St. George's School Duisburg Newsletter

E-mail: info@stgeorgesschoolduisburg.de
N E X T I S S U E 2 7 T H A P R I L
23rd March 2012
Volume 8 Issue 11
St. George’s School Duisburg Newsletter
Inside this
week’s issue:
Sensational Science
Lower School
World Maths Day
Easter Bells in France
Friedensdorf Foundation
Middle & Upper School
Sensational Science
Dates for your
calendar:
17th April
Summer Term Begins
21-25th May
LS Book Week
1st June
LS Wild West BBQ Disco
25-28th June
LS Assessment Week
29th June
LS Sports Day
12th July
Parents’ Evening
13th July
School Year Ends
29th August
Open Day
30th August
New School Year Begins
More details will follow
in letters over the
coming weeks.
As you can see from the photos on this page (and continued on page 2) the MSUS
Science Department has benefited greatly from the move to the new premises. We
now have 3 specialist labs and a dedicated Science room which allow our pupils to
have much more direct hands on access to Science than was previously possible.
In Middle and Upper Schoo,l Science is taught by subject specialists with general
Science being offered to years 7, 8 and 9, and the individual subjects being taught
from IGCSE though to A-level and IB.
Mr F. Boylan (Head of Science)
Letters you should have received via e-mail
over the past two weeks:
Nur: Y13 Dining Hall Procedure
Nur: School Trip
Year 11-13: Summer Examinations
Whole School: Start and End of Day Procedure
Year 12: IB Attendance
MSUS: Parents Evening
School For Life

Lower School
World Maths Day
Within the first hour of this eagerly anticipated event we had three pupils appearing in
the top 100 throughout the world and as the day progressed they were joined by even
more pupils from our school. By the end of the day, unfortunately, St. George’s Duisburg
had fallen off of the Top 100 worldwide although only by a very small margin, less
than 400 points…
Through our sponsorship, you were able to raise an impressive 800€ which is a valuable
contribution towards continuing our use of the Mathletics resource. Thank you to
all of the children and parents who have helped in making this possible.
Mr J. Hullock
St. George’s School Duisburg
World Maths Day Top 10
1st Sanskruti (4J) 1880
2nd Oliver (6W) 1830
3rd Keerthi (5C) 1789
4th Sophia (4J) 1747
5th Aryan (3B) 1659
6th Bentje (6K) 1589
7th Lennart (6H) 1518
8th Lennart (6K) 1431
9th Frederik (6H) 1360
10th Amie (3P) 1149
Easter Bells in France
Year 5 classes have been learning about Easter
celebrations and traditions in France and have also
enjoyed making beautiful Easter decorations.
In France, even though Easter bunnies are found
everywhere in local stores and “ pâtisserieschocolateries,“
it is traditionally believed that it was
not them who brought Easter eggs to children.
The eggs are brought by the Easter bells “ cloches de
Pâques“ on their way back from Rom. Since the 7th
century the Catholic church have forbidden the
ringing of the bells in homage to the death of Christ
between Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday. In
France legend has it that on Maundy Thursday the
bells´chimes flee to Rom where the Pope blesses
them. There they collect the Easter eggs which will be
scattered in the gardens on their return journey. By
the morning of Easter Sunday, they have returned and
are ringing joyfully to celebrate the resurrection of
Christ. When children hear them, they go to the
gardens on egg hunt.
The Easter Bells are often represented with a pair of
wing, ribbons and sometimes are transported in carts.
Year 5 classes and Mme Duplâtre wish Bonnes Fêtes
de Pâques à tous!

Lower School
Friedensdorf Foundation
Following the great success of our Christmas time Charity Box Appeal, Year 5
went on our first class visit to the Friedensdorf Foundation in Oberhausen. As the
day begun, the children were helping to sort and pack the coach with the fantastic
donations received. We would like to thank all the parents who donated a
huge number of wonderful items.
The rest of the day was a great success with fantastic sport and craft activities
enjoyed by all. There were many parents who also attended this trip and the
Year 5 teachers and children would like to say a special thank you to all of them.

Middle & Upper School
Sensational Science
Upper School Badminton Championships
The Upper School had its first sport competition of the year last month with the first annual Badminton Championships in
Yr10 & 11. Over 40 students from the upper school were able to compete in the single knockout tournament. Below is the
list of winners and runners up from both championships:
Championship Finals
Boys
Yr 10 Boys Champion: Jack S
Runner Up: James B
Yr 11 Boys Champion: Leonard O
Runner Up: Tim K
Girls
Yr10 Girls Champion: Xenia H
Runner Up: Matilda B
Yr11 Girls Champion: Friederike F
Runner Up: Joline B
Runner’s Up Championship
Boys
Yr 10 R/U Champion: Noah P
Runner Up: Dominik R
Girls
Yr 10 R/U Champion:Jana Liza T
Runner Up: Berfin R
Our current school calendar can be found at the following web address:
www.stgeorgesschool.de/?page_id=347