Yearbook 2012-2013

Primary Yearbook

The Dragon

2012-2013

Title page: Dragon Illustration by Alex, 5B Editor: Bronwen Griffiths

Contents A special letter from the British Ambassador

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The Head Teacher’s Introduction

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Early Years

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Reception

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Year 1

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Sponsors

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Year 2

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Year 3

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Year 4

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Year 5

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Year 6 108 Art Exhibition 124 Dragons: Runners Up 126 Clubs 128 P.E. & COBIS Games 130 St. George’s Day 132 Music & Food Technology 133 Fun times 134 Shows 136 My friends 138

Image courtesy of Geoff Thompson of The Luxembourg Chronicle

A special letter from

The British Ambassador

Dear pupils, parents and St. George’s staff members, I am delighted to have been invited to contribute a few wo rds to your yearbook. Over the eighteen months that I’ve now been in Luxembourg, I’ve eno rmously enjoyed all my con tac ts with the school and it’s a pleasure to be able to tak e this opportunity to express my admiration and enthusiasm for your activities and achievem ents.

This yearbook marks the end of the 2012-2013 school yea r, which started during the Ch inese Year of the Dragon. I kno w that, in choosing the yearbo ok cover, dozens and dozens of splendid and distinctive dra gons were scrutinised! It ma de me reflect on the great var iety of dragons I happen to hav e come across this past year: the beautiful silver St. Georg e and the Dragon candelabra from the Grand Duke’s collection on display at the National Museu m; a fiery Chinese dragon pup pet at HSBC’s Chinese New Year celebrations; the fea rsome dragon in the new film of one of our classic British books “The Hobbit”. And, of course , the dragon on the red and white St. Ge org e’s Sch ool mu g wh ich sits on my des k – a dragon garlanded with the words “resilience, res pec t, enquiry, thoughtfulness, mo rality, adaptability, co-operati on, communication”. A dragon to protect us in this sometim es challenging world – and wo rds to guide us all.

As you come to the end of another school year, I’d like to congratulate both pupils and teachers on your achievem ents, to wish you the very best for a summer of fun and relaxat ion, and to hope that what you ’ve learnt this year will sta y wit h you in the years ahead.

Alice Walpole British Ambassador Secondary Yearbook

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The Head Teacher’s Introduction

Welcome to what is now the 12th annual Yearbook. As usual it encapsulates all that is truly special about St. George’s.

The linking up with the Astronauts in the Autumn certainly gave the whole school community something very special to remember this year and makes this year somewhat unique, but just what will be your child’s special memory of the year - the giant snow man, pirate day, paper plane day, attending the school disco, reading their first book – the possibilities are almost endless and will be unique to each child. One of the pleasures of the yearbook is that you can revisit the events of the year as a family and take the opportunity to share these special events with your extended family.

Every year the number of events that we celebrate increases and so the pressure to include all of these events in the yearbook continues to grow and I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the many staff who have been involved in any way in the production of this great book.

I would also like to thank the sponsors for their generous donations towards the cost of the production of this yearbook. For many this book is a special keepsake of their time in Luxembourg.

Again the shape and feel of the campus has changed this year, this time due to the completion of the Administration building, which includes our own conference facility. We have made great use of it already, hosting events as varied as, interviews, exams, staff meetings, St. George’s day tea, book sales and rehearsals of the school plays. This has allowed the other buildings to be devoted to academic instruction. And relieved the pressures created by our very active curriculum. The new music room created in the place of the reception area has been a great addition to our primary facilities. The completion of the boundary fencing has also increased the security of the campus inside and outside of school hours.

This is always the time of the year when we meet many new families introducing them to St. George’s in preparation for their move to school in September. We know that they will be given a warm welcome by our students and very soon will feel at home.

We hope that our own students who are moving on will receive as warm a welcome from their new schools.

For those of you who will return in September please have a relaxing and enjoyable summer with your families.

Please enjoy and share the latest copy of the Dragon.

Heather Duxbury Head Teacher (Primary)

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Years

To write this article we decided to reflect on the events in Early Years during the past year, everything we thought about was in one way or another dominated by the weather and in many cases the snow. The outdoor environment is particularly important for this age group, it allows for larger movements at higher speeds usually accompanied by the loudest sounds.

To observe the children’s activities outside frequently illustrates many of our personal goals, as in the huge cooperation, thoughtfulness, resilience and communication which was required by the group of boys who used the bottle crates, bread trays and old car tyres to construct their own snow plough.

There were the moments of utter stillness and quiet when the snow just floated down, many children only wanted to stand still and absorb the experience. In comparison there were the inevitable boisterous games such as sliding on the ice and rolling down the snow drifts which were created by the snow ploughs every morning.

These games helped to develop a sense of respect and morality as occasionally it was important to consider the consequence of a too well aimed snowball.

Much fun and enjoyment has been had with the snow but also a considerable amount of real learning. The children have developed their fine motor skills by wriggling into snow suits or waterproof trousers. They have all learnt the English vocabulary words for clothing and all are proficient at sorting, matching and pairing boots, shoes and gloves!

We have invited parents to various workshops and also to different events such as the spring egg hunt. In December the children very obviously enjoyed their seasonal show and continued to sing several of the songs for some weeks after the January return to school. The children were delighted to involve their parents in looking for their named patterned egg so that they could redeem their chocolate bar.

The weather continues to play a huge part in our daily lives as we are continuing to spend most of our day outside, this time though, we are engrossed in planting seeds and plants, which has inevitably led to mud kitchens and sun hats!

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Carmine, Idan, Thomas, Astrid, Elizabeth and Eleonore roaring like lions from our classroom jungle.

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Mahi, Violett e, Aahan a and Lo uis all enjo y looking at books in our classro om.

Carmine has fun learning his letters.

Pavlos, Aahana, Violette, Lucas, Conor, Silvia, Maie, Tayla and Louis love going to the library to listen to a story.

Lucas builds a rocket in the construction room.

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Silvia, Louis and Alexandre made a boat in the construction area.

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Ava, Marta a nd Sofia are usin g their magnify ing glasses to de cide.

Paul and Pietr o sharing the red bike as they race around the playground.

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Jade, Julia and Gabi sharing books in our sunny reading corner

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This year has been packed full with fun, friendship

and learning. All the children in Reception have been very busy working on the building blocks of reading, writing and numbers as well as working on a vast array of interesting topics throughout the year. We have had the opportunity to explore Luxembourg together as we rode on the bus to Le Coque for swimming lessons each week and went on an extremely exciting trip to Auchan supermarket to buy food for our class snacks.

Our Christmas play proved to be a very popular event for the children. Everyone really enjoyed dressing up and performing for their families and teachers. The performances included a rich variety of roles and songs. We learned to negotiate, cooperate and share whilst enjoying the practise sessions.

The children also contributed by adapting a few well known tunes adding Christmas lyrics. All the rehearsals paid off as the children gave an excellent performance for the whole audience on the big day.

Swimming lessons have been another one of the highlights of the year. The children are thoroughly enjoying learning to swim and their confidence and skill in the water is improving greatly as the weeks go by. The boys and girls love their free play time at the end of each lesson; it is a great opportunity to have fun playing with their friends and to try out all the new techniques that they have learnt.

One of the many topics studied this year was ‘Up and Away’. This proved to be an exciting topic as we learned about all the things that we might see if we could fly.

Rockets, dragons, jumbo jets and hot air balloons were all very popular, but the flying objects that we loved the most were our kites. We were fortunate with a windy and sunny day when we went to fly our kites.

All the hard work that went into planning and making them was worth it as we were able to watch them fly up and (not too far) away.

As this busy and eventful year comes to an end we are all beginning to wonder about the fun still to be had as we move into Year 1...

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Victo r, Maite and Giorg io using the work bench and t ools.

Tommaso, Raisa, Andrew are playing rally cars.

Oscar H. painting his hot air balloon for our topic “Up and Away�.

Victoria and Anna flying their kites in the outdoor basketball court.

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Year 1 – What fun!

What a quick year this has been. We started off the year by blasting off into Space as part of the ‘Day and Night’ topic. Some of us were lucky enough to listen to a NASA transmission from the International Space Station.

We all enjoyed walking the plank dressed up as pirates on pirate day. Argh ye in agreement, me hearties?

We put on a jolly good show in our winter performance of Father Christmas and Uncle Holly. Then the history man paid us a visit to teach us all about the history of toys. We got to be archaeologists for the day and dig up toys from the past. Do you dig it?

On World Maths Day we battled fellow math geniuses from around the globe and emerged triumphantly thanks to all our hard work at our numeracy skills throughout the year.

On both house days we were ‘blown away’ by the WIND, amazed by the ‘burning enthusiasm’ of FIRE, ‘washed away’ with the amazing ‘ground work’ of WATER and EARTH. Well done to all four houses.

We got our act together when the Titch theatre company performed 1, 2, 3 Splosh. Miss Lawther had to throw a cream pie at Mr Moriati when Minta shouted “It’s a lie, give him a pie!” Since then there have been no more fibs in Y1.

We all grabbed a slice of the action at the Pizza and Movie night during book week. Everyone enjoyed watching Horrid Henry’s Diary, listening to stories and munching on Margarita Pizza.

When the nature mobile came rolling into school, we hopped onboard to learn about animals and their habitats and some of us even got to track down and sniff out some woodland creatures on a nature walk.

Lastly we raced to the Year 1 finish line with a final sprint on sports day. Now sadly, we are only a hop, skip and a jump away from Year 2.

Good luck next year everyone, you have been a wonderful year group.

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A s Year 2’s we had an amazing start to the new school year and became truly international when we had video contact with the International Space Station! We were also very excited to have a visit from a real astronaut, who came to our school to talk to us about her training. The children worked extremely hard to prepare for the interview with ISS and they certainly did St. George’s proud, there were questions flying around.

C astles captured our imaginations as we were taken on a historic journey into medieval times with a visit from the history man. We worked hard as peasants, creating healing potions, creating ink and calligraphy, crafting embossed accessories for the brave knights as well as providing some entertainment for the lords and ladies.

There was room for clowning around, living and working in a castle is a serious business!

H ow do people travel across oceans? How do most children get to school? Why does a boat stay afloat? We brainstormed many questions and set ourselves the challenge of finding out all about transport, using our maths skills to make graphs, charts and questionnaires.

We predicted, researched and experimented, flying through the questions and finding answers.

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As always, it has been another busy year and there have been some very memorable events and activities during the year. One highlight was when all of the Year 3 classes joined together for two fantastic performances of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Another highlight was visiting Génaveh Chocolate Factory, where they learnt all about chocolate, and how it’s made. Surprisingly, everyone seemed to enjoy this topic – even the staff! We also have a few more events to look forward to this year – our trip to the Villa Borg in Germany and our residential trip to Chevetogne at the end of June.

The children in Year 3 all get along very well together and enjoy mixing during lessons as well as at playtimes. We have had to say good bye to several children this year: Jade, Theodore, Aanya, Ronja, Chloe, Abhinaya and Srishti and the year group was very sad to see them go. We also had to say good bye to Mrs Healey as she left for maternity leave and we wish her all the best.

Personally, we would like to say thank you to all the parents of the children for their support over the year; thank you to all the specialist teachers the children have had in Year 3 and finally, to all the children themselves for making the year enjoyable.

Sarah Carty, Charlie Evans and Paula Skinner.

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Sean Elisabeth and Job Application for the Roma n Army Name: MATTHE US Age: 24 Nationality: RO MAN Marital status: no

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A ROMAN LEGIONARY

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5am: Get up and start the day.

Have a bath and then put on clothes and then armour.

Dear Sir,

6am: Begin work.

I have a hard day caring 20KG on my back every day.

10am: Battle training.

I learnt the turtle position today. I don’t like standing a lot but when you join the Roman army you have to do a lot of it.

3pm: Finish work and training-time to relax.

There is one good thing about it break time! I love playing board games. No one knows I keep a secret snack under the bed.

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I would like to join the Roman arm y I would like to meet you on Sunday to see if I could make it.

I think I would be a good soldier bec ause I am strong and scared of nothing.

I would also like to ask how far we are going.

Yours faithfully Katus

6pm: Evening meal and bed. What will I do tomorrow?

Finally bed time. I eat my dinner and go to bed. I wonder why I joined the Roman army?

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Amazing Anna, Amin, Ayman, Aria, Annika and Arianna advanced into adventure.

Brilliant Beatrice, Beatriz, Brayden, Bruno and Balthazar brightened bulbs and buzzed buzzers.

Clever Charlotte L. and Charlotte N. created cars, connected conductors and communicated creatively.

Delightful Dhruv drew diagrams and dangerous dragons.

Excellent Emilie, Elias and Ella experimented in electricity and enquired about Einstein.

Fabulous Fiona found famous faces.

Great Grace gathered glorious graphs.

Joyful Jan, Julian, Julie, Jaime, Jay and Jacob journeyed to Germany (and back).

Likeable Lilly and Luca learnt lovely lessons in Literacy.

Magnificent Marie, Mando, Malou, Mateo, Mariya and Matthew measured millions of metres in Maths.

Nice Nikita, Nityapriya, Nicol, Nathan and Naim knew new names and knowledge.

Outstanding Olivia, Oliver L. and Oliver H. observed owls.

Pleasant Paloma, Peter and Paul perfected and performed poetry.

Resilient and ready Ryan wrote resplendent rhymes.

Super Seth and Sakshi studied solids and circuits.

Tremendous Tommaso and Tanya told traditional tales and times tables.

Valiant Varshini and Vishal viewed volcanoes and vicious Vikings.

Wonderful William and Weronika worked for water and wondered about wanderers.

Yes! Yul, Ye In and Yuval yielded to a yippee year!

Zippy Zak and Zoe zoomed into disaster zones.

We would need more letters in the alphabet to cover all of the other fantastic work we have studied this year! Well done Year 4: you were fabulous!

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Learning from the people who work out in space, Walking on the moon, constructing a Mars base; Spying microbes under a magnifying glass, Presenting all our findings back in class; Discovering the impact of water power, Knowing the true purpose of a flower; Seeing how countries work to co-operate, When people flee turmoil, famine or hate; Thinking of the energy we use and its source, Learning of global warming and its cause; Sharing ideas in Circle Time to make our school more fun, Being a School Councillor with lots of events to run; Learning lines, practising songs, working together, To present to you the story of Cinderella Showing our independence on trips far away, Like the COBIS Games in Holland and the week in Mozet; Asking questions, discussing, having enquiring minds, Communicating effectively all our finds Being resilient and adaptable in everything Has made our time in year 5 go with a real swing!

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After blasting into the year, with an exciting

live link to an orbiting astronaut; Y6 investigated Space explorers, finding out about scientists who played key roles in the investigations of outer space. The children had fun putting Galileo on trial for his beliefs.

Time Tunnel involved the children in making an enormous time line of the history of the world and in designing a roller coaster ride to take people through the important periods of history. They learnt about the importance of chronology and how different events came together to change the way the world functioned.

Fundraising has played an important part in Y6’s life; from selling Christmas presents to rescue injured seals to walking 6km, some with 6l of water in their backpack, to raise money to build wells and toilets; the children have deepened their understanding of the wider world and showed empathy towards those who aren’t as fortunate as them. They had fun too!

The fun continued with History Day as the children arrived at school in 1944. Their secret mission was to uncover the identities of the owners of luggage. They develed in to try to work out the secrets that the luggage could tell them. Codes and ciphers needed cracking and new messages sending, leading to the unveiling of the enemy spies.

Discoveries of a different kind took place in the nature mobile which 6T were lucky enough to visit. They developed their enquiry and investigational skills to find things out and got hands on with nature.

Their craft skills were put to the test in the ‘Go with the flow’ unit as they asked to make models showing the passage of water from the source and follow its journey back to the sea. The creations were superb, showing their level of understanding and were even displayed for the Governors to see. This topic also took them on a river cruise in Remich, down the Mosel River, looking for meanders, tributaries, industries and more. A walk along the river followed, looking at the local tourist trades that were based there and their reliance upon the river.

The climax of this topic was a memorable visit to Dover.

There might not have been bluebirds over the white Cliffs, but there was plenty of action as the children made shelter, went pond dipping, visited a water mill, walked along a river, built dams, went rock pooling, visited a WW2 museum, had a walk through the countryside and sang round a campfire.

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annual Art Exhibition was held in May this year and featured work from all the pupils in the school from EY’s to Year 9. All the children in Primary were inspired by the Space unit to create wonderful 2D and 3D aliens, planets, rockets and astronauts which could be found in the different media throughout the exhibition.

From Year 1 upwards the children learn the importance of using design as a tool in creation. In addition to the regular skills of drawing and painting they also used different techniques such as sewing, constructing artwork using recycled materials, plaster and clay for which our new kiln came in handy to fire their creations. Different techniques were used to create the items on display; from batik and collage work to appliquĂŠ and weaving.

Visitors and staff were and are extremely impressed with the high quality and the variety of work on show this year.

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6T

Clubs Drama Club is an energetic club which covers a large number of creative drama activities including improvisation skills, voice and movement skills, creative thinking skills and encouraging teamwork in a supportive and positive environment. All of these things culminate in an end of term piece.

Music and Dance Club is where the children can learn or develop dancing skills while also helping with their musicality as we move accordingly to different kinds of music. Popular classic songs are played as well as chart hits. This is a club for boys and girls willing to have a lot of fun whilst learning dance moves.

Gardening Club

In the we grow, water and weed plants while having fun outside looking at nature. When the weather is especially cold or wet, we make things inside.

Fun Fitness Club hosts different approaches to fitness by using fun games, fitness training, circuits, yoga and stretching all to increase the fitness levels of the children.

Recorder Club is where children often take the first step to learning an orchestral or other instrument. The students learn to read music as well as learning play simple tunes.

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Origami Club is where the children have the opportunity to learn the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding. From Halloween cats and colourful aquariums to paper hats and party favours, they discover how to make beautiful creations for all occasions using just a few sheets of paper!

Football Club is an opportunity to improve technical, social, mental and physical attributes that benefit the child’s development through football. The club is open to children of all levels as we start with basic training and then progress from there.

Yoga Club is a fun way to exercise and relax body and mind.

Through learning and practicing yoga poses and breathing, the children find greater flexibility, strength, balance and posture.

In

Spanish Club children have the opportunity to learn about

the Spanish culture and language covering a variety of subjects from family to shapes while having fun!

Other Clubs include: Arts and Crafts, Basketball, Science, Maths, Unified Sports, Playing Cards, Chess, Team Games, Guitar and Ocarina.

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Math Days

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