Lycée Magazine

April 16, 2014 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures April 14-20

Thursday: Y11 OIB & BFA students had the great privilege to listen to an American GI who was sent to liberate Brittany from the Nazis in 1944, when he was ambushed and captured. Bernard Rader has been decorated with the Legion of Honor for his services to the French Republic.

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Sweat and fun during Sports Week 2014

L’épreuve de la poutre pendant Sports Week. Nearly breathless voices chattering excitedly in French and little feet running on the hardwood floor were the sounds in the gym at LFNY this week. From March 14 to the 21st, elementary school students participated in Sports Week to promote teamwork and team

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April 13, 2014 Innovation / Primary / Project-Based Learning / Secondary

Roses, livres et animaux en danger au LFNY

Les élèves ont dessiné leurs créatures avant de les concevoir sous forme de sculpture en papier mâché. Cette semaine, nous célébrons les animaux et le bonheur de lire au LFNY. Du lundi 21 au vendredi 25 avril, les élèves-chercheurs de certaines classes de CM2 ainsi que d’une classe de CM1

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April 11, 2014 Featured / Primary / Secondary

Ambassadeurs en herbe: we have a winner!

With over ten thousand participants world-wide, the Ambassadeurs en Herbe competition puts every contestant’s oratory skills to the test, judging them on a number of things that you may recall from/will learn in PPP (Prise de Parole en Publique). Any French school in the world willing to participate has to

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April 11, 2014 Featured / Secondary

Diplomacy in action at Model UN 2014

The LFNY Model UN team in front if the international organization’s General Assembly on March 23, 2014. In preparation of this year’s Change the World Model United Nations (CWMUN) conference, moderator and LFNY history teacher Carine Gibert invited a trainer from Associazione Diplomatici, which sponsors the conference, to address students

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April 8, 2014 Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures April 7-13

Vendredi: Les élèves de CM1 et CM2 découvrent avec grand intérêt les animaux sauvages qui leur sont présentés sur scène. Ici, un oiseau originaire d’Australie, le dacelo (kooka bird). Les enfants ont pu également découvrir un vrai wallaby, un porc-épic ou encore un lézard apode. Jeudi: “Lorsqu’on qualifiera Victor Hugo

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April 7, 2014 Linguistic Exchanges / Secondary

Découvrir la Grèce et l’Italie en Sicile

Notre voyage en Sicile nous a permis de découvrir le passé de cette île, qui a été tant convoitée dans l’antiquité. Au carrefour entre Carthage, la Grèce et Rome, des vestiges très bien conservés permettent de témoigner de son passé prestigieux. Nous avons commencé par la visite de Syracuse que

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April 4, 2014 Bilingualism / Cultural Center / Featured

“Sensibiliser au plurilinguisme, c’est élargir son horizon culturel”

“L’acquisition du langage par le biais de deux langues ne diffère pas vraiment de l’acquisition monolingue sinon que les enfants bilingues ont une sensibilité métalinguistique plus développée.” Pourquoi est-il important de connaitre plusieurs langues? Il est important de connaître plusieurs langues pour différentes raisons, intellectuelles, affectives et instrumentales. Connaître plusieurs

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April 4, 2014 Bilingualism / Cultural Center

Building an Identity when Growing up with Different Cultures

The co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Ruth Van Reken talks about what it means to grow up between cultures and languages.

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March 28, 2014 Linguistic Exchanges / Secondary

12 Students Travel to China

Wednesday, March 26 Our final full day in China was a two hour bus ride to Suzhou. Our students were entertained on the trip as we were joined by the British group and a small Japanese group of students. At Suzhou, there were beautiful temples and gardens. Specifically, we visited

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Week in Pictures April 14-20

Sweat and fun during Sports Week 2014

Roses, livres et animaux en danger au LFNY

Ambassadeurs en herbe: we have a winner!

Diplomacy in action at Model UN 2014

Week in Pictures April 7-13

Découvrir la Grèce et l’Italie en Sicile

“Sensibiliser au plurilinguisme, c’est élargir son horizon culturel”

Building an Identity when Growing up with Different Cultures

12 Students Travel to China