Three first-year high school students and two middle school students from the Institution Notre-Dame (IND) of Chartres* won the writing competition offered by the Departmental Council and the Château de Maintenon in the middle and high school categories.
As part of the L’Hiver aux Merveilles exhibition held at the château (our 24 December edition), students were invited to write about the “meaning of the elements”. The winning texts are read by a voice-over near the sculptures, during the visits.
“Won over by their creativity”
Six classes of the Institution Notre-Dame (IND) of Chartres, about 190 students, participated in this writing competition. Previous editions had allowed teenagers to work on fairy tales by Jean de La Fontaine, in 2020, and on the works of Charles Perrault, in 2021. “This year was an opportunity to work on a complete creation of texts,” he says Fabien Coll, one of the institute’s plastic arts teachers, who is none other than one of the sculptors in the exhibition.
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The latter related to the elements – earth, water, air and fire – the students had to write texts on these topics, letting their imaginations speak and giving an artistic dimension to their creation. “Some have chosen prose, others poetry or slam. We have all been conquered by their creativity”, enthuses the professor.
An artistic and educational project
This is how Lynn Pintout, winner of the sixth grade in the college category, wrote a prose text on the air. You highlight the positive aspects for man and nature but also the dangers for him. “I personified the air as a living being. I write a lot, it came very easily,” comments the student.
Éva Bannais, another fifth grade winner, chose to describe water poetically. You have integrated mythology but also ecology. “It is very interesting from an educational point of view. Students learn by engaging and this helps to awaken their imagination and creativity. They were also able to measure the scope of an art project as a whole. »
Three other establishments in Eure-et-Loir took part in this writing contest.
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