VIDEO. Education: Pap Ndiaye at the Daniel Faucher school in Toulouse to discuss educational cities
As part of the Educational City of Grand Mirail, the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye exchanged, Friday, September 2 at the Daniel Faucher school, with the speakers of several devices including the “topophone” and a split class.
Pap Ndiaye continued, Friday, September 2, his visit to schools in Toulouse. After having rejected, Thursday September 1, day of return, the school group Jules-Géraud Saliège in the district of Lalande, it is at Mirail that the Minister of National Education and Youth had an appointment.
In particular at the Daniel Faucher primary school (Reynerie) where Pap Ndiaye, accompanied by the rector of the Toulouse academy Mostafa Fourar and the academic director of Haute-Garonne Mathieu Sieye, attended a round table on the theme of Educational city of the Grand Mirail.
Around the table, the deputy mayor of Toulouse in charge of education Marion Lalane de Laubadère and several extracurricular stakeholders, representatives of associations which make the link between the school, the pupils and especially the families.
“I take the time to talk”
“Discussing” with the actors of the school, the college and the high school, it is for the successor of Jean-Michel Blanquer a way of better apprehending his troops in this return characterized by a shortage of candidates for the various competitions of the education.
“I take my time to discuss in Toulouse, it’s the only way to understand what is happening and also to think,” attributed the minister who visited a total of six establishments yesterday, in Toulouse, Villenouvelle, Balma and Blagnac.
The topophone, music at school
Bringing the arts into schools, in particular, music involves several partnerships that are made possible thanks to the educational city system which operates in the most disadvantaged areas of the city.
This is the objective of the Toulouse association “Topophone” which allows students of the Daniel Faucher school to practice music. “For us, the Educational City is a real opportunity and offers us a unique program”, explained the president of the Topophone association Sébastien Benazet to the minister.
The functioning of the Educational City makes it possible, for certain difficult social situations, to serve as a one-stop shop. “In particular, I accompanied a Syrian family and this creates bonds of trust with the institutions, the prefecture, the social workers and on the question of the attendance of children at school”, confides for his part a mediator M’ Hamed Fares.
“The educational city, an example of cooperation”
“The educational cities were created a few years ago, recalled Pap Ndiaye. You have to take stock, look at how they work. I have the satisfaction of evaluating an educational city [celle de Toulouse, NDLR] which works well which connects schools, colleges and high schools in the neighborhood with extracurricular actors, associations. It is an example of cooperation between State services and local authorities working in harmony to improve student success”.
“The School of Defiance…”
Student success is also linked to teacher training. On this question of tenured or contract professors, the Minister gives himself some leeway. “The solution is not in the recruitment of contractuals, he says, even if they are useful, often experienced and well trained, it is in the recruitment of tenured teachers. It is also in the emergence of educational projects, which we encourage from October, with the educational innovation fund which was announced by the President of the Republic. »
For the deputy Nupes of the 4th district of Haute-Garonne François Piquemal, “there is always the upside of the decor of a ministerial visit, we were sold the school of confidence, but for the staff, it is rather the school of defiance”.
Priority education: 407 split classes at the Toulouse Academy
Like his predecessor at the head of the Ministry of National Education and Youth and initiator of split classes in the priority education networks Jean-Michel Blanquer, Pap Ndiaye chose yesterday to meet the pupils of CP of the Daniel Faucher school, in the Reynerie district and classified in the reinforced priority education network (REP +). The minister exchanged for a good quarter of an hour with the teacher and the children in this split class of fifteen children (twelve in theory). The Toulouse academy has now split all the classes of CP and CE1 and large section (nursery) in its territory, i.e. a total of 407 classes (238 in REP and 169 in REP +). The vast majority of the establishments concerned, schools and colleges, are in Haute-Garonne. The department has 22 schools and 4 colleges in REP and 40 schools and 4 colleges in REP+.