The importance of writing

Keep Language Skills Sharp For families living in the Lausanne area, summer is a great time to build real-world language confidence. Shopping at a French-speaking market, ordering at a café, chatting with a neighbour: these small moments of human communication do more for oral fluency than most formal language exercises. If your child is learning English as a second language, watching English-language films and series with subtitles in the original language is an effective strategy. The combination of audio and visual reinforcement builds listening comprehension while keeping your child interested and engaged with the language. Give children Time to Be Bored This might seem like the opposite of keeping children learning, but boredom is one of the most productive states a child can be in. When there is nothing to do, children invent things to do. They build, draw, write, construct, imagine. This kind of unstructured creative play develops the problem-solving and self-directed thinking that schools and universities value. Prepare for the new school year t without making it feel like School Our back to school checklist for Switzerland delivers a practical guide on getting your family ready before the new term begins. If you are thinking about the next school year and want to find out more about Collège Champittet, our bilingual programmes

Discover the best family activities in Lausanne this summer. From Lake Geneva to the Alps, find out what to do and how to make the most of every week.

With our beautiful forest – home to our beloved Forest School – on the shores of Lake Geneva, our historic Collège Champittet campus is an exceptional place for students to learn, explore and grow.

In June, a meaningful new art installation came to grace the ceiling of our Champittet chapel – a multicoloured dove, consisting of 3,000 handmade origami pieces.