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Have a look at our newly created sets of stimulus cards for last minute revision before the oral exam.

Congratulations to our winner of the Autumn 2019 KS4 creative writing competition: Marielle Jasper, Year 10, from Chelmsford County High School for Girls

It is the time of year again for our annual autumn creative writing competition in German. It is open to all KS3, KS4 and KS5 students in the region who are studying German.

Victoria and Bastian are students at the University of Wuppertal and have recently completed their internship at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge. In the following article they talk about their initiative of running a German club at two local primary schools. Congratulations to both for their achievement!

Congratulations to the teachers and children at Hemblington Primary in Blofield Heath, Norfolk, for organising and running a very successful German week.

Our popular language summer school is back! The School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia would like to invite students entering Year 12 and 13 in the next academic year to its annual Language Summer School. Date: 19th to 21st August 2019.

The Oxford German Network has just launched this year's edition of 'A German Classic' - an essay competition for sixth-form students

Does your primary or secondary school have a truly outstanding  German language teacher? Dedication and excellence deserve recognition! 

Welcome to the latest EEG newsletter, full of information on events and activities to boost German at your school. 

Congratulations to all the winners of our autumn creative writing competition. There have been some amazing entries, even including a poem in German.

This year's KS4 event will take place on Tuesday 29th of January. Thanks to the support of Goethe Institut London and the University of Cambridge, this event is free to attend. 

Read the latest autumn/winter EEG newsletter.

We would like to invite KS4 and KS5 students of German to participate in our AUTUMN creative writing competition based on your own photo version of a famous theme in German romantic painting: the Rückenfigur or rear-view figure that gazes into the distance, with a longing for or maybe rather an unease about the future. 

After last year’s successful autumn creative writing competition,  UEA Think German Network would like to invite all students in KS3 to go out into nature again and be inspired to write an imaginative text.

Here is an opportunity for primary and secondary schools that must not be missed! The German Embassy London is delighted to offer – for the first time – a special information trip to Berlin and Bonn titled "Schools: Fit for the Future with German". Please read the attached flyer for more details.

Here is the latest newsletter for the East of England German network.

The workshop was held on Tuesday 10th July and has become one of the key events in the calendar of language teachers and learners in our region.

This summer term, German university student  Annalena Zenkert from Bergische Universität Wuppertal spent a work placement at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge. As part of her role, she set up a weekly German club at a local primary school.

On Monday the 9th of July year 6 students from Grundisburgh Primary School visited Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge for a German taster afternoon.

Here is the latest newsletter for the East of England German network.

Have a look at our newly created sets of stimulus cards for last minute revision before the oral exam.

Farlingaye High School received a very special Christmas present as it was made a PASCH school. PASCH stands for the "Schools: Partners for the Future" initiative. It is a global network of around 1,800 schools that place a high value on German.

Here is the latest newsletter for the East of England German network and information about exciting professional development courses for primary and secondary teachers by the Goethe Institute.

On Thursday, 19th October UEA Think German Network had invited KS3 German students from secondary schools in the region to attend our first German film screening event at Cinema City in Norwich

We would like to announce that the Goethe Institut London are once again offering two of their successful CPD blended learning courses: DLL 3 "Deutsch als fremde Sprache" and DLL4 "Übungen, Aufgaben und Interaktionen"

With the start of the new year comes a date your students don't want to miss

Our popular language summer school is back! The School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia would like to invite students entering Year 12 and 13 in the next academic year to its annual Language Summer School. Date: 19th to 21st August 2019.

Two major exhibitions are about to start in Norwich, celebrating the work of the author W G Sebald on the 75th anniversary of his birth. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for year 12 and 13 students to hone their linguistic skills through a carousel of activities, ready for their a level exams in french, german or spanish.

The Goethe Institute in collaboration with UEA Think German Network at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, are pleased to offer a blended-learning professional development course with three integrated seminar days in Norwich.

The School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia would like to invite language students entering Year 12 and 13 in the next academic year to its annual Language Summer School. 

This conference is for teachers and trainee teachers working with languages in primary, secondary and sixth form.

There are still places available on the Goethe-Institut Blended Learning Course for Teachers. The course will be running from 19th of May until the 14th of July 2018.

On Friday 2 March UEA will be offering the chance for KS5 students to come for a special language day, to practice their oral skills in French, German and Spanish, and see what it’s like to study a language at university. We will also be running exam prep sessions for students due to take A-level exams in the following languages: Mandarin, Polish, Arabic, Russian and Japanese.

This year's ÖSTERREICH-TAG, an event organised by the Austrian Ministry for Education in cooperation with ALL (Association for Language Learning), takes place on 7th October at Austrian Cultural Forum in London.

In collaboration with Cinema City UEA Think German is organising an exciting film screening event for Years 8 and 9: Der Ganz Große Traum (2011). Find out more about the event and how to book.

On 10th July 2017 Wymondham College hosted its first Norfolk Schools Languages Workshop to give an opportunity to keen linguists from the region to come together for a day of creative language activities.

Showing Barbara (2012), a drama based on human and political dilemmas by German film-maker Christian Petzold. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

UEA's first German A-Level conference in years and simultaneously the official launch event of our UEA Think German Network proved to be a great success among 30+ Year 12 and 13 students from several sixth forms in the region.

This award-winning German-language film is now showing at Cinema City in Norwich and tells the story of Toni Erdmann, the bizarre alter ego of Winfried Conradi, a divorced music teacher with a penchant for playing pranks.

Listen to the sizzling of the famous Berlin Currywurst, the snorting hippo in Berlin zoo, the sound of its S-Bahn or the nostalgic spluttering of the Trabi. 

The University of Bonn invites international students and other interested individuals from any field of study or discipline to an International Summer Course for German Language and Cultural Studies.