In today’s House Assembly we have started discussing the first take away point for the 4th Pillar of our Wellbeing Programme.

Online Life Vs Real Life

Our House Advocate was Emad who took over the job of running the session and launching the debate with his housemates.

The Léman boys back to enjoying all the fun weekend activities we have to offer….

The weekend the activities included; chess, tennis, badminton, table tennis, woodcrafting, climbing, running, music and more!!

The latest Boarding trip took place this weekend – to the beautiful city of Barcelona. With a tour around the Barcelona Football Club stadium, a visit to the Parc Güell and a chance to enjoy delicious Spanish cuisine – the students learnt lots about Catalan culture and had lots of fun.

The next trip will take place between 10th and 12th March to the Italian Capital City of Rome……..

Many of our Boarding students made the journey to the amazing ski resort in La Tzoumaz this morning. Where some students went to participate in the third instalment of this year’s ski club, many also went to take part in the Boarding Houses Ski Competition. Lots of fun was had by all, and there are lots of tired boys in Léman this evening.

We happy to announce that the Léman team has now the invaluable support of Mr Julien Fournier. Julien is joining our team and his first main task will be to support all our students with their school work and we are sure it will produce great results.

Julien is a qualified teacher with years of experience in several different countries in Europe and Africa… so he embodies already our spirit of Excellence and Internationalism.

Welcome Julien, to the Léman family

After a lovely February break we are now back in business until the April break.

For some of us, this was an opportunity to go home, see the family and friends and somehow recharge our batteries for the weeks ahead. Others, perhaps the lucky ones :), had the fantastic possibility of spending a whole week in Crans-Montana. The weather was a-ma-zing even if it meant that we didn’t have as much snow as we would have dreamt of. However it was still enough to enjoy the slopes, spend time with friends, relax, do some activities and even witness the Ski World Cup happening right next to us.

Charles focused on his curling skills

Asiimwe, up or down the slope 🙂

Aijuka and Oleg getting ready

Chady… aprehensive 🙂

Quique, excited

Asiimwe the curling master.

Aydan… the CR7 of curling 🙂

House chores

Everybody helping out sweeping 😛

Now it’s time to get back on track and prepare for the important weeks ahead. Energies should be high and we can’t wait for the coming weeks to unfold.

Welcome back everyone 🙂

We are now preparing to close Léman Boarding House for the February half term. Well done to all our boys for all they have achieved this half term.  We hope everyone gets a well-deserved rest and return with fully recharged batteries ready to work hard for the send half of this term. We hope everyone has enjoyable breaks and we are already looking forward to seeing everyone in just over a weeks time.

We hope all our students heading to Crans Montana for this year’s Winter Camp have an amazing week in the snow!!

The weekend was sunny, fun and full of activities. The boys were out and about doing all sorts of things, take a look at some of these moments:

The 5km winners !

Today we had the opportunity to watch a fantastic Concert in the Rosey Concert Hall. The program was filled with powerful instruments, soloists and a beautiful Orchestra playing with touching sound landscapes. A night the Leman boys greatly enjoyed!

As a Boarding community, we are aiming to contribute to a local charity project – “Partage” the love!

We are aiming to collect 3000kg of food and other household items to donate to those in need.

A huge thank you to Zihao and Stefan for helping gather donations from the Léman Boarding House

After 2 amazing ski weekends, the usual weekend activities resumed this weekend for our students. With the additon of some seasonal ice skating and some more skiing for the Ski Club members, the Léman boys enjoyed fun activities such as chess, running, music club, cooking, tennis and horse riding.

This evening, Jose Luis and Antoni went face to face in the Ping-Pong tournament.

Well done to Parga who walked away victorious from the match!

A huge well done to some of the Léman boys who delivered fantastic presentations in our monthly Boarding assembly this evening. They all covered topics they are passionate about to the Boarding community and we are really of them for their contributions.

The second edition of the Boarding Newsletter has come out. Please check your emails to see the full version with all the latest events and great moments from the past Semester. We are especially proud of our Yosuke who has worked hard and made a valuable contribution to this project.

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That was the topic of today’s reflection in our House Assembly.

As before, we brought Aijuka, Chady and Zihao on “stage” to talk about their experience.

Aijuka is this very open person, who really gets on well with everyone and is appreciated by everyone in return. Aijuka has no limits to his perception of friendships. For him Boarding is all about embracing as many chances as possible and since there is not many people from Uganda in the community, he feels that he has to link with everyone at the same level and he doesn’t feel the need to find cultural or language features in common to start building a friendship.

Chady is very much like Aijuka… he numbered some of his closest friends and they are from different nationalities. However, a certain pattern could be spotted where his friends who are francophones slightly outnumbered those who aren’t.

Finally Zihao, told us about his experience and acknowledged that his closest friends are all Chinese. They feel this feature is a great binding force among them as they understand each other better and share so much in common. Having said this Zihao does not exclude friends from other nationalities… he simply tends to bond more with the ones from the same language and nationality.

Our key point is that there is no right or wrong answer… this is simply a reflection point. In Boarding we are faced with this variety of scenarios when it comes to friendships and the most important thing is that each student finds his balance within the spectrum and we all live together in harmony and sane values.

This weekend, we took all our Boarding students to the stunning mountains in the quaint Swiss town of Fiesch. The snow was incredible, the views were beautiful and the smiles were infectious!! Fun was had by all and memories were made!!

新年快乐 – Xīnnián kuàilè

Happy Lunar New Year to every member of our Chinese community.

We will be heading to the mountains tomorrow and hopefully enjoy a lovely weekend of snow. In order to save any possible second, Henry got ready and he will possibly sleep with his ski outfit so he doesn’t waste a single moment over the weekend 🙂

To start 2023 in great shape we had a full and energetic House Assembly tonight.

It was great to see so many students speaking to the group and being the spokesperson for their peers.

We had Amir speaking about respect and quiet times and Quique talking about Valentine’s Day and the Clubs available for the students.

For the core of the meeting, we had a couple of lovely testimonials that illustrated the take-away point of the Wellbeing Pillar 3, on Positive Friendships.

In Léman, there are plenty of lovely friendships, international ones.

Amirhossein and Carlos, good friends and roommates, shared with the group how they felt that their different backgrounds could not interfere with their friendship. They both agreed that friendships have nothing to do with nationalities but with what brings them together and what they like about each other.

Roi and Parga hit it off from the first day, even if they met only in September. Parga is passionate about sharing the same interests as Roi, mostly the sports they do together ( Golf and Tennis ). Roi, cherishes Parga as he helps him a lot with his English and he feels a lot of gratitude for that.

All in all, these boys are only a few among the dozens of international friendships created, only this year, in Léman House. We realize then what a privilege it is to live in this setting. We all have a lot to share and learn from each other and the good experiences that are within our reach are endless.

Internationalism, is a key element of CDL’s identity and Boarding fulfills this purpose with passion and joy.