The Courteille school got a new name to celebrate its 90th anniversary on Saturday. It is now the Gabrielle-Grandière school group (1920-2020), named after the teacher who taught in this school that became famous thanks to her nursery rhyme, Pirouette PeanutThe name was chosen by a vote of students and their parents at the beginning of the school year.
The plaque unveiled while singing
The inauguration took place on the same day as the school festival, in the presence of many parents and the educational team, as well as in the presence of two former students: Micheline Laubenheimer, a student at the school in 1956-1957 and Roland Lequilerier, who joined the school in 1941. He is still a volunteer at the Courteille association and runs the table tennis club within the school. I have been attending this school for eighty-three years, and I still live across the street in the house my grandparents built,”
he says proudly.
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The rain did not dampen the good mood of the public who sang the nursery rhyme when the plaque was unveiled.
