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Throughout the year, the school’s educational team organizes various awareness and prevention workshops for students of all ages in order to promote healthy habits, prevent violence, and protect mental health.

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Collège Champittet. Follow us and discover, each month, the events that have shaped the history of Collège Champittet.

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.

The Nord Anglia Education Europe STEAM Festival took place in November and we have so much to tell you about it!

Champittet Nyon community has participated again this year in the local charity "Gift Box Project".

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.

Over the course of the school year, in Champittet Nyon, we work through many fun and interesting themes. A way to engage and capture children’s interest and enthusiasm is through story time. Below are some of my favourite books to read with young children.

From myth to technology: from Babel to DeepL

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.

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.

We are very proud of our HR team for their nomination to the Swiss Digital HR Award.

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.

Did you ever dream about having your children feel at home when they are at school?

This month, we have welcomed the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) to our boarding house for a very special housekeeping workshop with all the boarders.

This month, the Champittet Book Club —organized by and for the school’s employees— met for the first time this year at the library.

Our secondary students travelled to diverse destinations for cultural immersions before heading into the autumn break.

Learn to code without screens is possible every Friday during the Algoplay after-school activity in Champittet.