We are celebrating the Solidarity Week in the Secondary School, with student led sessions on mental health, LGBTQ+, gender, race & religion and communication. Our Gender Sexuality Alliance organized the week to highlight and celebrate our differences, while also calling attention to what unites us.

With the support of the Freestate of Saxony and the Federal Government we were able to buy 75 new Chromebooks for our Primary School. With the 40 we already had, we are happy to announce that all students grade 3 - 5 now have access to a Chromebook device during our school day. 

The school emphasizes that our community´s health is a priority and we require that our new hygiene guidelines are strictly followed to minimise the spread of coronavirus infection and to support the continuity of learning on our school campuses. We ask our students and parents to read the hygiene plan agreement and all guidelines carefully. In Preschool and K5 the health certification has to be completed daily.

In responding to the act of racial violence and injustice DIS staff and school leaders have drafted a statement which we shared with our community. Within our Anti-Racism Statement to the DIS Community, we have indicated how we intend to work on concrete measures that address and counter racism in our work as educators.

With our school mission as a ‘collaborative, diverse, and innovative learning community’, we have been investigating how our learning spaces reflect this mission. One area we have concentrated on is furniture. In order to help us realize the DIS mission, we have introduced new flexible furniture in the Primary School.

In the last month, we as a school have tried to do our best to support your children through these unprecedented times. So far, the feedback from parents has been very encouraging. Indeed, the most important news agency in Germany, die Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa), just called our school a digital showcase school (“Digitale Vorzeigeschule”).