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We are so fortunate at ISW to be part of a forward-thinking organisation in SBW Haus des Lernens, and to be able to embrace their vision for education in the modern era. Thanks to their philosophy of “compacting” we are able to enrich our learning partner’s educational experience through our Wednesday program. Our learning partners in Lower Secondary have a unique opportunity to work on projects that evoke their passions and give them the freedom to “think outside the box” through thei...

Winter is a great time to do some science experiments. Since the beginning of the school year, Early Years has been noticing and observing the different weather patterns and their changes. After last week's snowfall, the children gathered to discuss what they already knew about the snow and shared their ideas about how snow forms and what happens to it after falling.
As a way to clarify their thoughts about what happens to the snow after falling, the children went outside to collect snow and ...

ISW is a huge champion of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award, and we are delighted that all our learning partners in Year 8, 9 and 10 are working towards their Bronze Award – with the intention that many of our students continue with the award scheme in future years and achieve the prestigious Silver and Gold awards. For those who are unaware, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) scheme is a youth development program that aims to help young people develop skills, build confidence, and m...

For Valentine’s Day this year, our Year 4 class decided that instead of having a party, they opted to write letters to the residents of the neighboring “Wohnheim für Behinderte”- elderly people’s assisted home. Each child made two cards to give to the seniors with Valentine’s Day wishes for health and happiness
Despite being a non-native German group, our students wrote their cards in German so that we could work on our written German skills, and each child also carefully designe...

The International School Westpfalz officially celebrated it’s opening in Landstuhl on Thursday 2nd February together with the association “ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz” and officials of our local community whom were predominantly involved in the start-up of the school.
The International School Westpfalz not only offers children a modern, international environment conducive to learning, but also represents an important location factor in the West Palatinate region.
After the guests we...

We were delighted to welcome Sebastian Liesegang from the local radio station, Antenne K‘lautern to our school today to talk about the official opening of our new campus.
Sebastian interviewed not only members of the admin team, but had a great time interviewing four of our Learning Partners. Thank you so much to Hayden, Emilia, Carolyn and Aaron for an amazing job. What an experience and how amazingly mastered!
Sebastian was so impressed with our community that he asked if he could be i...

Just before the Christmas break, our years six, seven and eight took to the Rock Wall at Ramstein Air Base, where they tested their climbing, boulder and slack line skills. For some students these tasks came naturally, for others it was a great achievement to overcome their natural fears and to trust their equipment, their team players and most importantly themselves.
In all SBW schools and across all SBW services, great emphasis is placed on "Believing in success" – the importance of trust...

In Early Years, the children have been discovering the world around them and their bodies by exploring the senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. After discussing each of the five senses individually, the children worked together to sort out different pictures into sense categories.
One of our groups connected this exploration to nature by going on a five-sense field walk, engaging their individual senses.
The other group have been taking this a step further during their sc...

“At ISW; we embrace the SBW vision for our learning partners to take responsibility for their own learning. We believe that autonomous learning encourages an individual to assume responsibility for their own learning and actions: it develops the ability to set objectives, determine approaches and find appropriate means and methods that are suited to the individual’s own learning pathways and possibilities.” Fractal element 2, SBW Haus des Lernens.
An example of this is found in the proj...

Today’s primary assembly led by our Year Five students and their mentor, Kara, saw the launch of our new house point system in the primary school. Going forward, house points will be awarded to LPs for exhibiting elements of the learner profile here at ISW.
The Learner Profile represents ten attributes which we believe can help individuals and groups become responsible members of local, national and global communities. The Learner Profiles, along with the SBW Fractal, form the foundation of...