70 years after the creation of the Israeli state, the United States of America recognized Jerusalem as the country’s official capital. On Monday the 14th, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, a senior advisor to Donald Trump, attended the opening ceremony of the US embassy. As the American and Israeli officials celebrated, demonstrations in…
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Course des Heros
Each year, La Tour has a tradition: support a humanitarian association. This year, we are helping the association Aïda “La jeunesse unie contre les cancers de L’Enfant” through La course des Héros. Aïda is the first association to be created by European high school students. It was created in 2015 by Léa Moukanas, a La…
New Projects at La Tour
After the inauguration of the new building, dedicated to sports and art, what is planned for the future of the school? I asked Stéphanie Tessier, head of La Tour du Monde, the cultural section of the school, about it. I asked her if she was satisfied with what has been done these past years for…
The célèbre Cours Florent comes to La Tour
Created in 1967, by Francois Florent, the Cours Florent is a French drama school whose reputation is well established. The list of its alumni is impressive: Daniel Auteuil, Sophie Marceau, Gad Elmaleh, Guillaume De Tonquédec, … Since last September, the célèbre Cours Florent has been offering drama classes to La Tour students every Wednesday afternoon….
Comparison Between the 6eme and 2nde Schedules
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…
1ere difficulties
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now”- Alan Lakein When the students coming from Seconde start their different paths, they enter what is called “the cycle première-terminale”. From then onwards, they try to decide the course choice they’ll take. Although, they are accompanied and helped…
La Tour Construction
A modern area for students. We’ve been hoping to have more space for work. Finally, our hopes came true. The construction of the new building started in September 2014 and will be finished in September 2017. It consists of a 5 Million euro investment including 1.5 Million Euros of donations as the government does not provide…
6eme’s Integration
Stressful, joyful, weird or even overwhelming are often the words that come to mind when we think about our first days in middle school. But is it still the case? Now that the first trimester is over, we went to see how the 6emes are doing here, at La Tour. But first, let’s talk about…
A massive change for the collège students
During summer vacation, there was a big change in our school: the 6èmes that were normally on the top floor of the collège building, shifted places with the 3èmes that were on the ground floor of the lycèe building. This didn’t only affect the 3èmes and the 6èmes, but the whole collège. It is thus…
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