Student Life
Students at Le Rosey follow the "CASC" Programme, which aims to nurture all the talents of its students, through Creativity, Action, Service in the community, and Culture. Creativity includes performances, celebrations, and exhibitions, Action includes sport and physical competitions, Service in the community includes community service and projects, and Culture includes the attendance of music and drama performances, special trips, and conferences. Activities on offer to students include sports clubs, including airplane flying lessons, horse-riding, golf, sailing, karting, scuba diving, and shooting. On certain weekends a variety of activities are made available, including mountain expeditions, theatre trips to London, visits to Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna and Madrid, athletic challenges (Rolle–Gstaad by bicycle), trips to watch football (soccer) matches, Formula One racing, equestrian events, tennis tournaments, and school balls. During the Mid-October cultural trips, students are given the opportunity to visit countries and cities further afield, with recent destinations including university visits to the East Coast of the United States and to Great Britain, humanitarian trips to participate in a Habitat for Humanity project in Romania, to teach in the Rosey-Abantara School in Bamako, Mali, or a humanitarian mission to India, and cultural, leisure trips to Cuba, Egypt, Vietnam, Mexico, Kenya, Iceland, and Aruba.
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