You might have heard about the Lycée art department’s recent crop of Scholastic Award winners. Twelve Secondary art students received a total of 26 awards, including two national gold keys for Pier-Paolo Piccoli (Y12) and Neige Giacalone (Y10). Their works will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so small, with bright eyes and awareness mainly focused on themselves and their family, and
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Can a collection of individual stories tell us as much about society, as a sweeping retrospective written by a historian or a journalist? Rachelle Friedman and Nathalie Roussel, Secondary teachers at the Lycée, would argue, yes, and they ventured to explore this idea in their parcours for seventh graders this
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Lights, camera, action! Whether it is your first time to walk through the doors of the Lycée’s broadcast media lab, or your hundredth, the thrill of a busy newsroom never gets old. Downstairs in the York Wing basement, the Lycée’s media lab is equipped with a wall-to-wall green screen, microphones,
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The Lycée’s Première Scène – French Theater Festival was launched 20 years ago this February 1st and has become an annual event for thespians at French Lycées in the U.S. and Canada, and even France, as well as for students of French at New York City-area public and private schools.
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We are thrilled to announce that the Lycée will be facilitating an International Education Exchange Program this year in collaboration with NYU’s Institute of French Studies. Lycée students will obtain college-level training in history and sociology, and NYU graduate students will gain mentors among the Lycée’s vibrant faculty. NYU visiting
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On Friday the 28th of September, the Lycée held its second annual “James Baldwin Day” for students from 10th to 12th grade. This event was created last year in honor of James Baldwin, an American-born writer who spent much of his career in France. According to Mrs. Aufses, who heads
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In mid-October at the Lycée Français de New York, we were fortunate to be in the presence of a real “live” ROBOT—a humanoid machine with memory and language functions—as well as a panel of highly knowledgeable speakers, hosted by our Cultural Center and called, “Artificial Intelligence and the Jobs of
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People around the world will only be more connected as time goes by, and having a second, third, even fourth language will be in demand. Technology has revolutionized language learning, offering students far more opportunities to connect with others and make language learning relevant and fun. Dr. Sonia Rocca, Secondary
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Five Steps to Foster a Love of Learning Parents often hope for their child to be curious and motivated, to love knowledge and wake up excited to go to school each morning. A new school year is upon us, and with it, an inevitable resurfacing of parental anxiety about school
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