Bilingualism / Linguistic Diversity
- Teaching:
- Partner tongue and mother tongue
- Partner tongue is not the same as mother tongue
- Partner tongue is not a foreign language
- Mother tongue teaching staff
- Language immersion
- Written language acquisition is first introduced in the mother tongue
- Advantages for the German School:
- Mother tongue instruction
- Native speaker activity groups
- Library
- English language immersion in the playground
- Englisch / German library
- Many reading programmes (reading mentors in lower classes
- Exchange programmes (Erasmus with France)
- Fêtes and celebrations:
- Christmas Show
- Assemblies
- Book Week
- Halloween / Carnival
- Reading and poetry competitions
- School fête
- Culture:
- Customs, holidays, manners, colloquial language, teaching style, various caltural influences
- Balanced presence of both languages, e.g. website, letters, assembly, signs
Democracy
In our daily school life, we attach particular importance to basic democratic values and promote them through the conveyance of:
- Critical thinking:
- Critical faculty
- Self-confidence and self-esteem
- Self-reflection
- Freedom of anxiety
- Freedom of expression
- No reprisals
- Respect:
- Fair play at all levels
- Acceptance of otherness
- Rules of politeness
- Laws and rules
- Democracy education:
- Class rules
- Voting
- Class council
- Class representatives
- Right to have a say / be heard / an opinion
- Pupil parliament
- Classification / subordination
Diversity – Every child is heard an seen!
Good coexistence and harmonious collective learning can only succeed if we observe the following points:
- Individuality:
- Personality development
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Appreciation
- Tolerance:
- Rules for class discussions
- Role model function
- Teaching respect
- Intercultural skills
- Manners
- Inclusion:
- Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Individual support
- Sexual and gender diversity:
- Contact persons in the school
- Representation through pictures
- Theme box in the library
Promote Strengths – Holistic Learning
In our school we specifically promote the strengths of our pupils through:
- Differentiated & individual learning programmes:
- Temporary learning groups
- In class and in free time activities
- Interdisciplinary learning:
- In lessons
- Linked to free time activities
- Inclusion:
- Teaching assistants
- Extra hours
- A wide variety of additional activities:
- Judo, choir, pottery, music schools, football, basketball, table tennis, origami, yoga, cookery, butterfly garden, garden of the senses, aquarium, etc.
- Competitions and projects:
- Book Week
- Kangaroo competition
- Reading competition
- Sports contests
- Performances
- Writing competition
- Christmas Show
Cultural Skills
We enrich our school life trough diverse projects:
- Europe education:
- Erasmus
- SESB (Europe School)
- Civil rights
- Diversity:
- Linguistic diversity
- Openness to cultural and individual diversity
- Internationality:
- Celebrate traditions
- Celebrate cultures
- International picnic
- Africa club
- Football / integration through sport / SESB football tournament
- Native speakers
- Parents support internationality in lessons and extra-curricular projects
- Grand Prix de Chanson
- Values:
- Tolerance
- Acceptance
- Appreciation
- Democracy
- Integration:
- Language training
- Children’s rights / Basic law
- Language learning groups included in German school classes / working together
- Globality:
- Media skills
- Worldwide communication
- Networking
- Political education
- Historical education
Positive Working and Learning Environment
Our positive working and learning environment is achieved through the following points and helps to motivate all people working and learning at our school.
- Forms of learning:
- Action-oriented learning
- Problem-oriented learning
- Workshop teaching
- Open forms of learning
- Closed forms of learning
- Frontal teaching
- Learning stations
- Atmosphere:
- Respectful social interaction
- Colour scheme / colour concept
- Freedom from anxiety
- Tidy an clean “clear line of vision”
- Working conditions:
- Opportunities for withdrawal
- Working space
- Quiet room
- Entrance hall designed as a place of work and relaxation
- Traditions:
- Charlie’s Run
- Dickens’ Mile
- Advent Bazaar
- School Fête
- Book Week
Social Learning
At our school, we attach particular importance to social learning with the following priorities:
- Teamwork
- Tolerance
- Self-esteem
- Empathy
- Non-violence
- Social competence
- Appreciation
Social learning is an integral part of teaching in all classes troughout the week and is carried out by the educators in cooperation with the teachers. The teaching of these age-appropriate social skills is very important to us for our daily pedagogical work.