Ask our students what word comes to mind when they hear the name Gad, as I have done these past few days, and what one hears is simple. Mais c’est impossible, monsieur. A single word could never capture his gift for making you fall out of your chair with laughter,
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It’s 3:45pm on a wintry Friday in the Primary School, and six students are gathered with their intermediate Arabic teacher, Susynne McElrone, for a lively 75-minute class. The students have divided into two groups to work on a word game to help them identify vocabulary and build sentences in Arabic.
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The new York Wing adds 19,000 square feet to the existing school. Why did the Lycée acquire this new building? We have known for a long time that we needed more space. Our school was originally built for 1,000 students. Today, we have over 1,350 students, and we feel the
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“Although thinking is innate, skillful thinking must be cultivated.” (Art Costa, 2008). Effective 21st century instruction teaches students how to think, not what to think. In 2013, The Huffington Post published an article arguing that many K-to-12 schools are not preparing students to be ready for the demands of today.
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Disruptive shifts in technology and the globalization of the world’s economy have sparked intense debates about the future of education. Part of our mission at the Lycée Français de New York is to analyze educational research so that we may uphold academic excellence, support the social development of our students,
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It wasn’t all about the food. Even though I have to say the sandwiches were pretty great. Translation Club was really about the words. The author’s words, our words, and the connotations that went with them. Translate a feeling, not a meaning On my first Translation Tuesday, I was excited (especially
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Traduction: “Action de transposer dans une autre langue ce qui a été énoncé dans une autre, tout en conservant les équivalences sémantiques et stylistiques.” Mais aussi, Traduction: “Manière d’exprimer, de manifester quelque chose.” Au club de traduction du Lycée, nous ne faisons pas que de la simple transposition, nous nous
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Jury du Prix Littéraire. Synonyme pour certains des mots abominables tels que “travail”, “français”, “série L”, ou pire encore, “lire.” Et puis, non ! Ce club n’est pas que pour les personnes qui souhaitent faire une fillière L: la preuve, nous passons toutes les deux en fillière scientifique et pourtant
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Pendant tout le mois de mai, les élèves de CM2 ont travaillé sur un projet de science qui a été présenté à l’occasion de la fête de printemps du 16 mai dernier. Cette année, le thème choisi par l’une de ces classes, la CM2E, était produire en France (cité écologique,
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Le 21 mars, le LFNY a hébergé un événement très spécial : la toute première conférence TEDxLFNY de l’histoire du Lycée. Les conférences TEDx sont des évènements locaux organisés en lien avec TED mais de façon indépendante. Comme les célèbres conférences TED, leur but est de promouvoir des idées innovantes.
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