Dear School Community, How much time should my child spend on the phone? Is the game he or she is playing online okay? What is my child doing on Instagram? What websites is my child on and who is it chatting with? What skills does my child need? What rules make sense? Parents are in …
On Wednesday evening, the parents’ evening on the topic of “bullying in school” was held via Zoom. Bullying occurs in all types of schools and grade levels. Fast and effective intervention is important to us as a school. In doing so, we also need the help of parents, their observations and feedback, but also their …
Dear School Community, February is a special month for Black communities worldwide, it is Black History Month (BHM). The idea originates from African American Carter G.Woods and was initiated in 1926. It started with the so-called “Negro History Week. It was not until the 1970s that the “Black History Month” was established in America. A …
Most of us have already had experiences with this situation. Sometimes a time of reflection at home can be nice, sometimes it can be very stressful. Studies have shown that young people in particular often experience some aspects of quarantine as very stressful. Especially if the quarantine lasts for a longer period of time – …
What does the Covid crisis do to children and young people? And what do they need because of it? Questions that have occupied the social work and us psychologists Kerstin Krohmer and Lisa Lüthke for over a year. So far, we have worked out methods for crisis management with the individual classes and done a …
Two weeks ago, the long-planned survey on experiences of discrimination in the school context was launched. This is an important and at the same time challenging topic, which we as the German School want to tackle head on. For this reason, all school members were invited to report their experiences with discrimination and unequal treatment …
As was the case last term, all pupils are taking part in resilience training every 2 weeks this term.We started with a focus on regulating stress and emotions. Everyone probably knows situations in which he/she was excited or anxious, although inner calm would have been more useful. How do you create this inner calm? To …
Today, class 5 dedicated themselves to 2 tasks. On the one hand, we took another look at the garden furniture that was built by the class before the last school closure. The Covid development had also affected the furniture, as termites and other vermin already sensed their chance due to the quick closure. Everything was …
Thanks to Corona, I have… As varied as the sentence “Thanks to Corona I have …” was ended, as varied is the way the students of year 5-9 deal with the conditions under which we live thanks to Corona. As we already wrote in the invitation to these classes: Corona demands a lot. From all …
