News from the IGS

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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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The Start of the U6 Section

Posted on17 Feb 2022
The first week in the U6 section is already over. It was great to see the children storming the schoolyard, waving happily and discovering the houses on the first morning. After all, things have changed there. Then the first week flew by! Everyone was very busy making new friends, rekindling old friendships, deciding on rules for the groups and...
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