Student Spotlights: Spotlight On Our Student Kento
Spotlight On Our Student Kento
Kento, now in Grade 12, has been at ISR since 8th Grade. He is a dedicated and brilliant Mathematician, Physicist, and Computer Scientist. He is planning to study Computer Science at a German university and has just completed his C1 exam in German, which he completed after only 4 years of study!
However, Kento is not just a brilliant student, he is also very active in school life. About two years ago, he started organizing our Japanese book section in the library. He still comes in several times a week to shelve and organize the books. Our librarian Ms Keaton says, “He started this and continues it on his own initiative. We never asked but we greatly appreciate all his help!”
Kento also co-leads the WeDo Lego Robotics SLO® Activity each week, where our younger students are programming their own games and quizzes. Furthermore, Kento really cares about the environment and helps students and staff ensure plastic bottles are sorted and recycled. Finally, he is also always there to support our Japanese community and helps new families settle in at school.
We are proud to spotlight Kento, one of many of ISR’s outstanding students!
Our Student Spotlight project aims to highlight every Friday one of our outstanding students who is, appropriate to this year’s theme, striving for “extraordinary achievements” on a daily basis. No matter if its academic success, a special commitment, or outstanding character traits – we look forward to sharing each of these success stories.
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Student Spotlights: Spotlight On Our Student Lisa
Spotlight On Our Student Lisa
Lisa is now in her last year of school and is currently preparing for her IB exams. She is interested in studying Sciences and is taking high level Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. For her IB CAS project, Lisa has continued with the Ocean Cleaning Project, first initiated by her older brother.
During the siblings’ first trip to Egypt, Lisa says she and her brother were shocked by the amount of plastic in the ocean and therefore decided to start removing it. After that, Lisa started to inform herself of plastic’s impact on the environment, animals, and humans. However, as Lisa could not always travel to the beach, she started with several local projects around the Düsseldorf area. One of them at ISR, where she started to inform our younger students about the consequences of plastic pollution.
Ms. Morris, Head of Primary, says “Lisa did a great job spreading awareness throughout primary school. Her presentation was engaging and gave the students a lot to think about regarding how their actions affect the environment. She is promoting environmental awareness throughout the school and is a great example of someone with a great mind and strong character!” Another local project where Lisa is involved is “Gutes Karma für Grevenbroicher”. Recently, she participated at the Rhine Clean-up in Neuss for the second time.
We are proud to spotlight Lisa, one of many of ISR’s outstanding students!
Our Student Spotlight project aims to highlight every Friday one of our outstanding students who is, appropriate to this year’s theme, striving for “extraordinary achievements” on a daily basis. No matter if its academic success, a special commitment, or outstanding character traits – we look forward to sharing each of these success stories.
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Stomp Out Bullying Day 2019!
Stomp Out Bullying Day 2019!
Friday, 11 October 2019
Today, ISR celebrated Stomp Out Bullying Day. Under the theme, Don’t Stand By, Stand Up, the goal of this event is to raise awareness for bullying prevention across the school and to teach our students kindness, respect, and compassion for others. In primary school, the students celebrated Kindness Day.
Students were encouraged to wear blue to school to show they will stand up against bullying. There was also an anti-bullying contract for all students to sign. This annual event at ISR is an important day of all members of our community as we come together to show that kindness always wins. Don’t Stand By, Stand Up!
#DontStandByStandUp #StompOutBullying #BlueUp
Friendly match against St. George’s
Friendly match against St. George’s
Friday, 11 October 2019
This is what we call the ISR Team Spirit: This afternoon, three mixed ISR soccer teams played in a friendly tournament against students from St. George’s. All students had a lot of fun and both teams showed an amazing team spirit today. In the end, our blue team was lucky enough to win all four matches – congratulations!
We’re looking forward to upcoming matches and would like to thank St. George’s School Duisburg students for the great and fair match today!
The Talentprojekt won against Fortuna U16!
The Talentprojekt won against Fortuna U16!
Monday, 07 October 2019
Congratulations! Our students from the Talentprojekt won big against Fortuna U16 last Thursday. In its first win vs. a Bundesliga academy team, The Talentprojekt defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf 6-0. The six goals allowed were the most by Fortuna in a match this season.
Mark Dillon, Talentprojekt Founder, calls the victory “a statement game for us because we’ve proven we can play against the top academies”. He noted that in Thursday’s win we “finished our chances where we hadn’t in previous matches. This team is growing enormously”.
Talentprojekt Head Coach Samir Sisic was thrilled with the result, adding that we had previously come close to wins vs. professional youth teams Borussia Mönchengladbach and Vitesse Arnhem: “We showed that we have the ability to win these matches, and today a lot of things worked for us”.
Sisic says, “We wanted the guys to try to be as effective as possible and the first three or four chances we had were goals. In the matches before, we had a lot of control; our play was beautiful, but not effective. That cost us the result. But today, we played brutally effective. It was our first win vs. a team of this caliber, and I don’t want it to be the last win”.
The Talentprojekt looks to continue its success in upcoming matches vs. SpVgg Greuther Fürth, SC Nürnberg and FC Schalke 04.
History Presentation by Bridget King
History Presentation by Bridget King
Sunday, 06 October 2019
Last week, Tuesday, Ms. Bridget King gave a talk to grade 11 history students about her family’s history in Germany and experiences during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust. The compelling talk weaved a family narrative with the broader history of the era, describing what Ms. King called a “normal experience” for Jewish families in the 1930s.
The impressive range of sources and artifacts she shared brought her family’s tragic story to life for the students and served as a real life supplement to material studied in history books and in classes.
We would like to thank Ms. King for sharing her experiences with the class and for making herself available to students who are now very interested in engaging in their own research into their family histories after this talk.
ISR celebrate World Teachers’ Day
ISR celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Saturday, 05 October 2019
Today, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day in honour of the wonderful teachers and educators all over the world. At ISR, we are more than proud of our outstanding teachers who teach through our guiding principle: We enable great minds and strong characters. Being a teacher means way more than just teaching a class; our teachers provide social and emotional support to all our students and always have an open ear, mind and heart for our students, both inside and outside the classroom.
Each and every day our teachers show their commitment to our students so they can be the best version of themselves. We deeply appreciate our teachers and staff and would like to thank them for helping shape a bright future for our students. Dear Teachers, cheers to you!
Student Spotlights: Spotlight On Our Student Cameron
Spotlight On Our Student Cameron
This week, we spotlight Cameron, one of our exchange students from “The Talentprojekt”, in Grade 10. Cameron’s hometown is San Diego, California and he came to Germany in August to experience the German culture and to improve his already excellent football skills. He is a goalkeeper and actually owns a pair of Manuel Neuer’s goalkeeping gloves!
Cameron is truly the sort of guy you enjoy seeing every day. He brings a positive spirit to our school and likes to make things better for everyone around him. During the School Area Championship, he joined the ISR Team but due to an injury he, unfortunately, couldn’t be our goalkeeper. Instead, he played on the field and helped coach the goalkeeper, giving him useful tips and cheering him on throughout the game. The team ended up winning the championship!
Cameron is well-liked among his new friends at ISR and he is known for his good sense of humor. His host parents here in Germany are delighted to have him in their family and look forward to the many nice memories that are still to come. Also academically, Cameron is a very hard-working student and his teacher Ms. McGee says he is ambitious and always willing to improve.
We are proud to spotlight Cameron, one of many of ISR’s outstanding students!
Our Student Spotlight project aims to highlight every Friday one of our outstanding students who is, appropriate to this year’s theme, striving for “extraordinary achievements” on a daily basis. No matter if its academic success, a special commitment, or outstanding character traits – we look forward to sharing each of these success stories.
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Running for the Importance of Integration
Running for the Importance of Integration
Friday, 04 October 2019
Yesterday was an important German national holiday, where people all over Germany celebrated the German unity.
In honour of this special day almost 90 parents, students, teachers, and staff attended and successfully finished the race, organized by the DJK Rheinkraft Neuss 1914 e. V.. The ulterior motive was to point out the importance of integration.
We are more than proud to have such an active ISR community and look forward to many more running events.
Trial Day at Deutsche Bank Königsallee
Trial Day at Deutsche Bank Königsallee
Thursday, 03 October 2019
Thanks to our cooperation with the Deutsche Bank an der Kö, seven of our 10th and 11th graders got a glimpse into the world of finance with the Deutsche Bank Kö team last Friday.
The group got a chance to learn how Personal, Private and Business Banking departments operate and work together. The students were accompanied by Mr. Urban and enjoyed the educational learning experience.We look forward to the next trial day at Deutsche Bank Königsallee.
