Featured / Head of School

Par amour des lettres

Now that spring has arrived, it is time to speak of love, no? I am not certain that such was the intention of New York Times columnist David Brooks last week when he penned his wonderful article about a 1945 encounter between the British intellectual Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet

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Athletics / Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures May 5 – May 11

Vendredi: Les quatre classes de moyenne section ont honoré les mamans à l’occasion du traditionnel petit-déjeuner de la fête des mères. Au programme: chants, croissants et roses! (Photo: Martica Uribe-Bouvet) Jeudi: Le fondateur de l’agence de webdesign H2O, Jason Dodd, explique aux élèves de 5ème comment créer un site internet.

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Featured / Head of School

It’s Complicated Indeed!

There is some debate as to who coined the terms “digital native”, but I can recall where I myself first came across them. It was some ten years ago, in an article by educational technology thinker Marc Prensky, entitled “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” “Today’s students”, affirmed the author, “have not just

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Athletics / Featured

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

The 2014 MS Co-ed Baseball Team. If you walk by the gym on any given afternoon this spring, you might see a sport being played that is brand new to the LFNY: baseball! Starting this spring, the school created a middle school co-ed baseball team, made up of students in

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Primary / Secondary

Poetry Week : transmettre un moment d’humanité

Les Brigades Poétiques interrompent les classes pour réciter des poèmes. Elle fut mémorable, cette semaine! Nous n’oublierons pas… ◊ Les petits poèmes chiffonnés dans la poche des petits, et les longs poèmes sur les téléphones portables des grands; ◊ La parfaite concentration des membres de l’administration qui m’écoutaient dire Yeats ou

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Secondary

Visite scolaire à Wall Street

Visite d’une classe de 1ère ES à la bourse de New York. Le mardi 15 avril, dans le cadre du cours des Sciences Economiques et Sociales, nous nous sommes rendus avec M. Ghenania au New York Stock Exchange, à Wall Street. Après avoir passé le contrôle des passeports et la

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