In La Tour the secondes and the sixiemes have different schedules that are adapted to their qualifications in language and their level, they also have different classes and times of classes. The sixièmes and the secondes both start at 8:30 in the morning every day. The secondes have more hours of class and finish two…
Category: Anglophone Section People
The Pulitzer Center, the Organization that Illuminates Dark Places
The Pulitzer center is a journalist organization based in Washington D.C created in 2006 by Emily Rauh Pulitzer. Their goal is to support issues that affect us all and that other media platforms are less willing to talk about. They have journalists all around the world on various media platforms and an education program dedicated…
Une Semaine A Hamilton Island
Une semaine à Hamilton Island Cette année, six d’entre nous avons eu la chance de partir en échange à Sydney, en Australie. Un voyage inoubliable réparti entre trois semaines d’école dans la peau d’une véritable australienne et de deux semaines de découverte avec nos familles respectives dans ce magnifique pays qu’est l’Australie. Nous, Anne-Marie et…
Australian Schools
Overall, Cranbrook school is nothing like La Tour in Paris. First of all, a slight detail that is a little troubling in the beginning; there are only boys in the school. It feels a little bit weird but you get used to it actually pretty quickly. Arriving in this school where I didn’t know anyone…
Great Barrier Reef Adventure
This year I had the chance of being part of the amazing Australian exchange organized by the Anglophone Section for EA and AA. I and six other students of last year’s Seconde were lucky enough to miss out on the last few weeks of school to go to the other side of the world. The…
A Visit to Sydney Harbor
Let’s go to Sydney Harbor mate! Even though it may be hard to believe, we can say that we went to Sydney. We explored the city, its monuments and their beauty. Kind of the real Aussie culture! During our stay, we got to enjoy the classic Australian school day: school from 8.30 am to…
Australia
The Australia Exchange with the Secondes last year lasted five weeks, during which they explored the country with their exchange partners. The La Tour students had an amazing time there, surrounded by their friends and their partners who made them discover a lot of places filled with different types of incredible fauna and flora. They…
Siane from 1ere
12 random questions to an AS student When I started thinking about different articles I thought about getting to know people better and showing the people that read the blog what is going on in an Anglophone Section student’s life. I asked Siane, a premiere student in AS 12 random questions. Interviewer: What do you…
Studying at Brown
Snow. Water in its solid state. Not a sight I was very acquainted with back in my native Parisian setting, has since become part of my daily life here at Brown University. A year ago, I was amongst the rising class of seniors sitting in Mr. Bonetis’ class studying all three –four?- versions of Shakespeare’s…
The Tower Times Blog 