"> Excellent school. Academically challenging with fantastic pastoral care. The teachers are incredibly supportive and the general athmosphere is very friendly. The school's current headteacher has introduced structural changes which improved social and emotional support and language learning, eg . the school now has four dedicated staff for social and emotional learning (an educational psychologist, a SEN specialist, a SEL coach/counsilor and a safeguarding officer). They run year long Social and Emotional Learning classes as part of the curriculum in several year groups and are highly supportive and on the ball. Most students have either English or German support lessons. The school is more much challenging academically than the top rated British secondary school my children transferred from. Learning targets are clear and the feedback is detailed. I disagree with the previous reviewer that the school is old fashioned in its educational approach. While it certainly is not HighTechHigh, pupils are expected to do much more team work and more presentations than in the British system. Students have to work continuously, which prepares them much better for their future work environment. Although Germany is failing miserably in the teaching of IT & technology, DSL adapted incredibly well to online teaching and offered excellent pastoral care during lockdown.

"> Our son attended the German School for just over a year. He started in Year 4, which is the last year of primary school. Due to his academic abilities the head teacher decided that he should attend one year ahead of his age group, which was fine. He enjoyed those months a lot and developed nicely. Year 5, however, turned out to be a disaster: academically he continued to do fine, but the children are expected to carry around lots of books and binders, change rooms within the school building, manage with a 20-30 minute lunch break starting only at 13:40. Despite the average class size being only approximately 20, there is a lack of support, in my opinion, when children struggle (as our son did). Despite the attractions of a reasonably challenging curriculum (compared with English state schools, not good English independent schools), the dual language environment and the IB option at the end, the school comes across as old-fashioned in its educational approach and does not have a customer-centric attitude towards parents despite the high fees. Overall, this school was too German for us, despite our son's Dad being German!