9th Grade Exchange with Orléans, France

On the evening of March 19, 2025, officials of the city of Orléans, along with administrators of the Lycée St. Charles extended an official welcome to our 28 traveling 9th…

Bea Sollins, Extended metaphor poem, 3/24/25 Wonder is the sun breathing over the city. Its rays hits the groggy faces of those barely awake. It fills their eyes and they…

On Friday, March 14, Waring students continued to strengthen bonds with their French correspondents as they accompanied them to classes covering history, philosophy, and math at St. Charles Lycée in…

Pictured on the right, 9th grader, Harrison Tinger, shows off his French cheese (“Mimolette”) from the Orléans market to classmates. On Wednesday, we settled into school life in the morning…

After a smooth trip to Paris, we were greeted by Béryl from La Terre des Langues at the airport and we headed south on the A10 from Paris to the Loire Valley….

28 Waring School 9th graders and 2 senior TA’s join Chaperones Géraldine Petitdemange, Tim Bakland, and Casey Stevens in a 3-week student exchange to Orléans and Paris. On Tuesday, the…