Principal's Welcome

The Elementary School is a caring, happy, learning community that seeks to work in partnership with parents to ensure children flourish and grow to their full potential.

We are a school community from many nations and we celebrate our diversity through exploring each other’s cultures and engaging in each other’s festivals. We highly value the fact that our children come from many linguistic backgrounds and we are able to arrange ‘mother tongue’ lessons at the end of the school day through our Mother Tongue Co-ordinator. As a school however, we support all children in acquiring strong English skills as English is the school’s medium of instruction. In addition to this, there are German language programmes for children who are first language German speakers and for those children where German is an additional language.

We seek to develop our children’s natural curiosity by actively helping them to acquire the skills of inquiry and research. In this way we support them in becoming independent learners; learners who are motivated, able to make their own decisions and to follow through their own questions and paths of interest.

Through our IB Primary Years Programme our students gain knowledge; with this knowledge they are encouraged to apply critical thinking skills, to innovate and to communicate with others. Many different opportunities and mediums are offered to the children to express their ideas and outcomes, for example, through oral presentation, drama, writing, music, art and design.

Within our children we seek to develop strong personal qualities such as integrity, honesty, open-mindedness, respect, compassion and empathy. We explore and expand upon these qualities through class circle times, assemblies, our charity work and relevant aspects of our curriculum. We also encourage our children to take informed risks and to approach unfamiliar situations with confidence.

As a community focused on learning we seek to develop the whole child and we believe children’s emotional, social, academic and physical needs are equally great. We strive to create a culture where children are proud to be learners and understand the importance of review and reflection in the process of continual improvement.

As a school we greatly value the role parents play in their children’s education and we encourage parental support and involvement in many of our day to activities and events.

If you wish to find out more about our Elementary School please do not hesitate to contact me.

With kind regards, Jennifer McLaughlin

More detailed information is available from:

Jennifer McLaughlin
Elementary Principal/Elementary Head

Josef-Gall-Gasse 2
1020 Wien
Phone: +43 (0) 1 720 31 10
Fax: +43 (0) 1 720 31 10 40