En bataille de boules de neige ! C’est ainsi que s’est achevée la deuxième rencontre entre la classe de 1ere S2 et la classe de français French Heritage de l’école publique Manhattan International High School mardi 17 décembre. MIHS fait partie de Internationals Network for Public Schools qui est un réseau
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Talat Rubin, class of ’11 – Columbia University “The workload is extremely challenging.” Talat Rubin is studying pre-med at Columbia University in New York City. She was in Terminale ES BFA in 2011. Mathieu Shifera, class of ’13, Johns Hopkins University “Les
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Friday: French comedian Philippe Aufort works with 7th Graders on a play for the French Theater Festival that will take place later this month. Thursday: Cécile McLorin Salvant being interviewed by Jenna Bush Hager for “The Today Show” on NBC in the auditorium of the LFNY. The famous jazz singer
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The New York Common Pantry in Manhattan. This November, the class of 5e2, under the guidance of advisors Ms. Jan and Mrs. Kurzweil, did a service learning project around the school’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. We did everything from sorting the food, to using a formula to calculate how much
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The first time I heard Cecile McLorin Salvant was on February 24, 2013 , at the Apollo Theater. I had bought a ticket at the last minute for an evening called the “Apollo Club Harlem,” an original production on this legendary place created in 1934 in West Harlem. With Dee
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This past Tuesday morning, we celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela by observing a minute of silence in all of our classes from CE2* through Terminale, just as leaders from around the world gathered in Johannesburg to attend the official memorial service for this extraordinary human being, universally considered to
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On December 5, 6, and 7, eleven members of the LFNY Diversity Committee created last year at the school had the tremendous privilege of taking part in the 26th Annual People of Color Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools in National Harbor in Maryland. The National Association of
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LFNY: You left the Lycée in 1977. Can you share with us some of the highlights of what you have been doing since then and what you are doing now as a career? Philippe LaCrosse: After leaving the Lycée, I came back to Paris for Terminale. I then moved to
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Vendredi : Victor et ses camarades en CP apprennent des éléments de code grâce à l’application Kodable sur iPad. L’objectif est de mener un petit animal vers la sortie du labyrinthe en avalant toutes les pièces. Il faut lui indiquer des directions et anticiper son parcours sur l’écran. Jeudi :
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Many will know the celebrated words of French philosopher René Descartes, “je pense, donc je suis”. I am borrowing them because they convey the critical importance of reflection in life. Yet I am also taking the liberty of changing the pronouns employed, out of a deep conviction that the best
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