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Wednesday 18th September saw our first Expo of the year. Parents and friends were invited to come and speak with our learning partners about what they have been studying as part of their units of inquiry and what a morning it was!With a strong focus on presenting information, our learning partners were able to confidently discuss their work and answer questions from a very inquisitive audience. All of our year groups from reception to year 6 showed some excellent work and everyone should be very...

On Monday 2nd September, Reception and Year 2 went off to Landhaus Hilberth, where we spent a wonderful morning drinking freshly made apple juice and picking apples. Reception visited as part of their learning about the different seasons and Year 2 as part of their celebration of harvest. We watched closely how to pick the apples correctly and then we went to work! 400kg of apples later and we were ready for our picnic!Our next task was to sell the apples so we started making posters and banners...

On Tuesday June 18, our years 7,8 and 9 Learning Partners (LP’s) exhibited their personal projects of the year. We also shared samples of CAS projects prepared by our IB students. It was a great pleasure to discover our LPs' passion for painting, video editing, blog creation, drawing, song writing, fishing, sports, computer science, design, and so much more. We even had the privilege of watching a live experiment for the "dry cell" project prepared by one of our year 7 LPs.Thank you to all me...

A wonderful evening of speeches and excellent food was spent at Hotel Prinzregent on 7th June 2019 to celebrate the graduation of our IB Diploma Students. This celebration marked an important milestone of our students' accomplishments towards fulfilling their own personal dreams and desires.Congratulations goes to Ahmad, Lauritz, Shahd, Roen, Jan, Tom, Branigan, Thuy, Samuel, Anshika and Jürgen.Huge thanks goes to Jacques Marais (Head of Secondary) and his teaching team whom has supported them ...

The SBW Haus des Lernens management team celebrated this year's Omega at the wonderful location of Schloss Brunnegg.Following a number of speeches and inputs given by our main board, we were taken on a wonderful walk through the stunning landscape of Lake of Constance, which ended in a get together grill party at Meiers Mostbeizli.How lovely to spend some quality time with this amazing and very passionate SBW team!

On 27th of February, 33 Taiwanese principals visited the ISN to learn about our unique learning concepts and to exchange ideas. Stuart Rich, our head of school, gave a presentation, which was much appreciated and discussed with our guests. Afterwards, Stuart, Jacques and Patrick took the visitors on a tour through our campuses. It was a pleasure having our Taiwanese visitors and to share our concept of pedagogy!

This past weekend we held our annual ISN Christmas Market Stall in Neustadt. Students worked hard preparing baked goods and crafts to be sold from Friday-Sunday. We had wonderful support from the local community and raised money for the local charity Lichtblick, which supports people in poverty.A big thank you to the P&F for donating baked goods and volunteering their time. A big thank you also to Ehrat's Erlebnisbäckerei for letting us use their bakery and assisting in helping our students ba...

Not long ago, we received a donation of 44 solar car kits from TE-Connectivity, a big automotive components supplier located in Speyer. We are looking forward to integrate these cars within our curriculum and some of our students already got a head start, in having fun with this form of energy.Our school provides hands-on experiences in different fields of study, especially in the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). On the one hand, this enables our students to unde...

On Wednesday 14th November, Learning Partners from year 9 took part in a workshop organized by the City of Neustadt to commemorate WWI, which ended 100 years ago. The workshop participants had a range of different backgrounds from student to former soldier and most notably, Jemma, a Syrian refugee.After an initial discussion of our own perceptions of war we explored the interactive stations to learn more about what happened during the First World War using testimonies. We read moving diary entra...