By Samuel DILLEY For the 30th consecutive year, the French Ministry of Education organized La Semaine de la Presse et des médias dans l’école on the theme of L’information sans frontière. From March 18-23, 2019, each school organized events which introduced students to the world of journalism. Ms. Coppalle and Ms. Barbon, the school librarians,…
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Prix Folio at La Tour
By Angelina Hass-Richarte Did you know that only 16% of French students aged 12 to 17 choose to read of their own will? Since 2016, the publishing house Folio organizes its Prix des lycéens. Every year, French high school students vote for their favorite novel from a selection of six books published that year. The…
La Tour Talent Show
By Clémence BRENEOL-GUILLERM In just a few short weeks, an amazing artistic event “La Nuit des Talents” will take place at La Tour. It will be the seventh consecutive year that this talent show has taken place, and hopefully, it will not be the last one. The talent show will gather all La Tour’s community:…
The Prix Littéraire for a sensitive and responsible view of the world
By Margot HERTOGHE This year’s entries of the 7th edition of the La Tour Prix Littéraire, (a literary competition organized every two years, alternating with the Prix d’Art Oratoire) impressed the jury with the students’ ability to express their doubts about today’s society and to imagine dystopias in order to understand how we might build…
F’Good, the newest restaurant to try out in the La Tour community
By Arnaud Prevert In July 2017, a new restaurant opened right next to La Tour. F’Good has a diversified menu from the simple chocolate chip cookie to roasted chicken with pesto. It even offers special dishes for vegans, which is a very nice touch. The thing that really stands out with this restaurant is the…
OPINION: Just Eat It!
By Juliette Guérard “Imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and just not bothering to pick it up. That’s essentially what we’re doing,” says Dana Gunders in the Canadian movie Just Eat It. The entire premise of the movie is whether a person can survive…
OPINION: Students voice opinion about TPE
By Kyle McCallum The TPE (Travaux personnels encadrés) is a part of the French Baccalaureate. All Premiere students are required to write a report and give a presentation which combines two subjects. Starting in September, they have six months to prepare on these presentations and four months to work on the written report. These six…
OPINION: What if we just were authentic?
By Margot HERTOGHE Fear. Think about the fact that these four letters create one simple word that can stop you from performing miracles! Think about the fact that this word is strong enough to prevent us from being ourselves. Why are we so afraid? More specifically, why can’t we rebel against this fear that is…
The Poetry By Heart Competition
By Louis ROBERTSON and Clemence BRENEOL-GUILLERM While all EA students from 6e to 2nde are required to participate in the Poetry By Heart Competition at the class-level by reciting a poem in front of his/her classmates and literature teacher, only a few move on to the inter-class competition. And from there, only the best in…
PACMUN
By Béatrice Mourre and Angelina Hass-Richarte Once again, this past March, a group of 4EA students participated in PACMUN (Paris Collège Model United Nations), a political conference that takes place each year at the American School of Paris in Saint Cloud. This conference imitates the United Nations and works to initiate the students to international relations. Participating students debated on important…
Harvard Model Congress Europe: Expectations vs. Reality
By Tiphaine Gentil Have you ever wondered what it would be like to participate in a model Congress, run by some of the world’s brightest university students? Harvard Model Congress Europe has the answer. Every year, many of La Tour’s Anglophone Section students from 3e to 1ère are given the chance to take part in…
Anglophone Section Debate Club
By Arnaud Prevert This year, Ms. Andrea Clarke, one of the newest Anglophone Section teachers, helped to create the newest activity in the Section: the AS Debate Club. Ms. Clarke describes it as “a space for students to think critically, formulate arguments and most importantly, remain calm under pressure.” So how does a debate club…
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