What a great time we had at Camp Pontiac this year. Our annual trip to Copack, New York took place from August 27th to August 30th. The camp is open to students from sixth to twelfth grade who play in our fall competitive sports teams. We had record participation this
Read More!Month: September 2013
LFNY Alumni Art Exhibition: Meditations on Language
We chose the theme of language because as multilingual school with close to 50 nationalities represented in our community, the differences and similarities of the many languages spoken in our corridors by students and staff and parents are very much at the core of our culture. Once again, there were
Read More!The Case of the Missing Euro
Earlier this week, one of our secondary school students astonished me by recalling a riddle I had put to him almost two years ago. “Did you know, sir?” he asked me, “that I can still remember you telling us about the case of the missing Euro. And I am still
Read More!“Citius, Altius, Fortius”*
On Secondary Sports Day 2013, Sean Lynch shares his observations. “Competing to win is important, but what matters too is motivation, setting goals for ourselves, doing whatever we can to achieve them, and then placing the bar even higher the next time around,” he writes. 7:45AM, Friday, September 20. Some
Read More!LFNY Prix littéraire 2014
Le Prix littéraire 2014 est sur le point de commencer. Comme chaque année, un groupe de lecteurs comprenant des élèves niveau lycée (de la 2nde à la Terminale), des parents, des professeurs et autres membres du personnel du lycée, lit une sélection de romans français contemporains, en discute et attribue le
Read More!Where in the world did Leo go?
Guten Tag, tere, hola, ciao, γεια σας, halló! Bonjour LFNY community- you’ll never believe the summer I had! Thanks to you all I had the incredible opportunity to travel around the world seeing unbelievable sites, learning lots and making a difference. From the glaciers of Iceland to the 118-degree national
Read More!The Week in Pictures – September 16 – 20
Cette semaine comme à toutes les semaines, nous sommes entrés dans plusieurs classes du Lycée afin de découvrir ce à quoi nos élèves sont occupés. Mathématiques, écriture… attendez… mais… Où nos groupes du secondaire sont-ils passés en ce magnifique vendredi? Des classes de 6e ont effectué une sortie à Central
Read More!Cosmopolitanism in Action
“How is everything? How have these first weeks been? How have you been liking the Lycée Français de New York?” My fellow educators and I have been asking these questions to countless new primary and secondary school students over the last several days. Based on past experience, we are hopeful
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