Once again, we traveled to Camp Pontiac for preseason training. This year we took seventeen teams and 211 students to the camp in upstate New York. Our aim is always to give students an opportunity to build relationships with their peers, as well as work on their skills for the
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But doing so is not just an intellectual undertaking. At its best, acquiring a new language is a highly emotional experience, inasmuch as it answers a deep human desire to understand our fellow human beings better and of course provides us with the means by which we do accede to
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Whether pursuing studies in the US, France, the UK, Canada or other parts of Europe, students in the Class of 2016 chose with great care and achieved impressive results. I am cheered by these outcomes, and not only because there are some recognizable, international names on the list of their
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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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In 2016, we commemorated the 15th anniversary of the attacks on September 11. These most lethal attacks on U.S. soil left scars in New York City, Arlington, Va., Shanksville, Pa. and in the hearts of all Americans. Lea, an 11th-grade student, became a student ambassador at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
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L’option théâtre a été ouverte au LFNY sur l’initiative de l’enseignante de lettres modernes, Nathalie Roussel, et du professeur de sciences physiques, Frédéric Yvelin, en 2008. C’est une option facultative inscrite dans le programme scolaire qui se fait sur un créneau de deux périodes hebdomadaires en Seconde, Première et Terminale avec une
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La 6ème édition de Rough Cut, le festival court métrage du LFNY s’est déroulée vendredi 15 avril dans l’auditorium du LFNY. Retour sur une superbe édition. Cette année, les organisateurs n’ont en effet pas ménagé leurs efforts pour rendre le festival encore plus professionnel et en élargir l’audience: Affichage digital
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I’m sure you heard that one : Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same day, April 23, 1616. Isn’t that neat ? The two famous writers, arguably the best poets of their time, relinquishing their last breath at about the same time, a few miles apart. This fun fact surely
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Vendredi 22 avril, une classe de seconde ainsi que celles de première et terminale de la filière S ont eu le grand honneur d’accueillir Christophe Galfard, docteur en physique théorique. Il est notamment connu pour avoir étudié dans la fameuse université de Cambridge, avec le physicien Stephen Hawking. Il a
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Beginning in September, 2015, a dozen tenth grade students have been the pioneers of a bilingual pilot class. Two French and English literature teachers decided to adopt an original pedagogical approach by drawing on the language capabilities of their students and the linguistic and literary connections in their respective classes. Called
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