Lycée Magazine

Pourquoi votre enfant doit impérativement petit-déjeuner

Here we all are back at school, backpacks full of new notebooks, shiny books and good resolutions. After weathering the first days of adjustment, new teachers and a new schedule, some kids also return to… bad habits: arriving at school for a good day of work… but with an empty

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September 25, 2015 Athletics / Featured

Healthy Choices

Our daily nutrition is essential to healthy living. What we eat has a direct effect on how we perform and feel each day. Nutrients are the components of food that help us grow and give us the energy. Food is considered either nutrient-dense or not, and we don’t always choose

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September 18, 2015 Featured / Innovation / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

Creativity and Intelligence through Entrepreneurial Learning

Disruptive shifts in technology and the globalization of the world’s economy have sparked intense debates about the future of education. Part of our mission at the Lycée Français de New York is to analyze educational research so that we may uphold academic excellence, support the social development of our students,

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September 17, 2015 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures September 14-18

Vendredi: Ces élèves de CE1 finissent d’illustrer une poésie sur l’alphabet, tandis que ceux qui ont terminé passent à l’exercice suivant: apprendre à écrire la lettre J sur le cahier. Jeudi: La journaliste et écrivain américaine Amy Waldman s’adresse à la classe de 1ère BFA, en session d’Advanced Placement d’anglais. Son

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September 12, 2015 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures September 8-11

Friday: All Secondary students spent the day with their advisors at Bear Mountain State Park, during “Spirit Day”. Advisors had the opportunity to get to know their advisees better and advisees discovered one another. The day was a combination of sports and creative activities. Here, some students dig through the bin

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September 4, 2015 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures, August 31 – September 4

Friday: Last day at Camp Pontiac. Students enjoy their last game in the beautiful countryside setting before heading back to Manhattan. About 250 students participate to the camp every year. Thursday: Primary English teacher Carolyn O’Brien presented the results of her summer research grant on meta-cognition and biliteracy, a strategy that encourages

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August 9, 2015 Featured / Head of School

The Genie(us) Within

Like me, you may have read about last month’s entrance examination at one of the most prestigious and renowned universities in France, where such extraordinary thinkers as Assia Djebar, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aimé Césaire and Michel Foucault once studied: the École Normale Supérieure, the most famous location of which lies

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July 24, 2015 Bilingualism / Featured / Primary / Secondary

Sept conseils pratiques pour élever un enfant bilingue

Language is at the heart of learning in primary school, and as the director of a French school abroad, I am often asked a fundamental question: what are the essential factors that support the solid development of both languages in bilingual children? Though it may seem obvious, one of the key

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June 19, 2015 Bilingualism / Co-Curricular Activities / Featured / Secondary

Cookies, words and James Joyce

It wasn’t all about the food. Even though I have to say the sandwiches were pretty great. Translation Club was really about the words. The author’s words, our words, and the connotations that went with them. Translate a feeling, not a meaning On my first Translation Tuesday, I was excited (especially

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June 19, 2015 Bilingualism / Co-Curricular Activities / Featured / Secondary

Le club traduction incarne notre bilinguisme

Traduction: “Action de transposer dans une autre langue ce qui a été énoncé dans une autre, tout en conservant les équivalences sémantiques et stylistiques.” Mais aussi, Traduction: “Manière d’exprimer, de manifester quelque chose.” Au club de traduction du Lycée, nous ne faisons pas que de la simple transposition, nous nous

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Teaching AI and the Blockchain with Refik Anadol

Concert of Francophone Voices

Teaching Hard History with Intention and Care

Pourquoi votre enfant doit impérativement petit-déjeuner

Healthy Choices

Creativity and Intelligence through Entrepreneurial Learning

Week in Pictures September 14-18

Week in Pictures September 8-11

Week in Pictures, August 31 – September 4

The Genie(us) Within

Sept conseils pratiques pour élever un enfant bilingue

Cookies, words and James Joyce

Le club traduction incarne notre bilinguisme