My job as a chronicler of the special life our students lead at the Lycée Français de New York has been both unusually complicated and unusually simple this week; complicated because the list of inspirational happenings from which I might draw for this weekly blog is longer than ever, but
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Whether pursuing studies in the US, France, the UK, Canada or other parts of Europe, students in the Class of 2016 chose with great care and achieved impressive results. I am cheered by these outcomes, and not only because there are some recognizable, international names on the list of their
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If you were in New York City this past summer, you may have had the privilege of seeing a memorable exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Manus x Machine: Fashion in the Age of Technology. This show was unusually captivating because it gave the assembled thousands who visited it
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You’ve surely noticed the environmental movement happening in NYC. Whether it’s in the news, fashion, food or technology industries, we keep hearing these two words: “going green.” They lead us to change the way we think about how our buildings are conceived and maintained. We start to ask ourselves: How much
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What is York Wing Community Day? The opening of the York Wing is a significant milestone in the history of the Lycée Français de New York, so it’s a day for the entire community to celebrate the school and our new spaces. It’s a time for children, parents, teachers, staff and
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After a break like the one our students have just enjoyed, something like the following exchange will often take place. “How was vacation?” I will ask. “Great,” will hopefully come the answer, on which I will build with a lighthearted plea for detail: “How about a story? Just one story, [name],
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In 2016, we commemorated the 15th anniversary of the attacks on September 11. These most lethal attacks on U.S. soil left scars in New York City, Arlington, Va., Shanksville, Pa. and in the hearts of all Americans. Lea, an 11th-grade student, became a student ambassador at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
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It happens far from us, it seems…in Europe. Seen from America, the ordeals of the refugees, the abomination of their makeshift camps are blurred. It takes a stark image of a corpse floating on the sea to remind us we are all humans. And yet, at the Lycée Français de
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This article is from the 2015 issue of the LFNY Magazine. Every year in the fall, first and second graders learn how to perform circus-themed activities in the school’s phys-ed (PE) program. “It’s a workshop I especially like because it combines physical exercise with artistic elements and play acting,”
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a unique kind of student on campus about whom you will be hearing a great deal more in the future, as we intensify our efforts to provide her with everything she needs to accomplish her work. Who exactly? A person some would call a “citizen
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