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

by Annika Poestges

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!

by Annika Poestges

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.

by Annika Poestges

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.

by Annika Poestges

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!

by Annika Poestges

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.

by Annika Poestges

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.

by Annika Poestges

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!

by Annika Poestges

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!

by Annika Poestges

SLO® Leadership Weekend

SLO^® Leadership Weekend

Friday, 27 September 2019

Last weekend, 22 SLO® prefects from our Student Life Organization Leadership Team went to Wiehl for a leadership retreat. Our Head Prefect and Deputy and Senior Prefects, worked throughout the weekend on building leadership, communication, and organizational skills to prepare them for their journey as an SLO prefect.

Prefects also worked within their departments to define and create a plan to achieve SLO goals under the mission statement of the year : Shaping SLO ® to be more interactive, impactful, and memorable for the ISR community! We also toured a cave, played human soccer, and went on a team hike. In the evenings, we went for ice cream and played team bonding games and Henning, our Head Prefect, even designed our very own SLO Escape Room! Be sure to keep your out eye on this amazing team of students! Great things are sure to come this year!