SHARED HISTORY, SHARED MEMORIES

From 2014 on, L. S. Senghor High School aims at building a long-term project about History and memories of the Second World War in Normandy. The aim is to understand this past period and make links with conflicts we winess nowadays.

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Veterans or witnesses we met like to share their memories. They often insist on the fact that what they saw, what they fought for should be cherished, protected. We are the lucky generations, born after WW2, having known no direct conflict in Europe. Witnesses are often worried at the populist and nationalist movements we see growing again in Europe. We should remember the sacrifice of those who fought or went through the horrors of the war in order to prevent new temptations of violence.

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These reflections we try to bring to the pupils when Mr Joli, speaker for the International Committee of the Red Cross (in Paris) comes once a year to draw links between conflicts from the past and conflicts of today. These relations between History, memories and the news allow pupils to understand that the World is complex and issues societies meet have no simple explanation.  

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What we expect our pupils to understand, to assimilate knowledge and methods and to share what they understood in the school as well as outside. This in the hope they grow to be independent, learned citizens with a critical mind.

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Pupils' works, in group or within the class are of different kinds: cartoons, texts, videos, internet sites, participation to the edting of books and to radio broadcasts. 

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Great many THANKS to Tenno Dogger and Ian Patrick from association Deep Respect and to all those who gave their time to explain complex issues to ou pupils. Thanks also for trusting them and the teachers! 

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The first school group, in 2016, made a video explaining the project, clic HERE

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