Primary School Indoor Football Tournament

Our team (Fynn, Mansour, Finn, Noah, Janni, Paul, Johann, Juan and Elias) have got through the first round.

The finals are on Monday at Intoor in Woltmerhausen.

Good luck, we´re all keeping our fingers crossed!

All-day School?

A hot topic in Bremen right now is the question of all-day schools at primary level. We have researched the general opinion in our school by giving out questionairres to the parents of children in classes 1-3. 171 were returned - that is 91%, so this is clearly something of interest to many people.
Parents were asked for their opinions on the following themes ;
all-day school, provision of lunch at school and general restructuring of the school.
We are also looking into day care requirements.

Here are the results of our survey:

Day care
36% of parents asked would like their children to stay at school until 1 or 2 o`clock.

59% of parents asked would like school to end at :
3 o`clock(34%)
4 o`clock(23%) and
5 o`clock(2%)

Lunch
65% would like children to eat lunch in school
27% would not like children to eat lunch in school.

All-day School
49% of those parents asked were in favour of an all-day school
40% were against this

Many questions were raised here about time restrictions and how people can fit in out of school activities.

Time structure
54% were of the opinion that the time structure needs to be re-organised.
35% would like to see no change.

These themes will continue to be discussed by the school and parent´s committee and of course everyone will be kept informed.

1b and 1c go to the Theatre!

On Monday classes 1b and 1c were invited to Mr Brasgalla`s theatre show `Gulliver in Lilliput`. It was very funny and a good time was had by all! Many thanks to Mr Brasgalla!

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