Happy Birthday dear Diospi-Suyana-School

The Colegio’s enormous potential is becoming ever more apparent

Every year on 20th June the Diospi-Suyana-School celebrates its birthday in style.  On no other of the 187 school days of the year does the school’s potential become more apparent.  Four project days sufficed for the 195 primary and secondary level pupils to present what they have worked on in a total of 17 projects.

The Spanish “capo/capa” can be translated as the adjective “capable” or as the noun “the doer”.  With his pupils Professor David developed tips and tricks how they can make their daily routines easier.  His mixed-age group presented a couple of inventions: one highlight had to be the raft made out of PET bottles (see picture above).

Peter Schütze, school caretaker, opened his workshop for 10 pupils – each of them made one piece of furniture and one toy.  In the picture you can see Australian Isaac Welsh building a tank with Elvira Portillo.

In the school’s workshop.

The recently opened chemistry lab experienced its first few experiments.

Emily Speidel, a voluntary welfare work for one year, performed experiments with pupils from classes 4-6 with the four elements: earth, fire, water and air.  Here you can see girls from Curahuasi and America doing an experiment: paper soaked in a alcohol-water-mixture burns, but does not burn up.

The four elements.

In the same way Sophia Leihkauf and Prisca Seidel, both working hard for their A-Levels, were able to put together an impressive hand-puppet-show in a very short space of time.  The project group itself made the puppets and the stage designs, which were crowned by immaculate performances and received a lot of applause.

The puppet-show.

That evening the school community was invited to a varied festive programme held in the Auditorium.  Head of School, Christian Bigalke, moderated the 90 minute programme in which six projects were briefly interviewed.  The pupils themselves reported on their experiences, their successes and what they had learnt over the past four days.  Especially remarkable were the hydraulic robotic arms, which sixth-form students had made out of wood, syringes and medical tubes, pretty much by themselves, as physics teacher Alvino Hurtado was coaching the school’s team in the provincial capital Abancay at the same time.

Interviews.

While the Diospi-Suyana-School cannot deny having a clear international profile, it always seeks to identify itself with the cultural roots and background of its Peruvian student body (85% of its pupils are Peruvian).  Hence folklore is a part of any such event.  Several songs performed by the pupils and a teachers’ dance rounded off the evening.  All of the participants made a clear and heartfelt profession of faith in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord.

Folklore music.
Dances.

The members of staff are all in agreement that God is to be praised for all the school’s visible progress.  We wait and see how the educational project will develop. /CB

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