Practice
SAS – a common project for 4 collèges
Country where it has been developed/used:
France
Summary of the content:
Four secondary schools of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris) involved in a communal project
Target group:
Between 20 - 40 pupils (a year), aged below 16, who are already truants or with high risk of truancy, with too many school discipline and violence problems.
Pedagogical team and partners:
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The four directors of the four secondary schools of Bobigny
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A guidance counsellor-psychologist
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A social worker
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A psychiatrist for children
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A public prosecutor
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Association “vie et cite” (civil life)
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Enterprises
Aim of the Project
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To give pupils a better self picture and more self-confidence, in spite of school failures and too many social problems.
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To give motivate them to learn again and find some pleasure to go to school.
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To build a space where the pupil will have new experiences with different partners.
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To help them to build a school and professional project.
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To gather together the strengths of the 4 schools, local institutions and associations connected to the pupils.
Description of the project:
Each collège presents the documents and cases of their pupils and a committee decides who will profit from the session. The committee in contact with the teachers decide the priorities for each child and build an individual timetable and a precise framework. The workshops are animated by teachers of the 4 schools, the poet-dramatist, the educators of the association “vie et cité” (civil life), the guidance counsellor.
In the Collège Pierre Sémard, the poet works with
the parents and the children, listening to the fathers talk about
their job, their life and their culture. He will help each child to
find their roots and will analyse the place of the father in their
representation.
The Collège Timbaud builds a module about self- image with sport and
corporal expression.
The Collège Republique tackles schoolwork with new technologies.
The Collège Delaune helps each pupil to build their individual
project with work experiences in enterprises.
The pupil returns back to their class in their collège after the
session.
What is important in this action:
The pupil is separated from his peers during about 6 weeks and meets new people. They can get and give a better picture from themselves. The poet and the association help the child to find their place and their roots in their family, who is often from another country and has got different culture and language. The job shadowing situations help the children to discover different professions, to realise what work means and may help them to build a vocational project. The aim is a change in relationships with adults to hopefully lead to pupils finding new reasons to go back to school.
Reference:
Jusqu’aux Rives du Monde – Une Ecole de l’Expérience
– Joseph Rossetto
ISBN: 978-2-9530063-0-8
Contact information:
Joseph Rossetto – Headteacher of Collège Pierre Sémard in Bobigny, Paris.