Refugee students face an uphill climb in German schools as teachers struggle to cope with the influx
A book called 'Welcome to Germany' is pictured as refugee children, who fled following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, attend a preparation course in a school in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Zlata Antoniuk, 9, has been taking English, Ukrainian language and mathematics lessons in a primary school in Berlin since she fled Ukraine with her older sister and mother in March following Russia’s invasion.
While the subjects are not new to her as she had previously learnt them in her home country, she had difficulty getting used to the classes in Germany.
She said: “The rules in school here are different from in Ukraine. Everything is stricter, and we can’t play outside freely.”
An estimated 160,000 Ukrainian children attended school in Germany this year, according to the German Culture Ministry.
