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Jacques de Vaucanson  is a French engineer. In 1734, he built a duck robot. Vaucanson's automatic  duck was able to eat and to digest thanks to ingenious processes mixing mechanics and chemistry.
In memory of Jacques de Vaucanson, science is particulary promoted in our school.

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is a high tower located in the centre of Paris. It is made of iron and so its nickname is "Iron Lady".
It was built for the "Exposition Universelle" or World Fair in 1889.

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We live in a very touristic region named "Touraine". There are many castles along the River Loire. They used to be the dwellings of French kings.

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Our town spreads along two rivers : the large Loire and the Cher. The population of the whole metropolitan area is about 500,000. Dating back from the Middle Age, there are medevial houses and narrow streets in the town centre. Most of the city had to be rebuilt after the bombings of World War II.
The University of Tours is important and famous for its Medical College. The town is lively and there are many cafés and restaurants.

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The Loire is one of the main rivers of France. It is about 1,000 km long. People can cycle and stroll alongside using the famous bike path called "La Loire à vélo" : The Loire by bike.

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Touraine is also named the garden of France. It is famous for its beautiful royal gardens in the French style such as the Villandry gardens where flowers and vegetables are used to create impressive artistic compositions.

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The Loire provides us with fishes such as eels, trout and salmon.
Tasty goat cheese and shredded pork are typical dishes of the region. Asparagus is grown in sandy soils along the Loire and  apples  are picked up on the hillsides. "Nougat de Tours"  is a sweet speciality of the town.
Famous wines are also produced in our region.

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Most of the time, the weather is mild. Summers can be very hot nowdays because of the climate changes and it rarely snows in winter.

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Every week, all forms practice sport but we can also take part in the sports association and practice various sports every Wednesday afternoon and compete. Each term, we can enrol for badminton, volleyball, archery, pétanque, boxing, fitboxing,  horse riding...

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In our school, the educational staff are very involved in making our life at school easier and in opening our minds to others.

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In every form, some students are involved in projects to promote the goals of Agendas 2021 and 2030.
For instance, blue boxes have been installed in all classrooms to collect paper for recycling and solar panels have been set up on the roof.

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The "conseil de la vie lycéenne" and the "Maison des lycéens" are councils of students from the different classes who propose  improvements to the head. These can deal with the bicycle park, the menus at the school restaurant, the carnival, some financial help to associations or for school trips but also the planning of mock exams.

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Every year some days before starting school, first year students are shown round the school by elder ones and games are organised to help them to get to know each other quickly.

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Every year, but in covid-19 time, a big race is organised in our school to get money to fight hunger. Students are sponsored and the money collected is given to "Action against hunger".

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Since the beginning of September, our school has pioneered a scientific workshop in English.

We are a group of 22 students from seconde form, very interested in protecting our environment. Obviously, we like English too!

To begin with, we first studied the impact of plastic on nature. We observed that a lot of plastic wastes were dropped anywhere on the school grounds. That’s why we decided to go plastic plogging in our school. Plastic plogging is an activity mixing jogging and picking up waste (from the Swedish verb: Plocka upp (pick up)). Our plogging experience took place September, 22nd. We had divided the area into 7 parts and our group into 7 teams. We picked up a lot of wastes such as cigarette ends, tissues, pieces of aluminium, soda cans, but mainly pieces of plastic, plastic cups or candy plastic wrapping.

Our plastic plogging was an environmentally responsible action. So doing, we have felt eco citizens and were happy to protect our planet.

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Our school is a "Lycée". Students are there for 3 years  to prepare the final exam that allows us to get higher education. We usually are about 1,300 students but due to covid-19 outbreak, second and third year students stay at home every other week. Our school is partly a boarding school because some students live far from Tours and some of them practice rugby at a high level every day.
The subjects we are taught are numerous: physics and chemistry, biology, math, history, geography, economics, sport, French literature, English, Spanish, German, Italian and philosophy in third year. Our school days are sometimes very long. Indeed, some days we start school at 8 a.m. and  finish at 6 p.m. with only  one hour break at noon.

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Designing solar cookers intended to help the population of remote villages in Morocco.

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It took place in 1789 and denounced the inequalities people suffered from when France was ruled by absolute monarchs.
Here is a famous painting from Eugène Delacroix. The woman represents liberty. It shows the power of the French people as citizens.

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The central hall, some outdoor corridors and some technology classrooms

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The central hall, some outdoor corridors and some technology classrooms

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The science building on the left and the black "bridge" building

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The science building on the left and the black "bridge" building

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Some students enrol at Vaucanson school to practice rugby everyday and compete at weekends.  Indeed our school works with the French rugby federation.
To be  part of the rugby team, students have to be good at both school and rugby.
Paul Jedrasiak, a French rugby team player, is a former student of Vaucanson school.

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Students can take part in health projects such as fighting against AIDS and bullying at school.

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In this poster, we drew the school map. The school grounds were divided in areas of different colours. In each area, we picked up all kinds of wastes. Then we sorted out the different kinds of plastics, we weighed them and built histograms.  In each area in the poster, we pasted a sample of the plastic we found most frequently.

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Students carrying out a chemistry experiment

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Students carrying out a chemistry experiment

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Sorting out plastics to select the recyclable ones is not obvious. The staff of the recycling centre of Tours gave us a lecture on  plastics. Together we looked for solutions to reduce our plastic consumption. The conclusion is that the best waste is the one we don't produce.

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"Liberté, égalité, fraternité" is the motto of the French Republic. It came from the French Revolution and meant that human beings were born equal with equal rights and should respect and help one another.

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This symbol comes from Antiquity when France was Gaul. The Latin name "gallus" meant both cockerel and Gaulish.  So the cockerel is one the emblems of France.