{"id":47900,"date":"2024-08-28T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2024\/08\/28\/first-day-of-school-for-5th-graders-an-important-day-for-girls-boys-and-their-families\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:40:08","slug":"first-day-of-school-for-5th-graders-an-important-day-for-girls-boys-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/08\/28\/first-day-of-school-for-5th-graders-an-important-day-for-girls-boys-and-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School for 5th Graders: An Important Day for Girls, Boys, and Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

The doors to the Steinm\u00fchle Forum were wide open on this beautiful summer day\u2014and that was a good thing, because it allowed all the parents, grandparents, siblings, and relatives of our fifth-graders to watch the entire orientation program. It really is a special day when high school begins at Steinm\u00fchle! <\/p>\n

14 Languages in the International High School Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are starting the 2024\/25 school year with four classes in Grade 5. In addition to 5a, 5b, and 5c, Class 5i is the lowest grade level in our International High School Program. And indeed, there were quite a few familiar faces in this class\u2014students who, after attending the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School, are continuing their educational journey in the International High School Program. The girls and boys attending this program speak 14 different languages at home! <\/p>\n

A Glimpse into the World of Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, however, on the first day of school, all 5th-grade students were introduced to a different language: the language of music! The current sixth-graders once again performed excerpts from their anniversary musical\u2014which they had staged in June to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Steinm\u00fchle School & Boarding School\u2014and presented their choral singing. The music department\u2014led by Ulrike Wilmsmeyer, Anna Prokop, Frank Wemme, and Daniel Sans\u2014had pulled out all the stops to give the audience a taste of vocal and instrumental performances right from the start. With popular songs from music history, starting with the 1950s, the sixth graders immediately captivated the entire audience. Catchy tunes like \u201cRock Around the Clock,\u201d \u201cDancing Queen,\u201d \u201cThey Don\u2019t Care About Us,\u201d and \u201cWaka Waka\u201d simultaneously took the audience on a journey back in time to Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s past and brought to mind many a school milestone. <\/p>\n

Trust, Patience, and Fun<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Have faith, be patient, and have fun together”\u2014this was the advice the teachers gave the students as they left. Principal Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer concluded by suggesting that everyone stop by to see Jasmine Weidenbach on their way out. The chairwoman of the Steinm\u00fchle Marburg Friends Association had a welcome surprise in store for everyone. <\/p>\n

Photos are part of it<\/strong><\/p>\n

The students in the new 5th-grade classes then gathered at the legendary climbing spider in the schoolyard to pose for the photographer\u2014first by class with their parents, and then as a whole class on their own.<\/p>\n

The photos below show, in the following order, the classes with their homeroom teachers: Stephan Steinebach (5i), Dirk Lange (5c), Jonathan Gr\u00f6b (5b), and Rieke Sch\u00fcssler (5a). The other photos provide a glimpse of the first-day-of-school celebration, which was organized primarily by students in the 6th-grade classes. <\/p>\n

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The doors to the Steinm\u00fchle Forum were wide open on this beautiful summer day\u2014and that was a good thing, because it allowed all the parents, grandparents, siblings, and relatives of our fifth-graders to watch the entire orientation program. It really is a special day when high school begins at Steinm\u00fchle! 14 Languages in the International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-celebrations","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49844,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900\/revisions\/49844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}