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It has been a month since preschool and elementary school students discovered their new learning places and they seem to have totally adopted to them!

Following the tragic explosion that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, this summer, Collège Champittet Foundation decided to involve the school community to support education in this crisis-stricken country.

The year 2020 has become a historic year for everyone, even before it is over, as the great "adventure" of lockdown has left a deep imprint on both memory and behavior.

During our CAS (creativity-activity-service) lesson, our class of 13IB went to the forest nearby and decided to clean up the environment surrounding us.

We took the opportunity of the summer holiday to renovate the library of our school.

As part of the STEAM project, 9th and 10th grade students worked this year on finding solutions to water pollution.

Last Friday, on June 26th, the award ceremony was held at Collège Champittet, which took place in a slightly different way than the previous ones.

« Au revoir » but only « au revoir » because we hope that you will return to Champittet from time to time.

From cucumber seeds to a greenhouse of several square metres, the vegetable garden allows children to discover the magic of growing vegetables.

De plus, si la langue évolue constamment sous l’effet des pratiques collectives - ou si elle est parfois artificiellement mue par les fantaisies de l’Académie française...- elle ne sollicite pas, du moins pas tout de suite, l’originalité individuelle des élèves et leur créativité propre : son étude perd ainsi tout attrait et se résume à un acte de mémorisation qui n’a plus bonne presse dans la pédagogie contemporaine.

A study by Dr Glenn Wilson at London’s Institute of Psychiatry in 2005 concluded that constant interruptions can have a similar effect to missing sleep. We have all heard the various estimates of so called ‘concentration’.

Prendre conscience qu'il est une partie d'un tout immense est la mission ultime de l'éducation.

As a school, we can move away from a fear of failure, by opening ourselves up and being vulnerable.

Having grown up in the beautiful Blue Mountains of N.S.W. Australia, I spent an amazing amount of time running about in the bush (which is Australian for outdoors!). I learned life lessons about the value of nature and its importance in human health.

In many ways, the pandemic has transformed our work, we have had to reinvent ourselves as teachers and educators, multitasking more than ever before, providing support over screens and messages and now helping our students and boarders negotiate a brave new world that none of us could have thought of just a few months ago...

Last year, 551 universities from 80 countries across 17 regions and 6 continents were asked to submit data for the ranking and 462 were ranked.  This year a further 291 universities have signed up to measure their own performance with regards to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

To lead a meaningful life is to lead a creative life; they are not add-ons, the conditions for its development need to be integrated fully into every aspect of our working lives.

It is also a timely reminder for me as an educator to consider the contemporary landscape of education.

A testimony from Dana Bauer, an English teacher and chaperon on the ascent of Kilimanjaro.