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On Tuesday 16 February, various superheroes, princesses, ninjas, astronauts and other characters invaded our primary building - Gérard Payot on our Pully campus to celebrate the Extravagance Day.

We are very proud of twenty students from Collège Champittet who attended the first MUN Virtual Conference organized by the British International School Budapest last week.

On Wednesday, February 3, the first half-day of preparation for our STEAM FAIR challenge began. This year, the challenge, launched by Nord Anglia Education, will take our students to faraway places.

Forest school - Interview with Sabrina Bäriswyl, Head of Pre-School

Well known to school children, parents and teachers in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland - JOM day is the “Journee Oser les Métiers,” when people are encouraged bring their children to work with them.

Each year, from September to October, the 9th grade classes participate in the International Peace Art Contest organized by the Lions Clubs International.

The traditional elders' sports tournament took place last Saturday.

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.