The trip to Italy comprised a unique mix of school and daily excursions. During the week we stayed in a hotel in Caorle, a seaside resort on the Adriatic Sea. Each morning students attended custom-tailored classes at “Il Faro Center for Italian Language and Culture”. In the afternoons they were
Read More!Category: Community
Days of Surrealism and Roses
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
Read More!La scène musicale new-yorkaise: une chance pour nos élèves
The various partnerships initiated by the Lycée Français de New York with several major musical New York institutions constitute a key element in the music program at the Secondary. It allows our students to take advantage of the exceptional cultural resources of our city. Here are some of the musical activities
Read More!Avec le project-based learning, l’élève devient artisan de ses savoirs
Prospectus à la mise en page léchée, présentation powerpoint comprenant statistiques et cartes précises, voire même port de la cravate pour l’un des participants… nous ne sommes pas à une réunion d’un conseil d’administration, mais bel et bien dans un cours de 1ère un peu particulier. Après trois semaines d’étude
Read More!Travel to China 2015
Lundi 30 Mars Oublié le jetlag, nous avons aujourd’hui crapahuté sur la Grande Muraille de Chine avant de nous essayer aux arts martiaux dans la plus grande école de Kung Fu de Pékin. Après une halte dans une boutique spécialisée dans le Jade et ses produits dérivés, nous sommes donc
Read More!The Math Hatter Chronicle #8
I can’t sleep on a plane. I don’t think it’s due to fear of flying because I can’t sleep on a train either or any moving object for that matter. And if you’re anxious to get on planes I guess it’s the night before you can’t sleep because, once you’re
Read More!Le Bac au LFNY : trois formats, trois filières, neuf possibilités
Starting in eleventh grade, students at the Lycée Français de New York begin a course of study that follows a choice of baccalaureate versions and tracks: the Classic French Baccalaureate, the International Option of the French Baccalaureate (OIB), the Franco-American Baccalaureate (BFA). Each one includes three tracks: L (literature), ES
Read More!Boris Cyrulnik : de l’empathie aux “murmures des fantômes”
Alors que le Lycée Français de New York place l’élève au centre de ses préoccupations créant un réseau de professeurs référents dans tous les niveaux de classe, favorisant l’apprentissage du dialogue dans les clubs comme celui de la diversité par exemple, l’empathie en développant le travail communautaire et le service
Read More!Flocons de neige, Calvin et Hobbes
Rare is the person who does not love the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” penned by cartoonist Bill Watterson, syndicated in the United States between 1985 and 1995, and the subject of more than 30 million books published over the last 30 years. This highly entertaining, mordant, insightful cartoon recounts the
Read More!College by Way of the Mountains
It was early morning. The sky billowed with snow, which fell like a whisper and packed itself like the wool of a loom being tightened. And as the sky scrapers of Manhattan gave way to the wooded hills of the Catskills, the words of American poet Mary Oliver came to
Read More!