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Australia, Melbourne
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No boarding is offered; Outside School Hours Care runs before and after the school day (7:00–8:45 before school and 15:30–18:00 after school).
Breakfast and lunch are brought from home; the school emphasizes healthy and balanced meals.
Deutsche Schule Melbourne Inc is a not-for-profit incorporated association. Its constitution sets the purpose to establish and operate a kindergarten, pre-school, primary and secondary school in Melbourne and to promote German language and culture alongside English. The Association has about 120 members and is governed by a Board that oversees overall strategy and leadership; membership and board arrangements are defined in the constitution and related governance pages.
Deutsche Schule Melbourne is a German-English bilingual primary school in Fitzroy North. It delivers a dual curriculum that blends the Victorian Curriculum with the Thüringen curriculum, enabling a smooth transition between systems. The school is VRQA-compliant and KMK/ZfA-recognised as a German Auslandsschule, emphasising cross-curricular connections and bilingual, intercultural learning. In Foundation Year, about 80% of instruction is in German and 20% in English; by Year 3 the German component balances to 50/50. Core subjects include German, English, Mathematics (German in the early years, bilingual from Year 3), Sachunterricht, HPE, Art, Music, Ethics and Class Council, with French introduced from Year 5. The program uses immersion, CLIL and explicit language instruction with a one-teacher–one-language approach, taught by German and English native speakers. Facilities at 96 Barkly Street include a library with German, English and French resources, an Instrumental Program, and after-school care. Extra-curriculars span sport, choir, chess, circus, theatre and garden clubs.
