New Year’s greetings at the end of the semester and at TET
by Head of School Georg Michael Schopp
A special first half of the year has come to an end today. Our students have only recently returned to campus. The younger ones from kindergarten to 6th grade are not allowed to come until February 14th.
Up to 8 months of online lessons is and that has been a very exhausting and hard time for all of us! A whole semester; no personal contact, a new timetable, 8 or 9 hours in front of the computer, classwork online, experiments just to watch, attending lessons in America, Germany, Russia, South Africa or China, often enough at night.
I was all the more surprised when I went through the special events of the last 6 months. Here are just a few examples:
– The first day of school for class 1 with a worthy celebration for the children
– The debate project for grades 9 and 10
– The weather report and the presentation of professions in Class 3
– The Mathematical Olympiad
– The exams for the German Language Diploma II on 24.11. and 15.12.
– Origami in class 4
– The active advent calendar in the U6 area and lots of Christmas baking
– St. Martin and St. Nicholas in kindergarten and elementary school
– GIB information day and presentation for parents and students
– The computer science beaver competition
– The writer Pham Minh Khue as a guest at the IGS
– The International Junior Science Olympiad
It’s an incomplete but nonetheless impressive list of our activities. Our German school, our IGS HCMC, has successfully fought against the Corona frustration! I would like to thank you and all of you for this; Our students! Our teachers and all employees!
I am especially grateful to you, our parents! We couldn’t have done it without your support at home, the encouragement of your children, your suggestions.
I am also particularly grateful to the colleagues from the school management. In difficult times you kept our IGS ship on course, encouraged and comforted, tried new things with a lot of imagination, kept the tried and tested. Together we are actively waiting for the light at the end of the Corona Tunnel.
After the TET holidays we continue, with everyone from kindergarten to high school. The old and the new challenges are waiting for us. Our first graduates will take the GIB exams from the end of April. We are proud of you, you are the first. And you are particularly courageous, because nobody has come this far before you! All the best to you and your teachers for the final stretch in preparation and for the exam days.
I wish you and all of you a relaxing holiday week and a good, happy and prosperous New Year of the Tiger. We could
all use the strength and courage of a tiger in the coming months. See you again in February!
