In Champs des Bois, Saturday is always synonyme of adventure, discovery and excitement. Usually, our students always experience new activities or try to improve the one they already master.

Tonight we celebrated Thanksgiving.

We had the chance to attended a very nice dinner prepared by our catering team. Of course we had the traditional turkey 🦃 , but also a multitude of very different and colourful dishes. During the meal we also explained were this tradition came from and what did it represent for the American people and who it was such a big event each year for them.

Before go to sleep, the kids took a moment to right down what there were grateful for (but it’s a secret 🤫).

Today Liam and Nicholas went to the Villa du Lac boarding house, to bake some nice sweet muffins with white chocolate 🍫 and strawberries 🍓 !!!

Simply Delicious 😋

What a nice way to tart the weekend, by riding a magnificent white poney.

But riding is not the only thing to do, taking care of the animal is also a very nice, sweet and lovely activity that helps our students to show everything they have learned in the boarding house : love, compassion and care.

Each day before and after school, our Champs des Bois student are taking this little nice path in the forest. It’s a nice and peaceful moment outside were the can admire nature, meet some squirrels 🐿  or ducks 🦆.

We are impatient to show you the same amazing picture full of fresh white snow.

Today was the parent-teacher meeting, so it was a no school day for the kids.
We spent the day on the campus practicing different sports and having the chance to visit the nice town of Nyon in the afternoon.

Tonight after dinner, the Old Portena girls invited us to play a nice and friendly baskeball game. We didn’t expect that all the kids would become so competitive.

Very quickly, what was supposed to be a innocent child game became a high level sport event, each team would develop it own strategies, swap players to get always the best from them, and even ask for advice from House Parents.
At the end, the score was 1 : 1, but what a great time we all had!!!! See you next Thursday fort he return game.

The light were off, the fog was at each conner and strange sound could be heard from the bushes…. We thought it would be the perfect moment to go and get some candies from the scared neighbours 😬😰🙀😧

You can see that we tried our best to look like our favorite character and give our best to get as much candies as we could carry.

Note: Candies shoud be eaten with moderation as they are bad for teeth 😉

Today on this very special day we gave the opportunity to each kid to express his craeativity. The four boys, that stayed with us for the weekend, got a little pumpkin that they could designed as they wished. But to avoid any “design incidents” during the process, we had a little drawing so they could be sure of what they wanted as a final result.
After a democratical vote 🗳 between all the residents of Champs des Bois, we choosed Zhiyu’s pumpkin design (the one on the left) as the most scary one 👻.
But as a team we decided to represent all four of our pumpkins to the boarding competition, as a sign of the RISE values: Respect, Internationalism, Team Spirit and Excellence, and it was also a reference to our Rise statue on the Campus. 😉

Smiles 😃, Positive vibes 🥰 and Creativity 👩‍🎨👩‍🎨 helped us to enjoy this moment and spend a nice afternoon all together.

On this sunny autumn day, we went to Vevey, a very calm and neat town near the Léman Lake, where Sir Charles Chaplin (aka Charlie Chaplin or Charlot) choose to move with his familly many years ago.
We could visit his sumptuous villa that was transformed in to a museum and a large than life cinema studio.
Even if most of the kids were to young to know Charlie Chaplin or even his movies, they could discover some of his most iconic artworks like Modern Times, the Dictator or the Kid.