In March 2018, Dr. Brandon Marshall, a history teacher at the Lycée Français de New York, received a travel grant to Venice, Italy, to explore ways to bring the work of historians to life for students through field research and filmmaking. Dr. Marshall is one of eleven teachers to receive
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An Artist in Residence with Students in the Lead
As part of its artist-in-residence program, the Lycée Français de New York invited youth author Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod to spend a week with the fifth-grade students from March 12 to March 16. What an honor! The author of A Fine Collection of Bananas, Middle School Investigation, and the Story of the Jean-Somethings
Read More!PBL: l’Espagne vous est contée
Students then had to create, edit video advertisements for those products, either inventing or picking one that already exists. the idea was really for them to identify the characteristics and specificities -geographical, natural and cultural- of the regions they were working on. On the day of the exhibition, Mrs. Kaminska
Read More!Les Impressionnistes vous sont contés
Ces élèves de sixième de la classe de Madame Roussel, en collaboration avec Madame Santos, professeur en CE1 ont commencé par sélectionner, chacuns, deux tableaux impressionnistes en feuilletant les livres du CDI. L’un devait représenter un paysage, l’autre des personnages. Les élèves ont ensuite fait vivre ces tableaux en faisant
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!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
Read More!Parcours : Métamorphoses en Scène
Le 31 Janvier les élèves de 5e ayant suivi le parcours de Mme Brabant (professeur de théâtre) & Mme Harreau (professeur de lettres classiques) “Les Métamorphoses en Scène” ont présenté à l’auditorium le résultat de leurs recherches et explorations sous la forme d’une saynète “Olympiques des Métamorphoses”.
Read More!Our Day of Understanding
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences,” said poet Audre Lorde. Her quote highlights the importance of teaching students from the youngest age about the importance of understanding and embracing our differences. On Monday, December 19th, the
Read More!Day of Understanding : les CM2 exposent leurs créations
Cette année, le 19 décembre, le Lycée célèbre pour la première fois la journée de l’entente. Cette journée est l’occasion de mettre en avant la diversité au sein de la communauté du Lycée Français de New York. C’est aussi une formidable occasion de promouvoir les valeurs fondamentales que nous partageons,
Read More!Manus et Machina
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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