Frédéric Thébault.
The latter is entering his fifth year in the post, since the merger of the schools of the historic communes, having previously been a teacher there. But while the school's enrolment figures remain stable this year, the teaching team is undergoing some changes, with the arrival of Morgane Landron in MS-GS and Caroline Lebrun in CE1 (part-time with the principal).
Culture and sustainable development on the agenda
As for this school year, the school intends to pursue its work on culture, and to this end intends to continue working with local cultural structures such as the Noyers-Bocage media library and the Villodon CDAR. "We and our students are always very well received there," smiles Frédéric Thébault.
The school will also be continuing the work it has been doing in recent years, combining sustainable and social development.
Last year, the school was awarded level 1 of the E3D label (École ou Établissement en Démarche globale de Développement Durable), developed by the French Ministry of Education to recognize and encourage sustainable development. ducation Nationale to recognize and encourage establishments committed to a global approach to sustainable development, the school will this time be "trying to achieve level 2".
We work with Jardins d'Arlette. It's an association based in Mondeville that works to reintegrate people into society through work, and with which we run projects such as tomato planting and a plant fair, the profits from which are paid back to them. It's useful for them, and the students love it - it's a win-win situation.
Source: actu.fr/normandie/
