Welcome Back!!!
Joyeux Anniversaire Hectorine !!
Snack time
Walking with Mrs. Bianca
Versoix Club Nautique
Tennis Class with Yustyna
Photography with Yustyna, Rin and Karina
Cooking : Churros
Happy Birthday Raquel!!!!
Think Outside the Trash and … Recycle!
Ready to spread the Love ❤️
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ski day Les Croset and La Tzoumaz
Happy Chinese New Year!
Saturday skiing in Morgins & Les Crosets!
Our students enjoyed a day of skiing unlike any other! In fact, the yellowish light and brown skies that you see are not a photographic error but rather a rare meteorological phenomenon that occurs around three times a year in Switzerland due to dust sand travelling from the north-west African Sahara Desert and upward towards Europe. Until next Saturday!
As our 3rd Wellbeing Pillar, Building Positive Friendships, comes to an end, the girls are called upon to reflect on their Wellbeing sessions and complete their checklists while bearing in mind that there are no right or wrong answers. Well done ladies!
How well can you Spell? The girls take part in a Spelling Bee and the winners are Raquel & Taisiia with 10/10! Congratulations to all of the girls for their participation!
With Valentine’s day just around the corner, our Chef teaches the girls how to make fleurs en pâte à sucre!
Community Wellbeing Projects – Tik Tok version!
Dinner with chopsticks!
Games, Games, Games!
Peer Pressure Workshop for Wellbeing Pillar 3
Miss Jody, the Boarding Counsellor, gave a workshop on Peer Pressure to all the Middle school students last Friday. This was followed up by some positive and negative peer pressure acting! After these scenarios, we discussed how each of us felt about being in that particular situation and how we could help others in need or promote positive friendships.
Earned Meal
Ski and tobogganing day!
Happy Birthday Yustyna!
A Chain of Respect!
Our Chain of Respect reminds us of all the qualities that are needed to make friendships stronger by respecting each other despite our differences, in our similarities and by standing up, together, against bullying. With all of these qualities that the girls identified this evening, we see that we can build feelings of trust, safety and wellbeing. We enjoyed Chisa’s birthday cake as we learned some valuable lessons.
Happy Birthday Chisa!
Nail Time!!
As long as one knows how to bake life is sure to be Sweet..!!
At CDL we Recycle for the Life Cycle!
Wellbeing session on Building Positive Friendships
Grade 8 Options for High School
Wellbeing with Mrs. Jody
Weekend Activities
Playing with the snow
Nail Time!! 💅
Happy Birthday Monica! We have enjoyed celebrating with you today!
Happy Birthday Annie!
Happy Holidays
With our thanks…
Happy Birthday Arina!!! 🎂🎂🎉🎉
Individual Project for Pillar 2
Community Project for the Pilar 2 Diversity-Bullyng
Weekend Activities
Happy birthday, Roberta!
La Fête de l’Escalade and Awards Ceremony
Secret Santa in the house
House Assembly on-line
Weekend Activities
Light Show
Let’s learn more language
Wellbeing Pillar 2 Projects Continue. The themes of Respecting Diversity and Protecting against Bullying.
Christmas Vibes in Old Portena – Baking, Decorating & ʺPuzzlingʺ
Samedi du Partage – A Collective Charity Activity
Paria, Rin, Taisiia, Vlad, Sasha and Oscar all volunteered at Coop Versoix supermarket today to collect food and hygiene products from customers. These products are stored by the Geneva food bank Partage and distributed throughout the year to charitable groups all over the city, which collectively provide around 900 free meals every single day to those in need, thanks in part to the generosity of the public. Great Job guys!
Saturday and Sunday activities
Friday dinner in the house
Non-stop weekend
Cookies..love at first bite..!
Helping is caring
Are you A Jackal or A Giraffe? A Nonviolent Communication Workshop with Mrs. Jody, our Boarding Counsellor
Marshall Rosenberg, an American psychologist, author and trainer, who came up with the jackal and the giraffe, explained them this way: “At an early age, most of us were taught to speak and think jackal. This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. Giraffe bids us to speak from the heart, to talk about what is going on for us, without judging others.”
One of Marshall Rosenberg’s key points is that it’s not just about communication. It is about two different worldviews: One that sees the world in terms of conflict, constant struggle, and competition; and the other, while recognising that conflict exists, sees the world in terms of harmony, empathy and cooperation.
So, which one would you choose? The Jackal or the Giraffe?
Spirit Week
This past week we celebrated ‘Spirit’ from our school motto and each section of the school did a project to demonstrate their Community Spirit. Within the Boarding Community, we aligned this with our Wellbeing Pillar 2- Promoting Diversity and Protecting Against Bullying. We believe we have a strong bond as a Boarding Community and that together with the diversity among us we bridge cultures to come together and show our community spirit. To demonstrate this we created a video.
Weekend Activities
Wellbeing Pillar 2
Activities of this weekend
Pumpkin Carving
We help each other
Basketball and Pétanque time
Ready for the Halloween Party Tonight
Bicycle
Olympic Museum
Bern Trip
First day of the October break
Climbing
Bowling with the Primary girls
Relaxing place for the girls
Meditation and drawing time
Saturday Activities
Continuing to celebrate Karina’s Birthday
Happy Birthday Karina!
Chisa, Lola & Yustyna trying our Body Shaping Activity for the first time!
Karting with Yustyna!
Learning how to make yummy Apple Crepes..!!
Montreux and Château de Chillon
Happy Birthday Taisiia!!
Saturday Activities
Saturday in Geneva and in Old Portena
House Dinner
House Meeting!!
Accrobranche! An activity for the daring..!
Wellbeing pillar 1
Snack is ready
Happy Birthday Paria!!!!!
Saturday Activities
Primary activity
Saturday in Geneva
Workshop with Jody
Celebrating Jeune Genevois and wellbeing session
Beauty time in Villa de Lac
Hidden Talents in Old Portena!
Snack is ready
Snack time
Tuesday Breakfast
Well-Being Programme Pillar 1
The first pillar of our Well Being programme is now being launched.
We consider Well Being a core element of what we do in Boarding. Well Being is the basis to everything and even above grades and academic or sport achievements we care and strive to ensure all the students are feeling well, in their bodies, in their minds, with their choices and with their friends.
The Well Being programme is scheduled to run along the school year and for each term, a different pillar will deserve our focus and work.
In this first half-term of the year, we will direct our energies, particularly to Nurturing Healthy Minds and Bodies with a particular emphasis towards Emotional Regulation.
How will we work? During the weeks to come, we will be discussing and directing students to a personal reflection on these topics and we will encourage them to develop some individual projects. These projects will aim at leading the student to reflect on his or her habits, see how they benefit their Well Being and extend this perception with the help of some creative activities.
Examples: Keeping a sleeping diary or take the time for a nature walk and see observe the nature.
Likewise we will develop some community projects, normally based by House but with the possibility of linking them to other Houses.
What we aim at, is leading the students to reflect and integrate these activities as part of their lives and encourage them to reflect so they can perceive the Take-Away points of such actions.
There are no right or wrong projects, as long as they lead the student to internally assimilate the benefits he can get from this or that activity. These projects can be based on habits the students already have and sometimes they didn’t even realize how beneficial they were.
Throughout this school year, students will be encouraged to complete an individual project and a community project for each pillar of well-being. These projects are focused on activities that are meant to support growth and self-awareness. We believe that this will allow our students of all age groups to take ownership of their wellbeing.
Parents, students, educators, walk with us this path. We count on your support to make the best for our students wellbeing.
Rin’s Celebration !!
The snack is ready to have a good start of the week
Happy Birthday Rin !!
We hope you will have a lovely day. We love Rin ! !!
Trip to Yvoire, France
Yvoire is a Medieval Floral Town on Lake Geneva, France. The town is well known for its medieval buildings and summer floral displays, as well as the Jardin des Cinq Sens a garden in the centre of the town.
This traffic-free village has managed to preserve much of its medieval look with town walls and gates, a historic castle, and narrow cobblestone streets. Yvoire is a beautiful town year-round but particularly attractive during spring and summer when it is filled with flowers blooming from seemingly every balcony and windowsill. Yvoire is hugely popular with day-trippers and thus has a large number of restaurants, cafés, boutiques, art galleries, studios, and souvenir shops.
O.P. girls have enjoyed this Sunday there!!
Geneva on Saturday
Paria our Master Chef!!!
Snack on Saturdays !!
Horse Riding on Saturday with Yustyna
Snack !!
Study hall in La Fountain
Healthy Snack
Middle school and primary bonding time
Welcome September !!
Snack after school & Petit goûter apres l’école
Monopoly Time and Beauty Time
Sunday Brunch
Saturday afternoon in Geneva!
Little walk in the forest with the primary
First day of School for the Old Portena Girls
CDL Tour Middle School
Welcome Back!! 😁😁😁
Happy Holidays! Wishing you all a wonderful summer!
Happy Birthday Lola!
Happy Birthday Elsa!
Baking some cupcakes
Karina Graduated today!
Happy Birthday Elsa and Lola
A Weekend to Remember..
Laetitia & Alina from our Graduating Class of 2020, bidding farewell to their former House Parents and reminiscing about the past..! Congratulations Ladies!!
Happy Birthday Kelys!! We hope you have a lovely day!
Mrs Gauthier comes for a visit!
Old Portena weekly competition – build a homemade village!
Happy Birthday Renata!!!!
Lola and Sacha playing 4 in line
Project day with Lola
A little walk before lunch time
Switzerland is the safest country in the world right now for COVID-19 . Collège du Léman is there !!
Click on the links below to read more about the COVID situation in Switzerland:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-safest-country-covid-19-coronavirus-ranking/45820836
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VSE from Japan by Sakura Iwagami
I Scream for Ice Cream..!
Old Portena Competition- Recycle a t-shirt!
Happy Birthday Coco
Happy Birthday Sakura!!!!!!!!
Morning walk and opening the season pool for Old Portena Girls
Welcome to Lola!
Welcome June !
Sunday fun day
BBQ dinner in Concha
Saturday Tennis and bikes with Concha 🎾🎾🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️
Last weekend memories
Movie time with a special guest
VSE from Kazahkstan by Akmaral Aslanbekkyzy
VSE from China by Yihan Guo.
Collège du Léman.Virtual Discovery Meetings
We’re looking forward to hearing from you! 😀
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The OP weekly challenge – Cupcakes for International Family day!
Daily Fitness Challenge!!
Back to School.Primary Students
It has been tremendous to see students and staff back on campus over the last couple of days. The level of enthusiasm and focus shown during this adjustment period has been truly inspiring!
#collegeduleman #internationalschool #staysafe #backtoschool #socialdistancingwithkids
A message from our Primary Teachers
Wellbeing Newsletter
Weekly OP Challenge – Food Art Competition!
Boarding Meeting
Welcome May!!
The OP Weekly Challenge-Delicious Milkshakes!
Wellbeing Newsletter
Welcome Back to School
The well-being practice of the week
Collège du Léman Online Distance Learning – Made for You!
Happy Nowruz!
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From Tuesday 17th March, our students and teachers will move to Remote Learning Online. Communication has been shared with all our parents and we welcome any questions. As part of the Nord Anglia Education family of schools our students will have access to online resources around the world. We want to take this time to wish our families all the best and we hope everyone stays safe during this challenging period.
À partir du mardi 17 mars 2020, nos élèves et nos enseignants passeront à l’apprentissage à distance en ligne. La communication a été partagée avec tous nos parents et nous sommes à votre disposition pour toutes questions. En tant que membre de la famille des écoles Nord Anglia, nos élèves auront accès à des ressources en ligne du monde entier. Nous voulons profiter de cette période pour souhaiter à nos familles tout le meilleur et nous espérons que chacun restera en sécurité pendant cette période compliquée.
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Our Snack
The well-being practice of the week
Community Service
Snack, please !!
Unwinding by the Lake
Recycling: How an Idea Becomes a Way of Life in Old Portena
Patiently Awaiting Spring..
Monthly Boarding Assembly
Balance Snack
Well-being Tutorial: Responsible Choices
The process of helping our girls take responsibility and make decisions is a key task for us. We have an essential role in training and moulding our girls to be ready for more responsibility. This means we need to plan when and in what areas to let our girls start making decisions. As tutors, it is our duty to shift responsibility from ourselves to our girls. Shifting responsibility for our girls is a gradual process. It starts with letting them make their own choices in some areas or asking them to take on responsibility for certain things, for example appointing a House Captain and a House Representative where these girls work closely with us to support their peers.
During our Well-being session this week, we focused on Responsibility. The girls were given a piece of paper, and they were asked to write down what are some of the responsible choices they daily make and what are some of the non-responsible choices they should not make. Take a look at their comments.
Tuesday with Energy
Well-being practice of the week
Congratulations Akmaral. We are proud of you !!
Our ” after ski weekend ” snack !!
Welcome March !!
Collège du Léman, Alumni Platform
We are excited to introduce a new way of bringing together our Alumni family through our new CDL Alumni platform!
On the new and interactive platform you will find:
– Friends and connections
– News and stories from alumni and CDL
– Photographs from the last 60 years
– A full calendar of Alumni events around the world
– The opportunity to be a mentor to other CDL alumni
We encourage all of our alumni to register using the following link: https://alumni.cdl.ch/
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Yihan’s Party !!
Our Snack!!!
Happy Birthday Yihan!
Mixing & Matching Nationalities
Well-being Tutorial, Student Voice
This week in our Wellbeing Tutorial, we focused on our Students’ Voices. A Student’s Voice refers to the values, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of an individual student and groups of students in a school, and to approaches and techniques that are based on students’ decisions, interests, passions, and ambitions.
Paria, our House Representative, acts as an ambassador for the rest of the Old Portena students. She meets twice a month with the Boarding Management to discuss issues that affect the Boarding House and to seek their views on important topics.
Junke, our House Captain, encourages her housemates and gets them to actively participate. She also reports to her tutors on any crucial matters and on their behaviours. A huge thank you to Paria and Junke for their active participation and assistance in our School Community. We cherish your support!
International Dinner at Collège du Léman : Great Britain Party !!
Snack Time in Old Portena !!
The well-being practice of the week
Crans-Montana Ski Week! A Memorable Experience!
Greetings from Crans Montana
Last night in Old Portena
Happy February Break everyone!!
Saint Valentines Roses!!!
Well-Being Tutorial, Confidence & Motivation
Following our Pastoral Program, this week in our Well-being session we focused on Confidence and Motivation.
Everyone has self-doubts and insecurities from time to time. It’s common to worry about how we look, our performance at college or at work, or how others perceive us. Sometimes we may question whether we said or did the right thing in a specific situation — or worry about something as minor as whether we picked the right pair of shoes to complement a little black dress.
Like most people, whenever I’m unsure about myself, I tend to ask a friend or close family member for a second opinion. A healthy dose of skepticism and uncertainty about ourselves is a good thing because it helps us make better decisions. No one knows everything or has perfect instincts, and having good friends on whom we can rely for advice helps improve our sense of self-confidence and make better decisions.
Here are five ways friends can help build your self-confidence:
1) Friends cheer our successes . Whether it’s acing an exam or getting a promotion at work, our friends take pride in our achievements. “Way to go! I knew you would do it! ”
2) Friends model new ways of being. Every friend has some strengths or skills that help us strive to do things a better way. We see a friend give a talk before a large group and win the favor of the audience and wonder whether we might be able to do the very same thing.
3) Friends support our efforts to grow. Sometimes the biggest deterrent to accomplishing our goals is thinking that we can’t. Friends sometimes see strengths in us that we aren’t able to recognize ourselves and give us the encouragement to try something new or do something better.
4) Friends wipe away our tears .Everyone has failures or bumps along the road, whether it’s being dumped by a guy or losing a soccer tournament in a shootout. Friends help us deal with our mistakes – even big ones-helping us keep things in perspective. “He wasn’t good enough for you anyway.” “You were lucky to make it to the finals!” After a few laughs with a good friend, you may even forget what it was that was getting you down.
5) Friends teach us the value of teamwork. Alone we may be too timid or insecure to introduce our selves to new people or places, or too frightened to try something new or differently. But when we are working or playing alongside a friend, we suddenly see our energy and creativity blossom, enabling us to soar higher than we ever imagined.
The best part of close friendships is that the feelings are reciprocal: They share our dreams and we are able to do the very same thing for our friends as they do for us!