Trip to Paris – May 2022
10th June 2022
world food day
December 11, 2022“ON THE PERFUME ROAD” FROM GRASSE TO FLORENCE
Classes: 1PECPCO – 1PECP (42 students) – Date: September 25 to 30, 2022
All the pupils of the two classes were present on this trip. No student remained in high school. Very positive point. Several aids were requested and granted upstream:
- Region New Aquitaine
- The social fund of the Pierre-André Chabanne Trades High School.
This project is part of the establishment project: to offer each high school student a cultural course with at least one cultural action (cultural outing, travel, artistic activity, etc.) during their schooling within the establishment, allowing thus an opening to the world.
Accompanists:
- Laurence POISSON (Maths-sciences teacher)
- Sandrine Cote (Beauty teacher)
- Sophie Geffard (English teacher)
- Sandrine Réaux (Professor of Applied Arts)
DAY 1 – SUNDAY 25/09/2022 – DEPARTURE – NIGHT TRIP
Departure for night trip by bus to Grasse
DAY 2 – MONDAY 26/09/2022 – GRASSE
Guided tour of the flower factory
Located in the south of Grasse, the Fabrique des Fleurs came to complete in 1986 the establishment of the Fragonard Historical Factory, whose space had become insufficient for the production of perfumes and soaps.
A visit to the packaging workshops allows you to witness the metamorphosis of perfumed products leaving the factory into refined products ready to be marketed to a public of amateurs. It also houses the production lines, the laboratory where the raw materials are mixed after being analyzed, to obtain the concentrates of the future perfumes.
Guided tour of the International Museum of Perfumery in Grasse
Our students were divided into two groups. Two guides had prepared a tour for us on the history of perfume and bottles, adapted to the profile of our students. An interactive questionnaire was given to the students. There was active listening and a good feeling from the students.
The International Museum of Perfumery allows you to discover the history and the originality of the profession of industrialists and the major perfumery houses. True testimony to the international technical, aesthetic, social and cultural history of the tradition of the use of scents, the museum takes an anthropological approach to the history of fragrances in all its aspects: raw materials, manufacturing, industry, innovation, trade, design, uses and through very diverse forms: works of art, decorative arts, textiles, archaeological evidence, unique pieces or industrial forms.
Free discovery of the historic center of Grasse
Departure to Nice
Installation for dinner and night at the Camélias youth hostel in Nice
JOUR 3 – TUESDAY 27/09/2022 – FRAGONNARD FACTORY – FLORENCE
Departure after breakfast with a packed lunch to Eze (journey about 40 mins)
Guided tour of the Fragonard factory (production site) Overlooking the sea, the Fragonard Factory-Laboratory houses the workshop for perfumery and cosmetics products as well as a modern soap factory.
THE PERFUMER'S ORGAN: Perfumery has a great analogy with music. Thus the perfumer, like the musician, composes his perfumes in front of an organ, a piece of furniture on which are placed all the bottles of essences that he will need.
THE DISTILLORY ROOM: In this room are exhibited stills allowing steam distillation, hot enfleurage or maceration, cold enfleurage.
APERFUME CREATION WORKSHOP: Discovery of the senses and olfactory memory. Introduction to the olfactory pyramid by discovering 3 compositions of mixed essences that go into the development of a fragrance.
THE CONDITIONING ROOM: The packaging line is semi-automatic and, to guarantee the quality of production, each product is individually checked at several stages of manufacture. At the end of the chain, the operators are responsible for quality control.
Bus trip to Montecatini Terme
Arrival at the Hotel*** Villa Rita in Montecatini and installation – Dinner and Night
DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY 28/09/2022 – FLORENCE – CASALVENTO
Departure after breakfast with a packed lunch to Florence
Self-guided tour of the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Florence
Inside the interactive Da Vinci Museum are exhibited the machines made on the basis of the projects of the great Leonardo. The machines have been built in real size, functional and many can be tested. The collection is organized into 4 sections: earth, water, air and fire, and is suitable for everyone, with its experimental laboratory. In addition to the machines, the museum also offers a reproduction of the main pictorial works of the Genie and some of his main anatomical studies.
Continuation by coach to Castellina in Chianti
Guided tour in English of the LAVANDA DEL CHIANTI Essential Oil Factory
The Agricola casalvento company cultivates aromatic, medicinal and perfume plants which it collects and distills in its own steam distillery producing essential oils and aromatic waters integrating natural cosmetic products (face toners, hand creams and the body, perfumes for fabrics and the environment, solid and liquid soaps, Eau de Cologne, Eau de Toilette, Eau de parfum).
Return to Montecatini – Dinner and night at the hotel
DAY 5 - THURSDAY 29/09/2022 – FLORENCE
Departure after breakfast with a packed lunch to Florence
10:00 a.m. Guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery, (1560 – 1580) was used as the offices of magistrates, judges, technicians and merchants of Florence, and was transformed into a private gallery for the enjoyment of Florence's ruling family, the Medici, and their guests. In 1865 the Uffizi Gallery became a museum, and today it is made up of 50 rooms, including paintings ranging from the 13th to the 18th century. Among the most famous, the famous "Madonna on the Throne" by Giotto, the "Battle of San Romano" by Paolo Uccello, the diptych by Piero della Francesca "Frederick III of Montefeltro", the "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, and in addition, 3 works by Leonardo da Vinci, one by Michelangelo, a few by Raphael and several by Titian and Caravaggio. All the paintings are arranged in chronological order, so that it is possible to fully appreciate all the evolutions of art through the centuries
Discovery of the historic center of Florence:
DAY 6 – FRIDAY 30/09/2022 – RETURN
Today we can draw up a very positive assessment of this experience which, for the first time, allowed our Professional Bac students to discover Grasse and Florence through its cultural richness, but also through immersion in a new country, and another language. We can also add to this experience a very important relational aspect, we discovered the students in a context other than the school context and this made it possible to strengthen the confidence and the links that we already shared with them.
The school trip designed as an educational project must be able to make students active, making the link between the experience of travel and school knowledge. It is then a question of reinvesting skills linked to experience.
The choice of the sites visited made it possible to stimulate a dynamic by articulating the educational journey around the knowledge acquired or in the process of being acquired.
One of the main challenges after this educational trip is to reinvest what made sense during this common but also singular experience. The students acquired real cultural and professional knowledge. This experience will be completely efficient and will allow them to capitalize on their knowledge during the rest of their career, both in a professional and personal approach.
