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December 2025

Goethe-Institut UK
Educational Services Newsletter

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Dear Colleagues,

As we present this final newsletter of 2025, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for your unwavering dedication and hard work throughout the year. We also extend our warmest wishes for a joyous and restful festive season!

We look forward to starting 2026 with renewed energy and enthusiasm, ready to reach new goals together, among other events, via the German Week, which we are enthusiastically preparing for you in January!

Your Educational Services team

For School Classes

German Week 2026

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19.01.-24.01.2026

German Week 2026

#ShoutOutForGerman

Building on the success of its inaugural edition, German Week returns with a renewed focus on promoting German language and culture in schools nationwide. Organised by the Goethe-Institut UK, the programme will feature engaging activities such as a virtual live German Club session and a theatre festival, offering pupils meaningful opportunities to explore German in creative and educational ways.
30 Tage Deutsch

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#ShoutOutForGerman

30 Tage Deutsch mit :)

Get ready for German Week with our 30-Day Journal! Specially designed for secondary school pupils, this creative journal offers daily activities to explore German language and culture in a fun and engaging way. Every school that registers can receive free copies by post—just complete the German Week application form!
Theatre festival German Week

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19.01.26 & 27.01.26 | Goethe-Institut London & St Paul's School London

Theatre Festival

As part of our vibrant German Week, the Goethe-Institut and St. Paul’s School are thrilled to invite you to participate in our German Theatre Festival! Teachers can sign up with a group of maximum 8 students to perform an extract from an existing play or a self-devised piece in German, with a maximum running time of 10 minutes.
Philipp Dodds

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20.01.2026| Online

Discover Careers with German

In the virtual business lunches, your pupils get the chance to meet inspiring German speakers from the world of work and discover different career paths with German. Coming up next:  a career in Finance and Management with Philipp Dodds.
Where will languages take me

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03.02.2026| Online

Webinar: Where Will Languages Take Me?

As part of Languages Week Scotland, the Goethe-Institut is joining the British Council Scotland, the Institut Français d'Écosse and the Consejería de Educación to host a 'Where will languages take me' webinar.
During the live webinar, invited guests will share their inspiring language stories with pupils. A Q&A with pupils will follow speaker sessions.

For teachers of German
Gimagine Award - take German as your DofE skill!

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Gimagine Award – Now an Approved Activity Provider with the DofE!

Great news: The Friends of the Goethe-Institut UK have become an Approved Activity Provider with the DofE, offering German as a skill via the Gimagine Award. Since September, participants have been able to register directly with FGI UK and complete their entire skills section (including the assessment) in one go!

For German learners

Work Experience Week for School and University Students

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23.-27.03.2026 | Goethe-Institut London

Work Experience Week for School and University Students

Are you a school or university student, at least in Year 10, and interested in the exciting activities of the Goethe-Institut, especially the language department? Then apply now for our internship week!
 
IDO 2026

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The IDO is coming to Göttingen in 2026!

IDO 2026: The International Deutscholympiade is back!

This international German language-learning competition brings together participants from around the world. We invite enthusiastic teenage learners of German in Great Britain to take part in the national preliminary round. The motto for IDO 2026 in Mannheim is ZusammenWachsen (Growing Together). The winners who will represent Great Britain in the finals in Mannheim will be announced on 13 February.

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