Lorsqu’on demande à Amital ce qui lui reste de ses années au Lycée Français de New York, ce sont les mots ouverture, multiculturalisme, multilinguisme et culture générale qui reviennent le plus souvent. Cette ancienne élève du LFNY, scolarisée entre 1994 et 2007, s’apprête à ouvrir, avec 30 autres journalistes, le
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Once again, we traveled to Camp Pontiac for preseason training. This year we took seventeen teams and 211 students to the camp in upstate New York. Our aim is always to give students an opportunity to build relationships with their peers, as well as work on their skills for the
Read More!On November 14, the Lycée Français de New York hosted a ceremony honoring 15 American veterans of World War 2 who were promoted to the French Legion of Honor for their service to France. The award has a prestigious history since its creation by Napoleon Bonaparte. Among its distinguished recipients
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But doing so is not just an intellectual undertaking. At its best, acquiring a new language is a highly emotional experience, inasmuch as it answers a deep human desire to understand our fellow human beings better and of course provides us with the means by which we do accede to
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Whether pursuing studies in the US, France, the UK, Canada or other parts of Europe, students in the Class of 2016 chose with great care and achieved impressive results. I am cheered by these outcomes, and not only because there are some recognizable, international names on the list of their
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If you were in New York City this past summer, you may have had the privilege of seeing a memorable exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Manus x Machine: Fashion in the Age of Technology. This show was unusually captivating because it gave the assembled thousands who visited it
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You’ve surely noticed the environmental movement happening in NYC. Whether it’s in the news, fashion, food or technology industries, we keep hearing these two words: “going green.” They lead us to change the way we think about how our buildings are conceived and maintained. We start to ask ourselves: How much
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What is York Wing Community Day? The opening of the York Wing is a significant milestone in the history of the Lycée Français de New York, so it’s a day for the entire community to celebrate the school and our new spaces. It’s a time for children, parents, teachers, staff and
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Upon arriving at the Lycée, there are a few things a French teacher needs to adapt to, and I’m not talking about the seven-day schedule because that novelty is not exclusive to French teachers, nor new teachers for that matter. No, what I’m thinking about are these small details which
Read More!In 2016, we commemorated the 15th anniversary of the attacks on September 11. These most lethal attacks on U.S. soil left scars in New York City, Arlington, Va., Shanksville, Pa. and in the hearts of all Americans. Lea, an 11th-grade student, became a student ambassador at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
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