Author: Nadine Kaston, Assistant Director of Elementary

Nadine Kaston was born in New York to French parents and has spent her life in a bilingual French-English environment. She attended school in France as a child but completed her studies at the Lycée Français de New York. She holds a master's from Teachers College at Columbia University and began her teaching career at the university level. After the birth of her two children (both alumni of the Lycée), Nadine returned to the classroom to teach French and English as a Second Language to younger students. She taught for six years at the Lycée, before becoming Assistant Director of Primary in 2006.

5th-Grade Student Gardeners, Earth Day and the Balance of Life

Mottainai – Japanese term for “don’t be wasteful;” which stems from an awareness of both the interdependence and impermanence of all things. * On a bright, blustery day in April at the Lycée Français de New York, a brave delegation of Y5 Student Counselors put on their gardening gloves

Lycée Farm to Lycée Table

Fifth-grade student delegates worked on a gardening project with the goal of seeing if they could grow what they eat at school this spring. The first step was for the students to identify the various vegetables served over the course of the year. They invited Mark Mosher, our chef, to

It’s election time!

Primary students got familiar with the election process on November 6 and 7, 2013. Every year Primary students from first to fifth grade participate in an election. Students vote in the library resource room, where you might have noticed the red, white and blue voting booths that the Lycée borrows