Poetry by Heart

Are you tired of feeling your heart race every time you have to speak in front of your class? Try Poetry by Heart. It is a national competition that encourages 14 to 18 year olds to step in front of an audience and recite an English poem. The competitions take place in England and France….

HMCE

Founded in 1987, Harvard Model Congress Europe (HMCE) is an educational student organization conference which is run exclusively by undergraduates from Harvard College. HMCE is an international government debate simulation available to high school students. Throughout its history, the conference has grown significantly with over 500 students attending in 2014. Over the past 27 years,…

Pacmun

The weekend of the 17th of March, about 23 La Tour students of the Anglophone Section took part in PACMUN (Paris Annual Conference Model United Nation), a conference that is based around a special theme every year. For this year’s terrorism theme, 130 students were welcomed from around the world to ASP (the American School…

6AS Trip to Bayeux

This year, all the teachers of the Anglophone Section, the 6ème AS and the Prep students went to the historical site of Bayeux, in Normandy. On the 1st of October 2016, the group woke up early in the morning to meet up at Trocadéro ready for a three hour long trip to meet up with…

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in the United States, and Canada. It was originally celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. Thanksgiving falls…

The AS Welcome Picnic

  Each year, in September, in the Shakespeare Garden, the Parents Teachers Association organizes a picnic to introduce new families to the Anglophone Section community and for returning students and teachers to share tales of their summer adventures. Thankfully the sun shone brightly on the Sunday afternoon where everybody was really happy to see each…