Lycée Magazine

Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflicts

Specialists of Cultural Heritage and Its Protection Will Discuss Massive Destruction of Sites in the World In September, 2015, the methodical destruction of the thousand-year-old ancient city of Palmyra in Syria was undertaken by ISIS.All that remains there today are a few anonymous stones on a sand field. Can we

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December 3, 2016 Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School / Innovation

The Brain: Part One

If like me you laugh(ed), but somewhat quizzically, upon first hearing the following joke, you may want to read further. What did the hippocampus say in its retirement speech? Thanks a lot for the memories! Get it? Most of us would probably chuckle at this humor, though perhaps more by

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November 22, 2016 Alumni / Community / Featured

Amital Isaac ‘07, le journalisme dans la peau

Lorsqu’on demande à Amital ce qui lui reste de ses années au Lycée Français de New York, ce sont les mots ouverture, multiculturalisme, multilinguisme et culture générale qui reviennent le plus souvent. Cette ancienne élève du LFNY, scolarisée entre 1994 et 2007, s’apprête à ouvrir, avec 30 autres journalistes, le

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November 19, 2016 Athletics / Featured / Secondary

Fall Season Highlights

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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November 19, 2016 Community

LFNY hosts 2016 Veterans Day Ceremony

On November 14, the Lycée Français de New York hosted a ceremony honoring 15 American veterans of World War 2 who were promoted to the French Legion of Honor for their service to France. The award has a prestigious history since its creation by Napoleon Bonaparte. Among its distinguished recipients

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November 19, 2016 Arts / Cultural Center / Featured / Innovation

Béatrice Coron: une fenêtre ouverte sur la créativité

Il suffit d’écouter les élèves pour évaluer le succès de la résidence de l’artiste Béatrice Coron qui a travaillé avec les Secondes réunis pendant pendant une semaine, du 31 octobre au 4 novembre dernier, dans le makerspace dans le cadre du programme AIR (Artiste en Résidence du LFNY). Issue de

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November 19, 2016 Bilingualism / Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School / Linguistic Exchanges / Primary / Secondary

Eile mit Weile*

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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November 12, 2016 Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School

Real-World Learning

My job as a chronicler of the special life our students lead at the Lycée Français de New York has been both unusually complicated and unusually simple this week; complicated because the list of inspirational happenings from which I might draw for this weekly blog is longer than ever, but

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November 12, 2016 Alumni / College Counseling / Featured / Secondary

Matriculations for the Class of 2016

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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November 5, 2016 Artist in Residence / Arts / Featured / Global Citizenship / Head of School / Innovation / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

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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LYCÉE MAGAZINE

The Key to Balanced Bilingualism

Cultivating Empathy and Kindness from an Early Age

Guide for a Fulfilling School Year – Part 2

Guide to a Fulfilling School Year – Part 1

Da Vinci Inspires a Fascinating Cross-Curricular Project

Teaching AI and the Blockchain with Refik Anadol

Concert of Francophone Voices

Teaching Hard History with Intention and Care

Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflicts

The Brain: Part One

Amital Isaac ‘07, le journalisme dans la peau

Fall Season Highlights

LFNY hosts 2016 Veterans Day Ceremony

Béatrice Coron: une fenêtre ouverte sur la créativité

Eile mit Weile*

Real-World Learning

Matriculations for the Class of 2016

Manus et Machina