AT the Lycée, students are offered the opportunity to #question themselves, #create initiatives and #explore new skills through their own clubs and activities. From debating, coding, animating a web radio, to fostering DEIJ initiatives with their peers, LFSF students are growing while actively participating in their campus life and developing a strong sense of belonging in their community through spending time with people who have similar interests.
Discover some of our students' clubs and activities, where LFSF students grow their passion and thrive together
LFSF Rainbow is a great pedagogical tool that allows students to research and explore about various topics, as well as to learn how to prepare and run a radio show. The many benefits include:
Improving oral expression in French and English
Strengthening research and organizational skills
Developing knowledge of digital tools and radio equipment
Creating opportunities to bond with peers and to meet interesting speakers
Developing confidence and ability to speak in public
Unleashing creative skills: singing, playing instruments, reading poems and stories etc…
Five students from CE2 B class, Keira, Welle, Etienne, Winston and Colette did an interview with music teacher Zola Johnson and The Crickets, the Ashbury campus musical group. The students asked Zola and the band lots of interesting questions as they prepare for their June concert. Accompanied by Zola on guitar, the band members even sang one of their choruses just for our LFSF Rainbow Radio hosts. Interview in French.
Feliciana, Sen, Capucine (4th grade) and Hugo, Andrew, Ugna and Chloé (3rd grade) interview Maren, the assistant to the director at the Sausalito Campus. This interview was conducted in English, the students prepared the questions shortly before the interview and did not use written support. The idea is to get better and better at improvising questions.
Hélène, Alma, Anais, Lara and Suzanne, students in Gr 3 | CE2, interviewed Sylvie Johnson, assistant to the director at the Ashbury campus. The interview was in French, and the students prepared their questions shortly before the interview, without the need for written support. The idea is to get better and better at improvising questions.
Sen, Hugo, Chloé, Feliciana, Capucine from the Sausalito campus as well as their Ashbury friends Michelle, Isaac, Gabrielle, Justin and Jeanne had the opportunity to meet and chat with Olivier AYME. Editor of LIRABELLE, a small publishing house from the south of France, Olivier is well known for his storytelling abilities and specifically his involvement in the Kamishibai art form.
Kamishibai is a traditional form of Japanese storytelling. In a Kamishibai performance, a storyteller, known as a "kamishibaiya," presents a narrative by sequentially revealing illustrated cards or boards inside a small wooden stage or frame.
Four comic plays performed by Andrew, Sen, Ugna, Feliciana, Hugo, Chloé and Capucine. These plays were produced without rehearsal. We will hear: The Library, The Bus Stop, Rise and Shine and The Show and Tell. The students also recorded the applause and the (fake) laughters!! Enjoy!
Capucine, Sen and Feliciana (CM1 students), Hugo, Andrew, Ugna and Chloé (CE2 students) interviewed Marie Tjana Picavet, a CM1 teacher on the Sausalito campus. During the interview, we discovered that Marie Tjana was also an international ice hockey referee. What's more, she has organized several field hockey sessions with students on the Sausalito campus. So we also invited her to the Ortega campus webradio for another interview conducted by 8th graders Charlotte and Morgane, who asked her hockey-related questions. Marie Tjana shared her passion with the students.
Morgan, Lucio and Charlotte interview Lisa Gauthier, a Lycee parent, president and co-founder of Matter of Trust, an ecological public charity.
Matter of Trust is an ecological* public charity established in 1998 with the mission to link surplus with needs, matching nonprofit wish lists with in-kind donations online, or collecting hair, fur, and fleece clippings to make petroleum spill clean-up booms. Matter of Trust often collaborates with the San Francisco Department of the Environment in local, state, federal and United Nations events and projects.
"People ask why we only concentrate on the positive. It’s because good eco-news is very abundant and we’re busy happily meeting great innovators daily. Timing and access are vital for planet-friendly concepts to prevail. The key is trust, connecting with people and everyone being open to complementary ideas!"- Lisa Gauthier
In association with the LFSF newspaper club ( the Gazette), members of the radio club had the chance to interview one of the foreign representatives of the French newspaper Le Monde. Le Monde is one of the main daily newspaper in France.
Corine LESNES gave our students a behind-the-scenes look at the job of a reporter, with anecdotes and tips on how to keep up with the times. Discover the full interview on our podcast with the voices of Antoine, Morgan, Lucio and Madeleine.
As part of the Grand Live organized by the AEFE, students from the webradio club conducted interviews with sports enthusiasts from the LFSF, in the perspective of the 2024 Olympic Games. Morgan, Antoine and Lucio, 4th graders, interviewed several high school students. In this episode, they chat with Colin, Artem, Julien, Zoe and Zoe (in English) then with Theo in French and finally with Morgan in English. They talk about skiing, climbing, gymnastics, basketball, hockey, swimming, playing lacrosse and more!
As part of the Grand Live organized by the AEFE, students from the webradio club conducted interviews with sports enthusiasts from the LFSF, in the perspective of the 2024 Olympic Games. Morgan, Antoine and Lucio, 4th graders, interviewed several high school students. In this episode, they chat with Antonin about basketball.
Created in 2012 by the AEFE, Budding Ambassadors promotes the development of skills, such as learning several languages, oral expression, comprehension and intercultural openness of Middle and High school students from the schools within the AEFE network.
Each year students are invited to think around a specific theme chosen by the AEFE and linked to current events.
San Francisco Model United Nations is an annual two day conference traditionally held in mid-December. As one of the Bay Area’s premier conferences, its location in San Francisco attracts delegates worldwide to participate in a MUN conference made by youth for youth. Students draft creative solutions to some of the world’s most hard pressing issues building their propensity for teamwork and fostering their leadership skills.
Initiated in 2016, the Night of Ideas is an event bringing together French and international thinkers to discuss the major issues of our times. Every year, on the last Thursday of January, the French Institute invites all cultural and educational institutions in France and on all five continents to celebrate the free flow of ideas and knowledge by offering, on the same evening, conferences, meetings, forums and round tables, as well as screenings, artistic performances and workshops, around a theme each one of them revisits in its own fashion.
The unique, multilingual and multicultural education delivered at LFSF, the Lycée Français de San Francisco, inspires young learners to grow into thoughtful adults able to make positive and impactful contributions to our world, and carry the spirit of openness, curiosity and integrity shaped at LFSF.
Start'Up Lycee is a group and project based program, organized annually by LFSF and designed to introduce Gr 10 students to the process of a startup launch.
As an integral part of the curriculum in Economics and Social Sciences (SES), Start'Up Lycee is an opportunity for students to expand the skills acquired during the school year (research, written argumentation, presentation or "pitching") and propose their own solutions to a contemporary issue. This is a chance for them to practice their skills in a practical way, and to prepare for their higher education and eventually for their professional future.
CoderZ League is an international coding competition designed to engage students, regardless of coding experience, with exciting challenges and opportunities to work collaboratively in teams. Happening online, students from all across the globe are coding to win phases against Artificial Intelligence and their peers.
Math.en.JEANS is a French online event where students from all across the globe are invited to solve complex math problems and to expose and discuss their work with their peers, teachers and researchers.
The objective is for students to have fun resolving complex mathematical challenges, show that math can be a lively and interesting subject and develop logical, written and oral skills that are crucial for our students' future career.
La Petite Ecole, Preschool and Pre-K students are practicing many sports on their own campuses. Each year K to Gr 5 students are reuniting in Sausalito for 10 athletic events : 3 races, 3 jumping events, 3 throwing events and 1 relay race!
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XLFSF (say Cross-LFSF) is an endurance run, designed to inspire students to practice sports on a regular basis and notice the benefits of their practice on their level of endurance. The purpose is for students to learn how to run at their own pace, manage their own abilities, and know their limits.
Through improvisation and choreographic workshops, students are experiencing the discipline from the dancer, choreographer and spectator's perspectives. Academic sessions provide historical and cultural references in order to understand that dance is universal, plural and in perpetual evolution. Dance class allow students to develop their self-confidence, creativity, and most importantly, their sensitivity.
Students participated to many projects such as Annual Auction Gala, the Night of Ideas (San Francisco Public Library 2020, in 2021), la semaine des Lycées Français du Monde, Dance Challenge projet AEFE).
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BASKETBALL
The LFSF Bears, High School Boys basketball team, is a key cornerstone of athletics here at LFSF! Our players learn and develop their basketball skill and what it is to work together as a team. The players are proud to represent the LFSF during the winter season of the California Interscholastic Federation, boys varsity basketball team. LFSF Bears is the beginning of a big investment in the Athletic program of the LFSF. We are working with the goal to have a girls and a boys team for each season in different sport activities.
LFSF Rainbow allows students from our Primary and Secondary campuses to share school news on various podcasts. It is a great pedagogical tool that encourages students to research and explore about various topics, as well as to learn how to prepare and run a radio show.
The Student Newspaper Club is regularly publishing its Gazette.
Some segments are in English and other are in French. Articles, opinion pieces, or reviews on a wide range of topics. Check out the work of our journalists in the making!
