{"id":46186,"date":"2021-09-30T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/a-joyful-first-day-of-school-at-the-bilingual-elementary-school\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:35:11","slug":"a-joyful-first-day-of-school-at-the-bilingual-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/a-joyful-first-day-of-school-at-the-bilingual-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"A Joyful First Day of School at the Bilingual Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of music, lovingly prepared performances, and lots of joy marked the first-day-of-school celebration for the youngest students at the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School. Maria Gloerfeld, homeroom teacher for third grade, opened the ceremony in the Forum with the piano piece \u201cL\u2019Ap\u00e9s Midi.\u201d The program then continued in English. Janine K\u00fcster, head of the elementary school division, welcomed the students and their parents before Marcel Kalb took the floor in German. He serves as the coordinator between the high school and the Bilingual Elementary School. <\/p>\n

“The Sparrow and the Schoolyard Children” was the title of a poetry recital performed by children from third grade and the Flexible Entry Level (Flex) program. These age groups also put on a musical performance using sandwich wrappers, since singing indoors was still not permitted due to the pandemic. <\/p>\n

This was followed by welcoming remarks to the audience, who listened to the words in high spirits yet with a touch of excitement\u2014understandable on this day, as it marked the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of the youngest children. Together with two children from each class, Janine K\u00fcster then provided a glimpse into school life at the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School to make their upcoming daily routine a little more tangible. <\/p>\n

The program continued in a really cool way\u2014with a rap in English performed by Class 3 and students from Flex, under the direction of Katrin Wei\u00dfenborn.<\/p>\n

Video art, accompanied by music, once again depicted scenes from everyday life in elementary school before the first-graders were divided into their classes. Maria Bick will serve as homeroom teacher for Flex A, and Dr. Sebastian Verbeek will serve as homeroom teacher for Flex B. <\/p>\n

And with that, the official \u201cprogram\u201d for the exciting first day of school for Steinm\u00fchlen\u2019s youngest students was already over. Their first short class was waiting! <\/p>\n

Janine K\u00fcster, the head of the school division, bid farewell to the parents and extended special thanks to those who helped organize this first day of school: These were Maria Gloerfeld and Katrin Wei\u00dfenborn, who are primarily teaching third grade this year but who nonetheless organized the orientation with great care and dedication, as well as Friends of the School Association Chair Jasmine Weidenbach, who had prepared small welcome gifts for the first-graders and provided decorations.<\/p>\n

Everything indicated that the small back-to-school celebration had been a hit not only with the girls and boys, but also with their parents. Janine K\u00fcster: \u201cWe had a wonderful, positive atmosphere, and photographer Till Buurman was kind enough to capture many of the moments on camera.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Plenty of music, lovingly prepared performances, and lots of joy marked the first-day-of-school celebration for the youngest students at the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School. Maria Gloerfeld, homeroom teacher for third grade, opened the ceremony in the Forum with the piano piece \u201cL\u2019Ap\u00e9s Midi.\u201d The program then continued in English. Janine K\u00fcster, head of the elementary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":46192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,101,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilingual-elementary-school","category-events-celebrations","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186","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=46186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49290,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186\/revisions\/49290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}