School trips in the Laval Tourist Area

Laval Tourism’s “school groups” department will assist you in throughout the planning stages of your educational project. Recreational centre organisers, nursery school teachers through to further education institutions can all make the most of these activities, all of which are designed with the school curriculum in mind.
In this leaflet, you will find all the tools that will be useful for your educational project. This year, in association with the professionals at each site and tour guides, the focus is on ecological awareness in urban and peri-urban environments: heritage in motion!

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Programme of visits

Municipalities’ treasure hunts

GOALS
To help pupils in years 2 to 6 explore their town or village by means of a treasure hunt.
These hunts are possible in the following locations: Ahuillé, Argentré, Bonchamp, Châlons-du-Maine, Changé, Entrammes, Forcé, La Gravelle, L’Huisserie, Nuillé-sur-Vicoin, Parné-sur-Roc, Port-Brillet, Saint-Berthevin, Saint-Jean-sur-Mayenne, Saint-Ouen-des-Toits, Soulgé-sur-Ouette.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: in front of the Church of the chosen location
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • Audience: Years 2 to 7

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Gallo-Roman thermal baths in Entrammes

GOALS
To discover the oldest signs of civilisation in the Pays de Laval and an introduction to Gallo-Roman Mayenne. Discuss antiquity in Mayenne during the Roman Empire.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: in front of the baths, Place de l’Eglise in Entrammes
  • Duration: 1 hr 15 min
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • Audience: Primary/Secondary

Additional visit: Possibility of one workshop (1h – Group rate €50) :
Numismatics

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Musée Vivant de l’École Publique (Laval State Primary School Museum)

GOALS
To learn about equipment used in schools in the past: a classroom from the beginning of the 20th century has been recreated including furniture from the time.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: in front of the Museum – rue Haute Chiffoliere in Laval
  • Duration: 1 hr
  • Free
  • Audience: Years 2 to 10

Take part in a quill writing workshop, adapted to the level of pupils.

Group rate €10 per class

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Lactopôle André Besnier in Laval

GOALS
To learn all the secrets for making the products that we have at the table every day. Where does milk come from? How is cheese made? What is a churn used for? What is tyrosemiophilia?

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: 10/20 rue Adolphe Beck in Laval
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price :
    Years 2 to 10: €2/pers
    Years 11 to 13 €7/pers.
  • Audience: Years 2 to 13

Guided visits are adapted to the pupils and the following complementary workshops can be added on request:

  • Cheesemaker apprentice
  • Taste and dairy products
  • Price: €4/pupil

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Ferme du Chênot in Changé

GOALS
To discover the Ferme du Chênot and the educational visit relating to breeding and the surrounding crops. This is an ideal place for educating on the environment, discovering a rural setting and gaining awareness of biological rhythms.
Possible themes: milk, animal kingdom, plants, soil, biodiversity, water, energy, sustainable and organic agriculture, product quality, and so on.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: Le Chênot in Changé
  • Duration: 2hrs - 2 hrs 30 min
  • Price*:
    Group rate (Max 25 people): €95
    Fewer than 25 €4/pupil
  • Audience: from nursery school to year 13

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Notre-Dame de Pritz Chapel

GOALS
To travel through time... Built between the Carolingian period and the 13th century, the first parish church in Laval is home to a set of wall paintings created between the 12th and 15th centuries.
The most notable are “Viellards de l’Apocalypse” (Old men of the Apocalypse) and “Calendrier des saisons” (Calendar of the seasons).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Appointment: in front of the Chapel – rue du Vieux Saint-Louis in Laval
  • Duration: 1 hr
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • For all ages

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

EcHOlogia in Louverné

GOALS
To present an ecological and tourist rehabilitation project for the quarries, lime kilns and the lime kiln operator’s hamlet of Louverné.
This project focuses on three elements: water, heritage and ecology. The visit provides the opportunity to consider the past, present and future of the site: history, restoration works, unusual accommodation, events, activities, etc.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: Vannerie lime kilns, route d’Argentré in Louverné.
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price*: Group rate €80
  • Audience: Years 5 to 13

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Parné-sur-Roc: Petite Cité de Caractère (Small Town of Character)

GOALS
Come close to the rich historic and architectural heritage of this rural town that was awarded the “Petite Cité de Caractère" label.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: 1st roundabout on entering Parné-sur-Roc, when arriving from the D21 road.
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price*: €60
  • For all ages

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Cruise on the Mayenne from Laval

GOALS
To discover the way the river is organised and its uses over the centuries.
Come close to the historic and environmental heritage of Laval.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: River stop, 100 rue du Vieux Saint-Louis Laval
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price: Group rate €400 for a maximum of 140 people
  • For all ages

Workers’ conditions at the beginning of the 20th century in Port-Brillet

GOALS
Discover the historic and industrial heritage of the Pays de Loiron.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: Square near to the railroad in Port-Brillet
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • Audience: Years 5 to 13

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25–30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

Le Musée de La Chouannerie et de la Révolution (Chouannerie and Revolution Museum) in Saint-Ouen-des-Toits

GOALS
To reconstruct life in the countryside in the eighteenth century after the French Revolution and explain the counter-revolution movement initiated by Jean Cottereau known as Jean Chouan.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: La Closerie des Poiriers in Saint-Ouen-des-Toits.
  • Duration: 2 hrs
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • Audience: Years 5 to 13

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

L’abbaye de Clairmont (Clairmont Abbey) in Olivet

GOALS
To learn about monastic life in the 12th century and rules that governed the establishment of this Cistercian abbey.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Meeting point: Abbaye de Clairmont in Olivet, route de Loiron.
  • Duration: 1 hr 30 min
  • Price*: Group rate €60
  • Audience: Years 5 to 13

*Price: these rates are applicable for classes with a maximum of 25-30 pupils. Beyond this number, it is necessary to divide the group into several sub-groups. Bookings for visits must be made at least two weeks before the desired date. The price does not include transport.

CONTACT INFORMATION/BOOKINGS

Office de Tourisme du Pays de Laval

Your contacts:

Emilie Peslier
Tél : 02 43 49 46 19
e-mail : emilie.peslier@agglo-laval.fr

Thierry Boissonnot
Tél : 02.43.49.46.18
e-mail : thierry.boissonnot@agglo-laval.fr

Nadia Letronnier
Tél : 02.43.49.46.88
e-mail : nadia.letronnier@agglo-laval.fr