This evening Roi, Carlos, Charles and Amirhossein were part of the winning team in the Boarding vs Day Students basketball game, 34 – 33! Well done boys!

Another weekend full of fun activities that the students can enjoy and learn from!

This weekend, the Léman boys took the incredible opportunity to participate in badminton, tennis, cooking, chess and running.

MARTIN!!

Congratulations to Martin who won the tournament with Sevilla, the lowest ranked team in the competition.

Well done to all the boys who played – especially Asiimwe who made it to the final!! It was so nice to have a bit of fun and share some laughs altogether!!

A large group of our Boarding students, including some of our Léman boys, joined the annual trip to Disneyland Paris this weekend. Lots of fun was had and laughs shared during this truly magical experience!

This afternoon, we welcomed some of our fantastic teachers into our Boarding House. It was great for both them to learn more about our House and see the boys outside of lesson time.

It’s been another action packed weekend here with the Léman participating in a range of activities including badminton, tennis, running, cooking and golf.

Our first pillar of our Wellbeing Programme is coming to an end. We have shared some fantastic discussions with our students, who have demonstrated fantastic knowledge and and understanding of the topics we have covered.

They have showed us that sports activity, as well as a healthy diet, is crucial for a healthy, happy and successful life.

We have concluded this pillar by asking our students one simple question: ‘How have our friends helped us in maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle?’

The aim of this question was to encourage the students to reflect on the key takeaway points from this pillar; ‘Sport for a healthy mental balance’ and ‘The importance of nutrition’. They could also reflect on positive influences in their lives, as well as the benefits of group activities. Please find the incredible answer from the students below.

Olympus 30 – 22 Léman

Huge congratulations to all the boys who played in the Basketball match this evening. Up next: The Franconis Warriors

The Léman boys represented our House this evening, in this week’s instalment of the Chess Tournament. Well done boys.

This weekend our students in Leman have been enjoying a range of activities – Golf, Running, Accrobranche and Chess – as well as the beautiful but chilly weather!

On this sunny and fresh Sunday morning, two of our leman students participated in the community service activity. This involved walking around the campus and surrounding area ensuring that it is free from litter. Well done boys!

We are now approaching the third week of delivering the first pillar of our wellbeing programme in our Boarding Houses – ‘Nurturing Healthy Bodies and Minds’. 

Throughout this pillar we will be ensuring our students understand the importance of taking care of our bodies and our minds in our day to day lives. Furthermore, we will be highlighting sport participation, sleeping patterns, nutrition and relaxation methods, as sub topics. With the students, we will discuss and discover how all these could play a key role in maintaining a healthy balance.

This week we will be asking the students how a healthy balanced diet can help with sports performance, as well as academic performance, brain development and growth. We will show the videos below to the students.

Timur and Antoni are the student wellbeing advocates for our Boarding House and they will be presenting in our wellbeing session again this week. They will be sharing their experiences and answering a range of questions regarding the importance of good nutrition for sports and everyday life.

Here our some recent photos of some healthy dishes that we have served to our students in the Dining room. Please feel free to visit the Dining at CDL Blog Page following this link: https://blogs.cdl.ch/diningatcdl/

Congratulations to Antoni and Antonio who this evening participated in the first matches of this year’s Boarding Chess Tournament. Well done boys!!

It is that time of year again when we launch the first pillar of our wellbeing programme in the Boarding Houses – ‘Nurturing Healthy Bodies and Minds’. 

Throughout this pillar we will be ensuring our students understand the importance of taking care of our bodies and our minds in our day to day lives. Furthermore, we will be highlighting sport participation, sleeping patterns, nutrition and relaxation methods, as sub topics. With the students, we will discuss and discover how all these could play a key role in maintaining a healthy balance.

This week we will be asking the students how different sports or creative activities can help them with both their physical and mental health.

Timur and Antoni will be presenting in our wellbeing session this week to talk about the sports they do, why they participate in sport, how they feel afterwards, and the physical and mental benefits they experience after exercise.

The highly anticipated Boarding House Competition got off to a flying start today, with the first installment being………………

The Sports Competition!!!!

Well done to ALL the Léman boys. It was fantastic to see everyone outside together and working hard as a team!!

The Léman boys taking full advantage of the weekend activities on offer.

Roi enjoying tennis in our tennis dome.

Zitian capturing rain effects around campus.

Antoni, Asiimwe and Rakann enjoying the morning with Mr Rob at running club.

Teodoro and Jinde cooking up some tasty treats.

Congratualtions to Gabriel for an incredible performance in our first monthly Boarding assembly of the school year.

Yesterday we had the 2022 graduation ceremony in Geneva. Our Grade 12 students have officially graduated from Collège du Léman. We are incredibly proud of all our Léman 1 boys who graduated yesterday. We will miss them dearly and we wish them all the very best for their next adventure…. University!

To round off an amazing year of hard work and incredible activities, we had our annual end of year event in our wonderful Concha garden this afternoon. The sun was shining and all our Boarding students had a lot of fun. A complete afternoon with swimming and ice creams!!

The latest instalment of our adventurous trip programme saw a group of our Boarding Students travel to German this weekend to visit the incredibly fun Europa Park!! Although all our students are very tired now, they all had a brilliant time!

This week we will be focusing on the second takeaway point for this pillar.

Attachment figures.

The attachment theory focuses on relationships and bonds (particularly long-term) between people, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. The quality of our early attachments profoundly influences two things:

• Our personality
• Our relationships later in life

Depending on their attacment style, our students are either able to empathize with others, to share
feelings with other people, show trust, engage in long-term relationships, have high self-esteem, enjoy
intimate relationships, seek out for support etc or not.

Since our attachment styles are formed so early, we neither remember much about this stage of
development nor do we have control over it. Therefore, our attachment traits are typically subconscious and automatic. As a consequence, we might find ourselves repeating the same unhealthy patterns – in our relationships with ourselves and with others – over and over again. Therefore, we may make unsafe and irresponsible choices.

So, since Awareness is the beginning of change, this week we will ask our students to take an attachment questionnaire quiz to help them figure out their attachment style.

An action packed weekend with a variety of incredible activities including tennis, cooking, fitness and golf.