As the school year has come to an end and summer has begun, we wanted to take a moment with you to look back on the highlights of this end of the year at Eurécole. Outings, educational projects, trips, sports events, and major celebrations… this newsletter brings the school year to a close and showcases the commitment of our teams and your children throughout the past few months.
🎉 35 Years of Eurécole: A Milestone Year
This year, Eurécole celebrated its 35th anniversary. A symbolic moment marked by a ceremony at the 16th arrondissement’s town hall, in a reception hall specially decorated with our students’ artistic creations.
Since 1989, Eurécole has been committed to offering an educational project based on openness to the world, languages, cultures, and sports. We look forward to pursuing this mission with the same high standards for the next 35 years.
📦 The CM2 Time Capsule to mark the end of this anniversary celebration
In line with this celebration, the CM2 students carried out a meaningful project: the Time Capsule.
A symbolic and intergenerational project for the CM2 students in Natacha’s class, many of whom have been at Eurécole since Petite Section.
Together, students, parents, Natacha, and Mr Pourrias wrote letters to their future selves, to be read in ten years. These letters, along with various memories, were placed in a time capsule that was sealed and buried by the students. A date has been set to open it together in 2035.
This project brought a very personal and collective end to Eurécole’s anniversary year.
🎉 100% pass rate and 100% honors in the Brevet exams
🏫 The middle school students passed the Diplôme National du Brevet with flying colors: 100% success rate and 100% with honors! 40% of them were non-native French speakers when they arrived at Eurécole. We congratulate the students and the entire teaching team on these outstanding results.
🎓 Exams and Certifications
Our students also sat for several exams and certifications at the end of the school year:
– 🇪🇸 The DELE at the Instituto Cervantes (Spanish language)
– 🇬🇧 The Cambridge exams, official certification in English
– 🧠 The Kangourou competition, a fun national mathematics contest taken by our middle school students
🇫🇷 Regions Week at Primary School
From 16 to 28 June, the primary classes celebrated the different regions of France. Presentations, songs, dances and tastings filled the days, and students shared their work with other classes during festive, classroom-prepared cultural sessions.
Regions explored:
– Pays de la Loire 🏰
– Brittany 🌊
– Guadeloupe 🌴
– Île-de-France
– Nouvelle-Aquitaine
– South of France ☀️
– Hauts-de-France
🎓 Graduation Ceremonies – GS & CM2
CM2 students celebrated the end of their primary years with a ceremony marking their transition to middle school.
Grande Section students celebrated their move to CP, officially entering elementary school.
🌙 Overnight at School – Grande Section
Grande Section students spent a night at the primary school. On the schedule: a visit to the Eiffel Tower, a shared pizza dinner, games and bedtime stories — followed by a night in their classroom, transformed into a dormitory for the occasion.
📚 Educational Projects
🎭 CE2 Theatre Performance
After several months of preparation with the help of a teacher from Cours Florent, the CE2 students presented a show featuring songs, poetry, and a play: “Quand vient la peur du loup”.
✍️ Illustrated Stories by CE1
The CE1 students imagined, wrote, and illustrated their own stories — a creative project combining writing, reading and visual arts.
🧠 Anti-Bullying Workshop
From CE1 to CM2, students participated in a workshop run by the association Marion la main tendue about bullying at school. Debates, discussions and video screenings were used to raise awareness and promote prevention.
🎨 Visual Arts: Clay & Wax Projects
– CM2: patina and clay modelling
– CE2: homage to Roy Lichtenstein and Pop Art with sunrise-themed artwork
🌍 Languages and Cultural Outings
🇪🇸 Show on Pablo Picasso
From Grande Section to CM2, students attended a Spanish-language show about Picasso, after having explored his work in Spanish class through creative and art history workshops.
🇪🇸 🇫🇷 Erasmus Exchange with Spanish Students
CM2 students explored Paris with 5th students from Oratorio Festivo Orihuela, visiting as part of an Erasmus exchange. A cultural outing combining language, culture, and heritage.
During the Spanish students’ visit, our students also discovered Colpbol, a team sport created in Valencia. There was a demonstration at the stadium, a friendly pétanque tournament, and shared moments in French and Spanish.
🇩🇪 Goethe-Institut
As part of their German lessons, CE2, CM1 and CM2 students visited the Goethe-Institut, Germany’s cultural centre in Paris. They took part in an immersive scavenger hunt workshop.
🔬 Science in English – CM1
- Microwave bread: Our CM1 scientists explored kitchen science by making microwave bread! 🍞 The recipe:
- Measuring and mixing ingredients ⚖️🥣
- Baking 🔥
- Cooling ❄️
- And the best part… eating! 😋
- Paper challenge: build the longest chain using two A4 sheets
These activities are part of the English curriculum, focused on scientific inquiry, experimentation and language immersion.
🎽 Sports Activities
🏅 Olympic Mornings – Preschool, Primary, and Middle School
As every year, the Olympic Mornings marked the end of the school year at Eurécole. Students, split into teams representing different countries, competed in various sporting events in a spirit of cooperation and fun.
From preschool to middle school, these highlights celebrated the values of sport: teamwork, respect, and effort. A huge thank you to our sports teachers Alain and Christophe, DJ Lucky for the music, and the Eurécape parents’ association!
⚔️ Chanbara
All primary classes, from CP to CM2, took part in a Chanbara initiation — a Japanese martial art with Alain, our PE teacher and double world champion. A discovery everyone enjoyed.
🎒 Trips and Excursions
🐴 CP and CE1 – Trip to Bourgogne
CP and CE1 students went on a trip centred around sport — pony riding. They learned how to prepare their mount and the related vocabulary. They rode in the arena and went on a long ride around a lake. Activities also included a hut-building workshop and a giant countryside escape game. A chance to discover a new environment and enjoy a nature getaway together.
☀️ CE2 and CM1 – Stay in Marseille
A rich week in the South of France combining culture, nature, and discovery:
– Watercolour workshop at the Lavender Museum
– Visit to Château d’If
– Boat ride through the calanques of Cassis
– Visit to Château de la Buzine, with a re-creation of a 1904 classroom
🌞 Happy Holidays to All!
