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Vancouver Westside German School

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 12 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

We offer a widely recognized high quality K-12 German after-school language program. Ideally students join our program at the age of 5 or 6 and progress on to high school.We teach German as a foreign language and German as a second language. To that end we stream our students throughout the entire program into a second language stream and a foreign language stream.Our program reflects a variety of language levels including German language introduction in Kindergarten, progression at the elementary level, exam classes for provincial high school credits, and the German language diploma, which is a language proficiency requirement for admission to any German, Austrian and Swiss university.Students learn German with us once a week after regular school hours. Junior classes (ages 5 to 12) are held on Tuesdays from 4:15 pm to 6:30 pm, and senior students (12 years and up) attend classes on Wednesdays from 4:30 pm to 6:45 pm, at Prince of Wales Secondary School.We receive financial support from the Federal Republic of Germany - the Zentrale für Auslandsschulwesen (ZfA). In addition our program is funded by tuition fees as well as donations made by parents and the community.We are a recognized language school and a non-profit organization founded in 1992. We have been serving the Vancouver community for over 20 years and are a member of the Canadian Association of German Language Schools (CAGLS) and the PASCH Partner School Initiative, a network of more than 1,500 German Schools abroad offering German Language Certificates. We encourage our teachers to become members of the BCCTG (British Columbia Council of Teachers of German).The school is operated by the VWGS Society, represented by an elected board of directors. The School Principal and Administrator manage the day to day running of the school with the support of a team of dedicated, highly qualified teachers and assistants.