TAZ Horgen Bilingual Day School

Who doesn’t know the famous story of Dorothy, who was caught up in a cyclone and deposited in the Land of Oz? Not only did she have many adventures but she also had to unravel the mystery of the mighty Wizard.

3 to 12 years old TAZ children were performing on the big stage at the city hall Schinzenhof in Horgen. Almost 400 parents and guests enjoyed the play.

Grade 6 had a fantastic week in Bristol. The weather was kind to us and our hostel was very luxurious! We took part in lots of different activities to help us immerse ourselves in the English language and culture, including:

- visits to the cinema and theatre
- cooking and model-making with a local Scout Troop
- a workshop, handling small animals, during our visit to the zoo
- making films and doing experiments at the @Bristol Science Exhibition
- an audio trail around the world's first steam passenger liner

We were all totally exhausted, but happy, on our return home on Friday.

All Kindergarten classes had a lot of fun dressing up and having a carnival party in our gym hall.

In February, Grade 5 and 6 visited the Transport Museum in Lucerne. They looked at trains and the Gotthard Tunnel. The children had the opportunity to experience the lives of tunnel workers in the 19th century, by travelling on the museum’s full-scale tunnel model. They also had a close-up view of the workings of a steam locomotive. While walking around on the large-scale Swiss arena map, they carried out different exercises.

„The Mitten“, by Jan Brett is a wonderful Ukrainian folktale about a little boy who loses his white mitten in the snow. One by one, animals come to stay warm on the cold winter’s day by squeezing into the mitten.
The big bear’s sneeze at the end is really a surprise and great fun for the KG 2 children to play!

Grade 6 children accompagnying our singing with their music for the Assembly.

On Thursday evening, 3rd of December clear children's voices could be heard from the play ground at TAZ Horgen as our yearly Advent Singing took place.

The new playground was our focus when starting school after the autumn break. To inaugurate the playground we organised a sack hopping competition to support "chance for children", a project for children in Ghana living on the streets. TAZ children were looking for sponsors to donate money for each completed lap.

As refreshment we offered apples and pears, Swiss bread and apple juice from a farmer in Horgen.

We enjoyed the visit to the farm very much. It was very exciting patting the animals, and we were very impressed by the big rooster who lives on the farm. We also bought some fresh eggs which we will use for baking.

On the 18th of September we put our school books aside for one day and devoted ourselves entirely to sport.

The TAZ Horgen Sports Day took place in the Waldegg Sports Facility in Horgen. The children "travelled" in mixed age groups "around the world" participating in challenging activities. For example jumping, throwing, running and several team games.