{"id":43295,"date":"2015-12-23T19:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/students-sent-off-on-christmas-break\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:46:13","slug":"students-sent-off-on-christmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/students-sent-off-on-christmas-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Sent Off on Christmas Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because their teachers were attending a professional development workshop on December 21 and 22, the students were dismissed for winter break on December 18. Most classes and courses had held Christmas parties\u2014with or without <i>Secret Santa<\/i> \u2014during the last week of school, but on the final day of classes, everyone got into the Christmas spirit one last time:   <u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>While the 5th and 6th-grade classes watched the Hessian State Theater\u2019s \u201cChristmas play,<i> \u201d *Beauty and the Beast*<\/i>, the middle and upper school classes gathered in the Forum during the third period for a Christmas celebration.  <u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>In their brief remarks, the principals once again highlighted the highlights and special moments of the past few months and looked forward with optimism to the coming year, 2016. There was a big round of applause from the entire school for the students in Class 9i, who, as unaccompanied minor refugees, have been part of the school community since October 2015. <\/p>\n<p>With \u201cI Want You Back\u201d and \u201cAll I Want for X-mas,\u201d the StoneMill house band showed off its festive side\u2014much to the delight of all the students, who enthusiastically demanded an encore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/01_7075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5615\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/01_7075.jpg\" alt=\"01_7075\" width=\"2256\" height=\"1504\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/02_7081red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5616\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/02_7081red.jpg\" alt=\"02_7081red\" width=\"2640\" height=\"1760\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/03_7074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5617\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/03_7074.jpg\" alt=\"03_7074\" width=\"2097\" height=\"1452\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/04_7077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5618\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/04_7077.jpg\" alt=\"04_7077\" width=\"2489\" height=\"1280\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because their teachers were attending a professional development workshop on December 21 and 22, the students were dismissed for winter break on December 18. Most classes and courses had held Christmas parties\u2014with or without Secret Santa \u2014during the last week of school, but on the final day of classes, everyone got into the Christmas spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49035,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions\/49035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}