A non-contract private school “oriented towards nature” planned in Maine-et-Loire

The IDEA association plans to open a new private school oriented around nature in Brain-sur-Allonnes (Maine-et-Loire). She had already tried to do so in 2021 in Doué-en-Anjou. The project fell through at the last minute. Far from being discouraged, the president of the association decided to relaunch this project for the start of the 2025 school year. Explanations.

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Since 2018, the IDEA association – for Instruct Develop Educate Differently – has been trying to set up a school in Saumur. The objective of the association? Offer children aged 6 to 11 years an education focused on nature, in a secular and republican spirit. Initially, the project was to see the light of day in 2021 in the Château de La Tremblaye, in Doué-en-Anjou. But at the last moment, when all the authorizations and staffing had been done, the owners let us go,” indicates Maurice-Luc Plays, president of IDEA and head of the project. He therefore looked for a plan B and turned to the third place developed by the ValOrise association, located in Brain-sur-Allonnes.

After several work meetings and meetings between the teams of the two associations, an agreement was reached to allow the private school outside of the contract, which should be called…