This was a great weekend for activities in the New Portena house. We had girls doing Zumba, golfing, canoeing, woodwork and STEAM projects. Enjoy some of the photos!

Yesterday a lot of our new Portena girls volunteered to help the lake Geneva Cleanup project. They were there to help with setting up the equipment and tents for divers and volunteers that would be the ones actually cleaning the lake. Here are some pics from the day.

Pillar 1 of our wellbeing programme in CDL is Nurturing healthy bodies and minds. One of the takeaway points from this pillar is “How important is sleep?”. We find it a crucial topic for the students to explore when discovering how to take care of themselves and how they can maintain a healthy body and mind.

The teenage years are a formative period. The brain and body experience significant development, and the transition to adulthood brings important changes that affect emotions, personality, social and family life, and academics. Sleep is essential during this time, working behind the scenes to allow teens to be at their best. Unfortunately, research indicates that many teens get far less sleep than they need. Sleep is vital for people of any age. For teens, though, profound mental, physical, social, and emotional development requires quality sleep.

During one of our Boarding House assemblies, we asked each girl the effects that can be caused from lack of sleep, and how it can impact many areas of our lives? We got a lot of good answers and have condensed it into this poster. Enjoy!

Bice, Sayuri, Sara, and Sabine did some shopping in Lausanne and then visited the Olympic Museum.

It was a big week for cooking and baking in the New Portena house.

Sara, Sayuri and Sabine made some delicious pasta arrabiata.

Sakura baked some chocolate chip cookies.

Both Defnes, Anya and Cora made some apple crumble as well.

This weekend, the girls headed into Geneva,  hung out on campus and ate out and in together. Enjoy the photos of the good times had.

Kate, Taisiia and Kseniia grabbed some boba tea.

Defne and Venus shopped till they almost literally dropped them grabbed some food.

Moli and Sayuri chilled on the sports pitch.

Defne, Moli and Anya took some selfies.

Mary, Ghida, Cherry and Sofia visited one of the outside villas.

Cherry, Mary and Carina had dinner with a friend.

We had our very first movie night of the year. We have a movie jar which was filled with 3 movie ideas by each of the girls. We watch whatever is pulled from the jar.

Defne A was the first to pick a movie and she pulled out Jumanji.

We made some popcorn, s’mores and hot chocolate for the big event and gathered together for the movie.

Can’t wait for the next movie night!