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Peer Presentations

Posted on16 Feb 2022

On Thursday, 10 February 2022 students from Grade 8 gave formal presentations to students from Grade 12. Grades 9 and 10 were spectators. The presentations from the Grade 8 students were based on their study of John Wyndham’s “The Chrysalids” and concerned mainly social issues concerned with genetics or geneology. The Grade 12 students presented a formalized comparison of...

IGS introduces itself at the TU Dortmund

Posted on16 Feb 2022

As part of the lecture series “Introduction to School Pedagogy” by Prof. Dr. Silvia-Iris Beutel at the TU Dortmund, we received an invitation to present the IGS and to give the students an insight into the structures of a German school abroad. This was preceded by the successful participation of the IGS in the “German School Prize Special” in...

GIB Course Selection in Grade 10

Posted on11 Feb 2022

The future! For us students in class 10, this is an auspicious word. It harbors uncertainty, but also excitement and curiosity. It is precisely this word that became the main topic at the parents’ evening for the GIB course selection. After 10 years of school, we are now at a point where we have to make decisions that will...

Specific heat capacity of water

Posted on10 Feb 2022

As part of the subject of heat and internal energy, the 8th graders first dealt with the determination of the specific heat capacity of water during physics lessons. To determine this, the students heated a measured amount of water with a heating coil and calculated the specific heat capacity from the temperature increase and heating energy. This calculation was...

remote learning assistant

Posted on10 Feb 2022

Dear students, dear parents, My name is Luca Otten. I’m 23 years old and I’m studying to become a high school teacher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, specializing in mathematics, physical education and physics. In the last three months I was able to get to know the German School in Ho Chi Minh City better as part of...

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