News from the IGS

Environment

Posted on28 Apr 2023
Earth Day As the effects of climate change become more apparent every year, it’s clear that living a greener lifestyle is more important than ever. The Researchers and Discoverers in the U6 area took a very close look at the environment and our earth this week and asked themselves: what habitats are there on our earth? What is good...
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Reading Night

Posted on28 Apr 2023
To celebrate World Book Day on April 23rd, we, the people responsible for the school entry program, invited the children of Class 1, the preschool children and their parents to a reading evening on the IGS campus. Books of all kinds in German, English and Vietnamese were read out loud around a crackling campfire and in cozy reading corners....
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Jump Arena

Posted on28 Apr 2023
A small step for children; a giant leap for teamwork! On Friday 21.4. 2023 it was finally time again! Grades 3 and 4 went on a day trip and experienced all kinds of things at the Jump Arena in District 7. There were many inviting attractions that invited you to try out and jump over your own shadow. For...
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Grade 8 Animation Project

Posted on27 Apr 2023
Grade 8 have just finished an animation project where they developed their ability in using computational thinking. They were challenged to recreate a movie scene using the skills of problem solving through using algorithms, abstraction, pattern recognition and decomposition. You can see the projects and how they work with the user’s mouse pointer here.

Visit of the SBH

Posted on21 Apr 2023
We had a visit from Germany this week from Ms. Silvana Bluhm and Mr. Dirk Thormann. Both names are not unfamiliar to the IGS: Ms. Bluhm is the Deputy Chair of our school sponsor, the Foundation for Education & Crafts, and Mr. Thormann was the principal of the IGS from 2015-2021. Both were in Ho Chi Minh City for...
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