DSJ Jahrbuch 2016
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Box 91005 Auckland Park 2006 11 Sans Souci Road Parktown Johannesburg South Africa Tel. +27 (0)11 726 6220/1 Fax +27 (0)11 482 3188 Email [email protected] Web www.dsj.co.za Redaktion Annette Holtmann Fotos Savo Ceprnich Carmen Debus Kirsten Dunn Myrtle Dittberner Annette Holtmann Nicola Johannsen CB Photography Veronique Stheeman Anzeigen Annette Holtmann Druck L&K Print Tel. +27 (0)11 807 7717 [email protected] Design, Layout Karen Nysschen Cell +27 (0)83 263 8626 [email protected] Umschlagbild Nicules Holtmann, 10a Khaya Ngqoleka Erläuterung zum Bild Gewinner des Wettbewerbs für das Titelblatt des Jahrbuchs 5 VORWORT, SCHULVORSTAND UND PERSONALIA 1 LISTE DER INSERENTEN 39 NEUE MITARBEITER 2 Company Seite ABB 11 51 HÖHEPUNKTE UND ERFOLGE 3 Aluglass (Pty)Ltd 207 Aquep 219 79 REGENBOGEN-KIDS 4 Black Forest Bakery cc 15 Bond Stationers 19 111 GRUNDSCHULE (KLASSEN 1-4) Bosch Power Tools Back Inside Cover 5 Galileo Risk 59 Grohe Dawn Watertech Back Cover 149 ORIENTIERUNGSSTUFE (KLASSEN 5-6) 6 INDEX GSTA 189 HHK 163 165 MITTELSTUFE (KLASSEN 7-9) 7 Lufthansa 50 Munich RE 145 193 OBERSTUFE (KLASSEN 10-12) 8 Natcosa 4 Porsche Front Inside Cover 251 SPORTEREIGNISSE 9 Powder-Lak 1 Powder-Lak 164 271 PRÄFEKTEN 10 RAW C Coconut Water 77 Retecon 77 SLKB – Heiko Braun 48 279 DSJ-LER IN DER WELT 11 Treasures 4 U 77 VZH Inc Attorneys 38 295 FESTLICHES 12 Volkswagen 9 Siemens Stiftung 61 309 FÖRDERZENTRUM PHÖNIX 13 313 ELTERNBEIRAT 14 317 ALTSCHÜLER 15 327 DSJ IN DEN MEDIEN 16 IMPRESSIONEN UNSERER GROSSEN SCHULFAMILIE 2 3 VORWORT SCHULVORSTAND & PERSONALIA 1 C O N T A C T U S T O D A Y ! 1 Sebastian Pabst | TEL: 011 608 2340 | CELL: 082 414 9621 | EMAIL: [email protected] Frank Siebold | TEL: 011 608 2340 | CELL: 082 885 1157 | EMAIL: [email protected] Nadine Tüchler, 12d www.natcosa.co.za 4 5 our grade twelve learners were getting our learners, teachers and staff with a … AND A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS ... ready for their final examinations, with happy, healthy and safe environment a record number of 73 Matriculants in which to learn and work. Everyone …..AND A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS….. decided to spread her wings and fly and Abiturienten, due to the first time tries their best, and some things may The plan was to have a “quiet” 2016. all the way to Durban, which meant a inclusion of our English Medium High not always work or go as planned. The After an event-filled 2015, celebrating position in the Marketing Department School learners. There was a tangible one thing I have learned these past nine the DSJ’s 125th birthday, it looked like became available. The opportunity feeling of “let’s get down to business”: months is that the heart and engine 2016 would be comparatively quiet, just felt right, and a month later I teachers preparing final examinations that drives the DSJ is within every one with just the customary events, such was sitting in the Marketing office and tests, evaluation of marks, invigi- of us. We are all the DSJ, we all have as the annual school concerts, sports with Savo and Silke, who had kindly lating exam and finalising reports. a role to play within this community, events, Fasching, Open Day, Schulbasar, offered to assist with the Schulbasar In the background, the Administration, some big, others small. But whatever Osterlauf, Bundesjugendspiele, Galas, preparations. I was thrown in the deep IT and Admission departments were you do, it is your choice to be here. Dance evenings, Art Exhibition, end, with the Schulbasar just five desperately loading and learning our Celebrate it, nurture it, improve it, and Fashion Show, Matric Ball, and of weeks away! With the help of the entire new Engage system, ready to go live most important of all, be proud of it! course the Sportolympiade, hosted school community, the DSJ hosted a on 1st January 2017. When the final Happy reading to you all, I hope you by our neighbours, the Deutsche successful 109th Schulbasar. Assembly of 2016 was over, the last enjoy my first Yearbook; may there be Internationale Schule Pretoria. The 8th June 2016 finally arrived. of the busses had departed from the many more! Unbeknown to most of the DSJ There was such a buzz of excitement DSJ, I thought, okay, now there will community, quietly, behind the in the entire school…. Today we would be some peace and quiet to get this Annette Holtmann scenes, Frau Stölting was compiling know whether the culmination of Jahrbuch done. been absolutely wonderful, so patient a comprehensive dossier about the many years of continuous hard work, But as the learners departed the class- and always willing to assist! DSJ as part of our application to the evaluation, improvement and self- rooms and corridors, so the Mainte- By the third term the achievements Deutscher Schulpreis competition. This correcting would pay off, and we nance staff, Cleaning staff and various of the Schulpreis had taken a bit of included topics such as dealing with would be crowned the best German contractors moved in. Throughout the a back seat, with the next exciting diversity, responsibility to ourselves school outside of Germany. When the December 2016/January 2017 holidays, project on the horizon – Science Week and others, quality education, etc. announcement was made on the big instead of 1000 pairs of school shoes – an initiative by Mrs Anne Waldek- With the click of a button, the DSJ was screen, the cheer from the learners running through the buildings, heavy Thill, a parent from the DSP. The in the running for “Beste Deutsche was deafening. We had done it! I have work boots, wheelbarrows, buck- organisational and administrative tasks Auslandsschule”. never felt more proud to be a part of ets, tools, grinders, jackhammers and involved, co-ordinating the exhibitors, Weeks went by; everyone was getting the DSJ and I believe every heart in the paintbrushes were seen and heard, allocating the rooms, field trips, ready for the new school year 2016, Aula was almost bursting with pride! magically transforming bathrooms, making sure our guests from Soweto the Deutscher Schulpreis application Right, I thought, let the third term classrooms and playgrounds. Three were here on time and well taken care long forgotten. With one phone call begin and the school year can now go huge shipping containers arrived from of – the additional workload placed on to Mr Bachmeier on that fateful day in back to “normal”. (Not that anything Germany with new furniture, books, the teachers and the entire staff of the February 2016, the “quiet” school year was normal for me; everything was teaching aids and toys, which had to DSJ was immense. But the educational was not to be – it would be one of the still so new). Even though I have been be counted, sorted and stored away value to our children is immeasurable. most exciting and meaningful years in a DSJ parent for eleven years, part for the new school year. Thank you to everyone involved who the history of our school. Within days of the PRC for seven years and its One thing I have learnt at the DSJ this made the Science Week into one the jury from Germany were walking chairperson for five years, I felt like a year is that the engine, the heart never of the highlights and unforgettable the corridors, interviewing learners, grade one learner on her first day of stops. Teachers, parents and learners milestones in 2016. teachers, parents, staff and Board school! I was amazed by how much may go on holiday, but there are so By the time the last of the Science Week members, sitting in lessons, living and goes on behind the scenes, things many hands that help steer and guide flyers and certificates were stored breathing the DSJ first-hand. that “just happen” and are taken for the DSJ, and in their own special and away, the fourth term had arrived and Around this time, Katrien Schöttler granted. The Administration team have unique way help to improve and provide 6 7 GRUSSWORT DES SCHULLEITERS O&M CAPE TOWN 92951/E Wherever life takes you. Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Partnerschulen beteiligten sich über liebe Mitglieder unserer Schulgemein- 30 Unternehmen und Organisationen schaft, mit über 100 Referentinnen und Refe- auch das vergangene Jahr 2016 war renten.