SEPTEMBER 2007
● Debate club was presented at the “foire aux clubs” of the Lycée. The meetings took place every Thursday evening and the students were prepared for the United Nations Conference in Genoa, Italy (GeMUN) which took place in February.
● APELEVIA represented the Lycée International Georges Duby at the Congress des Sections Internationales organised by the F.D.E.I. (www.FDEI.org)
● Garden Party to welcome all new and existing families who wished to ask questions and meet other parents – always a friendly and successful event in the beautiful garden of Aban MacAndrew.
OCTOBER 2007
● Informative Coffee Morning for new and existing parents absent from the garden party.
● Elections at the Collège and Lycée. Organisation of representatives for the conseils de classe.
NOVEMBER 2007
● Beaujolais Nouveau evening for parents at the Mairie in Luynes, this popular function is a good occasion for all parents to mix from both the Lycée and Collège and to exchange ideas.
● Thanksgiving lunch for the 5ème and 6ème of Collège Mignet at the restaurant NEXT
JANUARY 2008
● Preparation for the 10 year celebrations, meetings were held every two weeks until May.
● Galette des Rois function for families of both schools, this was held at the ‘Set Club’ in Les Granettes, Aix en Provence. It’s the first time we have held an event at this venue and on a Sunday afternoon. The aim was that the families who lived further away and who came to Aix to bring their children to the boarding school would be able to attend one of our functions.
FEBRUARY 2008
● GeMUN - 16 debate club members attended the Genoa International United Nations Conference, ( http://www.gemun.it/). This event was a huge success once again. To ensure a place for our “debaters” in this rich and rewarding environment during the next school year, we have already signed up for PAMUN, December 2008. (www.asparis.net/pamun/)
● APELEVIA was invited to attend a meeting with some of the local multinational enterprises such as EUROCOPTER, Provence Promotions, STMicroelectronics. This was organised by CMA/CGM.. The idea was to discuss the options for international education available in the region. These companies are experiencing real difficulties in obtaining personnel for their key posts due to the lack of educational back-up.
MARCH 2008
● APELEVIA represented Lycée Georges Duby at a presentation given in Paris for CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (Kings College). We particularly needed to be present at this meeting in order to discuss the problem we are having with obtaining entrance to both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In spite of some of our students finishing in the top 2% of the French league tables, we have never had anyone accepted into either of these Universities. We had an extremely positive meeting with the Admissions Tutor for Kings College, Professor Fenlon, which resulted in him accepting an invitation to visit us in Aix-en Provence and to give a presentation for Cambridge University at the Lycée in May.
Professor Fenlon was very sorry to have to cancel his visit at the last moment due to extenuating circumstances. The event is rescheduled for September in order for us to reach next years’ Terminal students as the closing date for applications is in October. In the meantime if you would like information about this subject please contact Mme. Le Den on j.leden@wanadoo.fr
APRIL 2008
● For the 10th anniversary of the Lycée, we organised, in coordination with the International Section, a “round table “ event. The theme was “International Education, Professional Mobility”. Speakers from the multinational enterprises EUROCOPTER and CMA/CGM , Professors from IUP and the University of Provence, parents and former students responded to our invitation. A report of the event can be found on our web site.
MAY 2008
● Informative and welcome get together, with parents of students sitting for the Collège Mignet entrance exam.
● This month was disrupted by the strike movement in the Lycée. We did our best to keep families informed on a day to day basis.
● APELEVIA was asked at the last moment to help the students in Terminal to organise the Bal du BAC. They needed an Association to step in after the Lycée found to their regret that they had run out of the time needed to organise this event. The students pulled out all the stops to get this event up and running in record time. Our Association helped financially and legally.
JUNE 2008
● Students from Collège Mignet (3ème) organised, with APELEVIA’s supervision, a function to mark the ‘end of their Collège years’.
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The above activities are supplementary to our attendance at all necessary meetings that are held to ensure the welfare and interest of your children such as: « Conseils d’Administration », « Comité de la vie lycéenne », “Comité hygiene et securité », « Comite education,santé et citoyenneté » at the Lycée and « Conseil d’Administration de la Section Internationale” at the Collège and Lycée.
We also provide an administrative service to the International Section so that we can ensure the continuation of the extracurricular exams ie. GCSE’s, Cambridge, TOEFL etc. We regularly meet with the Heads of Section from the two schools in order to keep up to date.
Last year we tripled the membership of our Association which enabled us to give this necessary support. We have re-designed our website which is regularly up-dated: www.apelevia.org
