News from the IGS

Water analysis

Posted on13 Jun 2020
The project day “Water Analysis” took place for classes 8 to 10 this week. The water samples analyzed were taken at various stations during our ship excursion in December 2019 on the Mekong River In 3 hours at 3 stations these water samples were tested for pH, chloride content and ammonium ions. Our drinking water (I-on life) and the Saigon tap...
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Give something back to your school community!

Posted on12 Jun 2020
As part of an ethics project under the topic “Give something back to your school community!” the class 6 students planned their own workshops for younger IGS classes. In the next two weeks, the students will offer a dance workshop with their own choreography, two painting courses, a computer games group and a table tennis workshop.The kick-off today was...
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Virtual visit of the ZfA process supervisor

Posted on12 Jun 2020
All German schools abroad are supported in their development by the responsible German authorities. A productive cooperation with the German educational authorities is important to us. As at the Swiss-German School in Bangkok before, the IGS, too, had been virtually visited by the ZfA process supervisor. Questions of quality assurance, personnel supply, campus expansion and aspects of conceptual development...
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coding

Posted on12 Jun 2020
Grade 10 students over the past 8 weeks have been involved in designing a product with a micro-computer which involves coding to make motors, sensors and other electrical components work. The students learnt the basics of Javascript which is normally used to design websites. They transferred their knowledge skills sets of this coding language along-with mathematics and physics to...
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Evaluation of the student survey

Posted on10 Jun 2020
In order to get a comprehensive picture of online teaching, the main actors, the pupils, were of course also interviewed. The student representatives evaluated the survey. The survey was issued to students in grades 4-10. 36 responses were given, which gives a response rate of approx. 60%. A quarter of the answers come from grades 5, 6 and 8....
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