Coming from over 2,000 miles away, students and teachers from French Guiana got a taste of the Vineyard on a school trip pulled together with the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School (MVPCS).
The group was from Lycée Melkior Garré, an international high school with around 2,500 students located in the French Guianese capital Cayenne.
Roderick Craig, who teaches at the school, said this is the biggest school in the French overseas department.
Craig said what made Lycée Melkior Garré special was that it had an “American international section,” which prepares students in a “Franco-American international baccalaureate program” that teaches them to be bilingual in French and English. The program includes a trip to the United States.
MVPCS also tries to teach its students globally through the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Students take field trips to museums in London or Paris to help bridge the real world and the curriculum, says MVPCS assistant director Scott Goldin. MVPCS director Pete Steedman said the charter school has established a sister school relationship with a school in Puerto Rico.
