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.

All Day Concept

At the school conference on the 19th November the all day school concept was adopted with a clear majority. Further information for anyone who is interested can be found on the Homepage under the menu point `school programme`.This all day school concept is central to the architectural plans currently being submitted for a new building in the school grounds. The new building will include a canteen , subject rooms and classrooms and should be in place by 2015.

Christmas Bazaar

This year was the school club`s first Christmas Bazaar. Christmas decorations were put up and the tables were full of wonderful handmade Advent decorations and Christmas gifts. The teachers`room served as cafeteria for the afternoon and lots of Gete parents turned up with their children to spend a couple of hours having coffee and cake. They all returned home with full bags!
It was well worth all the effort put in by the organising team as the school club made enough money to support future projects and ideas for the school.
Many thanks to all!

School Conference

On Monday, 19th November 2012 at 8.00p.m the school conference will take place in the teachers`room.

Comenius Visit

From the 3rd to the 6th October we had a visit from 17 teachers from Ireland, Iceland, Finland and Norway. As part of the Comenius Project ´We are Family`they were guests at our school.
The children gave a presentation, in English, about the school . They sang songs in the different languages of the visitors and had lots of questions to ask the visiting teachers!
The teachers also had a lot to find out from each other. Everyone enjoyed the visit and bothe the children and the school made a wonderful impression.