The president of the Allier section of the National Association of Members of the Order of Merit, Daniel Metretin, contacted Pauline Lottin, teacher at the school, to inform her that her class had been selected to receive the “Memory” prize. 2024.”
The students, their families and their teacher were invited, Saturday 1 er June at the Aletti Palace, hotel in Vichy, in order to participate in the “Citizen Education 2024” awards ceremony, which rewards young people for their various individual or collective actions.
In fact, for three years, the teacher and her students have been carrying out an important memory project and going to the ceremonies of May 8 and November 11 to sing the Marseillaise, read poems and carry out other commemorative actions.
Each student received a medal and a diploma. Then, the participants in the ceremony went to pay their respects at the Vichy war memorial on which Murat’s students laid a wreath.
A ceremony for awarding medals and diplomas was then organized by the municipality of Murat in the presence of members of the municipal council, residents of the village and Roger Tourret, veteran of the Algerian war, who, in a speech, showed his gratitude to the students and their teacher and expressed all his emotion at seeing so many children present during the ceremonies of May 8 and November 11.
