With the vision of artist and Lycée parent, Inma Barrero, and a host of parent, teacher and student volunteers, the Park Avenue Armory will be transformed for our gala on February 4th, with floating sculptures created out of donations of white fabric from the Lycée community. Between creative sessions with
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This year’s gala, “Toi + Moi = Beyond the Self“, is a celebration of community spirit and service to others. The school will honor Christy Turlington Burns, advocate, social entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit, Every Mother Counts. We sat down with this year’s co-chairs, Jordan Phillips, Orla Coleman, Claudia Fleming
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This day, focusing one aspect of the 2030 UN Development Goal to leave no one behind, can seem daunting. According to the UN, one billion people live in extreme poverty. 800 million suffer from hunger, malnutrition and do not have access to safe drinking water. Lycée students joined representatives from
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Thursday: French skipper Tangy De Lamotte gives 4th-grade students high fives in the marina North Cove where his boat “Initiatives Coeur” is docked. Two 4th-grade classes followed the 60 feet-long boat during the Transat Jacques Vabre back in October and were very eager to meet the skipper in person. The
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Friday: Kindergarten students (GSA) performed their own lively version of the fairytale The Three Little Pigs in front of their families. Thursday: Two fourth-grade classes visited the Colonial Dames Headquarters House to see how early Dutch settlers traveled to America and lived in New Amsterdam. The students tried on period
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Friday: The Conseils de classe for the second trimester started this week. Here, high school teachers, advisors and counselors are discussing the progress of the 1ere ES2 (11th graders) students. Thursday: Students in Antoine Thiboult’s fourth-grade class celebrated the work they did to collect school materials, including pens, notebooks and colored
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It’s 3:45pm on a wintry Friday in the Primary School, and six students are gathered with their intermediate Arabic teacher, Susynne McElrone, for a lively 75-minute class. The students have divided into two groups to work on a word game to help them identify vocabulary and build sentences in Arabic.
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In Ms. Gamble’s class, students studied famous US colonists and learned a lot about what life was like for men and also for women in those early years of American history. Her students created posters about early American colonists and were asked to present them to the class. Fourth-grader Alexander
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On this Thursday morning in April the Primary library is noisy! Even our head librarian, Damien Renon, likes it that way. Students from CM2 C, MSA and their parents and teachers are gathered for a special celebration of books, surrealism and metamorphosis timed for the school’s annual book festival, La
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Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since you graduated in 1984, and what you are doing now as a career? I was a student at the LFNY from 1972 until 1982, then went to Collegiate School for two years and matriculated at Harvard
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