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Germany Educational Trip - Day 6

5/16/2019

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Group photo at King's College Frankfurt
[16 May] I was looking forward to visiting today's school not only because I was assigned to officially write about this school for the post-trip publication for Hong Kong Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council (DSSSC), but also that my own secondary school bore the same name – King's College.

My Alma Mater is of course a reputable government school in Hong Kong, not affiliated with this King's College in Frankfurt. And in fact, even though they call themselves  “The British School of Frankfurt”, they are not related to the UK government. This is simply a new branch of school under the King's Group, run by a group of British people.

Their Head Teacher Ms Sharp had a very passionate and charming speech introducing to us about the governing body and their achievements in the last 50 years in other countries. But unfortunately her words could not be supported by current evidence in this Frankfurt-based school because they only came into existence in August 2018. The school was designed to have a capacity of 600 students, yet now their current number of students is 40. Their staff said that it would take 5-8 years for them to fill up the remaining places, if it could possibly be done at all. So, we probably came a bit too early today.
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Despite of their seemingly unreadiness to become a model school for us to learn from, we had some funny interaction with their young children, whose parents were mainly people staying in Frankfurt for a short term for work. Here, Mrs Lam pranked a boy with dirt! Ha! Just kidding... She was half frightened by the dust on the boy's shirt and what he was holding! Can you believe it? The kids were playing with wheat flour!
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Mrs Lam represented the DSSSC to present a gift flag to Ms Sharp, the Head Teacher of King's College Frankfurt. Ms Sharp got emotional when she got hold of the flag. Was the flag that heavy or burning hot? No, she yelled with joy seeing the Chinese characters on the flag. She said they looked stunningly beautiful!
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The campus of King's College Frankfurt was not particularly large compared to the other schools we visited in this trip, and their rooms were yet to be fully furnished or decorated. We believed that as they grew, they would be able to enrich their teaching and learning environment for their children. And we sincerely hope that it would happen.
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Real learning can sometimes get dirty. I agree with that. Not to mention that most students in this school are below 7. These washing machines had great responsibility to keep students' uniform clean after they have played with mud, paint, and flour.
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No fancy buildings, no colourful walls, King's College Frankfurt was still in its developing stage and all plans were waiting to be implemented. The lonely blackboard at a bare corner of the school told us something about the simple layout of the school, as well as their striving for NOT becoming a Christmas-tree-school – over-decorated without much substance. However, the school looked to me “under-decorated” too.
It seemed to be a happy accident for us that we were arranged to visit a school which was not fully prepared for visitors looking for professional exchanges on teaching and learning with solid local examples. Thinking positively, we still saw a new school and appreciated what we were offered, however limited their resources and experience at the present were. But it will be a long way till they have got enough pupils to make the school fully functioning. At this moment, we could only give them our best wishes for their future growth.
Just one question today for those who has an artistic and architectural mind:

1. The above are some common buildings in Frankfurt that we observed. Can you briefly describe this particular German architectural style?

Tomorrow will be our final working day in Germany before leaving for home. We will visit a university. I hope it will give us a satisfying morning. Write you again soon!
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​Dr H C Lee
24 Comments
Alfred Tsang
5/18/2019 02:45:13 pm

Q1. They made the houses and windows very tidy, and square. Making people feels relexed.

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Justin yip
5/18/2019 03:22:31 pm

The buildings are neat, tidy, and there is no creativity in their architectural style.

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Jaydon
5/18/2019 03:33:33 pm

Not to special, but the height of the building are not to high and also they have the same height.

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Jaydon
5/18/2019 03:34:25 pm

i mean 'too' not 'too'

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Colin Tong 6C 20
5/18/2019 10:44:53 pm

Anytime and anywhere, you can just look at Hong Kong's building's and see that their buildings are outdated, shabby and decayed at the corners. The space between buildings are just dirty alleys. One look at Germany's buildings: dexterous, spick-and-span, and uncluttered. the most decorous you could see in every window, every brick. The biggest comparison that I have ever seen between two cities. Should our government do something about it?
I like how plain and ordinary the school campus is, considering it was just an ordinary school. It shows the creativity in Germany schools in their education design and their work. Just think; you will never see students on their hands and feet with paints and flour in a classroom back in Hong Kong. And I doubt you or I will ever do.

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Dr H C Lee
5/19/2019 04:19:47 pm

Well observed, Colin!

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Jayden Ku
5/19/2019 12:25:30 pm

I think the buildings are very old fashion, they look like some building in 1850s

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Dr H C Lee
5/19/2019 07:10:35 pm

Try to go to London and you will see a lot of buildings over a century old.Those are nothing like these I found in Frankfurt.

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Lo Yik Ming 6C (14)
5/19/2019 05:47:06 pm

The German architectural style seems to merge the buildings together without keeping a narrow way between the buildings like those in Hong Kong. The colours of the buildings are also simple and they will let the people feel less stressed.

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Raiden
5/19/2019 06:33:31 pm

The windows are all either square or rectangle, which looks tidy. They have similar architectural style. This shows that the Germans have less creativity than us.

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Dr H C Lee
5/19/2019 07:08:33 pm

Dangerous to judge their creativity simply based on these buildings. It could only be a matter of style and culture. We all need to respect differences between countries.

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Lawrence Ma 6C16
5/19/2019 07:24:11 pm

It's nothing special. Maybe to save space on the streets?

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Hadwin Ying
5/19/2019 08:06:40 pm

In my observation, these buildings are all the same height and windows facing the street. I think the Government there restricted building being builder higher to avoid the streets being too dark as the buildings block the sun.

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Choi Lok 6A07
5/19/2019 08:41:33 pm

Blocky and dull-colored, they seem to be a simple design. Maybe the Germans have more colorful things in their lives so they do not demand great outlooks?

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Fu Yat Yuet
5/19/2019 09:47:00 pm

I think they are very neat and tidy, and they were all in the same pattern and height.

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Chester Wai 6A 25
5/19/2019 10:12:51 pm

Question 1: The buildings are cuboids, and there are no extra decorations, they look very simple and tidy, as the windows are all the same. I think German architectural style is based on tidy or just using rectangles and squares.

Dr Lee, do you meet new friends at school? Do you think that we should put some washing machines at school, too? Hope you're last day can be also interesting!

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Adrian 6B
5/19/2019 11:18:29 pm

For question 1 The colour of the buildings in Germany might be a little dull because I have found that most of them are only white, grey or brown. Also, there are not much variety between the designs of different buildings which is quite different from Hong Kong

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Roy Chan 6E04
5/20/2019 04:21:36 pm

Question 1 answer: The buildings are all built very neatly, and you can see that even the windows are at a similar size. Usually in Hong Kong, you can see building of different shape, size and height, but in Frankfurt, all the building seem to have a 'blocky' style, and seem to use not-too-bright colours as a main colour.
Thoughts: Frankfurt has a unique style of architecture, and their way of education is also different from ours in multiple ways, hope I can go visit there soon!

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Samuel Ng 6B19
5/20/2019 07:01:06 pm

Q1. All of them are perfectly in patterns

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Kasen Hsu 6A
5/20/2019 08:25:01 pm

600 capacity , only 40 students , it is fun to wander around the empty corridors?I don't think so. Nothing more to comment about.
Q.1 This architectural style is called 'Modern' , which usually has rectangular or square shapes as it's exterior and comprises of a massive usage of glass , however the style seen in the photos is a kind of varient of the modern style as it is more boring and tidier , looking like the boring communist block buildings found in the former countries of the Warsaw Pact . So it is a ' Communist Modern style ' , very weird...(P.S. Frankfurt is a part of West Germany before the collapse of the Berlin wall, so communist blocks aren't supposed to be here.)

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marcus li 6d
5/21/2019 09:33:16 pm

the architecture style is very modern and pretty squared and tidy....

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Jonathan Foed link
5/23/2019 04:26:17 pm

I think that the German architectural style is very well-planned, clear and incorporates simple, straight lines a lot, which really reflects many German people's characters: simple, yet stunning.

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Jonathan Ford link
5/23/2019 04:45:16 pm

For the previous comment, it should be Jonathan Ford, not Foed.

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Andrzej 5C (27)
5/26/2019 08:19:29 pm

The windows of the buildings are done neatly and in orderly fashion , compared to HK the outlook is luxurious and beautiful

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