Virus, epidemics... words that have frightened the world.... in reality they have inspired various forms of art. By combining chemistry and creativity, we have created an artistic representation of Covid.

Nature teaches us and shows itself in its most diverse, particular and extraordinary forms!!

Here is the link to the booklet we have created.

Flipbook S2ita and Prof.ssa Longo

Following a most successful Eurosport event, in Luxembourg, the ESF Sport Teachers wanted in on the action and challenged the ESF Eurosport Team. This was in the form of a friendly volleyball match after school in the sports hall on Tuesday the 7^th of May 2024.

The match began with the students seizing an early victory in the first set. However, the teachers regrouped and displayed their resilience as they claimed victory in the subsequent two sets, ultimately securing the overall win. Once again there was a great atmosphere and both teams showed their competitive spirit.

Following the intense match, both students and teachers gathered for a post-game barbecue, that everyone contributed to. Benjamin Zapf, the Grillmeister, was much appreciated. 

This event showcased how moments of friendly competition can bring individuals together. It served as a reminder of the value of sports not only in promoting physical well-being but also in creating a sense of community within the school environment.

Special thanks to Mr Misik who organised this event, Mr Doue who led the teachers; Herr Becker, Mr Brocca, Ms Ivanova, Frau Nykiel, Herr Rubke, Ms Tome, Herr Sorg, Mr Thrun, and Frau Dahl for being an impartial referee.

The students are looking forward to a rematch. 

Sienna Cramer

We are the champions!

On the 23^rd of April 2024 our school’s P.E. department organized a football tournament among 5 primary schools – the European School Frankfurt, Phorms Taunus Campus, Metropolitan School Frankfurt, European School Rhein-Main and KidsCamp Königstein.
This tournament was played by the students of P4, and from each section 10 pupils were selected to play. They trained hard during breaks for a couple of weeks under the guidance of their sports teachers.
Hard work, great tactics and excellent teamwork was reflected in the final result. The ESF won the tournament!!!
Our team played very well from the very beginning, with many victories at the start of the tournament and a draw against ESRM. The last and most important match, also against ESRM, was won with a 1-point difference, cementing ESF’s victory and making us the champions for the second year in a row!
The medals were given out at the end and the travelling cup stays at ESF.  
We are looking forward for next year’s tournament, which will be organized in a different school.
Well done, P4 team!

Janka Mišíková
Primary P.E. coordinator

La sección española de la ESF ha organizado la primera feria de la ciencia en la cual los alumnos y alumnas de toda la sección han realizado experimentos científicos en los que tenían que explicar al público, tanto adultos como niños, en qué consistían sus experimentos: hipótesis y resultados del mismo y por qué sucedía dicho fenómeno. Con anterioridad, realizamos un taller de experimentos con Jesús de Cienciaterapia donde aprendieron muchísimo además de pasarlo genial. Ha sido todo un reto pero el esfuerzo ha merecido la pena y ojalá que esté sea el inicio de una nueva tradición.

The Spanish section of the ESF organised the first science fair in which students from the whole section carried out scientific experiments in which they had to explain to the audience, both adults as children, what their experiments consisted of: hypotheses and results and why the phenomenon was happening. Previously, we had an experiment workshop with Jesús from Cienciaterapia where they learned a lot and had a great time. It was quite a challenge but the effort was well worth it and we hope this will be the beginning of a new tradition.

Viva a Liberdade!

No âmbito das comemorações dos 50 Anos da Revolução dos Cravos, os alunos portugueses do PP ao P5 participaram numa oficina criativa com André Sousa e Ioli Georgila em que transformaram o lápis azul da censura usado pelos ditadores em lápis da liberdade, atribuindo cada grupo palavras ao seu lápis que serviu para decorar a montra da livraria lusófona TFM.

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Es lebe die Freiheit!

Im Rahmen der Feierlichkeiten zum 50. Jahrestag der Nelkenrevolution nahmen die portugiesischen Schüler von PP bis P5 an einem Kreativ-Workshop mit André Sousa und Ioli Georgila teil, in dem sie den blauen Stift der Zensur, der von den Diktatoren benutzt wurde, in einen Stift der Freiheit verwandelten, wobei jede Gruppe ihrem Stift Wörter zuordnete, mit denen das Schaufenster der portugiesisch-sprachigen Buchhandlung TFM geschmückt wurde.

Adélia Silva

The ESF has offered teachers and staff to take part in a variety of different in-service-trainings offered by the platform fobizz, giving them the opportunity to choose from a wide range of courses on AI, digital tools, teaching approaches, etc.

fobizz honours schools that are particularly committed to digital education and awarded the ESF with the label “fobizz-Schule – Digital fit für die Zukunft”.

Zum zweiten Mal in diesem Schuljahr trafen sich die Buddys der S1 und S4, um gemeinsam an einem Projekt zu arbeiten. 

Nachdem sie sich beim ersten Buddytreffen kennen gelernt haben und ein kleines Bastelprojekt (Glücksstein für den Buddy) zusammen gestaltet haben, konnten sie sich am 15. Dezember an der Wohltätigkeitsaktion „Post mit Herz“ beteiligen. Zusammen schrieben die Schülerinnen und Schüler fünf Weihnachtskarten an verschiedene Seniorenheime in ganz Deutschland, von Rostock über den hessischen Odenwald bis nach Hamburg ging die Post für die älteren Leute. Die Aktion setzt sich insbesondere für Senioren ein, deren Briefkästen in der Weihnachtszeit leer bleiben, weil es keine Freunde oder Verwandten mehr gibt. 

Außerdem wurde Weihnachtsschmuck gebastelt, der nun einige Fenster der Büros und Klassenzimmer der ESF dekoriert.

Organisiert wurde das Buddytreffen vom Counselling Team der ESF. Dies sind Beratungslehrer aus allen Sektionen, die Schülerinnen und Schüler unterstützend zur Seite stehen.

Der tägliche Treffpunkt für einen Beratungslehrer ist immer der Chatroom in C040 zu Schultagen von 10.50–11.10 Uhr.

Liebe Schülerinnen und Schüler kommt einfach vorbei, wenn ihr Hilfe braucht!

Ilona Barke und Dejan Kramžar Counselling Team ESF

[Photos: Dejan Kramžar]

The students of class S1 in the Italian section, with the help of the integrated science teacher and the laboratory assistant, have built the "Christmas circuit!".
 

We wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

Click here for a short video about building the circuit (in mp4 format).

Protect people, no borders

On the 3^rd of October 2013, 368 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck a few miles off the coast of Lampedusa. There were 155 survivors, including 41 minors.

That was not the first nor the last tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, but for the first time the sea returned the many bodies of the victims and made visible, bringing right before our eyes, what happens almost daily at sea.

Following that tragedy in 2013, the Comitato 3 Ottobre, a non-profit organisation, was created with the aim of having that date recognised as a 'Day of Memory and Hospitality' at both national and European level, in the conviction that raising awareness and providing information on migration issues is a first step to changing the direction of current European policies.

The mission of the Committee of 3 October is to obtain the opening of humanitarian corridors and the activation of legal and safe entry channels for migrants fleeing wars, dictatorships and misery, as well as to guarantee a dignified reception of migrants and paths of social inclusion.

A Europe of Rights #10annidindifferenza is the slogan chosen by the Committee of 3 October for the initiatives of the 10^th Anniversary of the ‘Day  of Memory and Hospitality’, that took place from 30 September to 4 October 2023 in Lampedusa and was attended by 60 schools, 8 of which from other European countries.

Also this year, the European School Frankfurt joined the event, represented by 10 students of S7 accompanied by Mr Alessandro Zangrossi and the school's director Mr Ferdinand Patscheider. Together with other 350 students from all over Europe, cultural mediators, volunteers, and experts in international law, they took part in 23 workshops conducted by various humanitarian associations and NGOs such as the UNCHR, Save the Children, Médecins sans Frontières, Amnesty International and the Scuola Superiore San'Anna di Pisa.

"Spending those days in Lampedusa meant for us a different look at the phenomenon of migration. We could see at first-hand what happens to people who try to flee their countries and the motivations that push them to leave, in most cases because of war. Moreover, we were able to understand, through stories, workshops, interviews, and testimonies, how refugees feel when they arrive in the host country. We also understood in detail how States operate in receiving refugees. We did also participate in the march of Memory to remember the victims of the shipwreck of 3 October 2013, it was a very touching moment but full of hope for the future. It was an emotional and difficult experience, but also necessary and educational for us. Lampedusa is the core of this topic and attending this event gave us the task of raising awareness in turn and disseminating this initiative! Although it is a huge challenge, we are convinced that with everyone's cooperation and commitment we can strive for a better future."

(Edoardo Di Buono, Viola Castellazzi, Bruno De Martino, Hanna-Felicia Rosati Åberg, Fiamma D’Alò, Matteo Fontana, Pablo Legendre, Manuela Masoni, Alessandro Maraschi, Tommaso Morlupi)

Protect people, no borders

That is, to understand that we are all 'in the same boat': women, men, children who cross the Mediterranean from North Africa and the Middle East to try to get to Europe; but also European citizens, because humanity cannot be stopped, separated and sometimes erased by borders, patrol boats and walls.

What will we eat in the future? Perhaps insects? Artificial meat? Or will we continue as we do today? 

These are the questions that the students of ESF's Italian classes S4 and S3 asked themselves after attending the Symposium "Italian Women Scientists at School", organised by the Italian Consulate and held by a CREA researcher on nutrition. This gave rise to the 'Futura ad praeterita' Science Project.

Science and literature come together in a journey that takes us back to the past and to our roots: ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

There is talk of synthetic and sustainable biology, there is talk of epigenetics, but we do not realise that the ancients, without knowing the meaning of these words, had already understood that only by living close to nature and according to its dictates could one achieve aurea mediocritas. We look for the solution in the future, we exploit the planet's resources, but we forget the teachings of the maiorum and historia, magistra vitae.

It is always a challenge to connect young people with the ancient and keep the dialogue between past and present alive on a daily basis, but not an impossible one: we kneaded the knowledge, declined the skills in various (s)formats and with various tools, waited patiently for the results (because the time we allow for the assimilation and leavening of what we have learnt is already the key to success) and finally... we fed on the knowledge acquired.

From Trimalchio's 'great binge' to the Catullian frugality and poverty of dishes based on the 'Mediterranean triad' (Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me... si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam, .... nam tui catulli plenus sacculus est aranearum).

Recipes, authors, literary and non-literary texts, linguistic reflection and social contexts, anecdotes and curiosities.... in the series: Primum vivere, deinde philosophari!

And thanks to the team of international reporters, authors of extraordinary interviews in English and German, such as the one with Aemilius Lavius, top baker in Ancient Rome, and Agathinos Lysimachus, top baker in Ancient Athens.

But the story continues.......

Yes, as promised at the end of the 2022/2023 school year, our exploration of the past for the future continues with a new instalment dedicated to archaeo-kitchen, but not only. Thanks to an initiative of the Consulate General of Italy in Frankfurt, on the morning of 17 November 2023, Simona Carosi, Head of Archaeological Excavations for the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria, and Carlo Casi, Scientific Director of the Archaeological Park of Vulci and author of 'Ancient Cuisine', will be guests at the European School. 

Both of them, experts in Etruscan-Roman food, will be in Germany on the occasion of the 'Eighth Week of Italian Cuisine in the World', organised by the Frankfurt Consulate in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society of Darmstadt and Würzburg.  

The ESF students are well aware of the theme linking the various events of this articulated initiative: "Flavours of Italy. Rediscovering ancient cuisine and well-being with taste: at the table with ancient recipes'. At the meeting on 17 November, in a multi-voice dialogue, the students of the Italian Section will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the topics they have studied and at the same time discover new professional horizons, in view of their future choice. Archaeology: why not? Being an archaeologist or archaeologist today means working in an international dimension that is increasingly multimedia, digital and scientifically plural. Futura ad Praeterita, then: the path of antiquity leads directly to the future. All we need to do is learn how to find it.  

Teachers: Longo, Cavallo, Sancassano, Cannata

Flipbook 1: Our recipes (in Italian)
Flipbook 2: The food of the future and... in our past (in Italian)

It has become a tradition that all sections of the European School Frankfurt annually participate in the Kangourou, an international mathematics competition. This event, which is divided into national and linguistic sections, is aimed at presenting the discipline from a different perspective than the usual school approach. Students from all over the world learn to 'play with mathematics', testing themselves through mathematical logic.

This year, a student from the Italian section, Tancredi Lo Coco, achieved outstanding results in the 'Ecolier' category of the Italian Kangourou. After an excellent placement in the first competition, which took place locally last March, the student qualified for the semifinals, for which the European School was assigned to Lugano, Switzerland. Having also passed this selection at the end of May, he then went on to the final round in Cervia, on the Adriatic Riviera on September 23, finishing 20th among all participants in the final competition.

Heartfelt congratulations to Tancredi: bravo!

The European School Frankfurt/Primary joined the KiVa program in February 2016. The Secondary school’s S1 and S2-classes joined in October 2022. Each school year, Primary and Secondary school pupils will receive special KiVa lessons. These lessons normally begin with Kick Off Event. In the Secondary school this event takes place in October, introducing the program to our new students in S1 and reinforcing the anti-bullying message in S2.

The members of the KiVa team are Ms. Korpimäki (Coordinator), Ms. Cerati, Ms. Crimaldi, Ms. Humphries, Ms. Połońska, Ms. Rathei, Mr. Reuter and Mr. Zangrossi. The task of this team is, together with the class teacher, to tackle any cases of bullying that come to light. The KiVa team works closely with all the Secondary school teachers, the school psychologist, the educational advisors and the school management.

If you suspect that your child is being subjected to bullying or have reason to believe that he/she is bullying others, don’t hesitate to contact the KiVa team so that the matter can be dealt with as quickly and effectively as possible. You can either contact your child’s class teacher or the KiVa team directly: LIST-FRF-KIVA-SEC@eursc.eu.

If you have contacted the class teacher, s/he will inform the KiVa team immediately. It is then the KiVa team’s responsibility to tackle the possible bullying case with the support of the class teacher. The team will also inform the parents of students involved about further actions. Please refrain from taking further action outside your home by contacting other parents or students involved. Experience has shown this form of involvement is unproductive or even counterproductive.

A Parents’ Guide to the KiVa program is available in English on the KiVa website: www.kivaprogram.net  by clicking on ‘parents’. If you have any questions or concerns, the KiVa team is happy to help and support all S1 and S2 students and their families.