Back to school 2022: Lyon’s educational project in action
Something new in Lyon’s canteens
By strengthening the presence of organic and local products on the plates of little Lyonnaises and Lyonnais, the City of Lyon affirms its commitment to healthy, sustainable and quality food, in a desire for social justice and support for local agriculture. .
From 1 September, the school catering offer includes two new menus “Petit Bouchon” (all types of food) and “Jeune shoot” (100% vegetarian) to the 30,000 schoolchildren enrolled in the canteen. The “mixed menu” option is retained, it allows families to choose meals from both menus.
> More organic and local
- 50% of products from organic farming (target in 2026: from 75 to 100%);
- 50% of products of local origin, i.e. within a radius of less than 200 km, including 20% within a radius of less than 50 km.
In a context of rising consumer prices, the City of Lyon has chosen to maintain the cost of school meals at the same level, even though this service is improving in quality, so as not to further impact Lyon families and especially the most precarious.
Emphasis is placed on training and raising awareness of supervising agents, in particular on new vegetarian recipes: approximately 300 agents will be trained by September.
All the details on the new school catering menus
Discover the new menus from September 1 to 9
The Lyon 2021 – 2026 Educational Project in action
This partnership tool, making it possible to federate the local educational community, implements and coordinates all the educational actions of the municipality over all school, extracurricular and extracurricular times, for children and adolescents from 2 to 16 years old in its territory. Find out more about the Lyon Educational Project 2021 – 2026
> New actions on track for the 2022 – 2023 school year
- A Lyon network for “outdoor school” outdoor education has been set up and works on all aspects of the child (about forty teachers from Lyon have been trained outside the school). The City of Lyon will support them so that this practice can develop in the city’s natural spaces.
- A 2nd edition of the Bike Challenge will take place this school year, to facilitate children’s access to school on two-wheelers (1st successful edition in 2021: 23 participating schools, 2,300 kindergarten and elementary students).
- Artistic and cultural education is reinforced with the ambition of a real path of musical education for all children, the basis of a new dynamic artistic and cultural education policy. The partnership with the Conservatoire de Lyon is reinforced with the mobilization of musicians in classes, from kindergarten.
> Lyon, City of children
The Educational Project of Lyon is also giving back a place to children in the public space. This notably involves developments that open up the school to the outside world while restoring the quality of life at the scale of the districts of Lyon.
► Nature courses
The schoolyard revegetation program continues. The layout of the courses aims to promote children’s daily contact with nature, motor skills, social development, creativity, autonomy, while participating in the development of nature in the city to reduce the island effect of heat.
Objective: more than 150 nature courses, including nearly 70 schools by 2026.
- Since 2021, 7 schools have already been able to benefit from green developments.
- 17 schoolsi.e. nearly 1,000 children, are currently engaged in a “nature course” project (construction work in the summer of 2023).
- 18 new schools will carry out a consultation around their nature courtyard project during the 2022-2023 school year for work scheduled in 2024.
► children’s street
Since the start of the 2020 school year, the work of the “children’s streets” has aimed to calm the city, to let children reclaim public space and to respond to longer-term environmental and climatic challenges. These developments allow more fluid circulation and more space for families.
- About fifty school surroundings have been made, i.e. nearly 10,000 children concerned (4.4 million euros invested until 2026).
- 7 artistic intervention projects will be conducted with the children in 2022/2023.
- Latest achievements “children’s street”: Jules Verne school group (3rd), Louis Pradel and Jean Couty schools and Crèche Cuvier (6th), Marcel Pagnol school group (7th).
Discover all the “children’s street” achievements
Adapt and improve childcare
> A significant investment for school premises
The construction of new school groups is necessary in order to balance the disparate demographic evolution according to the districts, in particular in the 7th and 8th.
Achievements of works for school equipment in 2022:
- Antoine Rémond school group (6th): replacement of floors in 5 classrooms with asbestos removal, replacement of lead pipes, replacement of the fire safety system (SSI) in elementary school for an amount of €285,000.
- Berthelot school group (7th): work to connect to district heating for an amount of €300,000.
- Edouard Herriot school group (8th): connection work to district heating for an amount of €350,000.
- Lamartine school group (2nd): replacement of the fire safety system (SSI) for an amount of €100,000.
- €7.6 million committed this summer for various renovation actions (classrooms, toilets, school canteens, etc.) in all of the city’s districts.
> Reinforced supervision in terms of numbers and qualifications
The City of Lyon coordinates extracurricular times in the morning, midday break, evening and Wednesday morning, in conjunction with popular education associations (60%) or under direct management (40%). The level of qualification of the speakers is improved with a requirement of 50% of graduates of the BAFA and 30% in training.
Particular attention is paid to extracurricular reception and support for the animation sector, which is struggling to recruit and attract at national level. To activate the hiring of facilitators, the City is organizing a new Recruitment Forum in September 2022 and is supplementing its action by setting up a Professional License, through an unprecedented partnership with ISPEF (Institute of Sciences and Practices of Education and Training, Lyon II University) for leisure reception managers.