Although we couldn´t celebrate our Lantern Festivals in kindergarten & pre-school as usual, our smallest DHPS learners still enjoyed the walk with their self-made lanterns and singing lantern songs.

The museum space of the project "Recollecting the Past for Today" is taking shape and - apart from some minor changes still to be made - has been completed.For the school year 2019/2020, 140 German schools abroad were invited by the German Foreign Office and the Central Agency for Schools...

This year's "Day of Kindness" at the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule Windhoek (DHPS) was very special, as the DHPS school community took the time to thank the many health workers in Namibia for their tireless efforts in these challenging times. On 1 July 2021, classes, colleagues and teachers joined forces and...

Dear Learners, Parents, Colleagues and Friends of DHPSPlease find here our DHPS newsletter for June 2021 – we hope you enjoy reading this issue and please stay healthy!

Not only the crafts and experiments in the holiday programme of the DHPS Children & Youth Centre were colourful, but also the diverse workshops and experiments in which the children could try out and gain experience. Whether making paper, jewellery, sewing teddy bears or building birdhouses, the young craftsmen got a varied insight into...

Would you like to go on a journey? You cannot decide where to go? Classes 9b and 9c have designed travel brochures for different EU countries. The learners enthusiastically researched the most popular travel destinations, special attractions of the countries, culinary specialities, currency, etc. Would you like to accompany a T-shirt on a journey around the globe? The...

At the beginning of the May holidays (24.4.-26.4.2021), DHPS teachers had the opportunity to participate in a regional in-service training on the topic of "Competence-oriented teaching with the help of digital media". The online course was conducted within the framework of the digital education fair under the direction of Tanja Mayr and Benjamin Pauluschke. Tanja Mayr...

In March 2021 the City of Windhoek (CoW) ran an awareness campaign to commemorate World Water Day 2021 with the theme “The value of water to the Windhoek Community”. Learners from primary and secondary schools were invited to partake in an essay writing competition. DHPS´s Grade 8d decided to join in on the competition...

The DHPS & BAS Basketball camp was held over three days; from 24 to 26 April, 2021.Participants were offered beginner, intermediate and advanced skills training based on their capabilities. This years’ camp had the largest female turnout with almost 50% of the players being girls, which showed the growth in...

In Maths in Grade 6 we try to give the pupils hands-on, practical tasks that will help them understand deeply the concepts we are covering. Did you ever hear of Cotton Ball Shot Put, Paper Plate Discus, Straw Javelin, Long Jump and High Jump during mathematics lessons? During our Maths Olympics, we were measuring...