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 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’.
Games are played in the World of Games CCA! Mrs Schach not only provides change with various games, but also ensures that everyone has lots of fun.
The children enjoy working creatively and creating small works of art. After burning and colouring, they are proudly presented at home!
The new badminton CCA was received with enthusiasm by the primary school children! Everyone is still eagerly practising hitting the shuttlecock. When the shuttlecock finally flies over the net, everyone cheers.
Our reading pirates are back in action and clearly feel at home in the primary school library. Mrs Breunig and Mrs Kardos enjoy reading exciting stories to the students and support those who are reading themselves. Sometimes the students also read books that they particularly enjoy to their classmates.
Cool moves to modern hip hop sounds ensure lots of fun and movement in primary school.
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.
During Sparring, the steps, kicks and sequences learnt are put into practice. This makes for a lot of fun and excitement.
classic Ravan masks during the Dushera festival time
Our primary school pupils learn how to handle the ball in a playful way!
During the last class, our students created with lots of enthusiasm fantastic loom - as friendship bands, fashion jewelry or superhero bands.
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.
Full of enthusiasm the primary students came back after the summer break to the Taekwondo CCA
In the CCA 'Little Musicians' we have learnt a lot and sang songs. We have learnt a lot of new songs.
Some songs we have to sing with a partner and some songs without a partner.
The teacher plays music on the piano and we practice.
Tara, 3 Grade/ Tiara 2 Grade
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
Amalia und Prathana have shared a report about the Design Champions AG with us.
