International School of Bremen Parent Bulletin 20 Staffing Please be aware that upon medical advice, Mrs Evans has to begin her maternity leave much earlier than was originally planned. Her absence will, of course, disrupt the current teaching of her classes. We have plans in place to make sure there is minimum impact upon the Maths education of your child. DATES Community Survey Last Monday, 19 February, we distributed by email the survey in which we would like you to participate. Unfortunately, we are having some problems with mails to Microsoft addresses such as msn, live, outlook and hotmail. If you have not yet received a mail invitation to participate in the survey, please contact the school at: info@isbremen.de and we will send you the link again. Note that only one email has been sent per family. If you require an additional link, for example for your partner, please also contact us at the above address. February 1-28 Second-Hand Book Collection for Library in Armenia February 23 Quiz Night, for Parents, Staff and Grade 11 + 12 Students, Malcolm Davis Hall, 7.00pm February 24 First Aid Course for DofE Students and Staff, Malcolm Davis Hall, 8.00am March 9 Elementary International Festival March 16 Staff In-Service Day - School Closed March 18 IB Art Vernissage Tabakbörse Bremen 3.00-5.00pm March 21 April 19 ISB Flea Market Main Corridor, 2.30pm April 30 - May 1 Holiday and May 1 Public Holiday May 9 May 10-11 Ascension Day + Holiday June 9 ISB Graduation, Rathaus Bremen June 11-13 ISB Book Fair, Ground Floor Foyer June 16 ISB Barbecue Science Fair Thank you to all parents and staff for supporting this week s Science Fair. Flea Market On Thursday, 19 April 2018, our annual ISB Flea Market will once again be taking place from 2.30-4.30pm in the Main Corridor. Tables are free of charge, however donations are welcome! If you are interested in selling items, please contact Mrs Balog at school or send her a mail to tbalog@isbremen.de. For our detailed Calendar of Events, turn to back pages www.isbremen.de 23 February 2018
New After-School Activities Ballet for EL2 - Grade 1 Students Ballet teacher, Mrs Antonescu, who is currently running ballet classes for students of Grades 1 3 on a Tuesday, will be starting up new classes for our youngest students aged 4-6 years each Monday from 3.15-4.00pm. Classes will start this coming Monday, 26 February and will take place in the Small Gym on the first floor. Each session costs 6 which can be paid either each week, or in a lump-sum: For 12 weeks (until the summer holidays) 72 or 2 x 6 weeks à 36. If your child is interested, they should come to the Small Gym on Monday. Prior registration is not necessary. Sewing Club Starting on Wednesday, 7 March, or Thursday, 8 March, a Sewing Club will be starting up for students of Grades 4 and 5. Time: 3.15-4.45pm. Related costs are 30 per month for those who commit to the club. If your child is interested, please inform the School Office. A room will be allocated once we know how many students will be participating. http://www.photos-public-domain Design Thinking - Challenging your Mindset After hearing complaints about the hot lunch programme during the last PIM meeting, Mrs Abreu and Mrs Cazabeau would like interested students from Grades 6-12, staff and parents to work on improving the situation. Using the Design Thinking approach and other project management tools, participants aim to: Discover: enquire, collect information and get an understanding of the users wishes and issues Interpret: define main problems and challenges Form ideas and decide on the goal. This is not a place to complain, nor a task-force for an easy-quick-fix. It will be a place to learn and serve. If interested, please join Mrs Cazabeau and Mrs Abreu on Tuesday, 13 March from 3.05-4.00pm in Room 208 (2nd floor Science). The club will take place on a weekly basis. Meet Our CAS Students... June, Grade 11 For my Creativity section of CAS, I decided to take extra German lessons in order to try to master the language as fast as possible. Since my Creativity is something I am rather comfortable with now, I have decided that, for my Service, I will try something that I would not have done before. I joined a group with some of my fellow classmates teaching Primary students to play soccer. The soccer club took place every Thursday after school and we always had a lot of enthusiastic kids. The soccer club was a learning process for me, certainly a teaching process. The relationship established with the kids was very good and the club turned out to be great fun. I realised how incredibly hard it is to control and organise little adrenaline-full kids, but the experience was extremely helpful and gave me an insight into a teacher s work. Nevertheless, I ve decided to change my Service in order to try other fun and interesting activities in which I can help out. 2 Parent Bulletin 23 February 2018
Library News ISB Library Chess Tournament 2018 Winners Elementary Grade 1 Chibuike Grade 2 Julius Grade 3 Ali Grade 4 Matias Grade 5 Julius Helling. The Overall Elementary Chess Champion 2018 is Julius Helling. Congratulations to all winners! Certificates and a trophy will be awarded at an Elementary Assembly very soon. Request for Taxi Pool A new family living in the direction of Oldenburg will be sending their two children (3 years and 5 years of age) to ISB after the summer holidays. As both parents work takes them in the opposite direction to Bremen, they are wondering whether other families from the Oldenburg/Ganderkesee/Delmenhorst area might like to join them in hiring a taxi to transport their children each day to and from ISB. If you are interested, please contact Mrs Brinkmann- Mclean at the Front Desk or by phone (0421-515 779 0) or mail (emclean@isbremen.de). Bremen Inter-School Chess Tournament On Wednesday, 28 February, five ISB teams from Elementary and Secondary will be participating in this tournament in the Weser Stadium. Students will have the honour of representing ISB there and earning House Points. If you have not already done so, please remember to sign and submit the Parental Permission Form. If you are interested in accompanying and supporting the teams on the day (from 8.00am - 3.00pm), please see Mrs Holsten in the Library or contact her by email: library@isbremen.de. 23 February 2018 Parent Bulletin 3
University and Career Guidance Counselling (Grades 9-12) Important Note! Step One Interviews Thank you to all those parents who supported their child in the debriefing interviews. If you wish to use the information gained and the test results to guide IB choices for Grade 11, please consult Mr Walton. Due to the absence of Mrs Evans (see front page), any issues related to entry into universities anywhere in the world this year should be directed now to Mr Davis or Mr Walton. Grade 12 Applications Those who have applied to UK institutions will hear back before March and will have to accept after the IB results are out. Please check the conditional offers for information that the universities request in addition to what you have already provided. The deadlines for some US colleges are rolling, meaning that applications to these institutions can still be made. See Mrs Evans for more information. All Other Universities Teachers will not give you a letter of recommendation directly. You will have to see Mrs Evans to request one or, if you have requested it directly from a teacher, you will have to ask Mrs Evans to send it to the university that requests it. A recommendation from a teacher is a professional reference and, as such, you will not get to see it. All other applications should be nearly complete by now so, if you require additional documents (this will be stipulated during the specific application procedure), see Mrs Evans at least 2 weeks before it is required by the institution. May + June July 5 DEADLINES, FAIRS + TESTS Grade 12 receives offers and replies from universities IB results published If you have questions on any of the above, please contact Mr Davis or Mr Walton. 4 Parent Bulletin 23 February 2018
House News House Points Here are this week s results as per the end of Thursday, 22 February 2018. The Results of This Week House Points this week have all come from people collecting their individual House Points and they have made quite a difference. The race for the trophy is hotting up and with a lot of time still to go, it is anybody's for the taking. 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 http://www.isbremenshop.de/shop/ 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! 23 February 2018 Parent Bulletin 5
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 March 2018 8 March Secondary Basketball Tournament 3.15-5.15pm 14 March Elementary Basketball Tournament 1.40-3.00pm 21 March April 2018 16 April Secondary Tchoukball Tournament 3.15-5.15pm 18 April Elementary Indoor Rowing Competition, 1.40-3.00pm May 2018 9 May 16 May Elementary Soccer Tournament 1.40-3.00pm June 2018 5 June Secondary Soccer Tournament 3.15-5.15pm 7 June Elementary Sports Day 9.00am - 11.30pm 20 June 6 Parent Bulletin 23 February 2018
ISB Calendar at a Glance Early Learning Centre February 1-28 March 5-9 March 9 March 16 March 21 March 21 March 26 - April 3 April 19 April 23-27 April 30 - May 1 May 9 May 10-11 June 9 June 11-13 June 16 June 20 June 25 - Aug 21 Second-Hand Book Collection for Library in Armenia ELC - Grade 10 ISB Library Multilingual Festival during scheduled Library classes EL1 - Grade 5 Elementary International Festival Staff In-Service Day - School Closed EL 1 and 2 visit the Kinder und Jugendfarm in Habenhausen, 9.00am - 1.30pm Spring Holiday ISB Fleamarket, Main Corridor 2.30-4.30pm ELC - Grade 10 Poetry/Reading Aloud Competitions to celebrate World Book Day, during scheduled Library classes Holiday + May 1 Public Holiday Ascension Day + Holiday ISB Graduation, Bremen Town Hall (Rathaus) Book Fair, 8.00am - 4.00pm Ground Floor Foyer ISB Barbecue Summer Holidays 23 February 2018 Parent Bulletin 7
Elementary Gr. 1 5 Second-Hand Book Collection for Library in Armenia Grade 3-5 Chess Students Participate in Bremen Inter-School Chess Tournament, Weser Stadium, 9.00am - 3.00pm ELC - Grade 10 ISB Library Multilingual Festival during scheduled Library classes Grade 4 visits Zoo & Co. Heimtierpro in Verden 8.30am - 1.00pm Inter-House Basketball Tournament (for selected Elementary students) ISB Main Gym, 1.40-3.00pm Grade 3-10 Kangaroo Maths Competition at school Staff In-Service Day - School Closed Spring Holiday Inter-House Indoor Rowing Competition (for selected Elementary students) ISB Main Gym, 1.40-3.00pm ISB Fleamarket, Main Corridor 2.30-4.30pm Grade 5 visits Bad Schandau in the Sächsische Schweiz National Park, dept. 7.30am (23.4.), return 4.00pm (27.4.) ELC - Grade 10 Poetry/Reading Aloud Competitions to celebrate World Book Day, during scheduled Library classes Holiday + May 1 Public Holiday February 1-28 February 28 March 5-9 March 8 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 21 March 26 - April 3 April 18 April 19 April 23-27 April 23-27 April 30 - May 1 May 9 ISB Calendar at a Glance Ascension Day + Holiday May 10-11 8 Parent Bulletin 23 February 2018
ISB Calendar at a Glance Secondary February 1-28 February 23 February 24 February 26 February 26 February 28 March 1-4 March 5 March 5-9 March 6-9 March 7-10 March 8 March 8 + 9 March 9-11 Second-Hand Book Collection for Library in Armenia Quiz Night, open to All Parents/Staff and Grade 11 + 12 Students Malcolm Davis Hall, 7.00pm First Aid Course for Grade 9-12 Students and Staff Malcolm Davis Hall, 8.00am - 5.00pm IMYC Entry Point Grade 8 visits the Animal Shelter, Bremen-Findorff 8.30 - approx. 12 noon Gr. 6-10 Chess Students Participate in Bremen Inter- School Chess Tournament, Weser Stadium, 9.00am - 3.00pm Selected Grade 11 Maths Students Participate in International Senior Maths Competition at the British School in Warsaw (Dept. 1.3., Bremen Airport 10.00am; Arr. 4.3., 10.00pm) Python Programming Course for Selected Grade 6 + 8 students, ICT Room, 3.05-4.00pm ELC - Grade 10 ISB Library Multilingual Festival during scheduled Library classes Grade 8B Art Field Trip to Paris GIN Annual Conference Luxemburg Dept. 7.3., 10.00am; Arr. 10.3., 8.00pm Inter-House Basketball Tournament ISB Main Gym, 3.15-5.15pm Grade 12 Student Participates in Jugend Forscht Regional Competition, Bremen Airport, 8.10am Selected DofE Silver/Gold Candidates Travel to Osterburken for Mentor/Award Leader Training Course. Dept. 8.00 (9.3.); Approx. Arr. 6.00pm (11.3.) 23 February 2018 Parent Bulletin 9