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Finally, the students are back!

Posted on13 May 2020

Classes 4-10 are back on campus. After the temperature controls, the information about the hygiene and the adequate behaviour, all classes were ready for studying on campus. Again, there was real exchange among students and teachers. During the phase of online teaching it became apparent that communication and learning go far beyond the acquisition of facts. Although some of...

Evaluation of the parent survey – area school

Posted on08 May 2020

The school thanks parents for their participation in the online IGS survey. The school received feedback from 37 parents from different grades. The questions are first evaluated in full before individual aspects are presented. In addition to the fact that there were classes at all, positive aspects of online teaching related primarily to the individual, continuous work as well...

Web conference on the situation of German schools abroad during Covid-19

Posted on08 May 2020

On May 6, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. HCMS time, the first web conference of the WDA took place on the situation of German schools abroad in times of the corona pandemic. The funding agencies as well as the members of the Bundestag Ulla Schmidt (SPD) and Thomas Erndl (CDU / CSU) were represented. The WDA chairman Dr. Peter Fornell...

Making politics come alive

Posted on11 Apr 2020

Interview with Kordula Schulz-Asche, Member of the German Bundestag What do the students of the IGS and the members of the German Bundestag have in common? They “zoom”! While the students in Vietnam have had online classes for nine weeks, the German parliament has to find new ways of communicating with its members. A virtue is made of necessity,...

Primary Library Logo Competition

Posted on11 Apr 2020

We want to thank everyone who participated in the first round of the Primary Library Logo Competition. Ben Wayman and Quynh Anh were overwhelmed with the variety of unique designs that the students produced – with so many triangles, books, parrots, and a very confused t-rex it was a fantastic brainstorming session! We’d like to invite interested K1-5 students...

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