In this series of videos, Vannina Boussouf, Assistant Head of School and Director of the Primary School, explains why starting early is the best strategy for bilingual development in children. We hope you enjoy watching! What is bilingualism? At least half of the global population is bilingual or plurilingual. Growing
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Our fourth graders are following their own curiosity, and their ears, in their new podcast series “Mystère et Boule de Gomme,” with support from their teachers and the Media Lab. Why can’t humanity live in peace? Take a listen…. And, NPR, watch out! A podcast created by 4th grade (CM1) students
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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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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 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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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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