Lost property

Lost property will be outside the nurses office all week

lights at home?

Dear Parents,
As the holidays are fast approaching and we seldom get to see the sun I thought it would be nice to bring some light into our classroom. If you have some old (working) holiday lights that you are not using would it be possible for you to donate/loan them to the class. As we do not have anything in our classroom anything would be greatly appreciated :)
 

Maybe this is going a little too far:

A trip into town

Dear Parents,
I am trying to plan a walk around the city next week where we will record the sounds of the city for our Inquiry and music project. Before I can plan anymore I need to find out how many parents are able to follow along to help out for the day. The idea is for year 4 to spend a few hours going to different predetermined areas of the city to record sounds (this could be something like a building site, train station, shopping mall, etc). I was thinking of doing this next Friday morning between 9.00 and 12.30 (back for lunch), we will need at least 4 parent helpers for the day so we can make five groups. If you can help out please email me and if you would like to help out but can do it on Friday please email me with the day that you can. We might find that most parents can only help out on say, a Thursday for example. Why are we doing this? As you know we have started our Inquiry unit about cities and the infrastructures that keep a city running. When I was planning some of this unit I thought that it would be beneficial for the students to become connected to the city and to stop the unit from becoming just six weeks of research. Thinking along these lines reminded me of when I lived in the outback after high school and when I would drive eight hours to Sydney to visit friends. The first thing that struck me every time I got out of my car was the noise the city made and how many different noises there was. This is something we block-out when we constantly live in a city. So why can't we make a type of music using the noise of the city? What would the song of Göteborg be according to the students? I talked to Joel who liked the idea and together we made a plan to make an installation in the school to show others as well. We talked to Joe in art as well and he has developed a plan for the students to build an installation for the 'music'. By doing this we will be letting the students make an audio and visual sensory connection to our unit and to the city as well as to isolate different types of infrastructure and to see and hear how it works. Ultimately we will know if the project has worked if it changes our connection and view of what a city is and it makes others stop, listen, look, and think.


 Regards, Christian.

coffee morning with Mike

(From Mike)

6.11.12

Dear Parents,

 

Please feel welcome to come to my second coffee morning tomorrow. The presentation will be about the essential elements and it will be taking place in the football club next to the PE hall.

 

It is planned to take place between 8.30-10.00 and the hall can seat around 40 people.

 

Please email me if you think you would like to come.

 

Regards

 

http://teacherweb.com/SE/ISGR/MikeHowlett/apt1.aspx

You can stay up to-date with Mikes happenings by following his teachers web page or by clicking on his link at the top right. 

Developmental Talks

Edit: the post will be updated with times that have been taken.
Dear Parents,
as you know we will be having our developmental talks next Wednesday 24th October.
This year talks will be for 15 minutes a student and focus on their chosen goals and how they will work to meet them between now and the next developmental talks in Spring. Over the coming week the students will reflect on the work that they have achieved so far this year and start to identify their strengths and weaknesses. From this students will pick three areas that they feel that they would like to improve on.

In the talk your will discuss these self assessments with you as well how as teachers and parents we can support them to obtaining their goals.

Developmental talk day will start at 8.30 because of some circumstances I have had two requests two meet earlier. So at 8.00-8.15 I will be meeting Liam's parents and at 8.20-8.35 I will be meeting Max's parents.

If you can not attend the day please email me so we can arrange a meeting at a new time (two people have done this so far)
(8.00-8.15 Liam)
(8.20-8.35 Max)
Here is the day
8.35-8.50 Antoine
8.50-9.05 Kasper
9.05-9.20 Vida
9.20-9.35 Leane
9.35-9.50 Emily
9.50-10.05
10.05-10.30 break
10.30-10.45
10.45-11.00
11.00-11.15 Begad
11.15-11.30 Lena
11.30-11.45
11.45-12.00 Marco
12.00-12.15 Romaric
12.15-12.30 Jalina
12.30-13.30 lunch
13.30-13.45 Charlie
13.45-14.00 Ryusei
14.00-14.15 Yannik
14.15-14.30 Benoit
14.30-14.45 Lyam
14.45-15.00 Kavya

People who are booking  for another day; Sasha - 8.05, 23rd Oct; Mona - 14.40, 23rd Oct; Hedvig - 14.40, 25th Oct; Marie(no time yet); Hikari (no time yet),  

From 15.00 I have a staff meeting, If you can not make it until after 15.00 please email me and I arrange to meet during staff meeting time.

Please leave your time request in the comments box below

Blogs for both 4D and 4E

4D have now started to develop a class blog for its students and parents. At the moment this is still in the development stage but more information will be added on a regular bases. Both classes will still be doing similar work and parents and students are welcome to take information from both. Please refer to your classes blog for specific things like homework as their will be changes in them from time to time.

here is the link

School Jog

                                                             

Dear Parents,

In September, school children all over Sweden are running for charity. All money from this run goes to SOS Children’s Villages. If you would like to contribute, please bring money in an envelope to your child’s mentor, who will forward the money to the School Jog organization. 

The children at ISGR will be running in Slottsskogen on the second day of ISGR’s Health week, which is on Tuesday the 11^th of September. All children will meet in school as usual and walk together with their teachers to Slottsskogen. We are organizing a class competition for students in ISGR.

Starting times: 

• LPO 5 will start the run at 9:00.
• LPO 4 will start the run at 9:10.
• PYP 5 will start the run at 9:20.
• PYP 4 will start the run at 9:30.
• PYP 3 will start the run at 9:40.
• LPO 2-3 will start the run at 9:50.
• PYP 2 will start the run at 10:00.
• PYP 1 will start the run at 10:10.
• LPO F1 will start the run at 10:20.

This year, all grades will run the same track, which is 1,400 m. The students will get to run as many laps as the wish and they will collect points for the class for each lap they complete.

The children should wear clothes and shoes suitable for running. They should bring an extra sweater in case of cold weather and rain clothes in case of drizzle.

All children should bring a healthy packed lunch since the children will not go to Bamba on this day. Remember that it is very important to eat a good breakfast, especially on a day like this!!

You can visit www.skoljoggen.se, if you wish to read more about the School Jog.

Best regards,                     

Peter Sjöberg                                    

P.E. Teacher (PYP 1-5)                        

peter.sjoberg@isgr.se           

Health week letter

HEALTH WEEK

Dear parents,

Next week (week 37) will be our popular Health Week at school. From Monday to Friday, the school and your child’s class will be engaged in all things healthy including the School Jog in Slottsskogen on Tuesday. On the School Jog the children are running for charity and all money goes to SOS Children’s Villages. An idea to motivate your child to run more laps could be to instead of bringing in 10 kr, you could contribute with maybe a few Kr per lap they run. Obviously, that is totally up to you as a parent.

Your child will receive a health diary to fill in over the five day week, we ask if you could help and encourage them in filling out the diary and to get them to be more aware of what they eat and how they look after themselves (hygiene and physical activity). We also ask if you could have a quick look at what type snacks your child brings to school and if it is possible to change it for any other healthier options.

Also, please remember that our Health Week is just the start. So keep living a healthy lifestyle every week of the year.

Thank you for time and support,

The ISGR Health Committee

Open House 2012

We would like to thank all the parents who took time out of the busy schedules to attend last nights events. Over the week we have received requests from parents who were unable to attend last night to put up the Year 4 brochure and the Power Point on the blog.

You can find the brochure here  We have also uploaded the power point as well as the information on the Integrated Curriculum below Open House 2012 Language and Math Intergraton