Lycée Magazine

April 10, 2020 Cultural Center / Global Citizenship

What Future for Notre-Dame Cathedral?

Three specialists in historic preservation discuss the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on the first anniversary of the fire that nearly destroyed it. On March 9, the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York, canceled an international panel of experts to protect the school against Covid-19. Instead,

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April 1, 2020 Community / Well-Being

An Open Letter to Families

Hélène Stafford, school psychologist at the Lycée Français de New York, writes with guidance for families, faculty and staff during these days of home confinement and social distancing. We are all facing a new situation. Each day, we discover something new, and there is no recipe, except to think together,

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March 21, 2020 Featured / Well-Being

Five Ways to Support Learning At Home with Little Ones

Learning at home is a new experience for all. It requires new routines, a time for discovery, adaptation, and a lot of communication. It is a collective journey and we are here to help and support you. As our youngest students transition to their lives as distance learners, we will

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March 21, 2020 Well-Being

Developing Routines for Teens

As students around the world transition to distance learning, adults who surround them will want to assist them in maintaining healthy habits, developing structured routines and embracing techniques that are proven to promote productivity and focus. Learning in the home can be rewarding and exciting so long as appropriate structures

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March 17, 2020 Cultural Center / Featured / Global Citizenship / Panels / Secondary

The Courage of Your Ambitions

“It is great to be the first, but what’s most important is that there be a second,” said French Consul General Anne-Claire Legendre of her role as the first woman to be French Consul General in New York. She was one of four boundary-breaking women in and around the Lycée

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March 7, 2020 Digital Learning / Well-Being

Screenagers, Trapped?!, and the Middle-School Years

Two weeks ago our sixth- and seventh-grade after-school theater performers gave us a tour of a middle schooler’s phone from the inside, with all of its potential cruelty and kindness. The performers in Trapped?! reminded us that the “screenage” years are full of opportunities for connection, and fraught with social

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February 21, 2020 Project-Based Learning / Secondary

A Game to Build Mandarin Language Skills

January 24 was the start of the Chinese New Year. Eighth and sixth-grade Mandarin students helped mark the occasion through an escape game. Mandarin teacher, Mr. Venturin, and librarians, Ms. Stouff and Ms. Leger, adapted the premise of this life-size escape game to an educational setting. The goal of an

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February 8, 2020 Community / Global Citizenship

Lycée Français de New York Honors Tory Burch

The Lycée Français de New York will host its 21st annual Gala, the most important fundraising event of the year for the school’s scholarship program, on Saturday, March 14, at Cipriani Wall Street. On the theme “Le Monde Chez Nous: At Home in the World,” this year’s gala honors designer

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February 1, 2020 Bilingualism / Global Citizenship / Service Learning

Service, History and All That Jazz in New Orleans

How many activities can you pack into five days? Turns out, a lot if you start Day 1 at 3:45am. That’s what time the group of 14 sixth and seventh graders met math teacher Mme Banchet and me, so we could catch our 7am flight to New Orleans for our annual

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January 23, 2020 Digital Learning / Innovation

Scratch That! 8th-Graders and Game Design

The Lycée’s Digital Learning Team hosted its annual Computer Science Fair this week in the auditorium gallery. Students of all ages exhibited their work in coding, electronics, game design, making a website and more. The projects on display were just a small sample of what happens on a given school

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LYCÉE MAGAZINE

Gala 2025 Celebrates the Lycée at 90

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

What Future for Notre-Dame Cathedral?

An Open Letter to Families

Five Ways to Support Learning At Home with Little Ones

Developing Routines for Teens

The Courage of Your Ambitions

Screenagers, Trapped?!, and the Middle-School Years

A Game to Build Mandarin Language Skills

Lycée Français de New York Honors Tory Burch

Service, History and All That Jazz in New Orleans

Scratch That! 8th-Graders and Game Design