TBSHS French Language Students are Welcomed in Chartres, France

The Institut Notre-Dame established a partnership in 2005 with a TBSHS in Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire.

Arriving on January 9, 2023, in Chartres, twenty-four English schoolchildren, from the town of Bishop’s Stortford, located fifty kilometers north of London, visited the cultural and heritage riches of France throughout the week. They participate in an exchange with Year 9 and first year students from the Institut Notre-Dame (IND) in Chartres.

The French and English secondary school pupils were received, in the salons of the administrative center of Chartres by Patrick Géroudet, delegate for international relations.

They visited the Bateaux-Mouches, the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles (Yvelines), as well as French gastronomy.

The Institution Notre-Dame de Chartres offers two preparations for medical exams Galettes des rois and pancakes “English middle school students have already tasted French gastronomy such as the galette des rois, pancakes. French mothers who host them cooked with the students, ”explains Misun Park, English teacher at the IND.

“At the weekend, some went to the laser tag with French families. It really was a good time. “ teacher at the Institut Notre-Dame.)

The health crisis (Covid) had put a stop to international school exchanges. It is with great pleasure that Frédéric Maillard, deputy director of the IND, welcomed “the resumption of the exchanges, which had not taken place since January 2020.”

Especially since it was he who launched, in 2005, this partnership with the establishment of Bishop’s Stortford. “I was a teacher of Spanish, Italian and French for twenty years at TBSHS, as I am from Chartres, I contacted the IND to initiate an exchange.

Twenty-seven third and two first year students from Chartres travel to England in early February.

As reported in L’Echo Chartres