A school support centre moves into the Izarbel technopolitan site in Bidart

The ‘HackSchooling & Innovation Institute’ already established at Hossegor is opening classes of school support and mentoring for school students with atypical profiles on the technopolitan site of Bidart.

In 2017, Kevin Lestrade, a graduate of ESTIA and startupper, created the Hackschooling Innovation Institute at Hossegor (40). The centre for school support is intended for students with atypical profiles (those preferring sport, those with a dual curriculum, those who have dropped out of school or are signed up for distance learning, expatriates) from Year 7 to Year 13. The school can take 200 students via personalised mentoring and adapted timetables. 

Since last January, the ‘HackSchooling & Innovation Institute’ has been running on the Izarbel technopolitan site at Bidart with an operational launch expected for September. There are two classes open for Key Stage 4 age students and one for Sixth Form level, each welcoming a maximum of eight students. These classes will host their students full-time at the ESTIA engineering school, which is providing the premises. The teaching staff is made up of four full-time teachers and individual contractors. 

There are about a dozen places remaining for dual-curriculum students which can include the professional, sporting, artistic curriculum or be linked to a specific school need (school phobia, school failure, multiple ‘dys’ conditions). The ‘HackSchooling & Innovation Institute’ recruits without any requirement for qualifications, academic achievement or extra-curricular results but selects its students according to their application form and interview. Application forms can be downloaded from the school’s website.

For more information: hackschoolinginstitute.com