The first Stone Mill Day featured music, singing, and a touch of excitement

With cheerful music and singing, Steinmühle welcomed the students of the new fifth-grade classes to the Forum. The sixth-grade class showed a lot of enthusiasm. A year ago, these girls and boys stood in this very spot, waiting to find out their class assignments. Today, they were the ones welcoming the new fifth graders with performances from last year’s hit musical, “Götterolympiade.”
The audience, consisting of parents and family members, showed great stamina in the completely packed hall on what was perhaps the hottest morning of the week and cheered on their own children: Would their best friend end up in the same class? The homeroom teachers—Nicole Hohm, Stephan Steinebach, and Nina Kvachko (the latter standing in for Dirk Lange)—kept everyone in suspense as they took turns drawing “their” students’ name tags. The now complete and brand-new classes 5a, 5b, and 5c first posed together as a group, then individually for the photographer.

 

Steinmühlen T-shirts from the Friends Association

While all the guests helped themselves to coffee, cold drinks, and cookies, the new fifth-graders at Steinmühlen made their way to their classrooms together with their homeroom teachers. – The starting gun had been fired for everyday life at the new school! The first day of school was rounded off with the presentation of Steinmühlen T-shirts by the chair of the booster club, Jasmine Weidenbach. A few students have already been spotted wearing their new shirts…
The event, organized by Frank Wemme in his capacity as educational director, was opened by the school principals, Björn Gemmer and Bernd Holly. They had deliberately avoided long speeches to test the new students’ patience as little as possible, given the warm temperatures and the already exciting nature of the day. Ulrike Wilmsmeyer, Daniel Sans, and Frank Wemme were responsible for creating the perfect musical atmosphere, both in an organizational capacity and as performers. As members of the musical theater band and the StoneMill house band, respectively, they inspired the students—Nela Haeberle, Tom Herfert, Fynn Konnertz, Janne Schweitzer, and Flûte Seifart. — A wonderful testament to the fact that music is part of the culture at Steinmühle right from the start.