Dear All,

Time has gone by so quickly that it’s hard to believe it’s Easter again. It must be, though, because last year’s Christmas tree, which has turned its colour into a light, greyish brown, is now home to the Easter bunny in my garden. What do you think, should I decorate the twigs with eggs, too? 🙂

Since the beginning of the school year 2016/17, students and teachers in the International Programme at Goetheschule Essen have been pretty busy again. We completed an Erasmus module on WWI literature with a theatre workshop in Ikast (Denmark) in September, have started an eTwinning project (with schools from Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania) in November, visited a British Higher Education Fair in January, attended a Model UN Conference in Amersfoort (The Netherlands) in February, produced an Erasmus documentary on technological and scientific advances during WWI in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) in March and began researching WWI sources in local archives in April in preparation of our next Erasmus project week in Varazdin (Croatia). After the holidays we will welcome guests from France at our school and after that we are going to organise our 10-year IB anniversary.

But for now we all enjoy a two-week break and send the best of wishes to our partner schools in Dozulé (France), Ikast (Denmark), Lublin (Poland), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Sunderland (Great Britain) and Porto (Portugal) and to our IB graduates all over the world.

Happy Holidays

Karmen Heup