Category: News

The Essential Boarding School Packing Guide

Leaving home for the first time can be a nerve-wracking experience. Making the decision to attend boarding school means beginning a year filled with new opportunities, weather, and experiences! These are all amazing things, but they can make it difficult for boarders to decide what is and isn’t important for them to pack—especially if this is the first time […]

Student Life for Swiss Boarding School Students

Switzerland is a vibrant country with a phenomenal landscape, athletic scene, culture, and history—all of which are readily available for young boarding students to discover. At Leysin American School in Switzerland, we embrace every opportunity to connect our students with our country and its diverse offerings. Here are our four favourite parts of the Swiss […]

Big Bangs or Little Bubbles?

This week our primary school children have been focussing on science – looking at the tiniest creatures, investigating how materials change from liquid to solid, and what makes something acidic or alkaline and how to tell the difference.    Observing science in real time helps embed learning in young children’s minds. For example, watching an […]

Performing and Creative Arts

Creativity is one of Le Régent’s 4 Cs, and the Performing and Creative Arts have blossomed over the past year at le Régent. But – some might ask – in a world dominated by technology, what use do they have? The Arts  offer a world where there is often no right or wrong answer, where […]

A Gift of Tongues

Crans-Montana is on the face of it a small town in the Swiss Alps, but walk down the street any day and you hear French, Italian, German, English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and more. And this will be the norm in the world our students will inhabit and the roles they will assume. The Modern Foreign […]

New Belvedere (Pt. 2)

In our last piece, we discussed how the New Belvedere project aligns with Aiglon’s vision and strategic planning. Now, we hear from Head of School, Mrs Nicola Sparrow, about what this new boarding provision means in terms of the boarding school experience. Read our first piece on the new Belvedere project. Student life at Aiglon […]

The House Shout 2022

The recording of one of the most anticipated events of the school year – The House Shout – is now live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVQyqvVE_C8 The House Shout is an exciting signing contest held bi-annually. For each edition there is a new theme, and for 2022 this was ‘location.’ Houses had to select a song to perform with reference to a […]

Because It’s There

Connecting with friends. Conquering your fears. Climbing that mountain. Whether you just want to sleep under the stars one more time or long for the road less travelled, it is hard to leave Aiglon without an appetite for adventure. Some people celebrate their birthday with a meal, a party or even a holiday. Not if […]

Global Trends in University Advising

Global Trends in University Advising The landscape of university admissions is ever-changing, as always. However, over the past two years, we’ve seen more changes than most of us can keep up with due to the many effects of the global pandemic. Here at Aiglon, the most noticeable trends since Covid-19 appeared in our lives have […]

Le Régent and Le Rosey – Intense Collaboration

The relationship between Le Rosey and Le Régent has continued to develop since 2019 and is set to become even stronger over the coming years; both schools, in their publications and communications, will now speak of the other as a “sister school” – independent, but both members of a sort of “Comonwealth”. With a focus […]