Enhance the high-school curriculum at the Waldorf school in Les Sorgues with an "American baccalaureate" or "high-school diploma" and enable students to go on to higher education.
The project
L’école des Sorgues souhaite permettre à ses grands élèves d’aller au bout de leur scolarité, en recevant un diplôme qui leur permet de continuer les études supérieures en France ou à l’étranger. Actuellement, l’école s’arrête après 11 ans de scolarité.
Afin de stimuler la découverte du monde et de ses différentes cultures, l’école propose déjà de multiples projets à l’étranger et souhaite aujourd’hui développer davantage son profil international avec la création d’un nouveau cursus hybride, entre cours et travail en autonomie qui se fera à l’école et en dehors.
Pourquoi un ‘bac américain’ (High-School Diploma) ? Le parcours à distance avec l’école américaine de Clonlara propose un cursus orienté vers l’autonomie et la créativité de l’élève, la prise de conscience et la mise en valeur de ses capacités individuels, des valeurs que l’école Waldorf promeut également.
Avec ce cursus, notre école souhaite s’ouvrir davantage aux autres élèves de la région et de l’étranger qui pourront intégrer le cursus à partir de la seconde, sans avoir été scolarisés dans l’école durant le collège.
High School Diploma
The Clonlara School's OFF-Campus program, which leads to the "American Baccalaureate", was created in 1979 and offers students from all over the world the opportunity to follow a highly individualized curriculum that can be completed at school or at home. Today, the program is followed in over 70 countries by some 2,500 students. At the end of the course, students receive a diploma which allows them to go on to higher education, depending on the level they have reached.
The proposed program leaves plenty of freedom of choice to the student, to stimulate the motivation of young people to seek out by themselves the themes that fascinate them. The curriculum combined with our school will guarantee the acquisition of a core set of skills. It will also enable students to take advantage of support and resource people and proposals, encouraging students to be active lifelong learners, to be compassionate.
Financial support
As our school is not under contract, it has to be self-financing, as it is not subsidized by the state. It is therefore the parents who pay the tuition fees for their children, enabling the school to operate. Today, we're in financial equilibrium, but we don't have the means to develop major projects.
We are in the process of raising funds from donors. We have already raised €15,000, but we are looking for other donors to ensure the viability of this project.
We need financial support for the launch of this dual curriculum to relieve families of the burden of double tuition fees. Before reaching financial equilibrium (between 3 and 5 years), we need funds to secure operations.
