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On Tuesday the Deutsche Schule Durban was filled with excited children in imaginative costumes. We all had a wonderful morning watching the children parade through the hall, eating pancakes and playing games.

Last Friday we had our annual DSD Swimming Gala and it was once again a great success, this time fortunately without too much rain. The children had great fun cheering on their respective house and performed impressively.

It has become school tradition to host the ‘Fröhlicher Mittwoch’ in the week of Valentine’s Day. The senior citizens once again had fun and enjoyed the performances by the children as well as the coffee, tea and cakes.

Last year the Deutsche Schule Durban organised the exams for the ‘Deutsche Sprachdiplom II’ (DSD II) for the first time and those for the DSD I for the second time. We are very proud of our learners, almost all of whom passed!

We had a small ceremony to hand out the certificates and to express our admiration for the effort put into the German classes by our learners and their parents. Every Monday evening High School students (mostly DSD alumni) gather at the DSD to continue German SAL as an extra subject up to matric. From now on, the grade 8 learners will write the DSD I and the grade 11s the DSD II.

The ‘Deutsche Sprachdiplom’ (or German Language Certificate) is an official proof of German language proficiency, is organised and recognised by the Federal Republic of Germany and is extremely valuable for our learners for future studies, scholarship and job applications in a German speaking country as well as in South Africa.

Our IQAA Certificate has arrived! We are very proud that our school passed this evaluation with flying colours.

For further information on this evaluation, please follow the link: https://iqaa.co.za/

In spite of a rather gloomy day when compared to the other beautiful spring days we have recently enjoyed, our inter-house athletics meeting was held in good spirits on Friday 26 August.  The field events were concluded during the course of the week and then teams Max and Moritz took to the track to battle it out for the coveted inter-house athletics trophy.  Moritz clinched the gala earlier in the year and so team Max had a point to prove, which they did by winning the event by 231 points to 195.  In the process 11 records were broken and one was equalled. Congratulations to all our children who participated and supported their house so enthusiastically.

We were also pleased to host Mr Charles Liasides, his sister Frederike and their aunt at our athletics meeting to officially open the new grandstand that the Liasides family had generously funded in honour of their late mother who had taught at the DSD many years before.  The new grandstand was packed with parents and supporters and has certainly proved to be a wonderful addition to the school’s infrastructure. We are grateful to the Liasides family for their generous contribution to the school and to the Mower family who donated once again balloons for the event.