This weekend we have had a few special events to celebrate. Our G9 have been awarded as they won the Monthly house competition. Winning the house competition you know what it means: PIZZA !

Secondly, our beloved Nihad wanted to celebrate a bit in advance his birthday this weekend with his friends. He organised a lovely BBQ at the garden in Concha. Happy (in advance) Bday Nico ! but… 6th may the official one 😉

Finally  !! After so long waiting for it… our boarders could enjoy the trip to one of the many “Wonderland” we have in Switzerland.

This time our boarders went to visit the <<Cailler Museum and Chocolate Factory >> . As part of the Lake activity program that CDL offers to its boarders. Our boys  were able to learn about the elaboration process of one of the most emblematic Swiss products and … of course to taste it !

After this visit, the group had the possibility to enjoy free time in the beautiful city of Gruyeres, where the most iconic Swiss Cheese has its origin .

Some shots of the activities in which our children took part today on campus. We are glad to see that the sun is shining more and more in this way , our kids can enjoy even more the leisure possibilities that the lake of Geneva can to offer. As was the case today to have a Photography Workshop.

Biking… another activity that we enjoy more and more thanks to this weather.

Finally… cooking, where our boys prepared today delicious cookies !

Today our 9th graders had their wellbeing session. This Pillar as you know is focused on keeping us safe in the big online world.

Today’s topic focused on “What goes online, stays online”.
– Do we know what happens when we accept the privacy terms when we sign up to an application, website etc?
– What impact could have everything we post on the internet have? Loss of opportunities (job, university), friendships.

Focused on these questions we have made some interesting reflections. Like how we are now products for big companies like Facebook, Instagram etc… If a university should focus only on my academic results or also take into consideration what my online profiles say about me during the application process?

Finally the kids have chosen their individual project to work on during this pillar.

Now that the ski season is over, we have had another busy weekend on campus in terms of activities. Our boys participated in tennis, cycling and the photography workshop.  In addition to these activities, there was the possibility to attend also cooking and fitness.

In the afternoon some of our boys went to Geneva and they enjoyed their free time in the city doing some shopping and having a nice time around the lake.

Tomorrow, they will still have the possibility to enjoy more activities such as Yoga, Tennis and fitness among others. They will also be able to perfect and/or develop new skills in our CDL clubs like Chess, Steam or Football.

We are very happy to reopen the doors of the Olympus boarding house. Although, we have not been completely closed as some of our boarders have been enjoying the ski week  during this February break and have stayed on campus.

We hope you all had a comforting break and those of you who spent time with your families, we hope you enjoyed it.

We look forward to continuing our experiences this year 2020/2021 and to seeing you back during this arrivals weekend.

Today our kids enjoyed the 4th Ski day of the season organized by Collège du Léman and its Camps Department. Today our boys have had an amazing day with a fantastic weather for skiing and snowboarding: sunny , no clouds and lots of fresh snow !

We went to two different places: the advanced group went to La Tzoumaz in the Four Valleys and the Intermediate and Beginner group went to Les Crosets in Ports du Soleil.

Once back home our boys enjoyed a warm and delicious snack after so many hours in the snow.

Today in CdL we have celebrated a very special day for the Chinese community: The Chinese New Year. In Collège du Léman we want to guarantee, as part of our international environment, that all the different nationalities feel like at home and bring them part of their culture. Of course the Chinese New Year, the year of the Ox, was not going to be an exception.

The School, boarders and boarding staff and specially the kitchen staff have been working very hard to prepare a very special night with a wonderful decoration and a delicious food. All the boys and girls have really appreciated this evening. A big Thank you to all the people involved and Happy New Year to all the Chinese community !!

After this wonderful dinner our boys decided to burn some calories doing some sport. Football first and Volleybal later. Some of them, of course decide to do double session 😀

This month’s assembly has been mainly focused on closing Pillar 3 of the wellbeing programme which, as you know, has been focused on Building Friendships and managing different situations such as Peer Pressure. We have seen the different projects, both individual and group, that have been carried out at Collège du Léman by our Boarders, all of them very original and we are sure that we have all learnt a lot from them.

We have also seen the Solidarity Project “Change the World Action” carried out by Alex and Emma from Villa du Lac.

Finally, an interview with Loris (Grade 7) where he explained how he manages to combine his studies, where he is getting great grades, with his passion for Basketball where he is also getting great achievements as part of the Geneva Basketball Team, CdL Basketball Team and Versoix Basket.

P.S. Thank you Mr. Salva and Elisa for such a nice start of the assembly and also to Mr. Usher and the girls of Villa du Lac for such a great performance 😉

We continue to develop Pillar  3 of our well being program. Today it was the turn of the Grade 9s on the topic of “Peer Pressure”.

We defined what “peer pressure” is and why we sometimes are influenced by what our social group says and thinks. Sometimes even against what we really want to do.

Finally we put the boys in real life situations where we often find ourselves between the dilemma of what we should do and what kind of comments or opinions we can listen to from our social group in such a situation. We asked them to act by pressuring their friend into doing something they didn’t want to, and also to encourage them to do what is right.