Hello from New Portena!

The first week after the mid-season break has already passed. Our girls gave us moments of pride and reflection at our previous boarding assembly. The assembly started with Rei’s enchanted performance on “Skyfall”. Defne A., Defne I., and Venus are leading a Charity Event to raise funds for the Turkish-Syria earthquake victims and presented an overview of the disaster, and how we can make a donation. You can visit the TRENDYOL site as well as the web pages of two Turkish organizations, AFAD and AKUT. Finally, Sara shared her experience as a Prefect and how the Prefect role could contribute to the school community.
This weekend some of our students travelled to the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona. They had the opportunity to visit some of Gaudi’s masterpieces, such as Sagrada Famíla and Güell Park and, of course, the Camp Nou football field. For Those who chose to stay here for the weekend, there were plenty of activities such as badminton, ski, cooking, baking, and music club, to name a few. Here are some photos and Rei’s performance video!

https://blogs.cdl.ch/newportena/files/2023/03/IMG_4834.mov

Love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria and Ioanna.

Good morning!

Enjoy this mid term break! We will see you again on February 25th!

Love

New Portena team

Hello everyone!

A few days ago the students had to take a photo that would reflect international friendships. The girls won the first place by presenting internationalism and friendship … hand in hand.. With this photo they created a wonderful memory of their time at CDL!

We are always proud of you

New Portena team

Good evening everyone !

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Lots of love,

New Portena house!

Dear all,

Last night a few of our boarders had the opportunity to attend the concert “Grand Choeur et Orchestre de L’HEMU” at Le Rosey.

Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria and Ioanna.

Hello everyone!

For the cold nights of February, nothing better than sweet potato and tomato soups from Ms Fana!

Thank you Ms Fana!

Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria, Ioanna and Fana

Dear all,

Tonight we had a thrilling house competition about Switzerland. A few months after the beginning of the school year, it was finally time to test our boarders’ knowledge about this beautiful country.

Thank you, Manuela, Bice, Sayuri, and Defne I for representing New Portena!!

Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria, and Ioanna.

Dear all,

Tonight, for our weekly international Wednesday dinner we were delighted with Japanese food.

We are sure our girls enjoyed this dinner🤩

Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria and Ioanna.

At Collège du Léman we like to be able to help those who need it most; at the beginning of the school year we collaborated with the food collection at COOP supermarket and, just before Christmas, with the gift box appeal.

This February, from the 6th to the 14th, we are supporting Partage food bank, a hunger-fighting charity which supports thousands of less-fortunate individuals and families each week.

From New Portena, we encourage our girls and everyone who wants to donate to participate in this campaign to help those who need it most.

https://mailchi.mp/cdl/22-23-partage-from-pfamads

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Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria and Ioanna.

Good afternoon everyone!

The second edition of the Boarding Newsletter is out. During the weekend you received via email the full version but in case you didn’t see it, here you have a direct link:

https://img.nordangliaeducation.com/resources/europe/permacache/a25/e04/700/e705e834cdac52ba6acd46a3cb55b93e.pdf

We want to give a big thank you to Defne A. and Anna; both of them helped contributing to this amazing project with articles and editing.

Lots of love,

Terri, Sarah, Maria and Ioanna.