This weekend, our very own Ildana went head-to-head with nearly 70 talented students at the prestigious Interschool Chess Tournament, hosted by Collège Champittet.

Throughout the day, Ildana was in top form: focused, strategic, and unshakeable. After a full day of intense play spanning over 8 hours, she emerged victorious, claiming first place in a highly competitive field!

For many of us, chess remains a bit of a mystery, but watching Ildana in action, with her lightning-fast thinking and incredible concentration, has given us all a new appreciation for the game. What an achievement! Congratulations, Ildana!

And if you want to see just how quick she really is…take a look at this!!we

We are all very proud of you Ildana 🙂

Masha, today we celebrate your 17th birthday!!!

A truly remarkable person, you bring warmth, humour, kindness and grace to everything you do and we couldn’t be happier to have you in our VDL family.

Wishing you every happiness in the year to come – you deserve it 🙂

Lots of VDL love from us all

xxx

The long weekend has come to an end and the girls are ready to take on the new week – for many, it marks the first week of exams! Much revision has been done, yet we know that more does not necessarily equal better, so the goal this weekend has certainly been to look after wellbeing as a number one priority.

It has been great to see the girls taking care of themselves as well as one another, be it by quizzing each other, making healthy snacks to share, playing a spot of tennis or basketball, or just heading out for a short walk together to take a breather: they have certainly prepared well and have done it with a great sense of camaraderie. Hats off to Sophia for managing to revise on the train to and from Ticino where she was exploring the Italian side of Switzerland on the last trip of the school year!

Now it is time to see their hard work come to fruition as they put pen to paper and we have no doubt that they can all achieve their goals. Good luck girls!!!

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead

The VDL Team

The weekend spirit arrived early this week as Friday saw all the students coming together to celebrate International Day!!! Whether they were selling traditional food from their countries or providing international themed face painting, many of our girls got involved and did a fantastic job raising funds for charity. Special shout outs go to Masha, Aurora, Katia, Paria, Sophia, Rafa, Hecto, Vanessa, Polina, and Dasha for their amazing contributions.

The rest of the weekend saw a mixture of regular and new activities taking place. Maybe it was the tennis fever that hit Geneva this week with the ATP tour being hosted in our city, but we certainly had plenty of girls making the most of the courts on both Saturday  and Sunday! It was ace!!

In a departure from the usual activities, a small group of our girls joined the long awaited boat trip to Yvoire on Sunday. They travelled by boat across the lake to France where they ate crêpes, visited the local artisanal stores and visited  the beautiful ‘garden of five senses’ where they could learn about the different types of plants and even taste some of them! The group had a wonderful afternoon and it was great to be able to make the most of the good weather and see one of our local gems.

This week will be a short one with classes finishing after school on Wednesday ready for the long weekend. Suitcases are already being packed by many excited girls in anticipation!

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead,

The Villa du Lac Team 🙂

This weekend we are celebrating Lucia’s 17th birthday!!

We hope you have had a fabulous weekend Lucia and we hope the year ahead will be filled with joy and happiness 😊

With love from all of us in VDL xxx

This week we have been celebrating Internationalism at CDL and have spent time considering what it means to us, to be ‘Global Citizens’.

After much debate and discussion that included terms like: open-mindedness; responsibility; unity; collaboration; recycling; water conservation; friendship; collective community; mindfulness; awareness and global impact, the girls have created a short definition of what it means to us: