German School Activities: Non-academic Classroom Activities

German school singing
Figure 1.--Here we see what looks like a school, but not a class, group singing outdoors. It shows the children (about ages 10 and 11 years) singing on a rather bleak hillside, probably in November or March, when the weather would be quite chilly. A teacher at the school seems to be conducting them. There is a strong tradition of school children singing as mixed choirs in Germany, based to some extent on the Lutheran chorales that have formed a major part of German culture since the Reformation. But the tradition exists also in Catholic parts of Germany. The children are mostly girls. They are dressed in warm clothes--sweaters, jackets, and mostly long stockings, although a few children wear knee socks and one boy wears long trousers. Notice the boy in the back at the extreme left who is wearing a pullover sweater with stripes on the chest, short trousers, long tan stockings, and additional ankle socks with boots. The photo is undated, but it looks to me like the late-1940s. It could be early 1950s.

We also notice extra-curricular sctivities. German schools were highly academic in character, but we do notice some extra-curriculsr activities. German schools do not seem to have placed a major emphasis on sports. We do not seem many German images of school sports. Many German boys did sports through after school clubs away from school. We do. however, notice some sports at school. We know that some teachers organized hiking after school. We also notice some music activities, primarily choral groups. After World War II we notice changes at Germsn schools with an expanded extra-curricular program along with a greater attentiion to non-academic subjects in the curriculum.








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