Award Ceremonies - Primary School The students in Grades 1 to 4 successfully completed their Term 1 exams and received last week numerous awards for exceptional academic performances and outstanding performances in sports, IT and Accelerated Reading amongst others. Congratulations! Keep up the hard work! #isr_school #itscooltobegood

Social Studies Trip grade 5 to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne Grade 5 Social Studies students who were accompanied by Ms Lange, Mr Foy and Mr Urban, had a wonderful day out in Cologne last Friday. They visited the ethnological Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and were lucky to see some fascinating and breath-taking exhibits of different world cultures. A particular highlight was the big Hindu shrine and the traditional Sioux tepee exhibit, which crossed over nicely with what the children have been reading about in their English class readers. There was even time for a burger and a Berliner before our students headed for the bus home. #isr_school #itscooltobegood

„Schule früher” - successful vernissage @ ISR More than 30 guests were transported to the past this week when Peter Soliman, exhibition initiator Inge Grosse and School Head of the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss Tillmann Lonnes inaugurated the vernissage "School: A Look at Schools in 20th c. German". For many years, Inge Grosse has been collecting leather folders, exercise books and books, rolling maps, compasses, film projectors and other objects from the school life of the 20th century. " I was allowed to take many things from my old school, the Pastor Jacobs School in Meerbusch. I also received a lot from friends and acquaintances" says the former teacher. In search of a suitable exhibition space, Grosse met Peter Soliman. "Three phone calls with him were enough," says the collector, "and the construction of the permanent exhibition in the ISR could start". Tillmann Lonnes is also pleased that the collection has found a new home and remembers his first days as an "I-Dötzchen" (first grader). The exhibition is accessible to the public and we look forward to many visitors. #istcooltobegood #exhibition #ISR_School #vernissage

DFB-Paule-Schnupper-Abzeichen: Please read the NGZ Article on our DFB-Paule-Schnupper-Abzeichen that took place last week at our school NGZ-Online #itscooltobegood #isr_school PSV Neuss

DFB-Paule-Schnupper-Abzeichen @ ISR Dribble artists, short-pass aces and penalty kickers at ISR For the second time, we organized the "DFB-Paule-Schnupper-Abzeichen" on Friday, the 24th. Seventy girls and boys from ISR and neighbouring schools, dribbled, fitted and shot at the three stations in the ISR Sports Hall. No problem for the aspiring football talents, even though the station Elferkönig (penalty kickers) was a special challenge for some. The kids could win a badge in gold, silver or bronze. We’re very thankful for the support of PSV Neuss and their football coach, Markus Bartsch, and his team. A big thank you as well to "our" football dad Axel Lehnen! #isr_school #itscooltobegood PSV Neuss http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/rhein-kreis/sport/gold-fuer-die-fussball-talente-an-der-isr-aid-1.7226502

A Russian folk tale: “The Giant Turnip” Last week our SLO® Russian Culture Club staged a traditional Russian folk tale named “The Giant Turnip.” It was a lovely performance and our students had a lot of fun. Ms. Lyons, our school director, teachers, students and, of course, proud parents watched the performance that carried with it the strong message: together we can do everything. At the end the students sang a song exploring the theme that friendship is the key to solving most problems. We would like to thank our talented students who did a really great job and the SLO® Russian Culture Club who made this possible. You all did that really well! #isr_school #itscooltobegood

"Lesen macht Spaß" in der ISR Am 23. November durften wir Frau Martina Biermann, Vorsitzende des Netzwerkes "Düsseldorf liest vor" und Herrn Heinz Mölder, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Kinderstiftung Lesen bildet in der ISR begrüssen. Frau Biermann leitete ein vierstündiges zertifiziertes Seminar zumThema Vorlesen, an dem neben sieben unserer IB CAS Schüler auch interessierte Mütter teilnahmen. Diese Schüler werden in den kommenden Monaten als Lesepaten in der Neusser Görresschule ihre neu erworbenen Fähigkeiten einsetzen. #isr_school #itscooltobegood Lesen macht Spaß

Last Saturday the NEUSS-ERFTLAUF running event took place and ISR came out as #1! Here some of our successes: • ISR had a total of 21 kids in the BAMBINI race over 400m! • ISR won a trophy for the Neuss school with the highest number of runners (Teilnehmerstärkste Schule)! • ISR then also won the prize the fastest Neuss School for the combined results of our 10 fastest runners (schnellste Neusser Schule)! • Ben O. came out 1st in his race for U12 boys/girls! • Merlin R. was 3rd overall in the same race for U12 • Several other boys and girls ran in the U10 and U12 races and had a blast! • Ms Lordeman ran her first ever 5K and totally rocked it! Amazing! • And Nikki Johnstone ran and won the 15K race: Congratulations! A truly amazing day! #isr_school #itscooltobegood #runforgold #erftlauf

Last week another interesting article has been released on our digital media efforts in the classroom. As pioneers in this area, the press has taken a huge interest in narrating our experience. We’re happy to share this Handelsblatt article with you: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuqQ2hzoa4ZltBr6ysPBxdXHk8qV #ISR #itscooltobegood #handelsblatt #digitalmedia #article #VirtualReality #Ebooks #3D

Volleyball Matches at ISR Last Friday ISR hosted two Volleyball Matches - Our U16 girls and boys played vs St. Georges Duisburg varsity teams. It was a very good experience to our ISR team playing against more experienced players which hopefully should be a good preparation for their NRW volleyball tournament in December 2017. We're very proud of you- keep it up! #ISR #itscooltobegood #volleyball #ISRteam

On Friday November 10th during the volleyball game, ISR´s SLO cheerleading team completed their first performance as a group. The girls were very anxious and eager to perform on this day and did an amazing job! We are very proud of them all - GO ISR!

ISR U12 boys football match On Thursday 8th November, played against St George´s Cologne in what was a thoroughly entertaining game. Both sides putting in 100 percent effort to try and win the game. Despite controlling the majority of the game a few unlucky situations gifted St. Georges victory 5:4. ISR lead 1:0 at half time and then gifted two goals to the opposition. What impressed us the most was the spirit and character ISR showed after giving away three quick goals. They fought back well and played some of the best football in the match. It was a great performance especially considering some of our players were 2 years younger. It was a good loss and the players got a lot from the match. The team is already looking forward to the return leg at ISR. Well done Magnus, Eric, Zile, Kim, Gordey, Karim, Eito, Sergio, Lennox, Joh, Nikan and Nico! #Proud #Charactor #TeamISRU12football #isr_school #itscooltobegood