SAFE ENVIRONMENTS
Sports
At Le Châtelard, sports and artistic courses add a unique dimension to each student’s formation, promoting growth, health, and well-being.
Students participate in world-class clinics and cultural activities designed to help them explore their talents and develop new passions. They may enjoy up to two clinics per week, spending two hours immersed in activities they love. These clinics can be changed each season, allowing students to discover a wide range of interests.
From January to March, they take part in the exclusive ski program, one of the most exciting experiences of the year, which counts as one of their seasonal courses.
Le Châtelard encourages its students to remain active, creative, and curious as they build skills for life.
Ski Season
The village of Les Avants was one of the first ski resorts in Switzerland. At Le Châtelard, students experience the thrill of the Swiss Alps through an exciting ski season program, enjoying the opportunity to ski at various renowned resorts across Switzerland and France.
Art
Music
Students may take piano lessons and they all receive musical appreciation classes. Starting with music before Christ, and in the middle ages, they then focus on the four main periods of classical music. By listening to excerpts of the main compositors, they learn to appreciate and value the baroque, classical, romantic and post-romantic styles.
They also discover the basics of a piano, the major and minor musical scales, and musical vocabulary.
Arts and Graphics
Students are introduced to different modes of expression related to the Arts and Graphics, in such a way that they are able to use and understand the various techniques explored.
For example:
- The colour spectrum
- Composition: principal curves and straight lines
- Plastic agents
- Vegetal forms
- Textures
- Descriptive and expressive drawings
- Light & shade
- Principals of applied compositions: still life, landscape, and portrait
- Perspective: drawing and artistic techniques
- Comparative analysis of the great art masters
- Facial expressions
And of course, a wide range of clinics are offered such as photography, flower arrangement, theatre.
