Lycée students in ninth and fifth grade built a replica of the Berlin Wall to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its fall this week. German teacher Laurine Kleitz saw the anniversary as a rich learning opportunity for her ninth-grade students of German. She was looking for an engaging way to
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On February 9th, Lycée parents, donors and guests gathered at the Skylight on Vesey, in view of New York City’s Statue of Liberty, for our annual gala. This year’s theme was “La Vie Devant Soi : The Journey is Everything,” and our keynote speaker was the entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi
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This year’s Oscars will be taking place on February 24, but the Oscars are small potatoes compared to the Lycée’s very own annual film festival, Rough Cut. This Thursday, February 28 at 4:30pm in the auditorium, you are invited to join us as we screen this year’s finalists. Films representing the
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Can a collection of individual stories tell us as much about society, as a sweeping retrospective written by a historian or a journalist? Rachelle Friedman and Nathalie Roussel, Secondary teachers at the Lycée, would argue, yes, and they ventured to explore this idea in their parcours for seventh graders this
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The Lycée’s Première Scène – French Theater Festival was launched 20 years ago this February 1st and has become an annual event for thespians at French Lycées in the U.S. and Canada, and even France, as well as for students of French at New York City-area public and private schools.
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People around the world will only be more connected as time goes by, and having a second, third, even fourth language will be in demand. Technology has revolutionized language learning, offering students far more opportunities to connect with others and make language learning relevant and fun. Dr. Sonia Rocca, Secondary
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All year long in the fourth- and fifth-grade classes of Daphnée Marchini-Block and Patrick Charles this year, students were engaged in a special partnership with a school in a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The project was the the catalyst of Amira and Dean Amro (parents of Zayd in
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I bumped into a Lycée dad on the way into school on Thursday. We got to talking about the oodles of video projects he’s been working on. He seemed really happy to be so busy…”Of course I’m happy,” he said. “I’m doing something I love.” He continued on about how
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In the far reaches of your mind, you may well remember a moment last spring, when we sent out a short survey asking your thoughts on what values we ought to instill in the students of the Lycée Français de New York. The survey was an outcome of our re-accreditation
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In the week ahead, LFNY musical theater will perform a show about being in a show, A Chorus Line, in the 32nd annual school musical under the direction of Remy Loumbrozo and Story McPhee, with choreography by Caroline Blanco. The Secondary students voted to perform this show from a list
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