Secondary English teacher Jamie Laurens with her 9th grade advisory group on January 9th. It’s Friday, January 9th. I face a room full of questions, with a mind brimming with my own. And so, I begin by asking. My ninth grade advisees have formed a tighter circle than usual. They
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Poésie et musique sont deux versants d’une même activité artistique que l’histoire de la littérature a séparés mais que les musiciens, chansonniers, chanteurs contemporains n’ont jamais cessé de rassembler dans leur création. Les grands poètes français, comme Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, ont ainsi été mis en musique par les grands
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During the week of December 8, both the Primary and Secondary Schools of the LFNY participated in the Hour of Code, a week-long initiative to promote awareness and importance of including computer science in today’s 21st century curriculum. Coding is becoming more accessible to students, due to the evolution of
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Before arriving to Hué’s primary school, we had a fairly clear idea of what to expect: a few classes of thirty or so students, who all had at least a basic level of English. We made a lesson plan based on those assumptions, yet the reality was not at all
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Des matelots à bord de L’Hermione. Marc Jensen, de la promotion 1976 du Lycée Français, a rencontré tous les élèves de CM2 afin de leur parler de son aventure à bord de l’Hermione mercredi 12 novembre dernier. Marc fait partie des 160 heureux-élus (sur plus de 1000 candidats) qui auront la chance de
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Pythagoras was the Tom Thumb of Ancient Greece. Wherever he was going, the mathematician was carrying pebbles in his pockets, small stones. The reason is that Pythagoras liked to do calculations, a word that comes from the Latin calculus and literally means “stone”. A kidney stone is called a “calcul”
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“Selfie” is a word from the 21st century which leaves few people indifferent. For some, including a few of the sharpest social commentators on either side of the Atlantic, it encapsulates what they consider to be the particular individualism, not to say selfishness of young people born circa or since the
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A show by Primary students during UN Day 2014 at the LFNY. Every October, LFNY primary students celebrate United Nations Day, in honor of the founding of the UN on October 24, 1945. According to the United Nations, UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force of the
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Leese Walker with LFNY students on Thursday, October 9 2014. Option Théâtre thrives when we give students the opportunity to meet performers and professionals. It introduces them to new ways of working, and because there are no grades associated with these projects, students seem to experience a kind of
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Hervé This, sur la scène de l’auditorium du Lycée le 30 octobre 2014, en train de préparer un dessert à l’ananas un peu particulier… Jeudi, nous avons eu le plaisir de rencontrer Hervé This, l’inventeur du concept de la gastronomie moléculaire. Quand on recherche la définition de gastronomie moléculaire, on
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