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Written by Mrs. Luneau

Your votes for the best Street Art Project are now closed.
And the winners are...
Baptiste and Massil for Harmony!!!!!
The silver medal goes to Mathilde, Lisandra and Vincent for Freedom!
Finally the bronze goes to Ashwin, David and Mgomri
for Silence, we are under suveillance!

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!!!
YOU REALLY DID A GREAT JOB

You can now admire all the projects in our classroom...

The school year is over and we wanted to share our best memories with you before our exams and the summer holidays!

Laeticia : I spent a great year and that will be a good memory. Well, it's hard to do worse than last year when I was in another school :-)) Anyway because of some nice people I've had the chance to meet, I really had fun this year. Now all good things come to an end BUT holidays are coming! Yaaay :)

Massil : So, this is the end… This year has gone too fast. I felt like winter would last all year! I want summer to last through next year; it’s a wonderful dream, isn’t it? :) Well, I really enjoyed this year exept the exam period, of course... I had a lots of gorgeous moments with my mates and I hope that we will have more next year, even if we are going to take our Big Exam! I appreciate the idea of creating a blog very much. This is why I really appreciate my English teacher for allowing me to fill in this project. Thanks to her I could write some articles in the music section; I loved it a lot because I want to do this job in the future in a foreign country, especially in England - where the cradle of music is in my humble opinion. I hope each of you enjoyed reading our articles. We are almost on holiday but don’t worry we will come back soon with new stuff, I promise. Anyway, thanks a lot everyone for this wonderful year, have a magic summer with your friends or and your parents! Take care !

 Sébastien : I spent a lot of good moments this year, with this class.But my favorite moments have been the English classes with Mme Luneau. I hope we'll have her as a teacher next year!

Camille : My best moment of the year was when I met Sonia. It’s a very nice meeting because she is very funny and I laugh a lot with her. We had funny moments together.  I liked our lessons because it was better and funnier than the other lessons!!!

Vincent : Dear readers, today my English teacher asked us to talk about our best memory of the year. In my opinion my best memory is when we visited the street art exhibition. It was a great artistic experience for me because I love art! I learned several artistics techniques as the silkscreen or stencil, I improved my knowledge about art, and I was able to learn more about the origins and the artists who revolutionized the world of street art.

Sonia :  This year was really a good year, it’s difficult for me to choose my best moment for this year because I had lots of funny moments, like when I went to the Bobba Tea Café with my friends, when I was hanging out with Camille and other moments like these.

Christinah : I don't have many good memories at school but I can tell that my favorite moments were the hours spent in this English class and I hope that next year our teacher will still be my teacher :D
 
Celia : My best memories at Gabriel Fauré High School are my English classes because it was pretty interesting!!! Our teacher taught us useful things for next year. I enjoyed this class very much! And the second thing I enjoyed the most is the fact that I met Mrs. Bihi. She is the best school counsellor that I've ever seen in my life. She has been so kind to me. And she helped me when I needed help and when I'm stressed and sad. So thank you! I was very happy to have her as my school counsellor this year! I hope that she'll still be working here nex year!

Laurene : This year I've met a new friend, her name is Ludivine. We have a lot of common points ,mostly the music and we are are crazy about singing. I remember a great moment with her at the high school concert. We performed two covers of a song we are fond of : Stay by Rihanna and Ain't No Moutain High by Marvin Gaye. We spent a very good year together and we felt like dancing all the time!

Mathilde : This year has been truly wonderful. At the beginning I was totally scared: new school, new city, new people... I was afraid of not feeling at my place but I met some amazing people. A lot of people say that high school years are the best, and I can tell that it's true. Now, at the end of the year, I 'm just so excited to be in September and continue to spend awesome and unforgettable moments with my friends.

Finally, here are OUR STREET ART PROJECTS!

We had to imagine a street artwork about our life as teenagers at school...

Have a look at them, read our texts and VOTE FOR THE BEST ONE! How to vote? That's very easy : have a look on the right side of the main page, find the opinion poll tab and select your favourite project!

NO AFTERMATH by Béhange, Sébastien & Yann

For this project, we took a quote from one of our favorite movie and we mixed it with our dislike for maths at school.

The project we made depicts a group of young men doing a graffiti on a wall. They are making a big heart on a black background and the heart is broken by a ruler. At the top of the poster one of them has written "Rule n°1 : No love"
The idea comes from a movie called "Get rich or die trying". There is a scene in the movie where a man is telling to his crew of drug dealers that the rule n°1 in this game (the drug dealing game) is No Love, and from that we came up with a more friendly idea of doing a ruler destroying a heart. We chose a ruler for the wordplay rule/ruler, and this is how we came up with this artwork. This movie is one of our favorites that's why it was really important for us to put it in the project.

This artwork also represents our dislike for maths, one of the point of this graffiti piece was to show that maths are not our favorite subject at school (the ruler is also a symbol for mathematics).

The title is " No Aftermath " because if you follow our rules you won't have any problems (and it creates a wordplay on our dislike for maths and the word aftermath!).

A BORING DAY by Camille, Sonia & Laetitia

We chose to make this drawing because we wanted to represent a daily scene, the environment of the pupils at school.

We have chosen to present this through a window, to show what a person who looks through the window sees. The drawing depicts a door with a window, such as those in our school and through it you can see a part of a classroom, as in our school. When the pupils are waiting for their classes, they often peek into the classrooms. We wanted to keep things simple and colours too. We chose to entitle it “A Boring Day” because sometimes when we are in class, we get quickly bored and we look through the window, especially in mathematics because we are literary students and we hate mathematics! That's why we have made an operation on the blackboard. This is what we wanted to express through by this drawing.

HARMONY by Baptiste & Massil

This work of art is entitled Harmony. It depicts the Chinese symbol for the word harmony. The meaning of this symbol is also the symbol for amicable, friendly, on good terms, concord, cordiality and peace. That’s why we chose it. It represents our life at school.
It’s a monochrome street artwork. There is a contrast between the shapes inside the symbol because they are irregular and, at the same time, they are well-intertwined which conveys a feeling of order since the student and the school are gathered in a complementary way. It shows that are our school comes to life thanks to all of the students, without us the school would be empty.
In other words, this work of art shows the complementarity and the harmony between our school and its students. Of course we chose a Chinese symbol because we are in the Chinese district!  

SCHOOL by Chloé, Laurène, Islem & Helen

This poster shows the vision we have of our school. It represents six children of different nationalities holding hands. Each one of them has a letter written on their Tee-shirt which put together form the word "SCHOOL".
Racism is still relevant today, school gives us the opportunity to speak about different cultures, share different foods and learn about different manners since nowadays everybody has got origins from all around the world.  That's why school is firstly a place to learn and study but also a place where kids learn how to be open-minded and where everyone deserves to be treated as equal.

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS by Célia and Christinah

We can see 2 persons who are sitting around a table. They are studying. We can imagine that the character on the left is the teacher and the character on the right is the student. The first character is using a compass to explain a math problem . And the second one thinks that his problem is incomprehensible but he knows that it is for his own good, so he wanrs to do well.

This drawing we made of the sulpture in front of our school represents the school because it’s the sculpture that is in front of our school. And we drew the wall and the windows behind the sculpure so that it looks the same as the school we study in. This drawing of the sculpture also represents the school because they’re telling us that the students in this school are very serious and they’re working a lot to have good marks.

The most important thing that represents this school is the name of the school « Gabriel Fauré Lycée & Collège » and its logo which is the three books that are above the name of the school .

There is also the camera that represents the high security of the school and we draw books over the 4 corners of our drawing. Each of them represents lessons or classes that we study in this school like visual arts, Chinese and math. And the last book opens on the logo of the region « Ile-De-France ».

In conclusion, we could say that it is the « logo » of our school that the 2 of us imagined . It’s saying that the students in our school are studying very seriously (as you can see in the sculpture) . This school teaches us new knowledge to have a good future .

 SILENCE, WE ARE UNDER SURVEILLANCE by Ashwin, David & Mgomri

It depicts the high school sewer. Why the sewer?
We chose the sewer because we wanted to represent the school hidden side. It's a place which only the teachers and the students know. Every student of Gabriel Fauré would say if we ask to them, "Gabriel Fauré is a dirty place... " where the classrooms are dilapidated but the material is our responsibility and if we don't respect it the school ends up in bad condition. But it's not so bad! The management is not here to pay for material again and again, and if we look more closely, Gabriel Fauré is a nice place with very nice people.

Why an eye?
We wanted to say the wall has eyes and ears, that is to say, the persons in charge of us, someone are watching us. If we want to go somewhere, someone will ask us «What are you doing here, it's not the time yet, go to the study room!". The red eye shows the supervision's and tiredness because we have to admit that sometimes we can be exhausting. Moreover, the perspective gives a special effect, we can say it's a trompe-l'oeil.

Why the liquid?
Because a sewer without liquid is not a sewer!

Why did you put some quote and name?
We found that nice and smart! Some quotes to decorate and show the intellectual place, because the school is before anything a place where we others are taken from real artists like John Lennon or Shakespeare etc. And the names are our classmates’ names.

OBEY by Djenti & Loé

Our project is entitled «OBEY».
It is even written at the top of our artwork in big letters of different patterns. Each pattern represents someone who gives orders, that’s why all the letters are different, because everyone gives orders. Our project talks about obedience because it’s something we have to do at school.

We can see a student in the center, his hair is spiking and his eyes are swirling because he is hypnotised by all these orders. His brain is washed. Around him these orders such as «learn» or «write your lessons» are floating. The background is very colourful to show that despite these orders, we study in a pleasant environment. It’s a cliché of students who don’t like to obey teachers (or their parents)!

It’s a street art project so we have decided to draw a graffiti to represent our dear highschool, Gabriel Fauré. «Obey» also refers to the street artist who used to make real illegal graffiti pieces in the street. Now this artist has become very commercial : he makes adverts and has created his own brand.

FREEDOM by Lisandra, Mathilde & Vincent

We decided to make a drawing to express the emotions and feelings that are part of our everyday life.
The heart represents love. The love that we feel for our friends, our family or our boyfriend or girlfriend. But it also represents sad moments, like the loss of a loved person, a break or a fight with a friend. There are chains around it because we are prisoners of our feelings; we can’t control them even if, sometimes, it would be easier.
The wings represent freedom. At our age we become more responsible, and we want to do the things alone, to be independent, and to leave the nest.
The star represents knowledge. Not only the things we learn at school, but the things we learn through life, the things we live, the experiences we make.
There is a streamer with the world “freedom” on it because we think that this is the main thing we want, right now.

BAC RESULTS by Sara & Lilia

Planning a visit to Paris?
Spend a great time in Chinatown and in the 13th district!

Our school is located at the heart of Chinatown so if you fancy eating Asian food, learning Chinese or buying products from China you’re at the right place! But everything is not about Asia : the district offers a large variety of activities as well as nice places to relax…

What to visit? By Laetitia
In addition to Chinatown you can visit a new reorganized neighbourhood called Paris Rive Gauche. Lively during the day, many young students spend time in the large university campus. Moreover a great library is located there, the National Library of France: it’s always good to be cultivated, isn’t it?
But if you want to relax with a movie, head to the MK2 cinema. You want a coffee or a treat after the film? Well, a Starbucks Coffee is not far from there. For manga fans, a Manga Coffee V2 offers mangas, drinks, computers and video games. For those who love sports, go to the National Sports Museum: you will find exhibitions of works of art as well as sports equipments. Finally, if you have the soul of an artist (or even if you don’t!) try on Les Frigos, a cultural place where you can see many graffiti painted by street artists.

Yummy food in Chinatown By Islem
If you are hungry and want to eat something in the 13^th district of Paris there are many different restaurants you can eat in! Well if you are like me and looooove eating fast food you can find many Mc Donald’s, KFC, Quick or Pizza Hut… But if you prefer eating food from different cultures you are in a very good place to travel all around the world: you can find Italian restaurants to eat good pastas or pizzas you can go to The Cesar, it’s very tasty!
If you are interested in Asian food this district is a paradise!!! My favourite one is the restaurant right in front of our school.  It is called Le Bœuf Grillé,  it’s delicious if you love meat and barbecues! You can eat Korean, Indian and French food as well!

Cinemas and theatres By Yann
If you enjoy going to the theatre you can go to the Theatre 13 which offers different kinds of shows almost every night.  If you prefer movies there are also lots of cinemas at Les Gobelins – at least 3 around the square, the most famous being the UGC Gobelins. They are low cost by the way. You can also go to the Escurial which broadcasts old but very good movies.

Fancy some sports?! By Béhange
If you like sports and you like having fun I suggest you to go to Stade Charléty, a multi-use stadium. During the school holidays the stadium is open especially for the kids who can't afford to go on holiday. There are lots of activities for the kids.
There are also lots of sports teams such as football, volleyball, handball and basketball. Since 2010 the Charléty Stadium has been the official stadium of the Parisian rugby team, Le Stade Français.

Let’s go shopping! By Sébastien
For the ones who like shopping in big malls (or watching some block buster movies) you won’t be disappointed by the most famous place in the district, Place d'Italie! The main neighbourhood of the 13th district of Paris is full of things to do. The big mall, which is called Italie 2, offers more than one hundred shops, such as Adidas, Le Printemps, Foot Locker, Zara, La Fnac, Sephora and many more... All shoppers will be delighted to spend some money there!  

To learn more about our neighbourhood visit the town hall website