Coordinator
We are a middle school in Le Mans, France. We have 320 students aged 11 to 15, 27 teachers and 12 non-teaching staff. We teach English, Spanish and Italian as second languages.
Partner
We are a general education school, offering education from primary to secondary level. We have 39 classes, including 3 classes for allophone students, 861 students, 80 teachers and 15 non-teaching staff.
Partner
The school “ I.C. G. Macherione” is located in Sicily, South of Italy and overlooks the Ionian Sea. It is also at the feet of Mount Etna, one of the biggest volcanoes in Europe, and close to one of the most important Italian resorts, Taormina.
Here is a padlet on which we introduce oursleves in English to our partners. https://padlet.com/clehoux/erasmus-students-presentations-a0hh5cnppfsd
guest
We are a school in the south of Spain, With more than 1,300 students and 138 teachers, the institute has a diversified study offer in the morning and afternoon
Partner
Obchodni Akademie is a high school in Ceska Lipa, Czech Republic. They have joined the project in November 2024 and are already fully involved.
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To mark World Water Day, students from partner countries organized displays in their schools to raise awareness of global water issues. This exhibition follows our visit to Mega, Czech Republic.
During this week, they were able to work on the textile industry through the ages, the problem of water in the world and wastewater treatment. They also took air quality readings, which are in addition to those already taken in Le Mans and will be completed in Sicily soon. They worked on water quality, visiting a water treatment plant and the company Mega, https://www.mega.cz/ They were also able to discover the daily lives of their Czech counterparts and create bonds of friendship that will be strengthened in May during the meeting in Sicily. Following this week, an exhibition on water was organized in the establishments to mark Water Day.
Discover our new magazine: https://madmagz.app/fr/viewer/678f76e4c432b10014ed5e7e#page-16 And find all our stories on a padlet here: https://padlet.com/clehoux/utopia-dystopia-oxpfavqy7926
Winter is coming,, it's freezing, perfect time to build a bird shelter. A great idea and a good opportunity to work on 3D models with the technology teacher. Let's see if robins will come...
our students have started taking readings to measure air quality. To do this, they did some coding (programming) and put together an air quality measurement kit. Thanks to STEM they will experiment, pose hypotheses, propose solutions.
After studying books extracts and films our students are writing their own utopia and dystopia and will make an online magazine with their stories.
Discover our online advent calendar on the project; https://view.genially.com/6562119f298e4d00118d9bb5/interactive-content-christmas-advent-calendar-2024
We welcome our new partner the Obchodni Akademie from Ceska Lipa. To welcome them we are all writing them cards.
Our schools will organise Erasmus Days. There will be exhibitions on our projects, games on Europe, exchanges of letters and cards between students, presentations to families.
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Students from year 8 will go around their neighborhood. A role game will be organised. Each student will have missions to accomplish. They will also post poems on nature on people's letterboxes with our website address on them. Then they will do drama in a park, the text of Molère "L'Avare". Finally they will go to visit an exhibition at Touchard High school where they will interview a teacher about this high school Erasmus project.
80 students from collège Albert Camus will go to Paris to visit "La Cité des Sciences" and discover an exhibition on climate and garbages. They will have the opportunity to visit their capital city and work on sustainable development. Then they will send letters and photos to their partner to share their experience and exchange of sustainable development and food.
Our three partners will meet and spend the whole week together working on sustainable development and food. We can't wait! Here is our programme: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGBXedUtJU/7yHoYF5kryCkSSr2OilKsg/edit?utm_content=DAGBXedUtJU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Students from Albert Camus will broadcast a radio programme on the project on Cartables FM 93.3 with Delphine , a journalist.They enjoyed the full visit of the radio premises.
Students have started building the weather station from recycled items.
We are very proud of our students and their families who came to participate last Saturday, 27th January. Between the 150 participants we collected 70kg of plastic. In addition, World Environment Education Day was celebrated all over the world on that day. Many people all over the world were doing an activity similar to ours.
Students will visit a incineration plant garbage and start thinking on Waste Management.
Students were invited to create their neighborhood and make proposals that fit the citizens with two architects. They will have to present their work in English.
Students from Grade 7th will discover architecture and urban design through workshops with the CAUE in Le Mans.
Italian partners make us discover aquaponics through a model made in their school.
Students from the three partners countries will send Christmas cards across Europe to their new friends!
Students went to visit a sorting waste center and learnt more on how to recycle and sort wastes from home. This visit is directly connected to the month poster: What do you put in each bin?
Students from France will travel to Czech Republic to participate to workshops on Sustainable Development and exchange ideas on this topic.
In the neighbourhood, "the Ponlieue en Transition" association is organising a "litter pick" for volunteers: we collect rubbish and litter in the street to make the neighbourhood a more pleasant place to live.
On this day our entire school will celbrate its participation to an Erasmus project through exhibitions and online quizzes. Here is our quiz: https://view.genial.ly/65210da09526ee00127ce591/interactive-content-copie-copie-calendrier-de-lavent
our 3ESO students (15 years old) will participate in an awareness campaign to collect plastics on the beaches of our city, Elche in the south of Alicante. Our goal is for the population to be responsible for their own waste and to achieve this, the most important thing is to avoid buying single-use plastic containers.
Students of 5C will go on a tour of our medieaval city to observe it and imagine their future city from the existing one.
Students of 5B will go on a tour of our medieaval city to observe it and imagine their future city from the existing one.
Our students visited different educational workshops and learned from scientific experts in geology, biology, anthropology, physics, chemistry, geography... We feel very lucky to have participated with a total of 90 students from the IES Victoria Kent educational center. From Victoria Kent school, Elche.
Students of 5C will go on a tour of our medieaval city to observe it and imagine their future city from the existing one.
Use green transport to go to work and registrer your travel at school !
Create a logo to represent our project. Here are the key words: Sustainability, green, Europe, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Erasmus, Future Cities. You don't need to use them all. Here are the colours: Green, blue, yellow.
Let's start our project .
From November 4th to 11th twelve French students went to work on Sustainable development with their Czech partners in Ceska Lipa. They were hosted in families and spent much time in school, working altogether around activities and visits in English, all connected to sustainable development. You can see photos by clicking on the link below.
En savoir plusOur students from Grade 9th imagined their neighborhood in the future. Discover their work on our school website.
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Hers is our project advent calendar: https://view.genial.ly/6562119f298e4d00118d9bb5/interactive-content-christmas-advent-calendar
Here is the magazine of short stories written by students from France, Itlay and Czech Republic after their work on litterature and films. Enjoy: https://madmagz.app/fr/viewer/678f76e4c432b10014ed5e7e#page-16
Here is our online magazine proposing 20 anti-waste and easy-to-make recipes: https://madmagz.app/fr/viewer/66e16f415f95df00148a57e2
Discover our Erasmus week in our magazine: https://madmagz.com/magazine/2133313
Our busy bees have made an amazing work to create this magazine on global warming: https://madmagz.com/magazine/2118064 https://madmagz.com/magazine/2108630
Students and teachers went hiking in the forest and collected tree leaves and nature soundtracks. https://fetedelanature.com/programme-complet
Students discovered a local firm that makes biomass from hemp and also made harborium with the leaves they collected this morning.
Students and teachers went around the city of Le Mans through a treasure hunt organised by Suzon, a French student. They had some missions to accomplish.
Our three partners meet in Le Mans to keep working on sustainable development. https://padlet.com/celinelehoux_cl/food-and-sustainable-development-9dmdftfap0zkt3iv