A sacred helping hand for 35 students from Bagnols-sur-Cèze schools ready to move towards books and writing

Des enfants très appliquées et impliquées dans l'apprentissage. Midi Libre – MiKAEL ANISSET

In the Gard, 45 CP students are participating in the Gulli Coup de Pouce prize for first readings 2024, including 35 schoolchildren from Bagnols-sur-Cèze and 20 children from Nîmes. It's at CP  (preparatory course) that we find the school category most concerned by this distance from reading and writing practices.

How to prevent dropping out of school? "By passing on a love of reading to schoolchildren"answers Luc Delcaire territorial delegate of the Coup de Pouce association. In the Gard, 45 CP students are participating in the Gulli Coup de Pouce prize for first readings 2024, including 35 schoolchildren from Bagnols-sur-Cèze and 20 children from Nîmes. It is in CP (preparatory course) that we find the school category most concerned by this distance from reading and writing practices.

Overcome shyness

The phenomenon is clearly observable in the classrooms of the schools of Bagnols-sur-Cèze. The city's schools thus host seven Coup de Pouce clubs affiliated with seven CP classes, each one welcoming five children designated by the teachers from among those who are most in difficulty. "Teachers spot them because they are children who will speak a little less and who will be somewhat shy about turning to books or will turn to writing&quot ;. The two disciplines are approached in a fun way. The Célestin Freinet school welcomes two clubs, Jean-Jaurès as well. The Jules Ferry school is home to three clubs. In Bagnols-sur-Cèze it is the CCAS, Municipal Center for Social Action which manages or coordinates the clubs in the town.

"Pedagogy of the detour"

Four evenings per week, children benefit from specific after-school support throughout the year from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. "It's a pedagogy of detour" we explain at the town hall of Bagnols-sur-Cèze. "Everything is done so that something clicks and makes the schoolchild want to read." For three weeks the children will have to discover three albums: "My disconnected family", "The cabin in the middle of nothing"and "Hélène intrepid princess". The little Bagnolais will have three weeks to assimilate these albums and vote. "The goal is that for all clubs Coup de Pouce de France every child vote for your favorite story.

Investment: €125,000

À Bagnols-sur-Cèze this operation represents a total cost of 125,000€ including 87,000€ financed by the State. This investment is earmarked on schools in priority areas of the city. "This is why the municipalityé takes care of the rest to allow à the Jean-Jaur School also integrates the system ", we indicate to the office of the mayor of Bagnols-sur -Cèze Jean-Yves rosary. The City contributes à height of 38000€ of the amount of the Coup de Pouce operation which ends on June 4, 2024.

Coup de Pouce is a national association which aims to fight against early school leaving. Nationally, 6,450 preparatory schoolchildren will award the Coup de Pouce, Gulli first readings 2024 edition literary prize. The prize rewards a work of children's literature from a selection of three books.