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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Featured / Head of School

Have You Ever Seen a Moose?

There are many ways to celebrate Earth Day, beginning with the manner in which our student-run Environmental Task Force (ETF) did so this past Tuesday, April 22. With tireless support from Director of Facilities Terrence Kennedy, the Lycée Français de New York ETF chose this date to launch a brilliantly

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Featured / Green Initiatives / Secondary

Print-Less Challenge

Over the last couple of months, the entire Lycée Français de New York (LFNY) community has just been buzzing about the Print-Less movement! Indeed, over a five-week period Secondary students were competing to see which grade could reduce their paper consumption the most. The school-wide faculty got involved just this past

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Secondary

Qu’est-ce que la vision?

Le 8 avril dernier, dans le cadre des conférences « Célébrons l’Humanité Autour du Globe », les élèves de Première et de Terminale ont reçu la visite d’un éminent scientifique Claude Desplan (photo ci-contre). Diplômé de l’École Normale Supérieure, Ph. D., Professeur au département de biologie de New York University, il concentre

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Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures April 21-27

Vendredi: During the yearly GS Spring parade, students were dressed as flowers, trees, birds, and ladybugs to welcome the changing of the seasons with songs and smiles. Jeudi: Middle school students celebrated Poem in Your Pocket day by visiting upper school classrooms in “brigades” to recite poems that they memorized for the

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