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Collège Jean Renoir

Address: 40, rue des Fileuses, 18000 Bourges, France

Website: www.collegejeanrenoirbourges.fr

Jean Renoir secondary school was founded when a new residential district called the Val d’Auron was created in the south of Bourges 32 years ago.
People from rather fortunate middle classes then settled in this area. Within the scope of Bourges urban reorganization, people from the north side of the town were displaced towards the Val d’Auron district.
Since 2004, this area has become the most heterogenous one in Bourges notably with the most important number of single-parents families in the town and a shift from a population mainly composed of fortunate middle classes people to a more socially fragile population.
What has always been and still is a challenge for Jean Renoir secondary school’s policy here follows:

educate and teach children with rather different social habits compared to the ones of the children the school used to welcome during the first 25 years.
set up a plan of actions in order to cope with an increasing number of pupils (a hundred pupils more within the last 5 years), and offer personal guidance and counselling for pupils who fail academically or even drop out of school
give to all pupils of any social background the opportunity to live in an atmosphere which is favourable to both academic and civic success.
take part in the community life by fostering links between the different age groups and social and ethnic backgrounds
promote the pupils’ international openness by offering them the opportunity to take part in language exchanges with European countries such as Germany, Great Britain, Italy or Poland and with emerging countries such as India.

Our school has participated in The International Festival of International Ecological Film. Here, in cooperation with the Maria Theresia Gymnasium Augsburg, students have created and promoted an information stand on recycling and sustainability at the Bourges Ecological Fair. In the course of the new project Opening Doors we want to benefit from these experiences and advance to a European stand involving the different Comenius partners.

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