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The IGS community was filled with a celebratory spirit during the week of the Moon Festival.  It was a wonderful opportunity for every student to learn stories and legends behind the Moon Festival.  Creativity was on display with the making and decorating of lanterns along with some inspirational fruit-cutting displays.

The celebrations culminated with a performance of song, music and poetry.  The friendly, sharing atmosphere was evident in the enjoyment shown by the enthusiastic performances and attentive audience.

The school principals of the Southeast Asia region and the responsible German authority are in regular contact with the latest developments at German schools abroad. The last meeting was strongly influenced by the effects of Covid-19 on school operations. While schools are still running online in some countries, the schools in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, for example, and the IGS, were able to resume regular school operations. For all schools, the entry of teachers from other countries is very complicated this year.

“Man only plays where he is fully man, and he is only fully man where he plays.” – Friedrich Schiller

Playing is acting free of necessity and duty, and in this sense offers training in strategy, trial action, and a special experience of freedom, the latter of which constitutes the value of playing. Many people would say for sure that gaming is a basic need for them. In a world increasingly characterized by digitalization, the play behavior of many children is changing. With this development towards the digital, we at the IGS don’t want our students to miss out. For this reason we are offering a computer game group this school year. Here, the students’ interests are noted, and students are supported pedagogically with the aim of promoting the skills they need to work in a team and develop strategies. I am really looking forward to this. The computer game group is aimed at pupils in grades 6, 7 and 8 and takes place every second Friday from 2.40 p.m. to 4.15 p.m.

Tim Reisdorf

For the last two weeks Klasse 3 has been on a mission from the music department.  Working with B- Wayman and J. Armes our students built an assortment of colourful instruments that will be displayed in the music room – looking good guys!

In the after school activity “Teamgeist” it is all about being active in team sports. The sport could be hockey, soccer or volleyball. In a team sport, you can only have fun and find success in the long term if you are a team player and collaborate with your teammates. It’s a great thing that you can have a lot of fun and learn important social skills for your entire life all in one place.

Nico Bösinger

The Drama AG is all about providing the students with a platform to express their ideas through drama. There will be a focus on developing confidence in speaking, using the body to express ideas and developing techniques for delivering lines with meaning and intent. The group will produce dramas from time to time.

Douglas Vale

What a great way to start the new school year. This school year, as in all other years, the students in grades 2-11 were welcomed by the teachers’ band on campus. “It’s really great to have such cool teachers …” said one student after the concert. The U6 area also started the new academic year in a very relaxed way on Wednesday. If you, too, want to get an idea of the new class- and subject teachers, just take a look here. We wish all students, parents and teachers, especially the IB-DP class, a successful start to the 2020/2021 school year.

For the yearbook, please click here

Due to the current situation, we are making the yearbook available to you as an online edition
It is important to many families to remember their experiences and school friends later on. We have therefore recorded the highlights of the 2019/2020 school year for you and your friends and family.
Have fun while reading.

What actually is a contemporary witness?  It’s a person who experienced something long ago that no longer exists today and can tell us or write about it.
Contemporary witnesses are particularly important for understanding history. IGS students interviewed a teacher, a contemporary witness, who was in the same year group 60 years ago as they are now.
How many children were you in a class?
We were only 9 students, 7 boys and 2 girls, but the children in classes 1-4 had only one teacher and learned in one classroom, even though there were approximately 50 students in the whole class.
How did you get to school?
We had to run to school. Our house was not that far from school, about 5 minutes, but children from other villages sometimes had to walk an hour to get to school. There were no cars or buses to take us there.
What were the penalties if you misbehaved?
In addition to small punishments such as “writing” or detention, we often also received blows from the teacher, either by hand, but mostly with a stick, on the butt (buttocks) or on the hand.
What did the parents say to that?
We didn’t tell our parents, of course, because then the parents would have hit us again. They said that the teacher is always right!
Fortunately, everything is different and better today!

In our ‘Ku-mu’ (Art & Music) lessons Klasse 2 & 3 have been working hard on learning new songs and creating fantastic fairy tale masks for our end of year ceremony. Good job goblins, animals, dragons and fairies!

At the beginning of the second half of the year, also during the time of school closure and Skype lessons, the first graders dutifully fulfilled their reading tasks.
During the weekend they had time to practice a text from the learning material and to deliver it on Monday morning. Most of them succeeded remarkably well, so that now, at the end of the school year, every student in the class will receive their reading pass and certificate from the hands of Ms. Wiesneth. Some students received extra stars in their passports to acknowledge their special reading skills.