Chaque jour, la cafétéria du Lycée prépare et sert quelque 1100 repas. Un système bien rôdé où douze employés s’activent à partir de 7h du matin et jusqu’à 15h l’après-midi, toute l’année scolaire. L’équipe de la cantine en cuisine fait partie de Flik Independent School, une entreprise spécialisée dans la
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Print-Less Challenge
Over the last couple of months, the entire Lycée Français de New York (LFNY) community has just been buzzing about the Print-Less movement! Indeed, over a five-week period Secondary students were competing to see which grade could reduce their paper consumption the most. The school-wide faculty got involved just this past
Read More!LFNY makes NYC greener
Saturday, October 19, 2013, a dozen of LFNY faculty members and students participated in the Million Trees NYC Volunteer Planting Event in Rockaway Community Park, Queens. The Million Trees NYC initiative was started by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White in 2007. This city-wide environmental program has
Read More!Students Unite on Climate Change
Sc3 was organized by the Green Schools Alliance, a global network of schools representing two million students pledging to make their communities greener. It brought together 107 high school students from all over the country for a week at the National Conservation Training Center of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Read More!Seven Students Want You to Eat Locally and in Season
How did you get started? In Primary School this year, we were introduced to the Ambassadeurs en Herbe competition. Two of our members, Melanie and Tiwani, were jurors for the selection of the fifth-grade team. The rest of us tried out for the team. We all had to answer one
Read More!« Growing Connections », un projet écologique et ludique
Depuis octobre, des élèves du LFNY se sont investis toutes les semaines dans un projet à l’initiative de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) appelé « Growing Connections ». Interdisciplinaire, « Growing Connections » fait appel à diverses matières étudiées par les élèves, telles que la biologie, les mathématiques mais aussi
Read More!Protéger la nature grâce à l’art
Dessin de Theo. Alors qu’approche la Journée de la Terre (le 20 avril), les élèves d’une des classes de CM1 du Lycée Français se mobilisent. Lors de la classe d’arts plastiques, ils ont travaillé avec leur professeur et créé des planches illustrant la nécessité de protéger la nature. “Pour protéger
Read More!Earth Matters!
Last Monday, a fellow parent and I had one of those brief, thought-provoking conversations which often punctuate the early-morning drop-off period at the Lycée Français. For this father, and I could not agree more, a demanding challenge of raising children in an urban setting like New York City is exposing
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