For the first time, the bar of 20 new openings has been crossed in the first degree, all sectors combined. These new sites are spread over the 2 academies and the 5 departments. Concretely, 18 new sites are opening in the Brittany region and 2 in Loire-Atlantique. Diwan opens a third school in Quimper. Public education opens up 11 new pathways. In Finistère, the National Education is expanding its offer to the following municipalities: Rosporden, RPI de La Feuillée / Brennilis / Loqueffret, Brest (5th public site) and Plourin-lès-Morlaix. In Morbihan, 2 new sectors are opening in Lauzach and Ploemeur (2nd public site). In Côtes-d´Armor, the public is open to Ploubezre and Prat in Trégor. Finally, 3 new sectors are emerging in Ille-et-Vilaine in Rennes (5th public site), Vitré and Pleurtuit. Insofar as 19 openings were registered on the academic map of the poles, it is regrettable that only 11 new public sites were finally validated during this re-entry into the Rennes Academy, while 15 had opened last year. It will be a matter of remaining vigilant to maintain a good level of openness if we want to see the number of bilingual children really develop and thus hope to stabilize the number of Breton speakers in the future.
We must salute in this new school year the work of Catholic education which opens 6 new courses in the first degree in Plouedern and Trégunc in Finistère, in Plerin in the Côtes-d'Armor, in Mordelles in Ille-et-Vilaine and in Monterblanc and Kervignac in Morbihan. It has been 15 years since Catholic education opened up so many new courses in a single start to school.
In the Nantes academy
National Education is opening 2 new courses in Nantes (3rd public site) and in Saint-Nazaire where only Diwan had been present for 29 years. In the Loire-Atlantique department, the National Education Department has never opened 2 new public sites in a single start. After opening a branch in Blain last year, this is also the first time that public sites have opened in this department two years in a row. This inflection is remarkable. It is clearly the fruit of the work of the OPLB in the field with all the actors, groundwork that will have to be continued and deepened further in the years to come in this academy which still does not have a development plan. bilingual education.
All these openings confirm the strong growth dynamic of Breton-French bilingual education with an increasingly dense network of schools (in Finistère, for example, there are only 2 municipalities of more than 5,000 inhabitants left without any bilingual education: Penmarc'h and Plouigneau) and an ever more pronounced interest of families in learning Breton.
The second degree is also developing
Bilingual streams also continue to be structured in secondary education. The big news for the start of the school year is the opening of a second Diwan high school in Vannes, the result of several years of work by the Diwan network with the support of Breton communities.
For its part, national education opens a new course at the college of Callac. Finally, Catholic education is also strengthening its network by opening 4 new courses. First in middle school in Fouesnant and Carhaix in Finistère as well as in Vitré in Ille-et-Vilaine but also in the high school of Sainte-Anne d´Auray in Morbihan.In all, between the two academies, there are therefore 26 new courses that are emerging in this new academic year (20 in the first degree and 6 in the second).
