Metropolitan School Frankfurt

It's "throwback Thursday" and we are remembering what a fun Sports Day we had in the Primary last week! Well done everyone! 👏😎

The football fever goes on - at least here at MSF! Thanks to the inspiring Outdoor Kids trainers for making a dream team out of our Football Summer Camp students! 🤩⚽️🏃🏃‍♀️🥇

If you still haven't book engaging and fun activities for your child(ren) this summer - there is still time to do it! We have just added one new camp with our partners Outdoor Kids to find place on MSF campus. See you there! 🥳🤸‍♀️😍⚽️

To say that it's outstanding is to say nothing. Congratulations to all the students, parents and teachers on the amazing (again!) IB (International Baccalaureate) exams results! 👏🥳 High above the world average for the 7th consecutive year in a row - thank you (and especially our IB coordinator Ms Dodd) for all your hard work, it was all worth it in the end!! 🤗🥹

Our Grade G4 students part in the school cycling competition for the first time this year - and took 3rd place! Well done team! 🤗🥳

Our Judo club members have been working hard towards their final test and end of year exam. Many students received their first belt, which was either level 1 yellow&white or level 2 yellow. Two of our older students received their level 3 belt of orange & white.

Congratulations too all members of the Judo club for their hard work, discipline and perseverance for the whole year! 🤗

Our Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh International Award students are departing for their Expeditions! Let’s wish them all well as they navigate with only a map and compass to their campsites. They will be self-sufficient for the next few days carrying all food, tents and equipment required! 👏😁

Following the German tradition of giving children a Schultüte (a cone filled with staples and small gifts) on their first day of school, we invited parents to creating one for their children last week: look at the results and last year's photo! 😍🤗

Good luck to our Grade 7 student Matthis who will travel tomorrow to Gothenburg (Sweden) to participate for one week at the biggest Youth International Handball Tournament in the World, the Partille World Cup, with his Team under 13 from TSG Münster (Kelkheim-Münster)! Around 1200 teams from 35 countries, 4000 matches all over the city. You can follow his team (boys13, TSG Münster) on www.partillecup.com. Matthis is part of a 4-years facilitation program to become part of the Hessen squad. Fingers crossed for Matthis! 🥳

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With spring upon us, there are plenty of new things to re-discover and identify in the outdoors. Outdoor Education students take part in scavenger hunts to observe some of these seasonal changes and use their skills to sketch and identify flora and fauna around the MSF community 😁🌱

Our Middle School Girls Volleyball Team started their season with an impressive game against FIS Wiesbaden. They showed amazing teamwork and determination after losing the first set, and bouncing back to take the last 2 sets for the win! GO FOXES!! 👏🤩🦊

Today our Grade 11 IB Environmental Systems and Societies class took a guided tour highlighting the efforts to help endangered species at Frankfurt Zoo. Some animals discussed were South American Spectacled Bears, Sumatran Tigers, African Wild Dogs, Gibbons, Golden Tamarins, Kiwis, Orangutans, and Bonobos. Frankfurt Zoo really does a lot of things to help these species improve their IUCN Red List status! 😀👏

To all MSF alumni out there - we're looking forward to welcoming you on the 29th of May! The live get together will traditionally take place after the Graduation ceremony at Possmann! 😃🤗

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MSF parent initiative Safely Digital will host a Coffee Morning - the first roundtable for MSF parents concerned about digital safety and sanity for their children. Sharing views, discussing strategies, and building alliances is the purpose of the meeting. Come join on April 29 at 8:30 in the MSF cafeteria!

Besides the invite to the meeting, the MSF Safely Digital alliance also informed us about an upcoming event (German only however) hosted by a parent association named „Smarter Start ab 14“ - an alliance for parents from all over Germany who are committed to delaying ownership of smart devices for their children to the age of 14. Their motto: First smart, then phone 😊 On Thursday, April 25, a best selling author and digital expert will provide practical advice for parents on how to walk the line as chaperones for kids in the digital age. Look them up if you are interested! 🤗

Still not a part of the MSF community? Would you like to join but don't know where to start? Join us for a live session with the director, principals and our admissions manager to know more about the school and ask your questions! 😊👍

Our Grade 7 students have been investigating chemical changes and the reactivity of metals with oxygen and acid. The most impressive reaction was magnesium with oxygen, which is shown in the photos 😄🧪🥽

In their current unit, "Investigating Materials," the kindergarten Frogs class had an enjoyable experiment today. They participated in a Raw Egg Drop experiment at school as a STEM activity. The objective was for the students, with their parents' help at home, to design a mechanism using various materials, usually recyclables, to protect a raw egg from a high fall at school. The class discussed about each construction and found out which materials the students had used to make them with their parents. We were amazed to see how much the students already knew about materials and their properties. The activity was not a competition, and there were no winners or losers. The students had a great time and made good memories together! 😍

Congratulations to our Grade 6 student Batu Eichner! At the Kalbach Track & Field indoor district championships last weekend, Batu claimed the 1st place in the 3 Discipline Battle (60m sprint, long jump, and shot put). On the weekend he also competed in the Hoch Taunus district competition and came in 3rd for the 800m run, with a 2 mins 44 sec finish. Well done Batu, hard work and determination pay off! 🤗👏

Our Grade 4 and 5 students attended the 2nd AGIS Young Leaders Conference at Bonn International School on Saturday. This initiative was piloted by MSF last year with the idea to rotate the conference every year at various AGIS schools. The students had a great time completing activities, enjoying the tips from the keynote speaker, Agnes Cserhati, and brainstorming ideas on empowering change within their school through reflecting on various leadership skills! 😎

Our Japanese community will be holding a fundraising bake sale for the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake. The bake sale will take place on Febuary 27th, Tuesday in the Cafeteria from 3pm to 4pm. The organizers will be offering some cucumber rolls as well as baked goods and postcards, and there will also be a donation box. All the funds will be sent to Japan's Red Cross Society. Looking forward to seeing you there! 🤗 🇯🇵

Congratulations to our Grade 11 student Adrian Keller on becoming the Southwest German U21 Champion!
The 17-year-old Adrian was the youngest participant in the U21 junior class at the Southwest German Judo Championships at the weekend. Although he could only have been an outsider due to his age, Adrian won the tournament confidently and in the end with a spectacular final fight against his long-time competitor from the national squad. Adrian is now focusing on preparing for the German Championships in Frankfurt/Oder in three weeks' time. Adrian had already been invited to Kienbaum, the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center for Germany, this year, where the best German judo squad athletes train together for weeks under Olympic training conditions 🏋️

We still have 3 places in our additional ballet club! The club is led by our talented Grade 11 student Ella. She teaches ballet for Grades 1 and 2 for her CAS project. Ella studies classical dance at Ballettschule Anastasia Dirksen, with a focus on classical technique, repertoire and character dance. The photo is from the Applaus competition last October where she won third place with her Ballet Variation (Paquita Nr. 8) 😌🩰

Save the date to join us for an exciting guest lecture at MSF! The connection between digestive health and overall wellbeing is a hot topic now. We join the debate focusing on children health! More information in the next MSF Bulletin 🤗

MSF FLL (First Lego League) team was awarded the Best Innovation Project among 22 schools in the Frankfurt and Wiesbaden regions. Additionally, our team got second place overall and qualified for the Germany Final in Siegen on March 3, 2024. This success came from our students working tirelessly on their projects throughout the entire semester even during the last week's break 💪🥳

A kindergarten trip for our preschool students to the kingdom of fairytales by brothers Grimm - all to illustrate our Unit of Inquiry "Imagine that!" 😍

For Fasching (German Carneval) our Primary team dressed as Dalmatians! And what are you wearing? 😉🥳

CIS International Accreditation is a rigorous school-wide evaluative process that measures alignment with internationally benchmarked standards and provides guidance for continuous improvement. Through their achievement of these standards, CIS-Accredited schools have been verified as delivering high-quality international education focused on the development of knowledge, skills and attributes necessary to prepare students as global citizens.

Thank you so much to all of you who have participated in the evaluation process - we not only made it but exceeded in so many domains! 🙏🥳🔥