IBOB Friendly March 7, 2014

You are cordially invited to an evening of excitement with our students (see below) battling against students from the American School in Honduras, the British School in Ecuador and the host school French International Hong Kong.

See details :  http://www.intlbob.com/blog.html

You can follow the battle by sending your Skype name so we can add you to our chat room, or, if you want to come in person, we are

Officially meeting for practice at 8 pm

Our friendly starts around 10 pm - 11 pm

Physical Venue : Senior Library, Lower Building 207 at GSIS

Participants signed up for this challenging battle:

Alice Gunn (s) (L)

Arushee Kadam (s)

Christine Ra (s) (L)

Elina Rawat

Hannah Tsang

Isabella Hirt (s)

Jacqueline Wu

Julius Mayer (s) (L)

Justin Kui (s)

Luke Shaw (s) (L)

Neha Beri

Nicola Sharp (s)

Pranali Yoshi

Ruth Scharf-Han

Sanvritti Singh

Sophie Ng (s)

Trevor Chow

Trisha Rai

Valerie Hung (L)

Please RSVP, either by sending me your Skype account or if in person, as there will be some snacks (pizzas).

Phil, Catriona and Ida

P.S. Our Senior students (L), Catriona and I will be hosting a sleepover (s) for the students staying overnight

IBOB International Battle of the Books, First Friendly Battle between FIS and GSIS

Hooray, German Swiss International School Team triumphed 64 to 36 over French International School Teams. 

FIS Teacher Librarian, Bryant McEntire, is the brainchild of this awesome challenge to build team spirit and engage students to read widely. Thank you Bryant for exciting 40 minutes on Skype Messenger.

Team members of yesterdays battle were:

Arushee Kadam 

Avantika Sengupta

Damian Yiu

Elina Rawat

Hannah Tsang

Isabella Hirt

Isabelle Pomfret

Jacqueline

Jeremy Ng

Justin Kui 

Luka Kim

Neha Beri

Nicola Sharp

Pranali Joshi

Sanvritti Singh

Sophie Ng

Trisha Rai

Yan Wing Chung

Team leaders

Pradyumn Dayal

Valerie Hung

Christine Ra

 

K5/ English. Our follow up lesson on using the library effectively

Sienna summarizes and recalls what she remembers.

Library Induction for German Stream K5 and Y7 Core Lessons 26.11.2013 and 2.12.2013

The meaning of the advent's wreath.

Author and Student Get-together November 5, 2013

Award winning author Mr. Boris Pfeiffer toured four German Schools abroad. Starting in Singapore, he then visited us in Hong Kong, followed by Shanghai and finally Beijing.

Mr. Pfeiffer was already well known by our young students from K5 to K9. Thank you Frau Ruth Soeding, Head Librarian from Singapore European School for sharing your initiative with us.

Our Principal Mrs Brandt-Dammann welcomed our visiting author Boris Pfeiffer on 5.11.2013 in the Old Gym.

In the first part of the get-together Mr. Pfeiffer read and talked about the

background of his popular series "Die Drei Fragezeichen" or The Three Question Marks" Kids series. Then he impressed us by summaries of his new series "Die Akademie der Abenteuer".

Sienna K05B

Mr. Pfeiffer, in spite of his popularity and fame, struck us as a simple and authentic individual who took his profession very seriously. Students asked where he got his ideas from for writing his stories and Mr. Pfeiffer explained that there are three ways. 1. By describing the characters from real life experience. 2. By doing research 3. By being creative and having a lot of imagination.

Mr. Pfeiffer's new book, I can disclose will be about Chinese dragons because we searched for books on dragons and he scanned pages from our collection before he left our school that morning!

Students of K5 to K8 lined up for an autograph.

Thank you

 Mr. Pfeiffer for increasing our students' interest in reading. All your books in our collection have been quickly checked out and is in circulation. Well done.

Y7 Core Double Lesson in the Senior Library

 The Y7's participated actively during our library lesson in our interim library space. 

Y7s welcome Brendon and Liz Sing, Directors of Shark Guardian on 24.5.2013. Shark Guardians motto is to preserve and educate children about the many shark species that are not harmful to humans.

The Senior Library was presented with the book titled "Man & Shark" by Paul Hinton and Alex Hofford, to remind us of the poaching problem that exists because of the Shark Fin soups' popularity.

Arushee and Nicola with Brendon and Liz Sing

Shark Guardian Presentation

GSIS – Secondary (Y07C)

In the Shark Guardian presentation, I saw sharks so cute they melted my heart and sharks so unique they surprised me, discovered the amazing variety and many different species of sharks, harmless and dangerous alike, learnt more about the devastating shark fin trade, and was surprised when I found out that, technically, coconuts are more dangerous than sharks! The Shark Guardians have forever changed my viewpoint on sharks, and have quite inspired me.

~ N

  

Yu Yu recalls that Sharks are endangered. Sharks are no different from elephants, rhinos and tigers and we should protect them as we do to elephants, rhinos and tigers.

Moreover, more people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks.