Secondary Clubs & Activities

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From nurturing artistic talents to leadership to social service and responsibility for others, our co-curricular and after-school programs and clubs offer Secondary students many opportunities to further develop their interests and talents, develop leadership skills, and build a stronger community, together.

Performing Arts

In the Secondary School, students can explore their creativity through a vibrant range of clubs in music, dance, theater, and visual arts. Guided by faculty and visiting professionals, students develop their skills as musicians, singers, actors, and visual artists — often bringing these talents together in the annual school musical.

After-school offerings include, but are not limited to, Middle and High School French Theater Workshops, an English Theater Workshop (frequently featuring Shakespeare), Jazz/Rock Band, and Art Club.

Founded in 1999, the Lycée’s annual Première Scène French Theater Festival brings together 400 students from French schools across the AEFE international schools network, along with local public and private schools, for a weekend of short plays in French performed before a jury of theater professionals.

Created by the Lycée, the Rough Cut Film Festival invites students from across the city and around the world to write, direct, narrate, animate, and produce original short films in English or French.

The Musical Theater Club stages a full-scale production each year, showcasing works from the American songbook and French theater traditions. Recent productions include:

  • An adaptation of the film Amélie
  • Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
  • A Chorus Line
  • Damn Yankees
  • Annie

Digital Media, Making, and Robotics

Our students deepen their knowledge and digital know-how through our 3D Printing Clubs in our Makerspace, award-winning Middle and High School Robotics Clubs, as well as classes in digital art, coding, virtual-reality creation and more.

The Lycée Minecraft Capture-the-Flag team has also seen international success in competitions against students from schools around the world.

Robotics in our Makerspace

Academic Clubs

Secondary students can immerse themselves in a wide range of academic-oriented clubs led by a dedicated faculty advisor, including:

  • L’Oeil du Lynx, the Lycée’s bilingual student newspaper
  • The Fridge, the Lycée’s literary magazine
  • Yearbook
  • Critical Thinking Club
  • Math Teams
  • Brain Bee

Our Middle and High School Model United Nations clubs compete nationally, while students in Harvard Model Congress travel to Boston each February to role-play senators, representatives, and executive branch members in a comprehensive simulation of the U.S. government with students from across the country.

Student-Led Clubs and Student Government

Many clubs are led entirely by students, including the Investment Portfolio Management Club, Ecocrafts, Dungeons & Dragons, Film Club, Game Programming Club, Current Events Club, and more. Students apply to continue or create a new club at the beginning of each academic year, which are overseen by the Student Council.

From sixth grade onwards, students participate in school-wide decision making through student government, which takes the form of four bodies:

  • The Student Council (Conseil des Élèves) (CDE)
  • Student delegates, with student representatives from every advisory class (homeroom)
  • Ecodelegates, focused on sustainability and school life with student representatives from each grade level (Grade 4 and above)
  • The Conseil pédagogique d’établissement (CPET), from the French educational system, the CPET is an advisory committee of students, parents, teachers and staff who meets regularly to discuss and make recommendations on essential aspects of student and community life at the Lycée

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging

Outside of the classroom, Secondary students also create and lead active affinity or alliance groups that focus on topics related to diversity and equity, or as a way to model spaces for belonging and inclusion of underrepresented groups.

Student activities are organized in an umbrella organization—the Coalition—which meets regularly to steer the work of individual student-created and student-led affinity/alliance groups, including the Arab Affinity Group, Asian Student Union, Black Student Union, Jewish Community and Culture, Latinx Affinity Group, Muslim Student Affinity Group, Queers and Allies Club, and Women’s Affinity Group.

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