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Nürnberg artist and designer, Birgit Osten has been sparking Grade 3 students’ creativity by getting them to sketch and color different buildings from around the world. Together they collaborated to create a five meters long…

Grade 3C went to the Erlangen tafel to donate food, last week. The IPC unit they are currently investigating is Young Entrepreneurs, and a few weeks ago they visited the tafel to find out more…

The Grade 3 IPC unit this semester is ‘Young Entrepreneurs’. As a result of the collaborative planning between homeroom teachers and the German department, a trip to the Erlanger Tafel was planned. The learning intention…

Over the past few months, we had the idea to find ways to help an animal shelter. On the weekends, we and some neighborhood friends would bake muffins and then walk around to the different…

Grade 5 went to Bayreuth for a week and had lots of laughs and did lots of fun activities. On Monday, we went climbing at the Kletterwald in Pottenstein, before arriving at the Youth Hostel…

The Grade 1 students have been inquiring into how entertainment has changed over time and why we have entertainment. Grade 1’s used their math skills to collect data from the Early Years 5  students to…

Over the past few weeks, the Early Years children have been combining their Outdoor Learning classes with Grade 3. Together, we have been concentrating on our “Service Learning”. We have decided to organize a farmers’…

Last week at the Elementary School assembly, a number of students presented their learnings. All the presentations linked in some way to social and environmental challenges and how we can move towards making the world…

Last week, children in Grade 2 celebrated the festival “Holi”. Each class was very lucky to be supported by parents who taught the children in the class about the meaning of the festival and shared…

Did you know that there are 30 different home languages amongst our Elementary School students? Each day we are privileged to experience everything our multilingual students bring to our learning community, from prior knowledge and…