Introduction
Jerusalem - The Holy City for three world religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. There where these religions meet is a unique school: the Schmidt Schule.
The Schmidt Schule was founded in 1886 as a private girls' school under Catholic school sponsorship and is today under the ownership of the German Association of the Holy Land (DVHL).
The objective was and still is to offer girls' education at the highest level: intercultural, interreligious, multilingual, holistic and independent of the social and religious background of the students. Today, this offer is taken up by 530 girls of Christian or Muslim faith. Since 2008, the Schmidt Schule has belonged to the circle of 140 German schools abroad worldwide and since 2015 it has held the seal of quality "Excellent German School Abroad".
Congratulations to the 25 graduates of the Schmidt School: 15 Abitur graduates and 10 Tawjihi graduates.
As part of the festive graduation ceremony, the diplomas were presented — many of them with top marks. The celebration also included various speeches and traditional Dabkeh dances.
Dr. Bernhard Kotsch, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office, traveled from Berlin to attend the event. He also awarded the Schmidt School the official quality seal in recognition of the successful school inspection completed last autumn.
Students from the St. Charles Kindergarten also took part in the program. They were warmly welcomed into the school community by the fresh graduates with a floral greeting.
Finally sports day! The first graders took the bus to the nearby “Jungle Land,” an outdoor playground, while other Elementary students used the sports fields at the Schmidt School for games and competitions and then enjoyed an ice lolly. The Upper Grade students competed against the boys from St. George School and won the tug of war. Many thanks to our sports teachers for the colorful and fun program!
After the Abitur exams, the twelfth graders devoted themselves to the fine arts and performed an Arabic-language play, supplemented by songs and Dabkeh dance. Some elementary school students also contributed and had important roles. The audience was thrilled and the applause was huge!
During this year's autumn break at the end of November, a group of 46 students and staff from Schmidt-Schule itravelled to Rome to celebrate the Holy Year. The program included a joint concert by the choir of Schmidt-Schule together with the choir of the German school in Rome, visits to St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican Gardens and other sights as well as a common mass with the Cardinal Wölki and an audience with the Holy Father. Also many staff members joined this special pilgrimage. A video has been taken about the trip, which you can see here.
VIDEO OF SCHMIDT’s SCHOOL
EDUCATION BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Video length: 8 min.
Follow the ways of your heart, and whatever your eyes see.
(Ecclesiastes 11,9)
Sozialfonds Schmidt-Schule
The 'Sozialfonds Schmidt-Schule' covers part of the costs if the families don't have enough money to pay their daughters school fees. In this way, daughters from poor families can also get an excellent start into professional life. Generous sponsors also made it possible to purchase new equipment for the playground, additional books for the school library and stage lights for the auditorium. Perhaps you, too, would like to support the Schmidt School and its students.
Perhaps you, too, would like to support the Schmidt School and its students.
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Schmidt-Schule Jerusalem
Nablus Road 97
P.O. Box 995 | 9100 901 Jerusalem
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Telefon: +972 (0)-2-62678-70 (Arabisch / Englisch)
Telefax: +972 (0)-2-6275321
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