Being on an athletic team here at the Lycée Français de New York you experience a number of ups and downs. There are good days and bad days. It is how you pick yourself up and meet the next challenge that defines you. One of the enjoyable parts of my
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You might have heard about the Lycée art department’s recent crop of Scholastic Award winners. Twelve Secondary art students received a total of 26 awards, including two national gold keys for Pier-Paolo Piccoli (Y12) and Neige Giacalone (Y10). Their works will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Mottainai – Japanese term for “don’t be wasteful;” which stems from an awareness of both the interdependence and impermanence of all things. * On a bright, blustery day in April at the Lycée Français de New York, a brave delegation of Y5 Student Counselors put on their gardening gloves
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The Lycée’s annual Spring Fair will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2019. This year’s theme is Harry Potter! Led by Co-Chairs Stephanie Bismuth and Houda Ghadouani, the committee of parent volunteers has been working hard to plan a magical event. At the Lycée on Saturday you will find Harry,
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Many members of our community this past week have expressed a powerful surge of emotion attached to the beautiful Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with all of you, I was glued to the news on Monday as reports came in that the cathedral was on fire. I was 16 the first
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So, you want to change the ceramic tiles in your kitchen. They’ve been in front of you for years and the other day you just decided you had enough of these small beige squares. The problem is not the color, what bothers you now is the shape. You find squares
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At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so small, with bright eyes and awareness mainly focused on themselves and their family, and
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The Lycée math curriculum is bilingual. How does this benefit students? Bilingualism and biculturalism are two of our biggest assets, as math educators. On the one hand, the French math tradition is very strong, and even world-renowned. It is well-designed to lay groundwork for understanding theoretical concepts, pure math, and
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On February 9th, Lycée parents, donors and guests gathered at the Skylight on Vesey, in view of New York City’s Statue of Liberty, for our annual gala. This year’s theme was “La Vie Devant Soi : The Journey is Everything,” and our keynote speaker was the entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi
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In the same spirit as the Suffragettes project of Mireille Miller, our primary art teacher—which focuses on women who fought for their right to vote—the Lycée’s French department seeks to pay tribute to women writers and Francophone artists from history, and make them more visible. 10th-grade students thus launched themselves
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