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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...

Under the motto, “Democratic values travel across borders”, students from years 9-12 have been actively involved over the last few weeks in reviewing three concepts derived from democracy: FREEDOM, JUSTICE & FRATERNITY. The results of this work was then presented and further discussed in a number of workshops which took place in a presentation tent located adjacent to the main town square in Neustadt. We had a number of visitors to the tent during the morning slot and a school group (from Ed...

With these wonderful words, our years five and six brought tears to the eyes of Gemma and James, the English couple calling themselves “Action hero” whom have been travelling 30,000km across Europe recording love songs as part of their “Oh Europa” tour.Our students, coming from America, Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, India, South Korea, Turkey, Brazil and Egypt have been practicing amazingly hard over the last three weeks to prepare this song “Nothing More” ...

ISN was invited to the official opening ceremony of the Democracy Festival HAMBACH! which took place on Friday 14th September at the Hambacher Schloss and hosted by the Minister President of Rheinland Pfalz, Malu Dreyer and Minister Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf. Under the motto “We need to speak” members of the Metropolitan Rhein Neckar together with students and guests from other European countries came together to celebrate democracy through art and culture. We are very honored to have been an a...

A warm welcome to parents, learning partners (LPs) and mentors at the start of the new 2018/19 academic year. We trust that you had a relaxing and refreshing summer holiday. A hearty welcome to new parents, LPs and mentors – we have 41 new students starting with us this year! Our wish is that each and every family will be happy and successful this academic year.

Congratulations goes to our IB Diploma Class of 2018 whom managed to achieve 100% pass rate in their exams. We are very proud of your results.Not only is the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) recognized and respected by the world’s leading universities, but furthermore, this two year programme develops our students in terms of their breadth and depth of knowledge – and encourages them to flourish physically, intellectually, emotionally and ethically. Thus providing an...

The PYP Exhibition took place on Thursday June 28th. The PYP Exhibition is a graduation requirement for the senior class in the PYP programme - in our case Year 6. Here students as a class group are required to take over and develop one of the six Units of Inquiry. As a class group they make all key decisions and develop the complete unit. They divide responsibilities, complete the unit and are responsible for presenting their work to the school community. As you can imagine, a great many collab...

This year’s Final Year Assembly took place on June 28th. Our music teacher, Aria, did a fantastic job of putting on a lively musical performance which was thoroughly enjoyed by our families. Academic achievement awards were given out to students demonstrating a fantastic development within the main subject areas. Well done to all for a wonderful and memorable performance to end our school year.

We are really proud of one of our ISN students, Aidan, for his fantastic work in the fight against Polio. Aidan first noticed this initiative organized by the Rotary Germany about collecting plastic bottle tops to fight against the disease Polio in February 2018. Polio is a highly contagious disease that predominantly affects young children and is incurable – but with a vaccination, life-long protection against polio can be achieved.Aidan presented this initiative to the school and received th...

The International School Neustadt is delighted to announce its active participation in the “Querfälltein-Festival 2018”. An initial kick-off meeting day with Wolfgang Dinges, Head of Culture and Art in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse together with Jacques Marais and Charlotte Ducker provided the first steps for this fantastic co-operation.The “Querfälltein” festival (translated as “Thinking out of the box” festival), which is held every two years by the cultural department of the city ...