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Throughout the day, exhibitions showcased the talent and creativity of the students through their paintings, drawings, models, and sculptures. Inspired by artists such as Lygia Clark, Paul Klee, and Susie Morgenstern, students presented works illustrating the learning developed throughout the year as part of the artistic and cultural education program.
An exhibition traced seven decades of history through a selection of photographs and archival documents. It illustrated the journey from the modest classroom that welcomed the first students in 1956 to the vast, light-filled spaces on Zukunftstrasse, inaugurated in 2016. Each document on display bore witness to an era, an ambition, and a milestone in building what has today become the largest school in the Uster district.
Many former students, from all generations, crossed the threshold of their school once again. Some had not seen each other in years; others were eager to see how the school had evolved. They shared their memories: the early years in kindergarten, studying for the baccalaureate, and friendships formed on school trips. It was the ideal opportunity to talk about their paths: studies in Switzerland or abroad, lives built around the world, and international careers carried by their command of French, English, and German. These accounts illustrated the lasting impact of LFiZ on the personal and professional journeys of those it has educated.
About a dozen creative workshops were dedicated to children. They allowed children to take home keepsakes made by their own hands and to contribute to collective works that will remain part of the school’s memory. A collective mural, embroidery, crochet, windmill-making, a comic strip imagining the school of yesterday and tomorrow, a time-capsule mailbox, a model of the neighborhood 70 years from now, decorating birthday cookies, and composing a collective song: all playful, unifying activities to embrace the school’s history and imagine its future together.
The morning was punctuated by several presentations combining multilingual skills, cultural openness, and civic engagement.
Elementary students presented a stop-motion animated film about plastic pollution, multilingual kamishibai storytelling, digital books, and a bilingual adaptation of the play L’école branchée.
Secondary students presented the “Z-Express” (LFiZ’s TV news program), the multilingual school media outlet “En construction”, an audiovisual rendition of a novella by Heinrich von Kleist, their participation in FerMUN, and scientific projects on plastics and bioplastics.
The labyrinth of letters, designed and run by students (3e), also drew a large crowd. Offered twice during the afternoon, this immersive journey allowed visitors to explore the great worlds of literature.
Curious visitors also had the chance to discover LFiZ’s second building, set to be inaugurated in October 2026. It was a concrete opportunity to gauge the scale of this project, which supports LFiZ’s growth, enriches its learning environment, and meets the needs of a school community that now numbers more than 1,130 students.
Sophie Othman, lecturer at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and a specialist in multilingualism, spoke in English about the importance of multilingual education in a multilingual world. Later in the day, Déborah Elalouf, a pioneer in digital pedagogy, president of the association Tralalère, and co-founder of Edtech France, offered practical tools to help guide children in navigating artificial intelligence, both at school and at home.
A panel discussion brought together former students from different graduating classes to discuss how their education at LFiZ shaped their international paths, both in their studies and in their professional lives.
