The Goethe Institut Sydney is running German courses for students in Years 10-12 in both the January and April school holidays 2018. HSC preparation courses are available for Continuers and Extension students from Monday 22 to Thursday 25 January, and from Monday 16 to Friday 20 April. The courses address the themes and topics specified in the syllabuses.

An intensive grammar course is also available in Terms 1 and 2 2018.  

For more information, visits the Goethe Institut website or contact Mignon Uebele at the Goethe Institut Sydney. 

Stay informed of all the latest news and events from the Goethe-Institut: Contact Claudia Steiner-Taylor to sign up to the Goethe-Insitute Newsletter for Teachers. 

From 25 to 29 September, the Goethe-Institut Sydney is offering holiday courses for Years 11 and 12 students who wish to enrich their knowledge of German. These courses are a great opportunity for students to consolidate and extend the skills they have gained in the classroom. The courses are based on themes and topics specific to the NSW curriculum (Continuers and Extension).  Follow this link for more information www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/sta/syd/kur/kuj.html

Study day NSW: Language, Higher Education and Exchange - 23 Mar 2017
University of Sydney
Join us on 23 March 2017 for an insight into higher education and exchange in Germany. Invited are German teachers and their students that are interested in studying at a Germany university. The day will be a great opportunity for your students to learn more about study and research in Germany. For more information and to RSVP, please contact: ann-katrin.berk@sydney.edu.au
Study day NSW: Language, Higher Education & Exchange

HSC Continuers and Extension Days NSW - 5 May and 2 June 2017
Goethe-Institut Australia, Sydney
Do your students want to improve their German for the HSC exams? Then enrol your class for one of the GI's full-day events of intensive communicative activities for Year 12 HSC students and support their preparation for the oral HSC examination.
HSC Continuers and Extension Days NSW

German School Film Festival - Palace Cinema, Sydney
Deadline 8 Sep 2017
Finale 19 Oct 2017
This year, the German School Film Festival will take you on a time travel into the future. “Deutschland im Jahr 3017”: Imagine it is the Year 3017. What does the world – what does Germany – look like? Entries for ACT, NSW, NT and QLD close on 8 September 2017. Further information will be available soon on the GI website.

Felix and Franzi - New teaching materials
Some of you might already know the fun Felix and Franzi teaching materials for primary level. Another set of lesson plans with new topics has been developed by our colleagues in London and is now available for download.
Concepts and Materials: German for Children 

Autobahnspiel
"Das Autobahnspiel” is an informative, interactive station game that provides many impressions and facts about the German-speaking countries, their culture and products. It's the perfect motivational game for students who are about to choose a foreign language, for beginners of German and even for parents. Please contact the GI if you would like to have "Autobahn" at your school.
Autobahnspiel 

Reminder: 2016 HSC examination committee member applications close Monday 24 August

Teachers and academics with appropriate HSC subject qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply for examination committee member positions. More information about the role, current vacancies and an application form can be found on the BOSTES website.

For more information, contact:
Michelle Aspery
Head, Test Development
Examining and Testing 
michelle.aspery@bostes.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8372

This day aims to give each Year 12 student the opportunity to have two 10-minute mock interviews with two different and unfamiliar examiners in preparation for their HSC Speaking Exam.

Teachers need to be willing to conduct 10-minute interviews between 9 am and 12 noon while students are required to undertake two 10-minute interviews within a 40-minute time slot thereby giving them a short break between the two interviews.

For more information see the flyer below or contact:

Astrid Sampson
The King’s School
ABS@kings.edu.au

This information is particularly for German teachers who have accessed information regarding the HSC Trial papers: Maureen Collins is retiring from Tara Anglican School For Girls, but can be contacted on mcollins15@hotmail.com instead of the Tara email address. Anyone interested in working on or contributing to the papers in 2015 (Term 1, on a date to be advised) please email Maureen directly.

Seeking a full-time, temporary  replacement teacher for German for 2015 at Fort Street High School (academically selective, co educational school).  Must have NSW DEC teaching approval. Must have recent experience teaching German Continuers and German Extension courses. HSC marking experience an advantage. Teaching classes in Years 7 to 12. Willingness to be involved in the corporate life of the school.

For further information, please contact Evelyn Manson, Head Teacher Languages at evelyn.manson@det.nsw.edu.au

Please forward detailed applications to evelyn.manson@det.nsw.edu.au by Friday 14 November, 2014.

HSC Trial papers for Continuers and Extension will be available on the Goethe Institut Moodle platform from the 1st June. If you have accessed these in the past, the procedure is the same.

If this is your first time, you need to set up a login, sign up for “My goethe.de”on the GI Sydney site. (Then go to Meine Kurse, and NSW HSC link)

If you have any problems accessing the papers, please contact Maureen Collins at m.collins@staff.tara.nsw.edu.au

Please read the note for teachers regarding security, and use of the papers. 

Many thanks to all the teachers who worked so hard to put together the papers and make them available to other German teachers.

Kind regards
Maureen Collins


 

A message from Maureen Collins, the NSW MLTA Representative of German teachers:

As has been the case in the past few years, a group of teachers will get together soon to write German Trial HSC papers for Continuers, and, if we have enough volunteers and interest, Extension.

This year’s writing day will be on Saturday 5th April beginning at about 9am, and finishing about 3pm at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College at North Sydney. Parking onsite is available and it is located near the train station. Further details will be available for those attending.

All teachers of German are invited to attend, as many hands make light work, and the sharing of ideas and resources is important. You do not need to have a HSC class to contribute (and some of the teachers giving up their time do not have classes)!

For teachers not in Sydney or who are unable to attend on that date, your contributions/ideas/sample questions/possible reading passages are all most welcome, and can be emailed to me at the address below. Ideas for all sections of the paper/s would be appreciated.

Please email to let me know if you would like to join us on the day and/or can contribute materials over the next few weeks (by Tuesday 1st April please).

Further information will be sent out in Term 2 once the papers are available through the Goethe-Institut Moodle.

Kind regards, 

Maureen Collins 
MLTA Representative of German teachers 
m.collins@staff.tara.nsw.edu.au