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Today was a very memorable day for our ISW community in many different ways. For the first time ISW celebrated this show on our own school grounds of this wonderful former nunnery – the central square providing a perfect location for this event. Our 200 strong students provided a wonderful musical performance for their families and attendance was in abundance. Thank you to all Learning Partners for your incredible performances.
It is amazing to think that our small community of just 38 stud...

Our ISW Student Council ended their year with a fabulous service learning project and fulfilled their mission statement – “To develop responsible leaders within our ISW school community”.
Over this past year the ISW Student Council has been raising funds to support a service learning project to assist the local Children’s’ Home and the Senior Living center. Service-learning embodies the belief that knowledge is not merely transmitted from teacher to learner, but rather is gained by...

On 5th July Years 7 & 8 performed their own unique version of Alice in Wonderland for our younger LP’s in Primary. This performance was the result of many weeks of preparation and the effort has been extraordinary, with lower secondary LP's showing great skills in terms of acting outside the box in this wonderfully creative performance.
Many of our LPs were involved in the actual production on stage, whilst others were busy creating the set and background which truly carried our audience o...

On Wednesday, June 21st, Year 7 students at ISW launched their summer sale of jewelry produced through their Personal Project company: Destiny Jewelry. These students came up with a business model for their 3rd term Personal Project and as a team, created affordable and beautiful jewelry using rubber bands, cords, jewelry clasps, and beads and shells. The students have been advertising this jewelry throughout the school and at off campus community events as well, taking orders and presenting buy...

In June, Years 8 & 10 went on a joint 4 day/ 3 night expedition to Houffalize, Belgium as part of their Duke of Edinburgh International Bronze Award. This trip was a follow on from the Year 9 expedition to Echternach, Luxembourg which took place earlier in the year. For many students, this element of the award scheme provides the greatest challenge, but also the greatest fun.
In order to prepare, Learning Partners (LP’s) learn orienteering skills, first aid, and other outdoor skills. They ...

On the 23rd May 2023, the Board and Trustees of the ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz held their bi-annual meeting at the International School Westpfalz. Our location provided a really unique location for this group of movers and shakers from the business, political and cultural community.
Following the main Board meeting, the Managing Directors Stuart Rich and Charlotte Ducker had the opportunity of giving an exclusive tour to those present. Many were fascinated and amazed about both the physical tra...

Our Year fours have been reviewing the role of robots within our society. This research was based upon the Science “Inquiry-Based Learning” module concerning force, motion, and energy - the basis for designing and programming robots. Putting both their physics and mechanics skills to the test, our learning partners also reviewed various materials in order to design and construct sturdy constructions.
The study also enabled our students to hone in on their higher order thinking skills to c...

We were extremely honoured to welcome Colonel Trautermann, Assistant chief of staff A5 and Head of the Air Force Liaison Command to USAFE (Leiter Verbindungskommando Lufthwaffe zu USAFE) to our school last week as guest speaker to our secondary school students.
As part of his role, Michael Trautermann explained how important it is to NATO to ensure transparency about their work with the local community and that one of the most effective ways of doing this is by speaking with local schools.

The second meeting of the Women in Leadership Westpfalz “FührungsFrauen Westpfalz” took place yesterday evening, 11th May at the impressive building of the LASE department of RPTU (Rheinland Palatine technical university of Kaiserslautern-Landau).
Under the motto “Boldly ahead - sustainable & digital”, our guest speaker, Frau Prof. Dr. Katharina Spraul gave an inspirational account about scientific research concerning sustainability, which included an evaluation of the 17 Sustainable...

On Thursday 27th May, our Year 8’s held an “upcycling” sale which raised 240€ for a local animal shelter. Upcycling is basically reusing discarded objects in such a way as to create a new product with the focus upon extending the lifespan and minimalizing waste.
This sale was the result of four months of hard work in creating new items from old clothing and is currently one of three personal projects being held by Year 8 students this year. The initial idea to focus upon “upcycling�...