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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The school year is well underway and with it comes the ritual of homework. For many Elementary School parents, homework provides an essential link between school and home. It is a way to be present in your child’s school day, to show appreciation and support for what your child is
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The Lycée extends a big congratulations to Vannina Boussouf and Nicolas L’Hotellier, who lead our Primary and Secondary schools, respectively, for being honored with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In a ceremony on Monday night at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on 5th Avenue, they were each presented with
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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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When summer arrives, many parents worry about their children spending the entire summer without school work. Weeks away from school, they may fear, erase what they’ve learned from the year that has passed! If you count yourself among those parents, does that mean you have a tutor, summer workbooks or
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All year long in the fourth- and fifth-grade classes of Daphnée Marchini-Block and Patrick Charles this year, students were engaged in a special partnership with a school in a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The project was the the catalyst of Amira and Dean Amro (parents of Zayd in
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Fifth-grade student delegates worked on a gardening project with the goal of seeing if they could grow what they eat at school this spring. The first step was for the students to identify the various vegetables served over the course of the year. They invited Mark Mosher, our chef, to
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At Etzer Vilaire, we worked with students ranging from four to fifteen years old to decorate the grey cinderblock classroom walls. Projects included an abcdaire of the alphabet in Creole, painting a map of Haiti, drawing flowers and fauna around Haiti’s flag and creating educational posters about colors and shapes.
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For the past year, the French government of President Emmanuel Macron, under the guidance of French Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has been working to overhaul the French Baccalaureate exam. The Bac changes will take effect for students across the French educational system beginning with the Class of 2021 (our
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