We are planning a spectacular double celebration in Summer 2023. This will mark the first graduation of our International Baccalaureate students. In addition, we will be celebrating the 76th anniversary of the founding of La Garenne.
All students will take part in the School Show and festivities on 16th and 17th June and you are cordially invited to attend. As this will be a very busy time, and accommodation in the village is limited, we recommend you to book your hotel stay now.
You can find a list of recommendations on our website here.
ACADEMICS
We are celebrating some great results in external examinations this term (DELF French & IELTS English). Some of our older students have also received excellent university offers from King’s, Durham, Bath, EHL and Bayes Business School.
These highly respected universities have very competitive entrance requirements. From January, most students will be preparing for Cambridge English and more DELF French exams. The students will have further presentations from visiting universities as well as the opportunity to tour Swiss universities nearby.
SPORTS
La Garenne has taken part in a large number of sports competitions such as Volleyball, Football, cross country and golf.
After the success of Juventus intensive soccer camp and bringing in a professional volleyball coach, we now want to extend masterclasses to other sports including table tennis and padel (tennis).
SCHOOL TRIPS
All students will take part in educational trips over the next two terms:
Primary: London,UK: Young Voices
Secondary: Paris, France: long weekend
DP1: London and Oxford, UK: university visits
M1 to M3: Morocco or NASA (Orlando, USA)*
M4 to DP1: Kenya or Iceland*
*Choice of trips. Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
UPGRADING OUR FACILITIES
We would like to thank our generous parents who have allowed us to turn the top floor of Academia into a library and provided a large LED screen for our Community Floor. We are pleased to announce that we are also creating a new science lab for the middle school, refurbishing two music rooms and enhancing our school gym equipment.
It's that time of year when students eagerly check their emails to find out which university has responded to their applications, hoping for positive news. At La Garenne, the offers are flooding in from top universities in the UK and further afield.
So far our hard-working students have bagged offers from Bayes Business School, Durham, Kings and many more. Clearly this is just the start of the journey to higher education and our students know that getting their heads down and studying hard will see these offers turn into concrete places.
It’s not all fun and games: our students have also taken part in university open days and visited colleges and universities in London. Back in Le Roc, they know the importance of hard work to achieve their goals and study time is increasingly important as the school year wears on.
Every week we choose two students who stand out for different reasons. Sometimes it is due to their positive attitude, while on others we acknowledge their contribution towards life in the boarding house, either by carrying out their duties to a high standard, or helping house parents or their peers:
Boarders of the week 8th September: Georgy and Issy
15th September: Anna and Evgeny
22th September: Ahmad and Dameli
27th September: Kristina and Daniil D
6th October: Eloy and Liza
13th October: Oleksandr and Myriam
3rd November: Sofia and Nikita
10th November: Taiki and Issy
17th November: Donya and Andrey S
24th November: LC and Rino
1st December: Daria and Roman
Thank you to each and every one of our wonderful boarding students for making this term so special. We hope you have a lovely time with your families over the holidays and come back rested and ready for more amazing experiences in 2023.
Alex, Diego, Laszlo, Mouna and Najima
We would like to congratulate all our students who have just received their certificates for completing their Personal Projects.
In the final year of the Middle Years Programme, students had to explore an area of personal interest over an extended period. The idea is to give them the opportunity to consolidate their learning and develop important skills they will need in both further education and life beyond the classroom. It also helps them develop confidence to become principled, lifelong learners.
La Garenne sudents needed to complete three elements to be awarded their final achievement grades:
Product or outcome: evidence of tangible or intangible results: what the student was aiming to achieve or create;
Process journal: ideas, criteria, developments, challenges, plans, research, possible solutions and progress reports;
Report: an account of the project and its impact, to a structure that follows the assessment criteria. The report includes a bibliography and evidence from the process journal that documents students’ development and achievements.
The projects were assessed by La Garenne's supervisors and externally moderated by the International Baccalaureate organisation to ensure they met globally consistent standards of excellence. Well done and continue this hard work now you are in DP1 and studying for your Diplomas!
We are barely 10 days away from the school being filled with bustle, laughter and noise as our students return for the start of the new school year. While they've been away, we have been busy sprucing up the campus and getting everything ready for our biggest cohort of students ever.
This is a big year for La Garenne, as we will see our first International Baccalaureate graduates take their leave of us after completing their final exams. It's also the year when we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of La Garenne.
It's barely imaginable that not long after the war, La Garenne opened its doors to young children who had been sent here by their families to experience the clean, fresh air of the Alps. Now, we are home to 150 full-time students aged from just 5 all the way up to young adults aged 18.
Keep an eye out for news of our celebrations throughout the coming school year!
