Dear Maria Fernanda, we are so happy in how quickly you are getting familiar with the House and your flatmates. Welcome to New Portena 🥳🙂

Most of the girls are back and New Portena House has come to life again:
the corridors echo with laughters and the common rooms fill with stories from many experiences. It is like all the missing puzzle pieces are going to be back in place. The whole New Portena House puzzle will be finally complete next week when all the girls will be back.
Welcome back! We are so happy to have you here again 🥰💝

As the year draws to a close, the New Portena family extends warm wishes to all for a joyous holiday season filled with laughter and love. It’s been an incredible first semester together, and we can’t wait to create more memories in 2024. Wishing you all a Happy New Year! See you at New Portena in 2024 for another exciting chapter. 🎁 #HappyHolidays #NewPortenaJourney

Yesterday evening we organized a Boarding House Christmas Party including Secret Santa gifts exchange 🎁: indeed during the last weeks New Portena girls made a list of the gift they wished to receive and yesterday they got them. This has been a wonderful way to strengthen their bonds.

Have a look at this video where our students wish Merry Christmas to everyone in their own language. 🙂

Happy holidays girls, we wish all of you to spend wonderful moments during this break and get from New Year everything you desire! 🌠

During the last week New Portena girls and House Parents have been preparing personalised cards for wishing Merry Christmas and showing affection to the people in the House. 

All of us are looking forward to opening the Christmas letter box and enjoying this heartwarming moment 💝

Last Saturday December 09 all the students from Collège du Léman went to the Hilton hotel in Geneva to join the Winter Ball, an elegant event to celebrate all together the first months of the academic year as well as the end of 2023.

During this night filled with shiny lights and smart attire all the New Portena students had a lot of fun. 💃

To celebrate the Escalade, one of the oldest traditions in Geneva, we come together to “Smash the Marmite”. According to the tradition, the smashing should be done by the youngest and oldest person in the room and when doing it, they should pronounce “ainsi périssent less enemmis de la république”.

Well done to Lily and Melissa for this powerful smashing!

Promoting internationalism among students is important for us to let the girls know about other cultures and traditions. Having a big House with girls from seventeen nationalities is a great opportunity to involve them in activities that can enrich them.

Before the Winter holidays, we have decided to have a convivial moment all together: we kneaded gnocchi dough, cooked, and ate together. Special thanks to Gergana for making also original hearth-shaped gnocchi 🤩

What a wonderful boarding awards ceremony there has been this week in Collège du Léman!

Congratulations to all the New Portena girls who were awarded: we are so proud of you for excelling in Boarding life, Activities participation and Academics! 💫

New Portena students have been making the gingerbread composition for the House competition. Thank you girls for your creative contribution. Well done! 😀