We are very excited to see how many students took part in our Summer Reading Program „A Universe of Stories”! 29 students from EP2 to Grade 6 achieved prizes.

Since this year’s theme was about space, planets, and stars. One of the tasks the students could do was to visit a planetarium during their summer vacation. While many students watched shows at the Zeiss planetarium in Jena, others visited planetariums or space shows in as faraway places as Moscow, San Diego, London, and the observatory in Norderney. 

Another task for the students was to create a poster about something connected to the universe theme. The students showed amazing creativity and skill making their posters, for example about space exploration, the solar system, planets, or aliens. All of them are displayed in the school library.

Of course, also reading tasks were part of the summer reading program and the students enjoyed a variety of fiction and non-fiction books during the holidays.

The participants of the summer reading were awarded their prizes on 6th September. 

For the first time in Hänsel & Gretel Award history, one of the “classic” books has been voted number 1. Over 460 Grade 3 to 6 students from 20 international schools in Germany participated through voting, and probably more were involved in reading! 

Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was first published in 1952. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live. (Summary taken from Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte's_Web)