新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year 2019!
新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year 2019!
Tuesday, 05 February 2019
豬年是充满幸福的一年, 表示机会, 勇气, 信心。 希望今年这些积极的特征陪您。
Today we welcome the Lunar New Year of the Pig. The Year of the Pig is a year of happiness and stands for opportunities, courage, and optimism. We hope that these positive characteristics will also accompany you throughout the year.
We wish all ISR families a Happy New Year of the Pig!
Join Us! On Sunday, February 10, ISR will celebrate, the Chinese New Year together with the Chinese School Mingde in Krefeld and our Chinese community.
A delicious buffet with traditional food, colorful performances, and much more await you!
The event will take place in our cafeteria beginning at 11:30 am and the stage program will start at 2:00 pm. We look forward to see you and your family there!
Looking Back: Ballet Summer Camp 2019
Looking Back: Ballet Summer Camp 2019
Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Last week, the Ballet Summer Camp took place for the first time at our school. The program was led by Mrs. Peltzer, who regularly conducts various ballet courses during the academic year as part of our daily extracurricular program. In addition to classic ballet moves and some theory, the children learned how to interpret a given theme through movement and how to express their feelings through dance.
The children choreographed their own dance routine to the music from the ballet “Die Puppenfee”. On the last day of the camp, the children stayed busy creating ballet themed arts and crafts.
We would like to thank Mrs. Peltzer very much for this extraordinary week and we are looking forward to the next Ballet Camp next year.
Ballet lessons at ISR
Ms Peltzer offers her ballet lessons weekly as an SLO® activity for various age groups at ISR. The dance routines are performed by the children at ISR school concerts and other internal school events. If you are interested in the Ballet SLO® Activity for your child, you can contact Mrs. Peltzer directly by e-mail: email2clp@gmail.com
Looking back: ISR Summer Camps 2019
Looking back: ISR Summer Camps 2019
Saturday, 29 June 2019
Our motto, “It’s cool to be good”, doesn’t need a summer break and proved just that by successfully ending our ISR 2019 Summer Camps today!
Our students were particularly fortunate this year as we were able to offer four parallel camps thanks to the help of our dedicated teachers and parents.
The camps included the Cooking & More Summer Camp, the Summer Art Camp, the Sports Camp and, for the first time, a Ballet Summer camp! All participants had an eventful holiday week. They made many new friends from all over the world and after today, they will go on holiday with many beautiful memories to cherish for a long time.
We would like to thank our teachers, supervisors, parents and of course our students for another successful camp week! All individual reports and photos of the different camps will follow shortly here.
Musicbox Oxana – ISR Student Summer Concert
Musicbox Oxana – ISR Student Summer Concert
Monday, 24 June 2019
Last Sunday, the annual Summer Concert of our in-house music school, Musicbox Oxana, took place at ISR. More than 90 young musicians between the ages of 3-17 inspired their families, friends and teachers with their performances and musical talent. Participants ranged from beginner to advanced music students, which included multiple winners of music competitions. This allowed the audience to enjoy a broad spectrum of genres on Sunday!
All visitors were enthusiastic about the successful and harmonious Summer Concert and were impressed by the remarkable progress of each individual student.
Congratulations to the whole Musicbox Oxana team! Without the months of preparation, the dedication and enthusiasm of the music teachers, the concert would not have been possible. We are already looking forward to the winter concert performances in December!
Art Project for the Environment
Art Project for the Environment
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
The Young Artist Group, an SLO® activity which runs weekly at ISR, recently created artwork that also serves as a statement about environmental conservation.
50 students, working with the art teacher, Mrs. Simpson Worboys, are helping to reduce the amount of plastic going into the sea by creating reusable “Turtle” statement cloth bags. The goal of these bags is to encourage students and their families to use their “Turtle” Bags on a daily basis rather than a plastic bag. These students are proud their art project can help lead to better environmental practices and they hope to inspire others to reduce, reuse, and recycle!
ISR Students at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf
ISR Students at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Monday, 03 June 2019
On Saturday, 1st June, our students were honored to present their own piano compositions during the Schumann Festival as a prologue to the performance of the renowned artist Gabriela Montero at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. After their own performance, the students had the amazing opportunity to meet Ms Montero in person and spend some time with her.
A huge thank you to the Tonhalle Düsseldorf for making this possible and thank you to our dedicated teachers, who prepared our talented students for their impressive debut. We are already looking forward to the next Schumannfest.
Summer concerts at ISR
Summer concerts at ISR
Saturday, 01 June 2019
This week at ISR, we celebrated the start of summer with our summer concerts, performed by our students in Grades 1-8. Every morning teachers, parents, friends and students gathered in the cafeteria to enjoy the concerts and performances by the students, thus starting off the day in a great mood. The tiny tots in the Kindergarten kicked off the summer concerts last Friday with a lot of dancing, singing and instrumental performances. Not to be outdone, our grades 1-8 gave their best this week and commenced their concerts with our ISR school song. In addition to the concerts, there were numerous ballet performances as well as acting performances by our very talented students.
Technical support for the concert was provided by SLO® Club “ISR Sound Crew”, which took care of the sound system during the concert series. The students of the SLO® Club Creative Minds, led by ISR Mum, Susie Seum, were responsible for the superbly decorated stage and the light show.
Parents had the opportunity to get together after the concerts and enjoy the rest of their morning over snacks and beverages.
We would like to thank everyone involved for their support! Our talented students have astounded us with their outstanding performances. A huge thank you goes to our dedicated music, drama and dance teachers, for their time and efforts in preparing and mentoring our students over months.
Our next musical highlight follows on 1st June at the Schumannfest. See you there!
ISR International Spring Festival 2019
ISR International Spring Festival 2019
Monday, 06 May 2019
In keeping with the theme: “Many Cultures – one global language: education” hundreds of partners, guests and friends of our school came together to celebrate cultural diversity here at ISR during our annual International Spring Festival last Saturday.
ISR families from over 44 countries came dressed in traditional attire to represent their country. In addition to showcasing their national games, arts and crafts, they also brought various homemade delicacies from all over the world for the delicious “Taste of the World” buffet.
Students presented their projects in their classrooms and visitors had the opportunity to view numerous art exhibitions on display throughout the school. Fun-filled activities, sponsored by our partners and supported by our SLO® Students, as well as a colorful open-air stage program entertained our guests. Numerous bands, dancers and artists created an outstanding atmosphere on campus.
The children participated also in a challenging “Multisport Competition” organized by our PE Department. Other sporty activities included playing life-size giant Human Soccer and Hockey with our Partner HTC Schwarz-Weiss Neuss e.V.
These beautiful moments were captured on camera by one of our wonderful ISR mothers and professional photographer (Melanie Osterried Fotografie), who also offered additional Family Fun Portraits for all visitors for free. A raffle with great prizes for kids closed off the wonderful event.
We would like to thank all our visitors and partners who made this day special and of course a huge thank you to our teachers and students who worked so hard to make this event a success. Additionally, a special thank you goes to our outstanding parents, who once again surpassed themselves with this year’s “Taste of the World” Buffet and who lovingly decorated the whole school.
The combined efforts of our entire community just goes to show – Good schools are made of students, great schools are made of families! We’re already looking forward for next year’s International Spring Festival Celebration!
IB Art Exhibition Now Showing at Deutsche Bank
IB Art Exhibition Now Showing at Deutsche Bank
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Our amazing IB Art exhibition is now showing at Deutsche Bank @ Königsalle, in Düsseldorf. If you have not yet had the opportunity to see these great works of art by our great young artist, please stop by and have a look!
Russian Maslenitsa festival at ISR
Russian Maslenitsa festival at ISR
Friday, 22 March 2019
Last friday, we celebrated the traditional Russian Maslenitsa festival with our ISR community. We had such a good time learning about this festival, the origins behind it and being immersed in the cultural activities. Our Russian parents busied themselves by making homemade traditional food, drinks, and other symbolic arrangements.
The afternoon was filled with a lot activities and performances by our students, teachers, and parents. One of our Russian parents sewed the traditional dresses and the community wore traditional costumes and attire, which were worn by the teachers involved in the program. One of the days highlight was the bonfire! During which we burnt the Maslenitsa Doll which signifies new beginnings and to welcome in Spring!
We would like to thank all our students, teachers, and especially our parents who were involved in organizing and preparing for this event. It was a huge success and that’s all because of you!
