LETTRES ET LE VIVANT: ON THE ANTARCTIC FRONTIER AND ON THE LIMITS OF OUR UNIVERSE , TWO SUPPORT WORKSHOPS MADE IN FRANCE FOR Be.Bo.P PARTICIPANTS

Ravel High school took part in two educative actions organised in the framework of the local festival "LETTRES ET LE VIVANT" by a NGO whose name is LUMA. This cultural event is dedicated to reading and to protection of biodiversity: the lectures and other activities are adressed both to adults and young people.

On the 23th of may,  134 of our students were present to follow a very instructive lecture given by the famous astrophysician Christophe Galfard. It has not been only a popular science lesson but also a very fascinating presentation of our solar system, our Galaxy and all the Universe, thanks to recent pictures from the James Web telescope. For students of Seconde  involved by Be.Bo.P project holder,  it was an opportunity to well understand the work package devoted to "the understanding of the world, the known and the unknown"  (which Mr Harismendy and Mr Pacholczyk are leaders in France). One of the major topic to be studied during C3 and C4 mobilities (during the next school year)...

Seconde 6 (photographs below and above) realized a short movie on the 16th of May and saw the rushes on the 23th just after the Lecture by Mr Galfard. It was done to help a videoconference planned with partners from Portugal and Turkey during the following week...

On the 24th of may, 148 of our students saw the movie "Voyage au Pôle Sud" made by the maker Luc Jacquet, well known for his productions centered on the awareness to environmental issues, as "La marche de l'empereur". For the group of Specialty HGGSP (Geography) invited by Mr Vanderplancke this film was a bridge between the educative method available during the first phase of the european partnership, focused on borders (as it was the case in the academic curriculum) and some other outlooks: frontiers between ice sheets and ice floe (desertic lands and Living world) and/or between our inhabited sphere (oekumenia) and the natural and preserved antarctic continent (inlandsis). The impact of “global warming” remained a point on which students wondered. Other aspects of the film were discussed during the exchange that followed and depended on the sensitivity of the director and the spectators: the boundaries between noise and silence, intimacy or solitude and social life.