Story Competition Prizegiving in the City Parliament

The Bremen Reading Initiative (Leselust) set a challenge for students to write their own stories about childrens books -both old favourites and less well known books.

15 pupils from classes 2b,4a and 4b responded with fantasy filled stories about their favourite books. Their hard work was well rewarded with a 600 Euro book voucher for our school library!

Lea, Philine, Paul,Marie and Charlotte were invited to the prizegiving ceremony at the City Parliament in the Market Square, where they had the opportunity to sit in the place of Bremens` politicians and receive their prizes. Maries story was even presented by the actor Dirk Böhling!

The book certificate will be transferred to Melchers Bookshop in January. Our Childrens Parliament already has a long wishlist of books requested by the kids at school!

Information eveníng

On Monday 9th January we are holding an information evening for parents of next year`s first graders. This will be at eight o`clock in the music room. Afterwards the classrooms of this year`s first grade will be open for parents to have a look round. Of course teachers and parents reps will be there to help and to answer any questions.

Parents Donate Reading Material

In November the parents of the second graders attended a seminar on how to help their children with reading and writing. They made a generous (voluntary!) contribution of seventy five euros and with this money we have bought some useful reading material. Once again, thank you to all those who helped with this.

Creative Numbers

In the foyer you can see an interesting exhibition `Math and Art`. Four classes, 2a,3b,3c and 4b, have been working on this theme. The pictures all come under the umbrella of the the project `Math Journeys - Discovering Maths in Your World`. A more detailed report about this project can be found at www.matheforscher.de

The First Book

Just like every year for the last ten years, `The First Book`appears just before Christmas. It is a collection of stories and pictures created by third graders from different schools, for first graders. From our school, Henrike, Anton and Catherina have contributed. All first grade children will receive a copy of this book as a present.

Christmas Singing on 15th December

Our traditional Christmas singing is on the 15th December at 7 o`clock p.m. in the gym.
We will be entertained by:

The Zwitscherling (Ms van der Bent)
Getekids (Grade 3 - Ms Adler)
Getekids(Grade 4- Ms Krivec)
The String Orchestra (Ms van der Bent)
The Parents Orchestra (Ms Rüskamp)

There will be new songs to listen to and old favourites to sing along to.

Because the evening will be a little late and maybe the children won`t go straight to sleep afterwards, they don`t have to come to school until 8.50 the next morning. However, for those children who need to come at the usual time of 8.00 the classes will be supervised ,there`s no need to put your name down, just turn up.

Dear parents, please help us to ensure that everything runs smoothly! The children who are in the choirs need to sit at the front with their choir leader. We request that all the other children sit next to their parents and don`t run around the hall. Thankyou all for your co-operation!