Lycée Magazine

Everybody Needs Sleep!

1/ Some factors leading to reduced sleep time for teenagers Students fall asleep later as they enter adolescence, shifting on average from 10pm to midnight. This shift occurs because the overall body temperature of children at this age begins to lower, thus “favoring the arrival of sleep at a later

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March 3, 2017 Co-Curricular Activities / Featured / Innovation / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

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

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February 28, 2017 Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School

Finding One’s Element

It was recently my pleasure to attend an address by the legendary Sir Ken Robinson, someone Fast Company magazine calls “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” and whose TED Talk on schools is the most-viewed video in the history of these celebrated presentations. With equal measures

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February 25, 2017 Digital Learning / Featured / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

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

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February 24, 2017 Cultural Center / Featured / Panels

Facebook & Co : Pleins feux sur les réseaux sociaux

To analyze the consequences of this phenomenon, Catherine Blaya, professor of science education at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and who oversees the International Observation Center for Violence in Schools. She was invited by the school and our parents association, the APL, to share her knowledge during two different events,

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February 24, 2017 Co-Curricular Activities / Featured / Secondary

LFNY TEDx 3rd Edition Takes Flight!

Last year, the Club organized the Lycée’s second-ever TEDxYouth conference. Students and outside speakers were invited to present talks on the theme of “A Drop in the Ocean”: among others, there was a star soccer player, a ballerina, a future engineer and a molecular biologist. It was thrilling to watch

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February 5, 2017 Arts / Cultural Center / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

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”.

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February 5, 2017 Athletics / Featured

Squash vs Birch Wathen Lenox

Jouer à Equinox est un peu pour nous, un match à la ”maison” puisque nous avons l’habitude de nous y entraîner le samedi matin. Nous abordons la rencontre en confiance car nous avions gagné l’an dernier contre cette même équipe. La présentation des équipes par les capitaines effectuée, le tirage

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