A group of bilingual students left Croydon to take part in a joint project in France.
Twenty girls and three teachers from Westwood Girls’ College for Languages and Arts set off for the College Diderot in the volcanic Puy de Dome area of France on June 3.
The school obtained a €22,000 two-year grant for a bilateral language project, ‘The future is bright, the future is green’, focussing on languages, ecology, science, art, geography and citizenship.
The students, who have been doing joint bilingual projects on the environment with their French counterparts, will take part in a range of lessons and accompany them on visits to areas of local interest.
They visited the spa town of Vichy, the Michelin Adventure Museum, hiked to the top of the highest extinct volcano in the area and to the interactive museum Vulcania to learn about volcanic activity.
They took portfolios of an Art project involving recycled materials and data on their Science project – an ecology project based on a wildlife garden set up on the school grounds.
With the French students they carried out sustainable energy experiments using solar power and made ecological bricks out of lime and hemp. A group of the French students will visit Croydon next year.
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