Friends of the School Association Donates a Garden Shed to the Elementary School and Sponsors Figurines

The Steinmühle Bilingual Elementary School is a place where not only students thrive personally and academically. Various plants also thrive on the adjacent school garden. You can practically watch various types of vegetables grow: tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins, and more are tended and cared for by the respective fourth-grade class.

The boys and girls enjoy working outdoors. Equipped with the appropriate gardening tools, they sow, plant, hoe, and water as needed—all under the guidance of teacher Lisa Forchheim. Along the way, they learn that vegetables don’t grow in the supermarket and that it takes a lot of work and patience before they can be harvested.

 

Partnership with the GemüseAckerdemie

These activities are capped off by a collaboration with the GemüseAckerdemie in Berlin. Over the course of three sessions, the group will discuss where our food comes from together with so-called “Acker-Coaches.”

This educational segment is part of the field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), to which Steinmühle is increasingly dedicating its efforts. “The Friends of Steinmühle are very happy to support these activities,” explains Chairwoman Jasmine Weidenbach. To ensure the children are well-equipped for their outdoor activities, can safely store their gardening tools, and have them quickly at hand next time, the Friends of Steinmühle donated a garden shed to them. For the key handover, members of the Friends’ board posed for a photo with the children. The elementary school students expressed their gratitude with a thank-you card they designed together. As one might expect, the card was not only signed by all the participants but also featured a carrot design to match the theme.

 

More figures for the entryway

Throughout the school year, the Friends of Steinmühle Association regularly supports additional projects; due to their sheer number, only a few can be highlighted here. For example, the association also contributed to the sculptures at the entrance to the Steinmühle campus, which symbolize the school’s colorful and diverse community. Here, too, the Friends took a group photo to commemorate the occasion, which also features a very special guest at Steinmühle: actor David Bennent, the lead actor in the classic film *The Tin Drum*, who was supporting a project at Steinmühle for the second time this year.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone whose dedication consistently makes our school life something truly special!