End of Year Celebration Wednesday 26th June 2013

In a moving farewell celebration we said goodbye to the 4th graders. We also said goodbye to Ms Burkandt who is off to enjoy her retirement after 37 years at Gete!

Children`s Concert 2013

Monday 17th June at 5 o`clock in the gym.
The flute group, the drum club, the string orchestra, the children`s orchestra and the string class all played for us at the concert. Many parents of this year`s new first graders sat in the audience and wondered which group would be best for their children.
Thankyou Ms van der Bent, Ms Adler and Ms Rüskamp for a wonderful entertainment.

First and Second Grade Football Tournament

The kids had a lot of fun with the `best in the year`competition. In the end 1b and 2a were the winners. Thankyou Schiri Kremming!

98th Breaktime Concert

The flute group, led by Mrs Rüskamp, show what they have learnt this year.

New Building

As part of the  transformation to  an all-day school we will be getting an extension built. It has now been confirmed that the plans from the architect firm Haslob, Kruse and Partner will be implemented.
On the ground floor will be a canteen with kitchen , music and movement roooms and a library. Upstairs will be space for three classrooms. Building work will begin in Spring 2014 and everything should be ready for the school year 2015/16.
We`re all very pleased to be getting such an interesting new building.

Container and Climbing Frame in the Summer Holiday

Finally a new climbing frame in the playground! At the beginning of the summer holiday a container with classroooms  will be placed between the gym and the main entrance building. Then Mr Jörg    will build a climbing tower thus greatly increasing the play areas in our school.
This has been made possible by the City of Bremen`s  Ìmpulse - money`fund and also by a generous donation from the School Club.

German School Chess Championship

From the 2-5th of May our chess team took part in the German Primary School Chess Championships. We achieved 12th place out of a total of 38 teams. Well done and a big thankyou to all the parents who helped out

Network Meeting of Mathematicians in Fulda

On the 19/20th April this year`s  Mathematician Network Meeting took place in Fulda. Gete School was represented by Gundel Timm, Karoline Witte and Christian Hunold. An informative report about the meeting can be found on the Math Research  Homepage http://www.matheforscher.de/
At the end of the article is a link to a film about last year`s meeting in Berlin. Four pupils from Gete were there and can be seen in the film.
The participation in this project has already resulted in some very interesting lessons for several classes.

Re-opening of School Library

The library has been closed since the Easter holidays. Thanks to generous donations by the parents the lending system has been re-organised. Every book has a bar-code which can be scanned to make the taking out and bringing back of books much quicker and the whole system much easier to organise.
The four staff members who work in the library very kindly gave up their time to learn the new system . Many thanks!
Now all the bookworms can come back to the library!

Spring Concert

Once again we performed our Spring Concert. Every class had prepared something to present to our many visitors. We hope that our poems, songs and dance will finally usher in the Spring!
Wishing everyone a relaxing holiday and happy Easter!

Bremen Primary School Chess Championship 2013

We are the Bremen Primary School Chess Champions 2013!
This year`s tournament was held on 28th Feb. in Habenhausen Secondary School. Forty teams from Bremen and Delmenhorst took part, with each team playing against a team with the same number of points, so that a winner emerged after seven rounds. Each school, including us , fielded several teams and here are our results : Gete III, 14th place, GeteII, 9th place and GeteI, with Jakob, Malte, Moritz and Joschua , 1st place!!
After 6 rounds we faced some strong competition from Mahndorf I and BaumschulenwegI who were leading their group. Jakob and Joschua on boards 1 and 4 had played well all morning but were quickly beaten in the 7th round. Malte and Moritz on boards 2 and 3 knew that everything then depended on them . This provided a very exciting match for the spectators. Moritz won easily having only conceded half a point. This left the last match to Malte who had lost one point. I thought this would put too much pressure on Malte but he proved himself equal to the task and won the the day for us - with this victory we qualify for the German Primary School Chess Championship in May!
The Chess Championship for Gymnasiums was on the 26th and 27th February and both of my teams from Hamburger Str. Gymnasium won. Taking part were 3 ex-Gete Kids, Dmitrij, Long and Jakob G.
Well done everyone!
Michael Kollars

Jumble Sale

Once again the jumble sale wonderfully organized by the School Club. There were lots of people, both buying and selling or just enjoying coffee and cake in the teachers` room.

Carnival 2013

Police Puppet Show

The police puppet show came to our school to perform for the first and second grades.
Road safety was the theme and the kids learnt some important things whilst having a lot of fun with the police officers.

Chess on the Lake

Gete-Kids successful in Bad Zwischenahn!
Right on time for the primary school chess tournament at the end of February our chess players are in top form. On the first day of the winter break, Thursday 31st January, Jakob, Moritz, Malte and Paul took part in the 150th youth competition.
It was a wonderful location, with plenty of room for the161 competitors and a view from the window of the Zwischenahner Lake.
Everyone played 7 rounds in age appropriate groups - in the Over 11`s (20 players) Jakob came 2nd, Moritz 5th and Malte also made it into the top ten. In the Over 10`s (29 players) Joschua, in what was his first singles match,  managed 5th place!
Good job everyone!

Plans for the New School Building

From Monday 4th February we are displaying in the school foyer presentations from the three architects competing to build the school extension. Anyone who is interested can come by between 8 and 4.30 to have a look. In March one of the three will be chosen by jury and work will begin, in cooperation with the school, before the summer. We are expecting the building to be finished by the summer of 2015.

Christmas Concert

At our traditional Christmas concert the string orchestra played and the Zwitscherling and Getekids choirs sang. Over 100 children were very well prepared by Sabine Krivec, Stefanie Adler and Genevieve van der Bent. 
The Parents` Orchestra, led by Elke Rüskamp played beautifully and afterward enjoyed a Christmas party in the teachers` room.

News from the Chess Team

Bremen Youth Team Competition U12 Season 2012/13
1st day`s play 10th November Willms Gymnasium Delmenhorst.

Our team , Gete II with Julien, Jennik, Paul, Lenne, Nick and Gregor , won Category B. They won both rounds 3:1 against Chessfreinds Bremen East III and 4:0 against St Joseph`s School I.
In the A Category Gete I with Moritz, Malte. Theo and Luis lost 1:3 against Chessfriends Achim I in the first round, but Moritz showed a lot of ingenuity in his game.
Theo, in his first competitive game outside of Gete School played valiantly for nearly two hours and it could have gone either way.
We had to do without Jakob because he is now playing for U12 Delmenhorst chess club.


Lower Saxony and Bremen Primary School Chess Championship 2012
Tuesday 20th November Hermann-Böse Gymnasium.

In contrast to the high number of participating teams of four from Bremen in the last contest, this competition was between fewer, stronger teams, each with eight players from Lower Saxony as well as Bremen. Finkenberg primary school from Aurich were the winners.
We ended the seven round tournament in 6th place, beating our `arch-rivals` Baumschulenweg!
The third graders from Gete had very little experience of playing in tournaments, something that is going to be very different in the spring. Already Julien surprised us with 4 wins, 1 draw and no defeats!
Michael Kollers, Gete Chess Trainer.

What do Numbers Sound Like?

Is there a connection between math and music?
The children from our school were finding out the answer to this question from the music teacher Michael Bradke with his stage programme `Join In - Musical Numbers`.
With hands, feet and voices the children experienced addition with bars of music, odd and even numbers and counting with drumming. Especially fun for the children was hearing different musical interpretations of their own names.
This stage programme was only possible thanks to the support of our school club.

Ecumenical Celebration

This year we once again had an ecumenical religious celebration, concentrating this time on the story of Jonah and the Whale. Class 4b have been working hard on a theatre piece with Ms Witte and Ms Buchheim and performed this with the narration of Ms Zaremba from St Ursula`s Catholic Church.  The end prayer was given by Pastor Grosse  from  the Jona Evangelist Church. Once more the celebrations were accompanied beautifully by the choir (Ms Adler) and the parents`orchestra.