the Lycée des Sicaudières is looking for farms to host Belgian trainees
The Sicaudières high school is looking for farms to accommodate fifteen high school students from Ciney in Belgium. A stage of a few weeks to discover ways of working locally and to exchange good practices.
Starting with the collective culture of work in Bressuirais: “ When the Belgian teachers came, it marked them to see how effective the French mutual aid system is », explains Max Monot, English teacher and co-responsible for international cooperation on the Sicaudières campus. Léa, in the final year of her vocational baccalaureate, is going to welcome a high school student to the family farm run by her father near Niort. She intends to introduce him to goat farming ” very little developed in Belgium, it is a typical production here”.
From Deux-Sévriens in Belgium
Leah also wants to welcome a high school student because last June, it was she who left for three weeks on a farm in Belgium. A way for her to return the favor. Even chosen for Tanguy, in BTS, who would very much like to introduce the family farm to a Belgian trainee. A farm that he should soon take over to perpetuate the tradition of the house: the cattle breed ” meadow red “.
He too went on stage in the flat country in 2021. He discovered a farm very different from that of his family, with several different types of production: “ This is what made me discover how to be well organized in all the work that has to be done. Barely 18 years old, the young man is already planning to trade with Belgium where the “meadow red” cattle breed is underdeveloped.
For Max Monot, it is a good example of what allows international cooperation and internships abroad: to open the minds of high school students to other methods and to professionalize them. According to him, receiving students from another country is also an experience worth seizing for the farmers of Deux-Sèvres. He throws a call for volunteers which would have a room to accommodate students on their estate, as will the operation of the Sicaudières campus by welcoming a Belgian intern next April.