Friday: Artist in residence Benjamin Chaud shows First-graders the importance of framing a character when creating a story for a book. Today, the assignment is to draw Pomelo, a pink elephant, in New York City. Thursday: Gilles Soulié’s class of 3rd graders as well as a 12th-graders attend a presentation about magnetic
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There are many ways to celebrate Earth Day, beginning with the manner in which our student-run Environmental Task Force (ETF) did so this past Tuesday, April 22. With tireless support from Director of Facilities Terrence Kennedy, the Lycée Français de New York ETF chose this date to launch a brilliantly
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This year’s school musical is Grease. It’s the story of a boy and a girl who have a romance over the summer and meet again in college. “A really fun show”, according to Stage Director Stori MacPhee. For the first time in the history of the musical, students were polled about
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Over the last couple of months, the entire Lycée Français de New York (LFNY) community has just been buzzing about the Print-Less movement! Indeed, over a five-week period Secondary students were competing to see which grade could reduce their paper consumption the most. The school-wide faculty got involved just this past
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Vendredi: During the yearly GS Spring parade, students were dressed as flowers, trees, birds, and ladybugs to welcome the changing of the seasons with songs and smiles. Jeudi: Middle school students celebrated Poem in Your Pocket day by visiting upper school classrooms in “brigades” to recite poems that they memorized for the
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Photo of the LFNY 2nde2 (10th grade) class in 1996. Polina Aronova sits at bottom left. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since you graduated in 1998, and what you are doing now as a career? Graduation already feels as if
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In New York City, it’s common to hear ten different languages just on your walk to work in the morning. For the students at Lycée Français de New York, that kind of multicultural exposure doesn’t stop at the schoolhouse doors. With a combination French-English curriculum, this PreK-12 school educates students
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Thursday: Y11 OIB & BFA students had the great privilege to listen to an American GI who was sent to liberate Brittany from the Nazis in 1944, when he was ambushed and captured. Bernard Rader has been decorated with the Legion of Honor for his services to the French Republic.
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L’épreuve de la poutre pendant Sports Week. Nearly breathless voices chattering excitedly in French and little feet running on the hardwood floor were the sounds in the gym at LFNY this week. From March 14 to the 21st, elementary school students participated in Sports Week to promote teamwork and team
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With over ten thousand participants world-wide, the Ambassadeurs en Herbe competition puts every contestant’s oratory skills to the test, judging them on a number of things that you may recall from/will learn in PPP (Prise de Parole en Publique). Any French school in the world willing to participate has to
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