Braiding colourful bracelets with rubber bands isn't just fun for the students – it gets really exciting when they start to create their own patterns and designs.
Afternoon Activities
In addition to regular classes, the DSND offers a wide range of voluntary or compulsory extracurricular classes.
Thus, together with lunch, the school offers an attractive all-day program.
The offerings are compiled at the end of the school year for the coming school year and modified in the second half of the year. The offerings are essentially free of charge.
To rhythmize the school day, remedial classes are offered in the morning. Children without special needs have a voluntary CCA program at this time. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, all elementary school children have a common learning time after lunch, during which homework is worked done independently. On Mondays and Wednesdays, the school offers paid homework supervision. Registration takes place together with the choice of work groups.
Our primary school students diligently practice the Ap Chagi, one of the basic kicks in Taekwondo. Mastering the Ap Chagi provides a solid foundation for learning more complex Taekwondo techniques. Speed, balance and precision are crucial for proper execution. Each training session improves strength, sharpens reflexes, and builds confidence in the technique.
Whether Easter eggs, bookmarks or beautiful window pictures, the students work with great concentration! Once the borders are done, the hardest part is over, because the colour fillings are very easy to apply. The transparent, bright colours are particularly beautiful and will soon be decorating the children's rooms.
Whether typical Indian games such as ‘Pitthu’ and ‘Carrom’ or the universally loved classics such as ‘Ludo’, the students have great fun and learn the basics of playing together in a playful way. They particularly appreciate the mixture of movement games and board games - it's a great way to let off steam!
Our CCA mentor Akash teaches primary school students the basics of football in a playful way. The pupils enthusiastically practise scoring goals, passing the ball to each other and defending it against opponents.
For Eliphas, it's all about technique: ‘I just want to learn to play football’.
My name is Sandra and as a mum of 3 children, my aim is to inspire children to learn, awaken their curiosity and encourage them to question and explore things for themselves.
In my academic career, I have learnt how much more constructive it is to look at issues from different perspectives and to combine knowledge from individual disciplines in order to gain new insights. I also pursue this interdisciplinary approach in my working group ‘Art World Journey’.
Using an art project, the children learn about a different country in each lesson and are allowed to be creative. We listen to music from the respective country to get them in the mood and inspire them.
As I believe that you don't have to be good at painting to make art, I introduce the children to lots of creative techniques for conjuring up a work of art on paper. At the end, the children are allowed to proudly present these works of art in an exhibition.
I also run the ‘GummiTwist’ working group. I still remember how much I loved playing gummitwist as a child. It's such a simple game that's great fun and can be played at different levels of difficulty. All you need is a rubber band and possibly 2 other players. I think it's a shame that this game has been lost nowadays. That's why I would like to pass this knowledge on to the children of the DSND.
My name is Yashasvi Sharma. I have a great passion for LEGO Robotics, 3D printing, open source robotics and 3D design. I have been teaching students in over 30 schools in India for the last 9 years. My focus is on awakening students' natural curiosity and enabling hands-on learning. In doing so, I support young people to explore the exciting world of STEM subjects.
Our primary school students practice flexibility and bounce!
Playing games is fun and relaxing! In the AG we meet to play board and card games together. Every week we get to know a new game. This game either comes from the school's large game collection or the children bring their own game and present it to the others. There is often time afterwards to play favorite games with their friends.
The reading pirates feel right at home in the small elementary school library. As soon as everyone has found a place on the sofa, they're ready to go!
We have a lot of reading material on the bookshelves and usually manage to get to know a children's book from beginning to end. The series "Was ist was?" and "Greg's Tagebuch" as well as the many picture books are also very popular with our little readers.
However, the stories about the girl Conni are particularly popular. When Conni once lost her mother in a large department store, the children followed the search for and recovery of Conni's mother in the children's department with great interest........
Afterwards, almost all the children talked about their own experiences in similar situations.
The younger children tend to enjoy listening and the older ones take turns reading aloud from each chapter.
The CCA is called Cardboard architects and takes place every Thursday afternoon. Together with Mrs. Arens-Klein we make life-size furniture out of cardboard. Everyone had to bring materials: Bottles, cardboard boxes and newspapers. We thought about how everything could fit together and started building.
The result was a beautiful and cozy sofa for the reading corner, on which three children can sit without any problems.
I really liked the fact that everyone worked together and searched for solutions and that we were allowed let off our creativity. We had a lot of fun and laughed a lot together.
Let's see what we build next!
Katharina Leuschner