Seoul: Cultural Identities’ Staircase gallery

The main building’s staircase is designed with elements of black, red and gold. It is not only the ‘traffic hub’ for the many school actors hurrying from one lesson to the next, or going to the cafeteria or outside to the yard during lunch break. Like a gallery, it also displays pupils’ artwork. Two paintings […]

Seoul: Of apples and pears…

Today in politics-class students from year 11 talk about societal opposites. The theme is ‘Young & old’. First, the students and their teacher talk about the German population pyramid. They then research the situation for South Korea. “How does the situation look like more than 10.00 km away from Germany?”, the teacher asks. The teenagers […]

Seoul: The falling ball

„And now let’s see what happens if we drop the ball“, the teacher encourages Alisa and smiles. The pupil just joined the extracurricular programming-group and works on her first game. At the desk across from her, two pupils work on a game that one of them has been tinkering on for some sessions. At DSSI, […]

Seoul: Chemistry with a twist

Today, the sixth graders carry out their projects using different media: in pairs, they research illnesses like cholera and tuberculosis online and create posters.

Hello, Seoul!

Welcome at the Deutsche Schule Seoul International – I am curious to see what I will experience here!

Cairo: We’re in!

The German School of Beverly Hills Cairo has joined our research project!  

Silicon Valley: Competing across borders

Today, students in 8th grade in their Ethics class started to work on a class-project they wish to submit to a competition organized by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) in Germany. They will shoot a 3-minute video based on research they’ve done collaboratively using google docs on their laptops. The […]

Silicon Valley: E-learning @GISSV

Students in 7th grade use the in-house developed e-learning platform (eschool21) to learn about programming variables and code a little program with the help of their IT teacher. Their task, incorporated within the e-learning platform (accessible from their laptops and also projected onto the Smartboard) is to write a program that “guesses” the number of […]

Silicon Valley: The global museum

Today the GISSV students have had the chance to see an exhibition on communism organized by the German Historical Museum (Deutschen Historischen Museum) right here on their campus. 25 posters have adorned the classroom walls and doors of the middle- and high-school alley. This transnationally-mobile exhibition has been traveling from Germany to 550 locations around […]