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Grade 6/7 October to November 2009
Grade 6 and 7 students have had a busy and fruitful start to the new academic year. They have been involved in community action (‘Sindelfingen blüht auf’) helping to plant tulip bulbs in Sommerhofen Park. On a wet and cold October afternoon they braved the elements to plant thousands of bulbs. They work industriously and nearly always with smiles on their faces. They really showed how effective they could be as a team. They truly dug deep that afternoon!




To support their first unit of study on natural disasters and human migration, the students went to the Rosenstein Museum, Stuttgart, to visit the evolution exhibition (‘Der Fluss des Lebens, 150 Jahre Evolutionstheorie’). The movement of early humans out of Africa was one of the most popular parts of the exhibition and casts of skulls from Australopithecus to modern humans could be handled.




One of the key scientific concepts that emerged from studying the layers of the earth, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and Tsunamis was the nature of solids, liquids and gases. We ended the first module looking at particle theory. One of our regular warm up activities in PE has been ‘solid, liquid, gas’. The students are in a gaseous state below!