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Our Year Two class have been exploring numbers, place value and reviewing the concepts of greater than/less than. After finding out how tall each learning partner is, we created real life greater than/less than statements. In Science, we are exploring friction and the effect it has on movement. We made our own force meters and are preparing for an experiment with cars, carpets and bubble wrap! In English, we are exploring different elements of stories such as setting, character development a...

Our Year Nine’s have been practicing their German oral communication skills with a set of questions about their own global identity. Each Learning Partner (student) on one side of a table had just one minute to ask the Learning Partner on the other side a set of questions about their home environment and culture, then everyone on the question side moved along one place.
This speed dating style activity provided plenty of opportunity to consolidate previously learned German vocabulary and ph...

Reception class have had a wonderful start to the school year. The children have settled in well to school life and the routines of Reception class. We have spent time exploring the classroom and getting to know each other.
We have been perfecting our fine motor skills with dough disco and funky finger daily workouts. This helps us build the muscles in our hands ready for writing. The children have started to learn and explore letters and are beginning to blend words to read. We have been wri...

Our young aspiring chemists undertaking practical work in order to better understand the Particle Theory of Matter and how supplying and removing energy from substances can alter their physical states.
Additionally, they also investigate how the addition of ‘impurities’ to pure substances alter the rate at which changes of states are achieved.
Having collected and analyzed their result, they were then better able to scientifically explain the processes involved as it relates to the arr...

Our two Early years classes have had a wonderful start to the year. Both of our dedicated teachers, Lisa and Nella have ensured that the first weeks were fun filled with establishing routines, schedules, expectations and getting to know each other.
Math has been taught in a really fun matter through playing lots of different games in order to build the students awareness of cardinality, stable order, one to one correspondence and building their general recognition of numerals.
In English s...

An important part of our Wednesday programme at ISW are our classes in Approaches to Learning and Careers. In recent weeks, our learning partners have been encouraged to be self-reflective towards their future aspirations in the world of adulthood.
In these lessons, young people have been considering discussing their interests, skills and passions, and have tried to relate these to the world of work. As part of this process students have produced their own Career Exploration Roadmap, and have...

ISW were delighted to join members of the “Welcome to Rheinland-Pfalz” group at their German-American Stammtisch last night to celebrate the German American Day.
In 1987, Congress established October 6, as German-American Day. The date reminds us of October 6th, 1683, when 13 German families arrived near Philadelphia and founded Germantown. While this day was designated to honor the contribution of German immigrants to the development of America, it is also the perfect occasion to bring t...

Wednesday 28th September started in a cold and chilly manner as ISW took part in the 2022 sports day in Ramstein. Temperatures were soon soaring as all of our learning partners hopped, skipped, jumped, ran and smiled their way to sporting success under an improving sky.
Under the guidance of Alice, our PE teacher, everyone took part in different track and field events culminating in the well fought ´Tug of War´. It was hard to predict who would win.
Food and drink was happily in big supp...

With a glass of Sekt, we welcomed our 72 new students and in total 200 students to the official orientation day at the International School Westpfalz on Friday 2nd September.
For the first time all of our students from Kindergarten to year 12 are able to study under one roof at our wonderful historical campus in Landstuhl.
This has been an incredible journey, converting over 5.300m of the former nunnery, dating back to 1852, to its new status as our beautiful SBW school.
We would like t...

On 21st July 2022, the International School Westpfalz were invited to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz association with a lavish celebration in the auditorium of the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences together with other members, sponsors and cooperation partners.
And what a fantastic event it was – huge thanks to Dr. Clev and his team!
When the ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz association was founded on April 11, 2012, only the boldest optimists would h...