Environmental Responsibility Videos in English

Creating videos presenting their college’s sustainability-related projects named E3D – Installation in the process of sustainable development and all in English, it was Camille College’s English teacher Katell Laurelli – Vallaux de Relecq-Kerhuon (29) SVT teacher Dorothy Beton, teacher-librarian Claire Currey and music A collaborative and interdisciplinary program supported by Education Teacher Sabine Heure.

Katell Laurelli has been an English teacher for nearly 30 years. After more than twenty years in Finistère, he has been teaching since 2008 at the Collège Camille-Vallaux in Relecq-Kerhuon, near Brest.

For the longest time – 1992 – his college offered the LCE option – Foreign Language and Culture – English – a new version of the European sections. “We had an old title in our college,” says Cattel. From 4^e, students who choose the option receive an additional hour and a half of English instruction, which is at the discretion of each institution. Therefore, in addition to the classic English lessons, the students have a lesson on European language and culture once a week from 3.30 to 5 p.m. to prepare volunteers to follow lessons in English at high school. A very free program allows a certain creativity to the teachers involved in this system. ” This is often combined with the presence of a colleague from another subject trained to teach in English,” explains the teacher. With us, the technical colleague prepares his authorization “.

From September 2021, as part of a partnership with the Departmental Council and the Brest Metropole, Cadel students are involved in a project for sustainable development. theme because the County Council wanted to create closer links between our territory and British Cornwall. ” My SVT colleague Dorothée Bettan was willing to collaborate, so we took the plunge. I had a contact at Bodmin High School so they got our products “.

Eco-responsible programs delivered in English

This is how the third year students of the International Section are.” Very resourceful and autonomous They found themselves embarking on an adventure. Idea? Promotion of all existing projects as part of the sustainable development approach undertaken over the years within the institution. The college has been named an Institution in Sustainable Development, E3D. So students will learn about ecological grazing, selective sorting, composites of newspapers, poultry production…

Host of the College Media Club with Claire Quéré, “ Our outstanding teacher-librarian and Sabine Heure, our highly-creative music education teacher », Cattell started building a web television. ” After more than 10 years of reviving a paper magazine and 2 or 3 years of radio, that was enough to get us started, and then, it’s hard for me to resist a new challenge… Trusts the English teacher.

So students and teachers turned themselves into documentarians, anchors, and investigative journalists for an entire school year. All this in English! ” Luckily I wasn’t working alone and my students were amazing. One of them was very passionate about cinema and helped us a lot by editing for a while. He enrolled in a cinema department at a high school in Brest “.

Several videos of presentations of actions in support of sustainable development have been sent to their correspondents. ” Unfortunately we haven’t received any feedback from Bodmin High School, but that hasn’t stopped us from setting up a great year of activities and learning new skills. Cuttle concludes. ” I loved working with his students! »

Lilia ben Hamuda