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.