Afternoon activities

At the German Embassy School the students of grades 5-12 are offered  a wide range of extra-curricular activities from Monday - Friday.

Following a 45 minutes lunch break (during the break a warm luncheon is being served) the students can choose among various activities in the fields of music, arts, sports and science.

By the end of each school year the new annual program for the following school year is compiled and introduced to our students and their parents. Thus we are able to commence all activities after the summer holidays on the first day back at school. The activities are mostly free of charge. During the second term we continue the program, possibly with slight variations.

 

 

Homework Club

The school offers chargeable homework club for all secondary I school students from 14:00 until 15:30 from Mondays to Thursdays. The registration takes place together with the choice of the working groups. So a combination of homework help and CCA offers can be selected.

Investigation of the situation of women in the Vivekananda Community

Between the British and the American School in Delhi, not too far from the DSNS the Vivekananda community is located, where several working families under visibly simpler living conditions are living. If these kind of living conditions lead to an unhappy life of the women there or if they are may be even oppressed in their social structure was the interesting approach of a film project, which had been initiated by Mariela, grade 10, as a competition contribution to a democratic forum. With seven other companions of the grades 5-9 a concept has been elaborated, the main passages translated into Hindi, in the end everything had been filmed with marker, camera and audio on location over several weeks. The partners of the interviews have not always been prepared to speak officially, in general permissions had to be requested. How it looks like over there, what does daily life look like, all these contents the documentary has been put together and can now be watched on the Vimeo platform of the school.

We wish a lot of interest in watching and understanding how the life in the neighbourhood of the DSND looks like.

News from the Chess CCA

Our CCA coaches introduce themselves – Ravija Verma (Hip Hop)


I am a trained dancer in Hip Hop, Bollywood and Classical Indian Dance. For the last 10 years, I have been teaching various forms of dance in academies and institutions like the French Embassy School or the Japanese Expats Group. I like teaching at DSND and would love to continue to work here for many more years.


AG Schwimmen - Herr Marco De Luca stellt sich vor

I am a former water polo player, with all round passion for sports. Being a FINA swimming instructor and fitness trainer, I love to teach the younger generation. The Motto I try to pass on to them is “ Sport is a way of life”.

News from the Taekwondo AG

It's full on energy after the summer break for the kids in the secondary I Taekwondo AG.

Drum Workshop

This semester the school offered the drum workshop. Curious to learn something we participated. Although not everyone could play a percussion instrument before, it is fun. With our teacher Abin we practice different rhythms, get to know new instruments and drum together. But that doesn't mean that we always play the drums. Sometimes we just use our bodies or clap a rhythm.

Yohaan Shivhare

Our CCA coaches introduce themselves – Rajinder Kumar Anand (Taekwondo)

Chess Club

Since this semester we have a chess club in our school. Mr. Krug is a new teacher. He founded the club because he wants to share his knowledge with the students. We do not only play against each other, but we also learn new maneuvers and techniques. Everybody plays against everybody and it is fun to compete and improve. We learn together and help each other. Everyone of us wins and looses sometimes, but at the end of the class we are still friends. Also the age does not really matter. In our group there are children from grade 5 to grade 8 and it can happen that the 5th grader checkmates the 8th grader.

Yohaan Shivhare

Robotics AG/ HPI-Online-Workshop

In three of our February meetings coworkers of the HPI-Cloud tought the students of the robotics extra curricular activity some basics in coding, i.e. in the computer language ‚Python‘.

The event happened online. Contents have been variables as numbers, string or even boolean variables and their handling.

In the last session it was about input/output and structures of controlling.

Here are some impressions from the course:

Working group creative writing

Together or alone, with or without guidance, we write stories, diaries, love letters, recipes, ... and everything else that absolutely needs to be written down.

For this purpose we meet every Tuesday in the 8th lesson.

Sometimes we do research on the internet, sometimes we just need to have a long chat, while others retire to write because there's a great story... well, just come around.

Parkour CCA

Since I joined the DSND in the second grade I went to the parkour AG. Due to corona the CCA could not take place for a while, but I am happy that Mr. V´s CCA is back. I am now in the sixth grade and I still like the CCA as much as before, because we always get to learn and try out new things. At the school festival we have the chance to show what we can do. We get to impress the parents with flips, round off’s, hand stands, tuck jumps and back handsprings.

Yohaan

Theater CCA

Since I joined the DSND in the second grade I went to the parkour AG. Due to corona the CCA could not take place for a while, but I am happy that Mr. V´s CCA is back. I am now in the sixth grade and I still like the CCA as much as before, because we always get to learn and try out new things. At the school festival we have the chance to show what we can do. We get to impress the parents with flips, round off’s, hand stands, tuck jumps and back handsprings.

Yohaan

Sport CCA

The sport CCA was conducted by Mrs Spangenberg and her son Robin. We were allowed to choose the games during the cooler season. We played basketball, soccer and volleyball. We practiced the different techniques and because our group was very small we played only a few matches. During the hot season we swim. The sport CCA helps me to improve my marks for sports because I am getting the chance to practice things we did in class . I like to play games during recess which I can continue during sports CCA.

 

Yohaan

CCA School Band

 

The school band is an integral part of every DSND school event, from theatre plays to board exam ceremony. We have rehearsal every Monday afternoon and try our hands on western music, pop and rock. Under Mrs. Demeyere's observant and critical eyes we turn from hobby musicians to real musicians, never losing our passion for music. Did you get curious? We are always ready to jam, come over, join us. We are looking forward to your participation.

CCA Art and Camera

 

The Art and Camera AG is existing in this form for the first year, except techniques for camera, photo shootings, writing a film script and attempts to make movies, many students also painted intensively, especially in the premises of the school itself by painting flying elements in the upper section of the second floor.

Younger students had a special interest, to make a never ending spontaneous film, to create helmets made out of plaster for carnival or to create objects in clay. Furthermore drawing and painting techniques have been studied and applied very accurately.

All in all the AG is an important creative and artistic offer, that is welcomed by the students and furthermore serves the school in supporting as far as possible the documentation of events.