On Friday the 28th of September, the Lycée held its second annual “James Baldwin Day” for students from 10th to 12th grade. This event was created last year in honor of James Baldwin, an American-born writer who spent much of his career in France. According to Mrs. Aufses, who heads
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Everyone in the Lycée community is invited to our first community event of the year, Fête Foraine, on Saturday, November 3 from 10am – 4pm. The theme of this year’s event is EXPLORE. Attendees will be encouraged to explore in all kinds of ways and travel through different terrains, from
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The school year is well underway and with it comes the ritual of homework. For many Elementary School parents, homework provides an essential link between school and home. It is a way to be present in your child’s school day, to show appreciation and support for what your child is
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The Lycée extends a big congratulations to Vannina Boussouf and Nicolas L’Hotellier, who lead our Primary and Secondary schools, respectively, for being honored with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In a ceremony on Monday night at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on 5th Avenue, they were each presented with
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Five Steps to Foster a Love of Learning Parents often hope for their child to be curious and motivated, to love knowledge and wake up excited to go to school each morning. A new school year is upon us, and with it, an inevitable resurfacing of parental anxiety about school
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When summer arrives, many parents worry about their children spending the entire summer without school work. Weeks away from school, they may fear, erase what they’ve learned from the year that has passed! If you count yourself among those parents, does that mean you have a tutor, summer workbooks or
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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
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In March 2018, Dr. Brandon Marshall, a history teacher at the Lycée Français de New York, received a travel grant to Venice, Italy, to explore ways to bring the work of historians to life for students through field research and filmmaking. Dr. Marshall is one of eleven teachers to receive
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Les deux romans, Le Français de Julien Suaudeau, 2016 et Sauveur et fils de Marie-Aude Murail, sont respectivement les lauréats du Prix littéraire Lycée et du Prix littéraire Jeunesse mis en oeuvre au Lycée durant l’année scolaire 2017-2018. Une soixantaine de lecteurs ont participé à ces deux jurys et se
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The Lycée Français de New York’s Cultural and Language Exchange program with High School of Fudan University in Shanghai has been up and running for six years now. We hope you’ll enjoy daily these letters from several of our eighth graders, and Mr. Quéru, who accompanied them on their 16-day
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