2. CAMPUS FOOD SAINT-GILLES
CASE STUDY…
- School of Laveu
- The project: Introduction of a kitchen garden into the activities of the school.
- Context: The school of Laveu applies Freinet pedagogy. It accommodates 450 children.
- The cause: Relevance compared to the project of school total, sensitizing (Freinet pedagogy).
- The key-innovation: The training of young peopl of the problems related on food and ecology.
- Operation: The kitchen garden functions like any other activity of the school: in the form of specific
workshop (choice of the pupils/professors).
- Durable advantages: Pedagogy and responsibilization of the children. The activity introduces the
children to the current society questions (ecology, wasting,…) and initiates them with various
practices, an activity involving another one. (kitchen, workshops, compost, insects,…)
- Prospects:
Occasions: possible connections with other actors of the CATL, to extend the project to other
schools, to develop the vegetable activity of the school, to propose a protocol of school éco-person in
charge,…
Threats: lack of coordination, abandonment, reserve of the parents,…