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DSD II results 2022

Posted on25 Feb 2022

IGS would like to proudly announce that all of this year’s DSD II candidates (German Language Diploma level 2) from Grade 11 have achieved their diploma with outstanding results of C1 (CEFR) in all four skills. A welcome surprise for their teacher was that this year’s cohort received an average of a fantastic 92% for the written communication which...

Collegial Class Visits

Posted on24 Feb 2022

At the IGS, the KUH (Collegial Class Visits) has been an integral part of the school’s in-service programme for years. KUH stands in German for Collegial Teaching Observation and is a means for the teaching staff to support each other in preparing and implementing lessons. It is a criteria-based observation of a lesson with subsequent feedback from colleagues. The...

School Readiness Tests in U6

Posted on24 Feb 2022

Children are inquisitive and want to learn. When they reach preschool age, the joy of starting school is immense. But before the time for school cones and backpacks begins, there is still the school aptitude test. This week the preschool of the U6 section started with the tests. The aptitude test for school not only tests the language level,...

IJSO – Completion of the first round of the olympiad

Posted on18 Feb 2022

The first round of the International JuniorScienceOlympiad 2022 is now complete. The students of the IGS examined a wide range of questions relating to the topic of hearing. They learned about the differences between noise, sound and tone, constructed a model of the middle ear and made grains of salt jump and dance with their voices. As in previous...

Campus opening “Back to school at last!”

Posted on17 Feb 2022

It was this exclamation that four second graders shouted as they ran past my office back to their campus and to their class. Everyone should hear it. “Back to school at last!” They expressed their joy at finally being able to go back after 9 long months (since May 10, 2021) to their friends, to their teachers, to their...

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