Interview of Mrs Du Garay

Mrs. Du Garay has been working at Sainte-Marie for 6 years. Before, she was a financial analyst in a credit company. She did an “ES” baccalaureate exam. At school her favourite subjects were Spanish, English and “SES”. Here, her work is administrative and she’s also in charge of pastoral care at the Lycée.

She likes to help pupils solve their problems. Her favourite moment of the day is break time because she can speak with the pupils and have a good laugh with them.

Her best memory is when students in “Terminale” sent her an SMS during a graduation ceremony when she was away on a training course.

What she dislikes doing most is punishing pupils and having to always maintain order.

She thinks that Sainte-Marie is a good place because it’s a small school with nice families; teaching here is high quality, and children are looked after with kindness.

She likes listening to Pop and Rock. When she was young, her heroes were the Star Trek characters and the members of the group Genesis.

The meal she enjoys most is veal in white sauce.

Interview by Hugo & Lydwine

An expert in robotics!

     Pierre-Etienne Pion is 15. He’s in 3°G. He lives in Marsat. He has a sister, Marie-Caroline, and a dog called Fosco.

In September last year, Pierre-Etienne broke his finger. As a result, he was unable to practice his favourite sports: tennis, Ping-Pong, and golf for two months. So he turned to his other hobby: robotics.

He is a fervent reader of Science et Vie Junior, so he decided to enter the competition that this magazine proposes each month. He used the electronic kit that he received for Christmas, and built a brilliant machine which is able to sort pencils, the Cleapen.

He filled in a registration form to explain his invention. He beat twelve other candidates and got the first prize: €1000!

He really enjoys robotics and electronics and wishes to become an engineer.

He has two projects today: to build an engine able to find golf balls, and an even more ambitious (secret) project involving one of his close friends…

We wish him good luck for the national Science et Vie Junior competition in April in Paris!

Interview by Lydwine & Thibault