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Personal and social competencies are central to the school's psychosocial work under the Bessere Schule - Besseres Leben initiative. The program aims to develop self-esteem, self-confidence, emotion regulation (including handling stress, anger, and frustration), and a sense of responsibility. The school emphasizes social skills such as conflict resolution, communication, civic courage, engagement, appreciation of friendship, and integration. It seeks a climate of tolerance and mutual respect in which every student feels respected, integrated, understood, and safe.
The school recognises that students differ in development, learning, and behaviour and introduces appropriate measures to support pupils with special educational needs in their academic and social development. A psychosocial team includes a special education teacher (Sonderpädagoge) and an inclusion coordinator to provide counselling and guidance for inclusion and related projects.
The school operates a psychosocial team including school psychologists and social pedagogues to support student welfare and inclusion. The team includes the head of the psychosocial team and staff such as the school psychologist and the social pedagogue, with coordination for inclusion and systemic counseling. The program includes bullying intervention, substance-use prevention, and systemic counseling; students can access help from the school psychologist, the social pedagogue, the inclusion coordinator, the systemic family therapist, or Vertrauenslehrer when needed.
A safeguarding-oriented support system is in place, including a school psychologist, a social pedagogue, an inclusion coordinator, a systemic family therapist, and Vertrauenslehrer. The school provides bullying intervention and other psychosocial services to protect and support students.
Deutsche Schule Lissabon is a private German-Portuguese encounter school for ages 3 to 18, with about 1,060 students and around 145 teachers. It operates as a Deutsche Auslandsschule and offers the German International Abitur, with Hauptschulabschluss and Realschulabschluss awarded; Abitur is taken at the end of Grade 12 and is recognised for university admission in Portugal. Instruction is in German across Grundschule (primary) and Gymnasium (secondary). Grundschule Lisbon follows the Thüringen education plan, teaching Deutsch Sprachkompetenzraster for Grades 1–4, Sachunterricht, Mathematics, Portugiesisch as L1 and L2, Ethik/Religion, Sport, Musik, and Kunst, with English introduced in early grades. Gymnasium follows German curricula for Sekundarstufe I (Grades 5–9) and Oberstufe (Grades 10–12) with subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Deutsch, Englisch, Geografie, Ethik/Philosophie, Französisch, Geschichte, Portugiesisch, Informatik, Mathematik, Musik, Kunst, Physik. The school emphasises bilinguality between German and Portuguese and intercultural exchanges. Facilities include Lisbon and Estoril campuses, science labs, arts and sports facilities, a swimming pool, and ongoing earthquake reinforcement and expansion.”
