Hands On Math

For two weeks the children from our school had the chance to experience math in a different way. The `hands-on` stations encouraged the development of spatial awareness skills and the puzzles and games encouraged the kids to experience math in a practical way - learning by doing. They worked their way through these activities with much experimentation, concentration and determination - even in the break, groups of children (of mixed ages) could be seen mulling over these problems together, trying to find a solution.

Over all Borders

Lots of our third and fourth graders took part in a competion for the Bremen Literature Prize for Children and Teenagers. The theme was `over all borders`. The winners were selected from 651 entrants and on the 8th November the prize giving ceremony was held in the Glocke. Out of 12 prizes awarded in the grades 1-4 category, 3 were received by children from Gete, namely, Emma Aude (in the then 4a), Jeldrik Bade and Antonia Runnebohn (both in the now 4b). Congratulations on your achievement!

1a With Safetyvests

Just in time for the dark days of winter, ADAC have given safety vests to all the children in Germany who started school this year. So, on their way to school in the morning they are much more visible than when they are wearing their ordinary clothes.
Class 1a tried their vests on straight away and the results are clear to see in the photo.

Ecumenical Celebration

The Ecumenical Celebration will be held at our school on Wednesday 16th November at 10.15. This year 4b will be presenting the story of Moses delivering his people out of slavery in Israel. Pastor Leube wrote this piece and Ms Timm has been practising with her class, with the help of Pastoral intern Zaremba from St Ursula. The choir and the parents` choir will also be taking part and the scenery was painted by all the classes.
Parents are welcome to join us.

Breaktime Concert

In the last week before the Autumn holiday there were two breaktime concerts. On Tuesday, 3b , led by Ms Adler , sang songs from all over the world.
On Thursday Ms van den Bent`s`Zwitscherling`, the second grade choir, made their debut, singing some funny songs.

Class 4b at Astrium

Classes 4a and 4b are taking part in the `Newspapers in Primary School`project and are producing a page for the `Weserkurier`. 4a are writing about animals living in the tidal shallows and 4b are reporting on their visit to Astrium.
At EADS Astrium , at Bremen Airport, class 4a gathered a lot of interesting information on the theme of `Space`. Nico Wirth and Matthias Schoenke explained Bremen`s contribution to space exploration and the class heard all about Space Lab `Columbus`, Space Transporter ATV and Ariane 5.

The School Football Finals

On the 6th October we`ve got so far : ten kids from the third and fourth grades are travelling with Ms Ackershot to the final! On the sport field at Osterholz the best footballers in Bremen`s primary schools met for the last round of the championship.
In the end we finished in ninth place. With over fifty schools taking part, this was an awesome result. Congratulations!