You are a teacher in a primary school and you have a project to organise a ski trip during the next winter.

You require :

A village resort with..
a good ski area (1400 to 2800, a preserved environment, some beautiful snow shoe walks, an easy access by train or by road.

An accommodation centre near the ski runs...
classrooms, entertainment rooms, play areas both inside and outside, a library and audiovisual and teaching material.

An available and experienced staff...
A coordinator for school groups, a team of mountain guides and ski instructors.

An information pack with administrative and teaching material...
Diplomas, qualifications, authorisations, insurance, examples of programmes.

You will find all this at the CIS of Val-Cenis...

This example programme is mainly focused on the downhill ski activity.

• Full board at the CIS
• A five day ski pass
• five sessions of 2 hours ski lessons with a qualified instructor
• Evening entertainments
• Disco evening
• A classroom or meeting room
• Audiovisual equipment
  

5 days program from sunday dinner to friday after dinner :

full board from 27 € per day/child

This example programme is focused on several activities with discovery of the mountain environment. You can adapt or elaborate the contents of your programme.

Discovery program :

• full board
• 3 days ski pass
• ski equipment
• 3 days of downhill skiing with 4h of ski lessons per day
• A half day of snowshoeing
• A half day of discovery of dog sleding
• Qualified instructors (downhill skiing, cross country skiing, snow shoeing)
• Evening entertainments
• Classrooms or meeting rooms
• Audio visual equipment

5 days program from sunday dinner to friday after dinner :

full board from 27 € per day/child

Main activities :

• Downhill skiing : equipment, skipass, and lessons
• Cross country skiing : equipment and skipass and instructor
• Snow shoeing : equipment and guide
• Dog sledding : discovery of the activity and driving initiation

Visits and evening activities :

• Visits : the 'Espace Baroque' museum, the dairy, the Bessans museum..
• Evening entertainments : an evening with an avalanche dog trainer, a slide show from the dog sled musher, hear the legends and history of the Haute Maurienne, a slide show about the region, an evening with a mountain guide....
• Other activities : ice skating, swimming, donkey carriage rides..

• 20 years experience
• a coordinator for school groups
• class rooms at your disposition
• reparation and change of ski equipment on site
• a library with video cassettes on the region
• play areas
• an information pack