We learn best from our own experiences: At KizCiti, the preschool had the opportunity to experience different work environments. All participants of the trip were pretty excited. The pre-schoolers were very committed: They planted water spinach, regulated the traffic, cared for newborns, completed a small surgery and extinguished a huge fire.
IGS is looking for names for an elephant calf in the Leipzig Zoo. The name which was chosen by the students. You can find out here:
The elephants of Leipzig Zoo came from Vietnam in the 1980s. The Saigon Zoo and the Leipzig Zoo can look back on a long-standing cooperation. Two years ago, the students of the International German School HCMC (IGS) heard about the cooperation when the delegation led by the Lord Mayor of Leipzig visited the campus of the German School.
What began as a socialist brotherly co-operation symbolized by the face of the young elephant. Undoubtedly, the youngster with the Disney face is the crowd pleaser at the Leipzig Zoo.
After a bumpy start in life and an operation, the little heartbreaker now need a name. The name for the nearly 15-week-old calf should be related to the Asian habitat, says zoo director Prof. Jörg Junhold.
After the IGS learned about the action through the head of the International Cooperation Unit, the pupils of the IGS thought about suitable name proposals.
We have been informed about the student representation that the name “Trung” prevailed. The name “Trung” is associated with truth and loyalty.
Sensational 1st Prize – Congratulations!
This year, the students of the IGS, in addition to 6 million participants from nearly 80 countries, again participated in the “kangaroo of the mathematics” competition.
We would like to congratulate Thanh Tien Vo (Michael) from class 4 this school year on gaining a sensational 1st place. Therefore, Michael belongs to the 0,85 % best participants in this competition.
At the annual singing competition of the DAAD, „Die Stimmen Ho Chi Minh Stadts“, students of the IGS won the 2nd place. With the song “Lieder“ (2013) by Adel Tawil, a choreography of their own and sweaters especially made for the performance they were able to impress the audience and the jury. The IGS congratulates Anny, Cathi, Hanna and Lucy (grade 6) as well as Anna and Loudan (grade 7) on this great success.
On Monday, May 6, 2019, we, class 9 of IGS, were invites to visit the General Consulate of Germany in HCMC. There we were led by the Consulat General, Andreas Siegel through the premises. It was an interesting insight behind the scenes and into the work of the Consul General.
After the tour, we were allowed to interview Consul Siegel. He told us very personally about his previous work as a diplomat in various countries, about his internship at UNESCO and about the last three years as a Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City.
Millie & Milan, Grade 9
On the occasion of the regional professional teacher development organized by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad, 20 coordinators and teachers from all over Asia-Pacific are currently meeting at IGS in Ho Chi Minh City to develop a vision on the topic of the use of digital media in German as a foreign language education.The delegation was musically welcomed by students from grades 4 and 5 with the school song. On the first day, the participants evaluated their schools’ ICT conditions, learned about and actively shared a selection of web tools and best practice examples. Additionally, the official education in a digital world strategy by the German Standing Conference of Ministers was presented and discussed.
We would like to invite you to the Easter brunch in the new Villa on Saturday, 4 May, from 9 am to 11:30 am.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the school office.
There will be live music and a light brunch.
In their project week, class 7 visited the Cu Chi Tunnels. The students were very impressed by the underground tunnel systems. They have learned a lot from the German tour guide about the life of the people living at that time.
Grade 4 have learned about the life of bee colonies. On the school campus, the students were able to examine an abandoned bee nest.
The delegation of over 100 participants visited various projects related to education and politics. Minister President Ramelow is a member of the party “Die Linke”. A major focus was put on discussing options of recruiting experts from Vietnam who are proficient in the German language.
Currently, about 130 Vietnamese apprentices are studying in Thuringia. Ramelow’s goal is to train 1000 apprentices per year. The prerequisite for this is sufficient knowledge of German. (B2) Thus, Minister President Ramelow showed particular interest in the language training programme at IGS.
In conversation with Udo Philippus, Head of Unit Labor Market and Vocational Training Policy, Headmaster Dirk Thormann presented the spectrum of language training on campus.
Dr. Claudia Hillinger, Head of the International Office of the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena expressed her interest to cooperate with IGS on the internationalisation of teacher training.
About 3000 people with Vietnamese origin live in the Free State of Thuringia, State Secretary Malte Krückels reported at a reception on the Indochina Queen.
The captain of the ship received great applause, when it turned out that he had completed his training in Thüringen before returning to Vietnam.
11.04.2019: On Thursday, many parents and friends of the IGS visited the campus to get a glimpse of the educational technology used in IGS classrooms. The students themselves facilitated stations where they taught visitors of the InterTech event about green-screening, the use of the Adobe Creative Suite and about their community projects. But it was also hands on. Parents got to design their own video game character, acted as TV stars in the IGS newscast, tried out the smartboard, and learned vocabulary using Quizlet. Of course, there are many ways to integrate tech in the classroom. However, it is especially helpful for learning languages. With Quizlet IGS has found an engaging and effective way to keep track and learn vocabulary as well as content. Brian Caleda and Franziska Barnickel organised InterTech together with the students.
Schüler*innen erklären EdTech
Schüler*innen erklären EdTech
It’s the year of the Pangolin here at IGS! Pangolins are indigenous to Vietnam. For the last few months our primary students have been learning all about one
of the most trafficked animal in the world. Here are Klasse 2 with their tape art pangolins, many of which have been busy exploring the IGS campus between art lessons.
Stay tuned for bigger and wilder pangolin projects coming up!
Class 9 invited Luis Martinez to participate in talk about the history of beer and its production process.
Our daughter Anna-Mayra had the opportunity to return to her “old” school in Vietnam at the end of February. For one week she was allowed to take lessons in her “old” grade, the current grade 4. After attending grades 1 and 2 at IGS, she moved to a regular primary school in Stuttgart, Germany in grade 3. Anna-Mayra was well prepared and had a solid foundation. It soon became apparent that she had advantages in English and Swimming lessons, as these subjects had been taught with more frequency at IGS. The current visit at the IGS shows that the teaching contents here and there are very similar and that a change back could take place without any difficulties.
We also noticed positive advantages from a social point of view:
She has played with all the children, both with the old classmates and schoolmates, as well as with children who had come to IGS in the meantime.
I think she really enjoyed the 5 days at IGS, and I thank IGS again for the opportunity to visit this school. We are happy that she feels at home in two schools.
Dr. Martina Merklinger
Chairwoman of the Parents Representation, school year 2016/ 2017
The official opening ceremony of the German House on 26 March 2019, the Federal Minister Mr. Peter Altmaier conveyed greetings from the German chancellor Mrs. Angela Merkel.
The Consul general Siegel and Prof. Nguyen Thien Nhan, party secretary and member of the political office as well as the Federal Minister Mr. Peter Altmaier and Dr. Wansleben (DIHK) praised the merits of all who were involved in this extraordinary project in their opening speeches.
The announcement of the new project – “German Campus” – by Horst Geicke (Deutsches Haus) was eagerly followed by about 200 invited guests.
Prof. Nguyen Thien Nhan, who studied in Germany and also speaks excellent German, promised to visit the International German School HCMC (IGS).
The Consul general Siegel and Prof. Nguyen Thien Nhan, party secretary and member of the political office as well as the Federal Minister Mr. Peter Altmaier and Dr. Wanzleben (DIHK) praised the merits of all who were involved in this extraordinary project in their opening speeches.
The announcement of the new project – “German Campus” – by Horst Geicke (Deutsches Haus) was eagerly followed by about 200 invited guests.
Prof. Thien Nhan, who studied in Germany and also speaks excellent German, promised to visit the International German School HCMC (IGS).
Also the Federal Minister, Mr. Peter Altmaier showed particular interest in the development of At the International German School and the school building project. He sent out best wishes for a successful development of the German School in form of personal dedication.
Industry 4.0 is a buzzword that employed by many branches of industry and the people behind them. We know revolutions from history books. Sometimes, decades of long periods of time become conflated into single chapters and we lose sight of important details.
How can we adequately prepare pupils for changed working and living environments?
What values form social consensus and what do they result from? How do algorithms and comprehensive networking change our understanding of “truth”?
Questions like these were addressed in the lecture of Prof. Peter Vale and the following discussion turned into a livery debate. It was the first event of this kind at the IGS.
Parents, guests, representatives of the VGU, teachers and pupils of the older grades were among the listeners of this well attended event, which took place from 18:30 – 20:00 on the campus of the IGS.
Afterwards there was an opportunity to talk to the speaker and have some tea.
In the last 3 years, IGS has been pushing to develop and implement EdTech strategies and instructional design to create engaging lessons, virtual classrooms and online-based programs to enhance the learning experience in and out of school. The IGS InterTech is the venue where students can showcase the EdTech used at IGS. On Thursday, April 11, from 17:00-20:00, we invite you to an interactive evening to learn what, and how, students teach and learn.
Hello, my name is Malte Spengler and from August 2019 I will be the “new one” in the kindergarten. I am 26 years old and born and raised in Germany, in the middle of the Ruhr area. After completing my training as a state-approved educator, I worked in my training kindergarten for one year before I was drawn to the world, in this case Moscow. After two and a half years of working in the kindergarten of the German School in Moscow, I am interested in Vietnam because I like to learn more about new cultures and their people.
As a part-time job I am currently completing a distance learning course for kindergarten and after-school management.
After a short detour into athletics, I was drawn to handball as a extra-curricular activities. Playing actively myself, I also trained children between the ages of 7 and 8.
Now I am looking forward to working in your country, with your children and the exciting challenges that await me at the beginning of the new school and kindergarten year.
I can’t wait to get started!
The next big step towards becoming an authorized IB school has been taken by IGS this week with three teachers participating in official subject specific IB workshops in Bangkok and Singapore. All participants agreed that, besides consolidating their IB understanding, they were able to gain in-depth knowledge and benefit from best practice examples by meeting with and learning from experienced IB practitioners. With their additional expertise, the prospective IB teachers are enriching the weekly collaboration meetings of future Diploma Programme teachers, which plan our pre-IB grade 10 and is concerned with the implementation of the programme.
Franziska Barnickel
IB Coordinator
grade 4 has been looking for answers for 3 weeks.
With the help of exciting experiments, the students delt with the question and got closer
to the core questions of chemistry.
For example, they recreated their own temporary lava lamp.
Even as a child I was fascinated by shadow theatre, which originated in India and also became popular in Germany in the 18th century.
After the performance of my own shadow theatre “Die zertanzten Schuhe”, based on the Brothers Grimm, the students of grades 1-6 designed their own imaginative figures.
From simple black cardboard arose dragons, princesses and monsters.
Thank you very much for inviting me to your school.
