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.
ISR Tennis Teams at the School Area Championships
ISR Tennis Teams at the School Area Championships
Tuesday, 01 October 2019
Five ISR Tennis teams gained their first tournament experiences at the School Area Championships.?
On Tuesday, four of our teams competed and finished with two 2nd place, one 3rd place and one 4th place place. In the youngest age group, Nico and Clara showed an outstanding performance. They won their matches 9:0. On Thursday, the older girls had their tournament. They reached the 3rd place directly behind the Sports School Dormagen. We congratulate all students for their great performance!
ISR at the Sonnenblumenfest in Meerbusch
ISR at the Sonnenblumenfest in Meerbusch
Monday, 30 September 2019
This past Sunday we joined the annual Sonnenblumenfest in Meerbusch. Despite the rain, we enjoyed the day and visitors could find occasional refuge in our American style school bus during the heavy rain.
Getting to sit in the bus and get their faces painted was a huge highlight for the children! They got to express their creativity by decorating paper frames in the warm dry bus and of course the little artists got to take their art home afterwards. The ISR Choir braved the weather and gave an impressive performance. Our 3rd and 4th graders showed cased their skills by peforming three songs that they sung to the amazement and delight of the audience including their parents.
Many thanks to our dedicated music teacher Mrs. Bucher, who prepared the students for the performance and accompanied them during the day. Taking part in the Sonnenblumfest is now a tradition for us and we happily do it every year! We look forward to next year’s festival and hope for much sunnier, drier weather!
Student Spotlights: Spotlight On Our Student Catarina
Spotlight On Our Student Catarina
This week we would like to spotlight our 7th Grade student, Catarina, who has been at ISR since 1st grade! Catarina is a bright, friendly and honest girl who is known to impact people with her smile.This year she joined as a Senior Prefect in the Sports & Health department in our Student Life Organization® (SLO) for the first time and she enjoys working with her classmates on different projects.
Catarina is not only a great asset to the Student Life Organization®, but also contributes positively to her learning environment. She is always ready to help her fellow classmates and provide assistance to others. Catarina’s friends particularly appreciate her honesty. A recent example describing this good quality occurred last week. Catarina found a considerable amount of cash under the keyboard of her computer. The seventh-grader knew very well that the money was missing for another student and informed our librarian immediately and handed the money to her. We are very proud of the seventh grader and very impressed by her morals and values. Mr. Mo couldn’t have said it better: Stay like you are!
We are very proud to spotlight Catarina, 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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