Qui a dit que les maths ne sont pas amusantes? Tenez, à la mi-mars, avait lieu au Lycée Français de New York la sixième édition de la semaine des mathématiques. Pour être tout à fait exact, c’était la semaine du 14 mars du 3/14 donc. Il fallait y penser.
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140 Students, One Orchestra
In a school like ours, where something extraordinary is always happening, finding the time to reflect on the beauty, dare I say the exquisiteness of what our students are achieving is not necessarily easy, which reminds me of a story I once heard about the great violinist, Joshua Bell. Out
Read More!French Play: La vie comme un mensonge
Si vous pensez que les élèves du Lycée Français de New York ne sont pas capables de prendre des risques, de transmettre des émotions et de faire rire sur scène, c’est que vous n’étiez pas dans l’auditorium, jeudi et vendredi soir, pour assister à la représentation de “La vie comme
Read More!Equity, Justice and Media Literacy
On Friday, March 10, 2017, the Lycée welcomed Dr. Olivier Esteves, professor of British Studies at the Université Lille-3 and Sciences-Po Lille, for a special morning program dedicated to media literacy and questions of equity and justice. To prepare for this special program, students in 10th, 11th and 12th grade read
Read More!Coming Home
How long were you a student at the Lycée? My parents are American, but they were living in France when I was born and fell in love with French culture. When we moved back to New York, they absolutely wanted me to attend a French school and the Lycée Français
Read More!Next Generation Social Entrepreneurs
Lucie, Audrey, Rémy et Théa, quatre élèves du Lycée Français de New York se sont envolés pour San Francisco le 2 mars dernier pour participer à la finale de l’édition nationale de Startup weekend. Avant d’entrer dans le vif du sujet, nos quatre socio-entrepreneurs que nous avons accompagnés avec Isabelle
Read More!Everybody Needs Sleep!
1/ Some factors leading to reduced sleep time for teenagers Students fall asleep later as they enter adolescence, shifting on average from 10pm to midnight. This shift occurs because the overall body temperature of children at this age begins to lower, thus “favoring the arrival of sleep at a later
Read More!Lycée Robotics
The Lycée’s middle-school team competed in the High School Division against a combination of rookie and veteran teams. The engineering challenge was to build a robot that could shoot foam stars into a zone around an opponent robot. The team arrived at the competition with high hopes and was welcome by
Read More!Finding One’s Element
It was recently my pleasure to attend an address by the legendary Sir Ken Robinson, someone Fast Company magazine calls “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” and whose TED Talk on schools is the most-viewed video in the history of these celebrated presentations. With equal measures
Read More!New York sur les Ondes
Le Lycée Français de New York introduced parcours in the middle school this fall. Developed from a project-based learning approach, these pluridisciplinary classes encourage students to develop their creativity and many different skills working in teams on a final project. In the class, “New York on the Airwaves,” Perrine Le Dûs and Damien
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