By Clelie JEUX During the first week of the spring break, 27 Terminale students and two Première students went to Greece with Ms. Cournarie, a Literature and Classical Greek teacher who had been carefully organizing the trip for several months. Ms Cournarie explained that she adores Greece and even though she plans this trip every…

By Laetitia DE SEZE Over a period of two weeks in February, 20 La Tour students left France for an incredible journey. After an early flight that left at 6 a.m. from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport, they finally arrived in Kiev, Ukraine. “The atmosphere was calm and we were nervous because the exchange students were…

By Louis ROBERTSON From February 15-22, two German classes from La Tour left Paris to experience a week in Trostberg, Germany. 25 students left with German teacher, Frau Braatz and AND, Ms. Dunet to discover more about the Bavarian culture. The lucky students visited Munich and Salzburg as well as the little town of Trostberg….

By Béatrice MOURRE From  February  17 to February 22, all La Tour Seconde students take a cultural and linguistic trip to a European country as part of “European Week”. Students studying Spanish in LV2 went on a great trip to Andalucía in which they stayed with host families living in Sevilla. They also took two…

By Juliette Guérard Food waste is a problem that can be solved with everyone’s help. The first step of this project is awareness. To bring a solution, people must be aware of how important they are in this issue. That is why, for one week in February, La Tour sets up a campaign to help…

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,…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…