"Everyone is unique, and yet we belong together"

Created: 06/22/2022, 18:00

By: Veronica power

Award-winning works of art: Mayor Rainer Streu, principal Annett Taubert, Mathilde and Rosalie Schmid, Jakob B., Xaver Jahrstorfer, Ferdinand Wauthier, Aurelia Klute, Luca Hinkelmann, Lea Rode (back), Tara Baiker, Josefa Haug (back), Leonie Fischer, Tim Maier, teacher Juliane Rötzer and school social worker Sabine Wendt (from left).

Vouchers and ice cream for the winners © .

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The elementary and middle school in Forstern becomes “school without racism – school with courage”.

Godfather is Mayor Rainer Streu.

The project group recently had the idea of ​​holding an art competition.

Now, in small celebrations – once for the elementary school and once for the middle school students – the best works were awarded.

Forstern - headmistress Annett Taubert reported that the competition "My Peaceful Elementary School Forstern" was originally only intended for first to fourth graders.

But then middle school students would also have wanted to take part.

"I think it's great what you've done.

Actually, you are all winners because you are all committed to this topic," social worker Sabine Wendt addressed the students.

“There is no place for exclusion or racism in our school, there should be diversity, friendship and peace.

All children should feel comfortable," said Taubert: "It is important to us that we treat each other with respect, regardless of skin color, gender and origin."

She recalled the vote last December, in which every student and every employee decided for themselves whether they wanted to go down this path.

"We achieved 95.22 percent, which we are very proud of," Taubert recently reported at the school association meeting of the middle school association.

It is important that there are now regular campaigns – such as the competition.

In elementary school, the teachers chose the best three pictures from each class.

The decision was then made by a jury consisting of Wendt, Taubert, Streu, the teacher Juliane Rötzer and two representatives of the project group.

They decided according to various criteria, but without knowing who painted the pictures.

And so it happened that two sisters ended up on the podium: Mathilde Schmid (1b) made fourth place with a human chain around a globe, her sister Rosalie (4a) secured third place with two hands that form a heart Place.

Second place went to a colorful joint work from class 4b, and Jakob B. from this class also took first place with a peace sign.

The individual winners received small non-cash prizes as well as vouchers for the thermal baths and cinema, sponsored by Sparkasse Erding-Dorfen.

Class 4b can look forward to a double hour of free play in sports as a prize.

In the case of the middle school students, a joint project from 8b convinced the jury the most.

They had made small figures with messages like "We are all worth the same" or "You are beautiful".

A large sculpture from 6a, created from the first letters of the students, came in second.

The message behind it: "Everyone is unique, and yet we belong together." And in third place was a hand-crafted scene from 9a.

The classes received trophies for this, and the mayor spontaneously added ice cream.

"I think it's great how young people are already campaigning to ensure that exclusion, hatred and racism don't stand a chance," he said and said that he was also confronted with it in his own childhood.

When he went to school in Forstern in 1986, he was the only one with red hair, "and some other children wanted to annoy me about it".

But he quickly found friends who supported him.

Streu therefore advised the students: "Approach others openly, even if they look different from you."

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The artworks are displayed in the school building.

The official “School without Racism – School with Courage” sign is to be presented next year, perhaps at a school festival.

An intercultural meal is planned for the end of this school year.