http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/boarding-schools-good-teenage-boys for an article by an American Headmaster on how boarding schools could be just what teenage boys need. In Europe, visit http://www.chavagnes.org for a Catholic boarding school with similar values and ideals.
Triple-bac at Chavagnes : One school is blazing a trail …
One pupil at Chavagnes International College, an international Catholic boarding school for boys hailed as one of the 100 best schools in the world , is blazing a new trail in university matriculation. Its pupils routinely sit the French baccalaureate and English A-levels at the same time, but one of its pupils, 18-year-old Iwo Wojcik … Continue reading Triple-bac at Chavagnes : One school is blazing a trail …
Boys and school: teaching the male brain
We have come across an excellent resource for teachers of boys; it is a presentation given by Dr Abigail James of Merchiston College, Edinburgh, at a Conference of the International Boys School Coalition. Dr James has also published a book: Teaching the Male Brain, available from amazon and bookshops. Here is her presentation: https://www.theibsc.org/uploaded/IBSC/Conference_and_workshops/Toronto_Workshops/James_TeachingTheMaleBrain-handout.pdf IBSC … Continue reading Boys and school: teaching the male brain
Scotland and France both have all-boys’ boarding schools belonging the International Boys School Coalition
Research strongly indicates that most boys have different learning styles and needs when compared to girls. Most boys develop mentally, physically, and emotionally at a different rate from girls. It is our experience that boys’ interests, hobbies, and inclination to physical activity respond best to a male focused framework to learning. We believe that boys … Continue reading Scotland and France both have all-boys’ boarding schools belonging the International Boys School Coalition
Let boys be boys: the merits of the single-sex classroom
According to st Andrew's College, Canada (www.sac.on.ca) not only are students less inhibited and more focused in the classroom in a single-gender environment, but research indicates those who attend all-boys schools are more than twice as likely to study art, music, drama, and foreign languages, in addition to the traditional maths and sciences. This is largely because … Continue reading Let boys be boys: the merits of the single-sex classroom
Catholic Independent Schools Conference
"The Joy of the Gospel in our Schools" was the title of the recent annual conference of the Catholic Independent Schools Conference, held 15-16 January 2015 at Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge. More details of CISC: http://www.cisc.uk.net
International Catholic boarding school links with Latvian Catholic High School
Chavagnes International College, the leading international Catholic boys' boarding school, recently took a group of pupils and teachers to visit the Catholic High School in Riga (Rigas Katolu gimnazija http://www.rkgimnazija.lv/). The Chavagnes Choir, with a reduced showing of just 8 boys and 4 teachers, visited classes and performed a concert of sacred music for the … Continue reading International Catholic boarding school links with Latvian Catholic High School
Double Diploma at Chavagnes International College
Congratulations to the two leavers this year at the small but respected Chavagnes International College who are now about to begin university studies. Maximilian Micallef Eynaud (Chavagnes 2007-2014, their first pupil to complete all 7 years of secondary education at Chavagnes) has now gone to the Delft University of Technology (http://www.tudelft.nl/en/) to study Aerospace Engineering. Ambroise … Continue reading Double Diploma at Chavagnes International College
Boys and Sport at Chavagnes
Saint Paul, to the Corinthians, has this to say: "Don't you realise that the runners in the Stadium, all of them run, but only one gets the medal? You are to run in such a way as to win. Everyone who is in athletic training exercises self-control (but they do it to win a medal … Continue reading Boys and Sport at Chavagnes
Chavagnes opens ‘Double Diploma’ class : French Bac and A-levels!
Chavagnes International College in France is the first school in the world to offer a class with the option of taking British A-levels and the French baccalauréate simultaneously. Other schools have offered hybrid qualifications with double validation between two education systems (French/Spanish; French/German most notably), but Chavagnes has this year a class of 7 boys, 4 … Continue reading Chavagnes opens ‘Double Diploma’ class : French Bac and A-levels!
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