News from the IGS

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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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