Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg

The German International School of Johannesburg ( DSJ ) is a school founded in Johannesburg in 1890, with around 1030 students from 27 countries (as of 2009 ).

The DSJ includes kindergarten, primary school and secondary classes that do not correspond to the tripartite school system, however, the statements referred to in Classes 9, 10 and 12 are equivalent to the corresponding counterparts in Germany. As is common in South Africa, the school year is the calendar year.

The possible since 2002 Visit of non-German children from the kindergarten and pre- serves the playful appropriation of the language, so that the transition is possible in the first grade of elementary school. Inaugurated in March 2006, this building complex for all kindergarten and preschool classes expanded the space of the school, there were more specialized rooms are decorated in the primary school and the class size will continue to be maintained at the low level of about 20 students.

Based on the German gymnasium offers the DSJ from 2009 high school degrees after 12 years, the last year with completion after 13 years in late 2009. Launched in 2007, new training course provides the students in the tenth grade before the option of either the combination arm with end with the German International Abitur and the National Senior Certificate ( NSC) or the branch with completion by the NSC and also the German language Diploma (DSD 2).

In addition to regular classes, the DSJ sees as a learning and living environment of the students. Thus in 2008 there were a total of 60 courses inclination and working groups, and on the nearly 8 acres of grounds are spacious sports facilities available. Other focal points of the study groups are music, such as the school band, instrumental groups, choirs and traditional German dance lessons as well as groups for chess and computer science.

As part of the outreach program, the school offers additional lessons on Saturdays at for about 80 students from 43 different elementary schools of Soweto. These children are taught the fourth grade at the DSJ in English, mathematics, art, and life skills. After one year are included in the fifth class of the DSJ of these students about 20, up to the tenth grade, they are regular students of the DSJ with the exception of the German - teaching.