Morocco
Who: Jeanne d'Arc School
Where: Rabat, Morocco
The Jeanne d’Arc School is located in a residential district of Rabat called Agdal. It was established in 1923 by a Catholic congregation (Sœur de la Doctrine Chrétienne de Nancy, France). At the begining, it was only a girls’ school; then in 1987 the school became co-educational and secular although still attached to the Catholic Education in Morocco (ECAM) which consists of 16 schools, with the Archishop of Rabat as the general secretary. The ECAM offers bilingual education ( arabic – french).
Jeanne d’Arc has 42 classes from nursery school up to the lower secondary school. These classes work around definite projects (writing a novel, making a newspaper, discovering a foreign country…) often in partnership with other schools in Morocco or abroad (Tunisia, France). The school promotes the community service spirit encouraging students to be involved in social action and also fosters a special class « Pinnochio » for handicapped children.
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