Integrated Education
Our integrated education programme aims at promoting the employability of our pupils. Some of them have been offered jobs in various fields such as maintenance, gardening, handling, cleaning etc. Pupils are also encouraged to become self-employed. For instance, one of our ex-pupils has created her own business in handicraft. The FGC keeps prospecting new avenues for the employment of its pupils.
Courses are run in the following fields:
- Gardening: organic gardening is developed as a therapy whilst contributing at the same time to the production of vegetables for the school’s kitchen.
- Music: whilst being taught as a hobby music also serves as a therapy. A percussion group, coached by a music teacher who graduated from Conservatoire Francois Mitterrand, has been set up. The Police Band Master is also coaching the pupils on a voluntary basis. A new programme has been devised to diversify the various types of music to be included in the music curriculum.
- Cooking: pupils are trained in basic kitchen works
- Woodcraft: a fully equipped woodwork workshop, operating under the supervision of qualified instructors, gives the opportunity to our male pupils to develop their skills and empower them to be job seekers in the furniture and related wood industry.
- Painting and innovative handicraft classes sponsored by the National Social Integration Foundation have been introduced by a sponsored NSIF trainer. Consequently new talents have been put in the limelight. Hence, several paintings produced by FGC pupils have been sold during a Golf Tournament organised by the Indigo Hotels Group.
- FGC is thus following the path of ecological trend and originality whilst boosting at the same time its handicraft courses.
