The website of SIS – Belgian section is to address parents, children,
foreign citizens but also friends for ever.
Future students will discover all the faces of your school (grids, activities,
events, …), the necessary information for registration.
Present students, will be able to refer to the activities they have joined
and will be invited to react during the school year.
As far as ex SHAPE students are concerned;
we hope that they will be able to remember the good old time from our
last graders' book, a part of the site dedicated to them.
We thank our Principal and all the persons who collaborated with pictures,
memories, wishes, advice, articles, CD-Rom, excerpts from plays, …, the
translations and the summaries.
Nobody will be named for fear of forgetting someone unvoluntarily but
each collaborator can be assured of his/her precious help.
We hope that you will spend a good time with us !
This 15-year-old competition is subsidized by the "Communauté française de Belgique" .
This year’s theme was the writing of a detective short story. More than 6000 French speakers took part !
The results came in on 15th May. We wish to congratulate the pupils, who were highly motivated from the very start, on achieving such performances (in the B category for 13/14 years old ):
- Lucas ORTIS : 64,93 %
- Lucas TRAPANI and Benjamin CUDDY : 65,40 %
- Laurie WALLEM and Doriane GHYSELS : 70,20 %
- Valérie GUNTHEL : 73 %
- Donovan LAPLUME : 73,67 %
- Malaurie BONNET, Naomi LAMMERS and Ludye NISOL : 77,4 %
- Laura LOVERDE, Marie L’HOST and Emmanuelle RUELLE : 84,96 %
Considering the winner in this category got 87 %, we must emphasize the last group’s rather high results. We are all very proud of the three of them !
Don’t hesitate to visit the official site of the competition (www.leaweb.org) for further information or to find our pupils’ on-line texts.
Congratulations to them and thank you all.
What is a tale?
Originally, a tale is an oral account, evolving in societies without being written or using communication techniques. It is said during a staying up and is transmitted by word of mouth through generations, each storyteller feeling free to add some personal touch but keeping its groundwork and its spirit.
Staying up tales evenings are not so old but they are a bit out of date. Yet some would like to try to keep them alive: storytellers – professional or not –, various local or national associations. Their initiatives always have a considerable impact because the participants discover there a specific function of speech and a form of communication, both forgotten.
For a long time, tales have also existed, in a written form. However, the fact of writing them transforms the account into an object. From an oral account, the tale becomes a text and soon a book, sometimes supported by illustrations.
What’s the point of studying tales?
Studying tales has a cultural interest because it gives an outline of a world that has gone and social relationship.
Furthermore, it encourages the student to create strong mental images. Without realizing it, the student impregnates himself of a particular form of language and poetry, especially if the teacher becomes a storyteller.
Finally, by the regularity of its structures, the tale is a strong incitement to writing: to invent a following or another ending, to continue it, to imitate it, transpose it or create a complete account
The many possibilities are widely exploited in class.
About the texts
The teacher proposes a different tale to each student
• Hachachi-the-liar, Arab World
• The Story of the Lynx, Indian America
• Kiutu and Death, Black Africa
• Koan the prince and Sheng the magician, China
• The hermit Unicorne, Japan
• The death of Balder, Scandinavia
• The death of Cuchulaïnn, Ireland
• The magician of Venice, Spain
• The beggar, the princess and the memory, Tibet
• The prince Five-Arm and the giant Sting-Hairy, India
• The watcher, Tibet
• The, silkworm, Vietnam
• Turkish slippers of Abou Kacem, Arab World
• Omburé - the-crocodile, Black Africa
• Satana returned in his parents, the Caucasus
• Titania, Scotland
The reading circle, organized by Miss Roman Martin, allows to obtain better reading skills, to increase the library attendance, to express oneself with other people on different points of view, to develop one's sense of criticism, to know new authors but above all to share!
The student introduces briefly the author. Then, he chooses and reads a passage of a book: the incipit (beginning of the novel) a short chapter, a sentence, a dialogue, and so on. The other students react then to the reading. Finally, the student gives his/her opinion and gives arguments so that they want to read the book.
With the message ‘We are a school without racism’, the school wants to give a signal: respect of the others and their cultures and also of ourselves. These are the main elements at our school. It goes further than just hanging a board ‘School without racism’. We want our students to develop a feeling of well-being and a positive image of themselves.
The library team, which is made up by Miss Bailly, Miss Roman Martin and Mr Fagniart, has initiated this project. They have decided to meet the direction to explain how to start the project and convince the staff and students to sign the petition. The idea has been linked to the action week against racism, from 13th to 29th March, 2009.
The starting line was very important for the library team, which is only made up by three teachers and three students. In a school with a lot of foreign children and an intercultural education, it is sometimes difficult to explain why a particular effort is still needed to become a school without racism, against any form of exclusion. That is why the school direction has given the go-ahead to the project.
The members of the library have taken advantage of the action week against racism to frame the project.
Within the courses, Miss Roman Martin has set up a campaign to heighten public awareness with posters made by students. The posters are a way of communication that the group has continued to use.
March 18th 2009 was the moment for truth. Actually, after having convinced some classes, it was necessary to convince all the school. This was not as easy as expected, but this theme day has finally been successful thanks to the different activities: exhibitions, music, quotations, films and writing workshops.
On March 23rd 2009, the petition has been signed in the classrooms and a positive result has emerged. It is the sign of a sudden awareness among students of the harmfulness of racism and the importance of equality.
The library team thanks all the people who have contributed to the success of our project.
Among two daughters and a son, all of them insolent, a
crazy wife as well as a posh grandmother, a father, an inflexible industrialist,
has difficulty in being authoritative in his family. “Les portes
claquent” is the daily life of a family, whose members are a bit
crazy... We are afraid that each and everyone of us will identify themselves
with this family!
Director : Galloo Olivier.
This trip was organized in integration with the German section.
In the morning the students had a guided visit of the Palace, and in the afternoon they enjoyed a walk in the wonderful gardens designed by André Le Nôtre.
This schoolyear, our 7th graders have taken part to the
MEGA formation. The motto is “prevention”. Actually, this
formation’s goal is to prevent teenagers from risky behaviours in
order to give them the opportunity to make their personalities evolve
and to become adults able to lead their lives. The formation deals with
10 themes :
1.Your own safety
2.Consumption and overconsumption of stimulants
3.Coping with pressure
4.Making your self-image evolve
5.Assertive training as an answer
6.Coping with stress
7.Misunderstandings, quarrels and disputes
8.Influence of the media
9.Evaluation and taking some risks
10.Alternatives
This was lead by Mr Cloosen, who is a police inspector (from the federal
police on SHAPE) in collaboration with some teachers and the PMS centre.
At the end of the formation, our students were awarded a participation
certificate.
We thank the police for this initiative!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
On Tuesday, March, 18th, 2008, all the 10th graders and
their language teachers went to Canterbury.
This trip was organized in integration with the German section.
In addition to the linguistic immersion, our students enjoyed visiting
the Canterbury Cathedral, which is an important pilgrimage place.
After a tasty English lunch, we visited the Canterbury Tales Museum, where
Geoffrey Chaucer’s humour made us laugh.
Then, we still had time to walk around in the typical streets of the old
city before going back to Belgium.
Congratulations!
The regional pre-selections for the soloists’competition took
place on Saturday, March 1st, at the A.R. Jules Bara, Rue Duquesnoy
24, 7500 Tournai.
The final for the best singers of the pre-selections and the choir final
take place on Saturday, April 12th, at the A.R. de Fragnée.
This activity was integrated into the science course.
From 632 to 732, the Arabs conquered a huge territory which stretched from the Chinese border to the northern part of Spain.
Consequently, from the 8th to the 13th century, this advanced Muslim civilisation spread over an impressive number of countries and inherited rich scientific legacies from Greece, Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Some of these legacies contributed to the research in astronomy, mathematics, optics and mechanics.
On Thursday, November, 30th, 2007, all the 11th and 12th
graders who took German as a second language went to Trier, Germany, with
their German teachers.
This trip was organized in integration with the German section.
As soon as we arrived in Trier, we got on a small train that goes through
the town. We were able to have a look at the Porta Nigra as well as at
Karl Marx’s house.
Afterwards, our students bought their Christmas presents on the Christmas
market. Then, it was high time to go back to Belgium!
