“How is everything? How have these first weeks been? How have you been liking the Lycée Français de New York?” My fellow educators and I have been asking these questions to countless new primary and secondary school students over the last several days. Based on past experience, we are hopeful
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Welcome to APL’s New Co-Presidents
“Our mission is to lend an ear to the Lycée’s 900 families and to make sure that information gets shared with the administration and vice versa,” explains Cheryl, whose two daughters, now in eighth grade and twelfth grade, have been at the Lycée since 2002. Participation in LFNY life is
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This week, one of our parents kindly sent me an audiolink which I might otherwise have missed amid the ebullience of welcoming students back to school. The report, broadcast on the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio (NPR) last Monday, after having first been aired in November 2012, was entitled,
Read More!Back to School 2013 in Pictures
Le Lycée Français reprenait vie cette semaine alors que notre équipe, après des semaines de préparation, accueillait les élèves. Quel plaisir ce fut de faire la connaissance des nouvelles familles et de vous revoir tous! Dans les couloirs comme dans les classes, l’atmosphère était clairement à la fête… Cette mère, lors
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It seems like only yesterday that our wonderful students left for the summer vacation, their faces beaming after a year of learning at the Lycée Français de New York. Yet several weeks have since transpired and an extraordinary amount of personal growth will have shaped them over the past two
Read More!Students Unite on Climate Change
Sc3 was organized by the Green Schools Alliance, a global network of schools representing two million students pledging to make their communities greener. It brought together 107 high school students from all over the country for a week at the National Conservation Training Center of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Read More!The Math Hatter Chronicle #4
So you thought you’d go away for the summer to try and avoid New York’s heat. I don’t blame you. It can be quite unbearable sometimes with that humidity which would have you believe you’re walking in the rainforest. Personally, I stayed in Manhattan and survived that crazy weeklong heatwave
Read More!French Heritage et LFNY : premier camp d’été
Du 1er au 5 juillet dernier, la scène de l’auditorium a été occupée pour la première fois par un mini camp de théâtre organisé conjointement par French Heritage et le Centre Culturel du Lycée Français de New York. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas French Heritage, ce programme de la fondation
Read More!A Zagat-style Guide for Young New Yorkers
The idea was the brainchild of computer teacher Sébastien Freland and Primary teachers Patrick Charles, Marianne Arribat and Lana Katrangi, who wanted to create a fun project that gave the students the chance to put their writing, critical thinking and creativity to work in a digital platform. Using a questionnaire,
Read More!Seven Students Want You to Eat Locally and in Season
How did you get started? In Primary School this year, we were introduced to the Ambassadeurs en Herbe competition. Two of our members, Melanie and Tiwani, were jurors for the selection of the fifth-grade team. The rest of us tried out for the team. We all had to answer one
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