Creative and open minded primary school

Early access to multilingualism as well as an environment shaped by children and teachers from different nations lead to greater awareness and understanding of other cultures, their ways of life and values.

Bilingual learning enhances the children’s ability to concentrate and improves their multi-tasking skills. It will be easier for them to switch between different tasks. In general, these children gain easier access to other languages in adulthood.

The immersion programme offers students cognitive, social, and professional advantages: They can use the skills they have been taught to find their way in a globalised world. It helps them be able to act and integrate competently in the world community. Being able to integrate and act with self-confidence form the best prerequisites for versatile and promising perspectives in life – in a professional or private context.

The immersion method ensures that learning the second foreign language happens casually and without pressure to perform. The method is child-friendly, as the children immerse themselves in the new language by means of facial expressions and gestures and simply absorb it. Thus, with the immersion method, a higher level of the foreign language can be achieved compared to conventional foreign language teaching.

We support children in becoming responsible global citizens who can create solutions for a sustainable future.

CREATIVITY:
Strothoff International School is characterised by an innovative teaching and learning culture. Our aim is that our students develop a high level of resourcefulness. This enables them to meet the challenges of today and contribute independently to finding solutions.

SUSTAINABILITY:
Sustainability is a topic that will become even more important in the future. We want to encourage our students to think and engage as responsible global citizens on a local, European, and international level.

LEADERSHIP:
We teach students to act with self-confidence and at the same time to treat their fellow human beings with respect and responsibility. In terms of future leadership skills, these qualities are indispensable.

Yes, thanks to the immersion method, entry into our bilingual primary school is possible without any problems. That applies even to children without knowledge of a second language. Immersion means that the students learn and experience both languages throughout the day.

The primary school’s programme is based on the contents of the Hessian Framework Curriculum as well as on the Primary Years Curriculum of the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP). In this way, the local learning goals as well as the international standards are achieved. The students learn both German and English at a mother-tongue level. It also opens the way for them to obtain German graduation qualifications (MSA, Abitur) and the international IB Diploma qualification. This opens doors for them worldwide.

It is important for us to have a manageable class size so that our teachers can deal with the children individually. As a rule, our classes have between 18 and 20 children, but the size always depends on the respective learning group.

Yes, we offer early care from 7:30 am and afternoon care between 4 and 6 p.m.

Phorms Education is an educational network with currently 15 locations across Germany. The kindergartens and schools are designed to enrich the educational landscape through bilingual and high-quality education. The public schools are run by local societies that operate on a non-profit basis. They are approved as independent substitute schools because they replace attendance at a corresponding state school. They are subject to state supervision, follow the framework curricula of the respective Bundesländer and prepare students for qualifications such as the Mittlerer Schulabschluss and the Abitur.

Strothoff International School is a private all-day school offering the International Baccalaureate Programme from Kindergarten to G12 and is the only school in the region to provide the full International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum. In 2022, Phorms Education group hopes to finalise the acquisition of Strothoff International School, which was founded in 2009 by Hans Strothoff.

Strothoff International School is a natural fit for the Phorms Education Group, said Björn Walden, Regionalleiter Rhein-Main-Neckar Phorms Education. He continued, ‘the team at Strothoff International School has built a great school; we share their vision and look forward to working together and providing academic excellence and a creative and caring environment for students to learn and grow into confident individuals.’

Yes, we offer a bus shuttle service for our students.

Yes, our students wear school uniforms. We are convinced that the students develop a sense of belonging through the school uniform.

Yes, new students are welcome at Strothoff International School at any time during the school year. You can therefore register your child for the admission process at our school at any time.

It usually takes about ten days to process an application. If necessary, individual requests can also be processed more quickly. However, it is possible that individual enrolment procedures take longer. This is the case, for example, when students need individual learning support.

No. In fact, research has shown that learning in two languages favours academic progress and enhances the formation of cognitive skills. Immersion students not only end up bilingual, but also master the material of the regular curriculum taught in the foreign language. In addition, you will achieve a level of fluency in the immersion language that far exceeds that of students in any other form of language instruction.

Through professionally designed and supportive lessons, the children are given a sense of security. After just a few days, your child will not even notice that the teacher speaks a different language. The immersive method places a lot of emphasis on facial expressions, gestures, and hand movements. With increasing receptive skills – i.e., reading and listening comprehension – the children gradually incorporate the second language into their everyday language use.

No. As this is an all-day school, we do not want your children to bring home any extra work.