News from the IGS

International Women’s Day

Posted on05 Mar 2021
It was a great success when, on February 28, 1909, the first, then national, Women’s Day was launched in the USA. Inspired by this idea, Clara Zetkin suggested the introduction of an international women’s day at the second International Socialist Women’s Conference in 1910. While at first one of the main demands was the right to vote for women,...
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Who is more athletic? The students or the teachers?

Posted on05 Mar 2021
Grades  9/10 are currently attempting to break fitness records – as a whole group. Who else could do 725 pull-ups in one hour? There are 10 existing records to break. Why shouldn’t the IGS staff be able to master this challenge as well! Let’s go! The results will be announced at a later date.

Day and night in class 2

Posted on05 Mar 2021
Class 2 learned about day and night and learned more about our sun, moon and earth in their General Science class. At the end they tracked their learning experiences of the day in art presentations.

Tet celebration & certificates

Posted on11 Feb 2021
The last day of school before the Vietnamese New Year celebrations is usually also the day of the mid-term graduation ceremony at the IGS. This year it took place via igs_online. The ceremony was opened with a piano piece performed by the IGS student Xu Ziyuan. This was followed by the headmaster’s speech and a review of the last...
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igs_online 2.0

Posted on05 Feb 2021
“Schools in Ho Chi Minh City will be closed until the Tet vacation.” It was exactly one year ago that the IGS went online as one of the first schools in the Network of German Schools to do so, back then after the TET holidays. When, on Monday, 1 February, 2021, the Vietnamese authorities announced that the schools would...
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