Our students celebrated the end of the school year with performances, crafts, and treats. Thanks to our fabulous teachers and volunteers and to everyone who joined us! It’s been a great first year at our new location.
Registration for 2017-18 will open later this month.
Axel Junker is our new president! Axel has been with the German School of Madison since its inception and will continue our efforts to grow as a school and serve the individual needs of our families and the larger community.
We thank Catrin Weimbs, our outgoing president, for her extraordinary leadership through the past two years, in which our school gained recognition from the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), merged its first and second language acquisition branches, added a class for adults, and moved to our current location. Catrin spearheaded many of these developments and we are fortunate that she will remain on the Board of Directors.
Catrin Weimbs (on the left), Axel Junker (on the right)
Chris Tabisz, whom many of you know as a teacher for our school and who has led many of our outreach projects, will take on the role of administrator for the school next month. (He will continue teaching the Falken class until the end of the year.) Like Axel and Catrin, Chris has been with GSoM since the beginning and knows our programs inside out.
Chris Tabisz
With these developments, we feel we are in a good position to plan the next school year. But first, we’d like to share information about some special events we have planned for the remainder of the current school year:
After class, the whole GSoM community is invited to stay for a film evening with pizza in the LEUCC community room. The young kids will get to watch a children’s film during the 2nd and 3rd lessons for the older kids, and afterward, there will be a family film with pizza. The films are TBA.
The church building is not available that day. All classes (including preschool and adult classes) will meet at the Olbrich Gardens playground on the far side of the parking lot at 2 PM-4:45 PM. We will have mixed aged activities for the day’s class in and around the Olbrich Gardens.
All classes (including preschool and adult classes) will meet at LEUCC (normal time), and we will have mixed-aged activities for the day’s class in and around LEUCC and the elementary school across the street.
All of the GSoM community is invited to join in on the fun at the Monona Senior Center at 2:30 PM (1011 Nichols Road) for our graduation and end-of-school-year party. Note that this is a new location. Each class will present something that they have learned, and we will have activities for all ages before we all leave for the summer. Feel free to invite friends and family!
Sommerfest 2016
Our students and families had a splendid time at our annual Sommerfest in June. It was Zeugnistag for everyone, and our Deutsch 3 students also received their well-earned A 1 certificates from the German Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA). Our thanks go to our fabulous teachers and to our wonderful parents and volunteers for their support. We couldn’t do it without you!
At the Sommerfest, we also announced our schedule for the next school year. Two big changes: We will move to a new location (on Madison’s east side) and to a weekend schedule. All classes will now be taught on Saturdays. And, as requested by many, we will offer a class for adults! Read more about the 2016-17 school year here.
Online registration is open! Please register by July 31 to ensure that the class you are interested in will make and that your child(ren) will have a spot.
We also held a very successful rummage sale. Time to stock up on those German books and toys!
No need to hire a face painter — our older students are quite the make-up experts.
Tschüss, 2015-2016 — we hope to see you all in September, in our new location. Classes start September 10, 2016.
This is the day when our students perform for their families — from Goethes “Gefunden” to an enduring song about a stolen coconut. A big thank you to everyone who participated — and especially to our wonderful teachers.
(Friendly reminder: Online registration for 2015-16 is open. Early bird discount until July 15.)
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