September 2024
We opened the registration for the Afternoon AGs for the new school year 2024/2025.
June 2024
We would like to invite you to this year's general meeting of the Förderkreis, for the fiscal year of 2022. Non-members are also warmly welcome.
June 2024
From now until the end of the school year there will be a Theater AG again.
Theater AG with Reza Amiri (German speaking)
For grades 3 and 4 (except 4euB, which has lessons at this time)
Thursdays 14:20 - 15:50
June 2024
Talk to us, get to know us, buy School clothes and have a cup of our special Punch: At the Förderkreis stand in front of House 1.
May 2024
Come and join us for our Coffee Morning on 24 May from 7:45 to 9 AM in front of House 1.
Talk to us, get to know us and have a coffee with us. You can also buy school clothes.
February 2024
For the second term of the school year 2023/2024 we are accepting new children to the registered AGs:
Chess Club with Achim Gierke (German-speaking)
1) Beginner Class: Monday 14:20 - 15:05
2) Advanced: Monday 15:05 - 15:50
Robotics Club at Achim Gierke (German-speaking) Friday: 14:20 - 15:50
Group Singing Class with Ray (English-speaking) Wednesday: 14:20 - 15:50
November2023
Swing concert on 10 November
We are pleased to co-organise the first concert by our school sponsor David Hermlin.
March 2023
Register here:
Canada Club
French Language Clubs
Bollywood Dance Class (Late afternoon)
January 2023
December 2022
Sarah Connor was impressed buy Years 3's performance of Scrooge by Charles Dickens. Especially when the class performed her song Ring Out the Bells in form of a final dance. She sent the following message to us: link
Our new teacher/singer Sarah McInerny has resumed the Choir on 18.10.2022.
We are welcoming all parents and children to the new school year. We are crrently putting to gehter new schedules for Native Speakers and Lunchtime Clubs. So stay tuned for updates coming very soon
June 2022
We are welcoming Uta Leyke-Hess to our board as new associate member. Thank you Uta for your commitment and your time!
May 2022
Dear parents. Please take note: A extraordinary general meeting has been scheduled for 01.06.2022.
The Meeting is taking place at 7:00 pm at the school's Cafeteria (House2)
Agenda:
Financial Situation
Membership Fee increase due to Minimum Wage increase by 25% in October
The minutes have been published in the General Meetings section.
Nov. 2021
We are happy to announce two more lunch time clubs: Chess and Theatre with Tom. Please, check them out here
Sept. 2021
Dear parents, we have just updated the schedule of our Lunch Time Clubs to the latest changes. We have added Gardening and Arts and Crafts.
Aug. 2021
Dear parents. Please take note: This year's general meeting has been pushed back to 14.09.2021.
The Meeting is taking place on 14.09.2021 at 7:00 pm at the school's Cafeteria (House2)
Aug. 2021
Dear parents,
The new school year has started and due to more relaxed Covid rules Native Speakers will return to school. A new Native Speaker programm schedule will be published shorlty.
Also, the newly renovated library has re-opened and is waiting for students to pick up their favourite books.
Jan. 2021
Dear parents,
First of all, we would like to thank you for your continued support since the start of the new school year. The Förderkreis Board members have continued to meet online, monitoring the situation together with the school management and our team of native speakers. Whilst our native speakers have not been able to be at school since the beginning of the ‘Lockdown Light’ in November, the team has been working hard on the relaunch of our library as well as our new online offering.
With the start of the new year, we have decided to launch two new working schedules for our Native Speaker programme, starting Monday 11th January. The new schedules have been designed to mirror the Corona Stufenplan, meaning that our team of Native Speakers will be able to operate a hybrid schedule (a mix of in-class support, online clubs and one-on-one sessions) when the school finds itself on stage ‘yellow’, and a fully online schedule when the school is either on stage ‘orange’ or ‘red’. Under stage ‘green’ we will operate our usual onsite schedule.
As of Monday 11th January, all students will enjoy access to afternoon virtual clubs as well as the possibility to sign up for one-on-one sessions with one of our native speakers. We really hope our new programme offers something for every kid, and supports our parents by offering a range of fun and educational activities for learning and using the English language from the comfort of your own homes.
You can find the full clubs schedule here. All clubs and one-on-one sessions will have a duration of 30 minutes and will be offered Monday to Friday between 2 and 6 p.m. via the online platform Jitsi, which we successfully trialled during the summer.
If you’d like your child to take part in one or more of the clubs and/or sessions, all you have to do is:
Send an e-mail to NativeClubs@dickens-foerderkreis.org letting us know that you and your child agree to participate in the online clubs and one-on-one sessions. Please note that participation is of course voluntary for your child.
Once your e-mail consent is received, a password will be sent to the same e-mail address. This password will be valid for all clubs and potential one-on-one sessions so keep it both safe and handy 😉
On the day and time of the club/session that your child wants to attend, go to https://meet.jit.si/CDGSnativeClub (the same link is also valid for all clubs/one-on-one sessions), enter the password, and hopefully your child will have fun!
On behalf of the Board and our native speakers, we would like to wish you and your loved a great start in the new year, and we look forward to seeing you and your children soon, whether online or at the school grounds!