Parent Bulletin 13. Grade 12 IB and Grade 10 IGCSE. Bake Sales - New Sales Area. PTA Summer Barbecue. International School of Bremen DATES.

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1 International School of Bremen Parent Bulletin /18 Grade 12 IB and Grade 10 IGCSE Mock Exams These are seen as vital preparation for the real exams in May and June. They are set to take place from 15 to 23 January See attached schedules. PTA Summer Barbecue You will remember that we informed you of a new date for this year s summer barbecue, having changed it from 16 June to 2 June. It has now been brought to our attention that 2 June lies within Ramadan, ending on 14 June. So as not to put our Muslim families at a disadvantage, we are changing the date back to 16 June. Bake Sales - New Sales Area The ISB is known for its charitable initiatives and the ISB Community is always very supportive of them. Bakes Sales are a popular and often lucrative way of collecting money for a good cause. Please note, however, that due to the inevitable mess that goes with them - food morsels, crumbs, stains and the like -, all future bakes sales, sale of waffles etc. will take place in the Dining Room. This includes the eating of the purchased goods. We hope that this will not prevent you from supporting our students initiatives - thank you for your understanding. Our apologies for this toing and froing. DATES Nov 1 - Dec 1 Bremer Tafel Food Drive SAT Testing, Exam Room, 8.00am Winter Dinner, Atlantic Hotel Galopprennbahn 7.00pm Grade 10 Step-One Tests, Exam Room, 8.00am University Bookshop Book Fair, Ground Floor Foyer A Yuletide Treasure Chest Concert, Malcolm Davis Hall, 4.00pm Dec 21 - Jan 7 Winter Break - School Closed For our detailed Calendar of Events, turn to back pages

2 IMYC Exit Points Next Wednesday to Friday sees another Exit Point for Grades 6-8 upon us. Please could you ensure that your child has an electronic device to bring to school on these days. Although we have excellent facilities, there are simply not enough laptops for all 85 or so students in these year groups. The students in Grades 7 and 8 will have free reign to choose both output and content connected to their Big Idea. All students will be given preliminary feedback on Thursday in order to improve their work leading up to their final presentations on Friday. Remember, each presentation is evaluated individually and students are given a copy to take home so they know how to improve for next time. We look forward to seeing a wide variety of excellent projects next Friday! Spanish for Beginners Our Spanish teacher, Mrs Caro, will be offering a Spanish for Beginners (Adults) course, starting on 11 January and consisting of 10 sessions (ending on 22 March) of 90 minutes each. Lessons begin at 12.30pm. For more information or to register, please contact Mrs Caro at: mcaro@isbremen.de There are only 4 spaces available! Clipartix ISB Photo Calendar 2018 This will be on sale from next Wednesday, 6 017, from 2.30pm French Cookery Sale On Thursday, 7 December, Grade 8 French students will be selling a selection of baked goods, soft drinks and treats such as crêpes, cake, fruit skewer dipped in chocolate) in the ISB Dining Room after school. Little gift bags to give as presents will be available. Most items cost 1 or less - nothing costs more than 1,50. in the Ground Floor Foyer, price: 10, while stocks last. Secure your copy now! Limited edition only! Grade 8 look forward to serving their customers. Venez nombreux and support Grade 8 and French at ISB! 2 Parent Bulletin 1 017

3 Science Newsletter Our Science interns have been very busy putting together the November Science Newsletter and we would like to send you it as a supplement together with this Parent Bulletin. Fundraiser for Grade 11 Trip to Geneva Friday, 23 February pm Malcolm Davis Hall Open to ISB Community (students from 16 years of age) Meet Our CAS Students... Anna Orr History/Economics Mrs Orr grew up at her family farm in Norfolk, England. She studied her degree and PGCE at the University of Wales, Swansea. Having taught History in schools in Birmingham and London, she decided to move to Cologne in She then moved to Bremen and started working at ISB in As a mother of three young children, she is very busy balancing work and life, but thoroughly enjoys both. She has a love for travel and adventure and recently spent 5 weeks travelling Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France on a road trip in their VW T3 Synchro Doka. INTRODUCING... Benjamin, Grade 11 For my Creativity section of CAS, I help to run a small streetwear brand called Verborgen Studios which in English means Hidden Studios. The brand was established in September and is currently being run by five people. Each person has their own responsibility due to the fact we all come from different backgrounds and live in different parts of the world. This makes our business quite international and diverse. As Head of Design, I take care of the designs and brand offers for collaboration. Currently we are working with the brands Glückstreter and Independent Truck, which is a well known skateboard brand that used to collaborate with Supreme. My goal is to integrate the brand into skate and streetwear stores such as Kicks, Solebox, and Titus. We have come to an agreement with Glückstreter and will start selling our clothing at the beginning of Parent Bulletin 3

4 IGCSE Certificate Presentation Evening On 15 November 2017, thirty students, their parents and some of their teachers celebrated the achievements of the IGCSE class of The evening began with violin and piano recitals by our Grade 9 students, Inès and Vishal. The cultural theme of the evening was further extended by an exhibition of student artwork and the reading of two poems written by Cherno Jallow. A number of photo presentations and a speech by Mrs Balog reminded all, regardless of when they joined the school, of the educational and personal progress the students have made whilst with us. The former Grade 10 students were awarded their IGCSE and ICE certificates by Mr Walton and the evening closed with a drink, courtesy of the school, and a finger buffet kindly provide by their parents. 4 Parent Bulletin 1 017

5 GIN Forum, November From Friday, 24th to Sunday, 26th November, ISB hosted a forum on The Different Faces of Africa led by the Global Issues Network group (GIN). Two schools, one from Denmark and one from Turkey, complemented our own GIN group, resulting in a total of 35 delegates. On Friday, the keynote speaker, Marie-Christine Nibagwire, a Rwandan genocide survivor held a touching talk about how she survived the genocide and the years that followed. She now tries to raise awareness for the problem of refugees and countries in war-time conflict. In the days that followed, teachers from ISB who had also experienced life in African countries and some of the hardships of the apartheid regime, gave their testimony. Students presentations gave an overview of general problems that African countries face, such as corruption, discrimination, low schooling and sanitation. Access to clean water in most African countries is a luxury, and on Sunday we heard from Pit Mau who has developed a way to effectively use microorganisms to clean air, rivers, and oceans. Students also had the opportunity to experience the African culture, both through cooking and tasting the African cuisine and through a dance workshop held by Marie-Christine herself. It was a great opportunity to reflect and cooperate in strategies that we as young adults may put in place to reduce the hardships of Africa. Text by Inès, Grade Parent Bulletin 5

6 University and Career Guidance Counselling (Grades 9-12) Career Day at Bremen Hospital On Friday, 8 December from 9.00am to 2.00pm, the Gesundheitsverbund Gesundheit Nord in cooperation with the Bremer Heimstiftung and the Wisok are offering a Career Day in the Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Building 7. For more information, go to: ausbildung/gesundheits-und-krankenpfleger-mw/ bildungszentrum-fuer-gesundheitsfachberufe-klinikum -bremen-mitte.html DEADLINES, FAIRS + TESTS Step One Tests - Monday, 11 December Grade 10 students must arrive at school by 8.00am punctually - your child will be at a disadvantage if they do not have sufficient time to complete the test. From February, interviews will take place here at ISB to inform students and their parents of their results and to offer them free career guidance. December 9 January 15 February May + June SAT Testing at ISB, 8.00am /1.00pm Bachelor Fair, 9.00am pm, MesseHalle Hamburg-Schnelsen Grade 10 Step One testing, 8.00am pm, Exam Room Application deadline for most UK universities Grade 10 Step One interviews Grade 12 receive offers and replies from universities July 5 IB results published If you have questions on any of the above, please contact Mrs Evans on: cevans@isbremen.de 6 Parent Bulletin 1 017

7 House News House Points Here are this week s results as per the end of Thursday, 30 November The Results of This Week The standings are getting ever closer, with all teams working extremely hard to push their House to the top! Double House Point week this week has given all of the Houses a boost and things should be very interesting in the next coming weeks and months! House Clothes House t-shirts (and other good quality house clothing items) can be ordered from the company Meinecke Promotion, situated just north of Bremen. Please go to their website to place your order. Once you have placed the t-shirt in the basket online, please be aware that you need to go back out of the basket to the article you require on the main homepage and click on the button Add Your House Print otherwise your t-shirt will only have the school logo on the front, but no house logo on the back! Parent Bulletin 7

8 Inter-House Competition Dates To keep you informed about all Inter-House Competitions, we will be publishing the dates and events in this column week by week, as soon as new dates become known to us. INTER-HOUSE COMPETITIONS December 13 December Elementary Handball Tournament pm 19 December Secondary Volleyball Tournament pm January January Elementary Kickball Tournament pm, Part 1 24 January Elementary Kickball Tournament pm, Part 2 24 January Secondary Handball Tournament pm February February April April Secondary Tchoukball Tournament pm 18 April Elementary Indoor Rowing Competition, pm May May 16 May Elementary Soccer Tournament pm June June Secondary Soccer Tournament pm 7 June Elementary Sports Day 9.00am pm 20 June March March Secondary Basketball Tournament pm 14 March Elementary Basketball Tournament pm 21 March 8 Parent Bulletin 1 017

9 ISB Calendar at a Glance Early Learning Centre December 6 December 7 December 14 Dec Jan. 7, 2018 February 7 February 21 February 23 March 5-9 March 9 March April Winter Dinner Grade 6-12 Students + All Parents and Staff Atlantic Hotel Galopprennbahn, 7.00pm am St Lucia Singers perform to ELC - Grade 5 First Floor Foyer, am EL2 visits the fabric department of Karstadt Department Store, Bremen City Centre pm Bremen University Bookshop Book Fair Ground Floor Foyer, pm Yuletide Treasure Chest Concert Fundraiser in support of the ISB Duke of Edinburgh Unit Malcolm Davis Hall, 4.00pm EL1 and EL2 visit the Christmas Market in Bremen s City Centre, noon pm Winter Break - School Closed EL2 Performance Clothes + Patterns Malcolm Davis Hall, pm Quiz Night, open to All Parents/Staff and Grade Students Malcolm Davis Hall, 7.00pm ELC - Grade 10 ISB Library Multilingual Festival during scheduled Library classes EL1 - Grade 5 Elementary International Festival ELC - Grade 10 Poetry/Reading Aloud Competitions to celebrate World Book Day, during scheduled Library classes Parent Bulletin 9

10 Elementary Gr. 1 5 Winter Dinner Grade Parents and Staff Atlantic Hotel Galopprennbahn, 7.00pm am Grade 4 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, pm Registration for Grades Staff ISB Library Chess Tournament Grade 3 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, am St Lucia Singers perform to ELC - Grade 5 First Floor Foyer, am Grade 4 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, am Grade 3 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, pm Grade 4 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, pm Bremen University Bookshop Book Fair Ground Floor Foyer, pm Grade 5 visits the Max Beckmann Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen, 8.00am pm Grade 3 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, am Grade 4 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, am Inter-House Handball Tournament (for selected Elementary students) ISB Main Gym, pm Yuletide Treasure Chest Concert Fundraiser in support of the ISB Duke of Edinburgh Unit Malcolm Davis Hall, 4.00pm December 4 December 4-20 December 5 December 6 December 6 December 8 December 12 December 12 ISB Calendar at a Glance 10 Parent Bulletin 1 017

11 ISB Calendar at a Glance Secondary December 7 December 15 December 19 December 19 Dec Jan. 7 Jan. 8 - March 2 January 9 January 11 January 13 SAT Testing Exam Room, 8.00am /1.00pm Winter Dinner Grade Parents and Staff Atlantic Hotel Galopprennbahn, 7.00pm am Grade 8 French Bake Sale (French Cookery/Culture), Ground Floor Foyer, am and pm Grade 10 Step-One Tests Exam Room, 8.00am pm Bremen University Bookshop Book Fair Ground Floor Foyer, pm Yuletide Treasure Chest Concert Fundraiser in support of the ISB Duke of Edinburgh Unit Malcolm Davis Hall, 4.00pm Grade 6 visits University Bremen s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 9.30am - 12 noon Grade 6 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, pm Inter-House Volleyball Tournament ISB Main Gym, pm Winter Break Grades Staff ISB Library Chess Tournament Grade 6 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, pm Grade 6 Special Hockey Coaching Club Zur Vahr, am Grade Lab Report Workshop (non-mandatory), ISB, 8.30am pm Parent Bulletin 11