At the Chevalier-d'Éon high school in Tonnerre, the day before the Christmas holidays is unique. It is that of “Lycée makes its show”, which had its sixteenth edition on Friday. A festive and unifying moment awaited by students, teachers and all staff, prepared throughout the first term.
By class, by group, by language, or by affinity, everyone goes on stage and presents a song, a piece of music. The atmosphere rises very quickly. Songs are covered by the room at the top of their lungs. We whistle, We applaud. We're having fun.
Under another face
The students display skills other than purely academic ones, we discover the teachers in another face, sometimes even during rehearsals at the conservatory or boarding school.
“We feel closer to them, because on stage, we find ourselves in the same struggle,” says a student musician. “We discover students who are usually very shy and who reveal themselves on stage with a guitar,” notes a PE teacher. Conductor of the event for several years, Jean-Michel Nourry, BTS professor in engineering sciences, took over from Christine Deschamps, Spanish professor who launched this show. She was inspired by the “talent shows” she discovered in a high school in the United States.
“It’s a big organization with significant logistics, but the students are always hypermotivated,” assures the teacher. We feel a particularly positive momentum, with a real mix since several students are at the conservatory and happy to accompany their classmates and go on stage. We even have former student musicians who come back for the occasion and external musicians who join us. » In fact, the quality of services continues to improve.
Expressions of interest
“It’s a lot of emotion. » Arriving in September, principal Maud Kisserli-Boré experienced her first “Lycée makes its show”. “I have never seen such a unifying project of such a scale at a school level, in such a good-natured atmosphere,” she confided. We discover the skills of certain students. It's impressive. »
The reputation of this unique annual meeting has transcended the borders of the territory and even the academy. Friday, Jean Aussedat, principal of the Gabriel-Voisin high school in Troyes, made the trip with the idea of bringing such a project back to his establishment, or at least taking inspiration from it. “It’s really great to see such enthusiasm and such cohesion within a high school,” he said, convinced.
