Elementary class in France seeks Inuk pen-pals

We are French pupils from Saint-Exupéry primary school in Talence near Bordeaux. We are beginners in English (three years of English learning) and we look for English-speaking pen friends. There are 27 pupils (nine to 11 years old) in our Cm1/Cm2 class (fourth and fifth grade), the last years of the junior level. We’ll go to the secondary school in next September.

We are very interested in ways of life of aboriginal people today.

We are living in south-west of France, next to Bordeaux (Gironde), in a gentle area where there are many varied landscapes: fluvial valley (Garonne and Dordogne rivers), calcareous plateau with caves, a long sandy coast with lot of dunes and pine forest, a very large estuary (la Gironde), a famous wine land, and the biggest forest of Europe (Forêt des Landes). People have been living here for few hundred thousand years (prehistoric settlements).

Bordeaux is an old fluvial harbour on the Garonne river, near the Gironde estuary. It’s a very big town, it’s the capital of the Aquitaine region. More than 450,000 inhabitants are living in this built-up area. Talence is a suburban town (about 30,000 residents about) in the south of Bordeaux. We are living in a new district in the south of Talence where they are big blocks of flats beside the highway and near the swimming-pool.

We should be pleased to start our project with postal mail, audio tapes, or the internet next September (2006-07 school year). It would also be nice to correspond with us at the same time with your language and English (or French maybe.) We accept any way of corresponding with an Inuk class or school.

If our suggestion is a bit difficult for your class, could you refer us to another other school about this pen-pal project ? Thank you very much.

Our projects areas are about: Geography, history, sciences, citizenship, heritage, culture, legends, way of life (we got in touch for few years with North American, Australian and Amazonian aboriginal people.) This year we will do a special topic concerning circumpolar people, the sea and the climate.

Ecole élémentaire Saint-Exupéry
Classe de Cm2
Rue Eugène Delacroix
33400 – TALENCE
France
Email : groupescolairestexupery@wanadoo.fr

Taima assunai.
The CM2 class
L’école primaire Saint-Exupéry à Talence