“We only had a handful of pupils and parents left,” says director Angèle Selhorst who came in five years ago and took over the helm a year and a half ago. “Then the Coronacrisis also broke out. And we had a big assignment: creating a beautiful school, growing but above all offering beautiful education in the neighborhood and outside.”
According to Selhorst, the school mainly needed attention, love and care to become a central place in the neighborhood again. Floriant chose the Dalton Reggio approach, whereby, in addition to lessons in language and arithmetic, work is also being done on broader skills.
“Life requires more than just knowledge of math and language,” she explains. “We encourage children to work together, to think about their own actions and take responsibility. It is really a school of and for all of us.”
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