ECOLE JEAN CHARCOT

OUISTREHAM FRANCE

Means of access to the town

City : OUISTREHAM

County : CALVADOS

Country : NORMANDY

Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. Jean Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition from 1904 until 1907.

The name of the school

Later on, Jean-Baptiste Charcot explored Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from 1925 until 1936. He died in a shipping accident off Iceland in 1936. A monument to Charcot was created in Reykjavík, Iceland by sculptor Ríkarður Jónsson in 1952.

From 1908 until 1910, another expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after him.

Our school :255 pupils

11 classes :

3 CE2 (8-9 years old)

4 CM1 (9-10 y. o.)

4 CM2 (10-11 y. o.)

A classroom is dedicated to computers.

An other is the library.

SOME ACTIVITIES children practice in our school :

Horse-Riding

Table tennis

Water sports : swimming,

canoe-kayaking,

sailing

SPORTS

But also :

ARTSDrawing

Music : choir for all the pupils

2 groups in 2007-2008 :

• Jazz (public production with an orchestra) and songs from Quebec (funded 400 years ago)

• Songs upon solidarity theme

And now, the team...

Teachers

Secretary

Library assistant

Computer assistant

Choir conductor

See you soon on OUISTREHAM ? You’re WELCOME !

DIDIER DARRIGRAND