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DECEMBER 2012

Sankta Lucia

The choir are hard at work

preparing for this years Lucia

Celebrations. They warmly

welcome you to join them for

our annual celebration on

Thursday, 13th December,

2012.

Where: Annedalskyrkan

When: 9am

The program will take approx-

imately 40 minutes and willinclude songs in Swedish and

English. Your childs teacher

may need helpers to walk

with the class to Annedalskyr-

kan or you are welcome to

meet us there.

MiniLucia

There will also be a 'mini-

Lucia' for Dwing on the 12th

and a 'mini - lucia' for grade 2on the 14th.

PYP NewsletterISGR

Dates of Interest13th DecemberLucia

20th DecemberFirst term reports sent home

20th DecemberLast day of first term. Finish 11am

7th JanuaryIn-service day for teachers

8th January First day back for students

Principals Message

Dear Parents,

It is the season of lights and celebrations when the wintry chills come and

the days get shorter. We have just had a wonderful Christmas Bazaar

made possible by the large number of parent volunteers who contributed

with a variety of foods, fun activities, music and stalls from the dierent

countries. I would like to thank all who took part! I would especially like

to mention the three main organisers Rachel Callander, Wendy Van

Duijvenboode and Birgit Thomas who were the main organisers. Our next

big celebration is Lucia the festival of light which will be held in Annedals

church on Thursday 13th December. We are fast approaching the winter

holiday with a well-deserved rest for all of our learning community!

We wish you a joyful and peaceful holiday!

Marilyn James

Grade 5 raising money for Cancer

Research

PYP5 Present Mike with the money they

raised to help Mikes Moustache Campaign.


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Whats happening in PYP!

Grade 4This month we will focus on grade 4 & 5.One of the highlights for us in our new inquiry (How We Organise Ourselves) is

going to be making a soundscape of Gteborg. In our new unit we will be focus-ing on the role a city's infrastructure plays in keeping a city working. We willresearch and discover what happens when one or many infrastructures breakdown or disappear and how the infrastructure is maintained. Before we dive intoour unit we need to get an idea of our city and how it works. We are doing this bydeveloping our 'picture' of Gteborg through sound. On Friday (12.12.7) we willhead into the city and record its 'voice', then in music class we will turn theserecordings into a song or 'picture' of the city. At the same, time in art class stu-dents will also make an artist interpretation of Gteborg that will eventuallyaccompany the song as an art instillation in the school.

Grade 5In our last unit on How We Organise Ourselves each table in the class was or-

ganised into a village. Each village ran a simulated economy where they had todecide what to buy (for example how many pencils and erasers) but also makingsure they allowed money for taxes and possible nes. Some of the tables showedsome great initiative by advertising services for other tables. In this simulationthe class learned a lot about how a real economy is run. In our current unit on Where We Are in Time and Place the students have had todecide the top 10 push and pull factors for people deciding to move to anothercountry. Also they have placed eight of these in a diamond formation of im-

portance. This week each student has designed an interview so that they caninterview someone who has moved to Sweden from another country. Next Mon-day we will visit the Emigranternas hus in Gothenburg as an excursion for thisunit.

PYP 5 essential elements.

Guldheden Library

2012

Library opening hoursMonday 8.30 -3.30 pm

Tuesday 8.30 -3.30pm

Wednesday 8.30 -3.30pm

Thursday 8.30 3.30pm

Friday 8.30 2.30pm

Mike PYP coordinator website

Please check out my website for some

interesting information about the IB

and the PYP programme.

http://teacherweb.com/SE/ISGR/

MikeHowlett/apt1.aspx


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Emma SjbergKicking itJust some fun news. Emma Sjberg in5D won gold in the SwedishChampionship (SM) in

Tae Kwon Do on Saturday.

Emma with her gold

medal

The Winter BazaarThere was a warm smell ofglgg and cinnamon in the air .The International choir was

singing all the holiday classicsand the children were runningaround winning all sorts ofprizes. It must be the WinterBazaar!

People turned up in their hun-dreds for this great event andwhat an event it was! Therewas international food beingsold, prizes to be won, a musicand dance show, and even a

performance from the teach-ers!A big thank you to all the par-ents, teachers and volunteerswho made this event possible!More information about theevent, including how muchmoney was raised, will be com-ing out in the PTA newsletter!


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The new Music room!

I am glad to be back after my parental leave in the autumn.We have worked hard to reinstall the new music room and thestudents seem to respond very well to the new set -up. Hereyou can see a grade 5 class using one of the two musicrooms, the keyboard room. The students are getting morefamiliar with the keys and are learning to play along with a newsong.Thanks!Jol

Calling the school aboutsicknessIt has come to our attention thatmany parents have the wrongtelephone number for sick re-porting.

Please make sure you use thefollowing:Sick reporting for students at

Guldheden 031 - 708 92 53.

Lost and FoundDear Students and ParentsThe lost and found will be dis-played in the B1 corridor, out-side the staff room, between the10th-20th of December.Please come and look to see ifany of your children's clothes arethere. Any items not collected bythe 21st of December, will besent to the charity"Stadsmissionen", during theChristmas break
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Greetings from

Library Media CentreLibraries are not book warehouses anymore; they are active places to find inspiration or knowledge,Beth Barlow

We are living in the Digital Age. Our kids are more computer-comfortable than book-comfortable!

Access to information and culture is much easier than before. A digital age student, especially in an

international school, is an international and intercultural person. Of course children love to keep a

book in their hands and disappear in the magic of imagination and the world of fantasy. That is why

we also remember the value of literature in printed materials and welcome love of reading.

Our library media centre has been a place for students and staff to come to find information,inspiration and recreation; a center for the whole school community to find and practice newinformation technologies. We use different kinds of media in library media activities to teach, createand maintain information retrieval, websites, and digital documents.

Our library media centre is not only a room that includes over 13,000 books but it also gives services to

24 scheduled classes when it is accessible 24/7.

Our library media centre is also a room without walls; http://www.isgr-lmcguld.se, there you canfindout about new books, programs, databases or inquire about every kind of educational services in theschool.

The school library media centre integrates student perspective and equal opportunities perspectiveinto its active role within its school community. Rouhia is a representative for school culture and triesto activate systematically involvement of culture into education. The library media plays an active partin both our International week, Culture Week,Reading weeksand hostsa numberofspecial events

and visits.

Museum visits, orchestra visits and various visitors from different organizations who work in

cooperation with inquiries are a part of the library media activities. Having visits from different artists,

authors and people involved in global issues help our children to be open-minded to know who we are,

where we are in place and time, how we express ourselves in different ways and how we organize

ourselves to share our vulnerable planet. KarlChilcottis the artist;sculptor,who will come to PYP4D-

E to work with cities in February.
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Plans for extending the outside areas of the school and to have in-

creased security.Considering that we are so central, we count ourselves fortunate that we have access to so much

playground area and also a football field of such high standard. We will be increasing our playground

area even further by fencing in the green area at the front of the school. This will be a pleasant area

particularly suited to our youngest students (Kindergarten and the F classes in the National Section);

both during the play-breaks and also during the after school activities at PAL. We are also extending

the fencing at the side of the hill and at the entrance of the school nearest to Dr Salensgatan. Some

of these projects have been started and will be expected to continue as soon as the weather condi-

tions are favourable. We have also locked the barrier at the side of the PE hall, so that any transport

needing access can be better regulated. Below are some views showing where the fencing and gates

will be. In some photos the fences and gates have been superimposed onto the image.

Marilyn James, Principal

Top left: New gate and fence near the hill . This is a

view from when you have walked from Wavrinskysplats.

The hill can be seen in the background. The council pre-

school and the path to Wavrinskysplats is on the left.

Top right: The New playground for Kindergarten.

This is a view from when you have walked from Wavrin-

skysplats. The hill can be seen in the background. The

council pre-school is on the left and the path to Wavrin-

skysplats.

Bottom left: New gate and fence at the back side of

the school. This is a view from when you have walked

from Wavrinskysplats. The hill can be seen in the back-

ground. The council pre-school is on the left and the

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