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Do skunks celebrate Valentine’s day?

Sure, they’re very scent-imental! And so are we…

Cupid’s Kids was created to help build intergenerational connections and reach isolated seniors. For the past few years, the DC Department of Aging and Community Living has teamed up with school students to create thousands of Valentine’s Day cards for the oldest residents of Washington DC. Cards will be delivered to seniors who receive home delivered meals.

This year, the students in the British English International Section in the Lycée Lucie Aubrac contributed over 50 cards and letters. Students in the American Section in the Collège Les Renardières also took part, letting their imagination go wild with all the puns possible for Valentine’s Day messages.

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.” — Agatha Christie

 

Remember Sadako

After researching and debating the reasons for and against nuclear weapons, the students in 2e SI GB decided to make a contribution to the Hiroshima Peace Garden. They used poster guides and video tutorials made by students in 3e at college Georges Seurat to learn how to make origami cranes.

We sent more than 80 cranes to Hiroshima which have been placed in the Children’s Peace Monument.

Tempest Tuesday

The British section students in 1e had a fantastic opportunity to have a two-hour long workshop with the actor, Conor Short, this week.

The workshop focused on The Tempest by Shakespeare. The words on the page were brought to life which will be so useful when the oral exam arrives next year.

To top it all, we had a lot of fun stomping in time to iambic pentameter!

Happy Postcrossing!

The goal of Postcrossing is to allow anyone to send and receive postcards from all over the world!

The idea is simple: for each postcard you send, you will receive one back from a random postcrosser from somewhere in the world.

So far, the British section students have sent cards to Belgium, Belarus, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia and the USA. We have received cards from Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

Jabberwocky!

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Listen to the SI GB students performing « Jabberwocky » by Lewis Carroll. You will soon have amazing pictures in your mind that make the meaning as clear as crystal.

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The students in the British International Section received a hundred thousand welcomes during a recent visit to the Centre Culturel Irlandais.

The students learned about the history of the building as well as enjoying a private visit to the archives to see the illuminated manuscripts before exploring the temporary exhibition of collages by Tomi Ungerer.

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