A highlight of the territory to enrich the professional career of young people, the Trades Forum, allows a “school-business” rapprochement. Are concerned the pupils of 5th, 4th and 3rd. About sixty people participated, including expert parents, to testify and explain their profession.
Nadine La Rosa, principal of the Charles-Péguy college, explains that “the forum’s approach is collaborative (college, APE, expert parents, etc.). At the time of transition to college and before a post-college course, students must discover a certain number of trades and participate in 3rd class in an observation internship in a company. The discovery of trades can be started from the 5th. A child projects himself on professions thanks in particular to games. We have feedback from our 4th grade students, “expert comrades”, testifying to their immersion in a welding institute, for example. The students have the task of discovering several professions.
Industry jobs
The range of professions was wide, including professional fields such as agri-food, catering, media, culture, education, languages, law, services, sustainable development, telecoms, logistics, research, Defence, tourism, social, industry. But not only. In this context conducive to exchanges, the young people were able to correct a false idea of an idealized profession or, conversely, change their minds about a negative vision of a profession.
They discovered known professions, and others less in fields such as statistics, research, engineering, agronomy…
First aid training was also offered.
Bernard Zenner, mayor, is pleased to see that “businesses in industry, in decline, are offered to students. It is a good initiative “.
Nadine La Rosa urged her guests to mobilize for young people: “It is up to us to be proactive, to bring young people along and show them the right path”.
