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Immersion professionnelle Anglo-saxonne
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Having experienced a first mobility project for ten pupils who did their internship for eight weeks in Irish control quality companies in October-November 2013 in laboratories testing either water, soil or air control. Thus, we would like to renew this experience with 10 other students, including this time pupils studying in the sales department. Since 2010, we have started a European section in our professional training so that pupils have professional lessons in English as well as English courses. Providing them with internships in an English speaking country makes sense with regard to those lectures and the choices we have made to open our school to European mobility. The short-term objectives for our pupils are to develop their capacity to adjust themselves to new working conditions, their autonomy and their knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture. The long-term objectives are to facilitate their occupational integration and improve their employability or to allow them to enroll in higher education in a foreign English speaking country. Our pupils often had a bad start when they first arrived in our school. They have chosen the vocational track because the training includes internships which introduce them to the world of work. Those internships motivate them and help them pull themselves together again and enable them to increase their interests for their studies. As for our pupils studying to become laboratory technicians, they can do their internship in any kind of laboratories, ranging from analytical environmental laboratories such as soil or water testing laboratories to food control laboratories. Those internships give them the opportunity to discover other procedures and equipment or to diversify their work experience because in France they most often do their internship in food industry laboratories, medical or cosmetic laboratories. As for our pupils studying to become salespersons, they can do their internship in retail outlets, supermarkets such as SuperValu in Bandon or in catering shops such as On the pig's back in Douglas. In fact, the teachers who had accompanied the pupils last October-November 2013 during their stay in Ireland had to try and find some places of internships for the pupils studying sales. The students will become accustomed to the retailing and distribution industry, the different kinds of points of sale and health rules for food products and quality labels. For all of them, this English immersion will increase their fluency and will enhance their résumé. There is also a strong cultural objective since those students are going to permeate the daily life of Anglo-Saxon people and visit historical sites that they will have learned about beforehand. The mobility will last eight weeks from September 29th to November 21rst for the students in laboratory control quality and four weeks, from October 27th to November 21rst for the students in sales. The mobilities are very expensive, especially in the United Kingdom, thus we need several sources of funding besides the European Union which represents the main one of course. In order not to penalise poorer pupils, we are advocating to obtain some financial help from the General Education and Research Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Townhall, the school's partners. That doesn't exclude a financial contribution from the pupil's parents.
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