On February 4th, 17 secondary school students —together with sports teacher Samy and two chaperones— will travel to Tanzania to attempt to climb the Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters.
The multidisciplinary real-life projects allow students to connect the theory with practice and understand its real-world application, all while having fun!
On Saturday 17 December 2022, we had the immense privilege of welcoming the Amati orchestra, one of the most important amateur orchestras in the Lausanne region.
A group of students from 10 to 12 grades travelled to the Italian capital. This cultural and spiritual trip is an invitation to discover the eternal city.
You know the famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill: "A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." According to some studies, having low expectations of life prevents being "surprised bad" as we say in our canton.
On the occassion of the “Dare to do all jobs” day —organized by the Office for Gender Equality of the canton Vaud—, seven students from 7 to 9 grades joined the school' s benches to discover the many different professions that can be found within an educational institution.
A group of students and their supervisors went on a 10-day mission to Madagascar with the Champittet Foundation. Having just returned, the memories and emotions are still very vivid.
During the autumn break, our Boarding House went to Croatia for a cultural and tourist trip that took our boarders to some of the country’s most emblematic and thriving cities, from Split to Dubrovnik.
A Swiss national, quadrilingual, with work and life experience on four continents, Michael Gwerder embodies the values of the Swiss school open to the world.
Dear Champiteans,
Welcome back to school! I hope that you have had a relaxed and pleasant summer; with a little boredom which sparks creativity, quality time with your loved ones and, ideally, a some reading and revision.
Life never really stops at Collège Champittet. The school holidays had just started and the campuses of Nyon and Pully were already filled with children.
Our Swiss Maturity, International Baccalaureate and French bac graduates bid farewell to their second home in a ceremony full of emotions and nostalgia.