I am writing to you this week from Singapore, where Carine Capel, Nicolas Blanc and I are attending the annual AEFE seminar for heads of French schools in the Asia-Pacific region. It’s an opportunity for us to meet colleagues, share ideas and exchange good practices while also attending conferences on subjects such as cognitive science, Read more about Admissions[…]

It won’t be news to those of you who follow French current events that on the 14th of February the French Minister of Education officially announced a reform of the French Baccalauréat. The French are very attached to their “Bac” and as a result, politicians tend to be very cautious about what could be perceived Read more about Bac 2021[…]

I say it often enough for you to know by now that I believe that a French Section student is a French Section student for life, even after they have left our school. This year, like every year, we bid adieu to a number of our students at the end of the first semester: Caydenn, Read more about Earthquakes[…]

There are some beautiful lines in ‘Being and Nothingness’ in which Sartre explains to his readers that a café is haunted by the absence of his friend Pierre, whom he was supposed to meet. Pierre, Sartre tells us, is absent from the whole café, not just from the place he usually sits. You know by Read more about Chinese New Year[…]

It’s been a chilly, grey week out there, but I have some excellent news that should brighten things up a little: Leila Slimani, the Goncourt prize-winning author is coming to the French Section! On behalf of our whole school, I would like to thank the French Office in Taipei for organising her visit. Leila Slimani Read more about Leila Slimani[…]

Last night, I had the opportunity to attend the Nuit des idées (Night of Ideas) organised by the French Office in Taipei. The theme was ‘Imagination in Power’ and part of the evening was dedicated to education. One of the guests, Jérôme Saltet, might be familiar to some as you as the ‘inventor’ of the Read more about Moral and citizenship[…]

A few weeks ago I talked to you about the national evaluations planned by the French Ministry of Education. The evaluations were scheduled to take place in 6ème and CP. I choose my words carefully – “were scheduled” because our 6èmes didn’t do the evaluations. For logistical and technical reasons, it was decided that the Read more about Insight on evaluations[…]

This year, like last, I want to offer you my best-of list for the calendar year 2017. Please be warned, my choices are not objective in the slightest (and in no particular order)! 30th June, our Terminale students getting the results of the French Baccalauréat: I filmed the moment, up until one of them – Read more about Best of the year[…]

This week, the French Section welcomed the heads from all of the French schools in the Asia-Pacific region, in order to prepare the French baccalauréat exams for 2018. We are honoured to have been chosen as the host school for this meeting, which we held in the ESC Club house (the very place where the Read more about Baccalauréat meeting at LFTaipei[…]