Middle-Primary - Ms. Kelsey and Ms. Anelda

It was a great way to celebrate the end of the year. We had fun together playing mini-golf, exploring the adventure playground and maze and a class game of football.

Here is what students said they liked about the day...

Maximiliaan – "I really liked the football game because it was warm and sunny. It was fun that the Miss Jenny and Miss Maija played too!"

Vedant – "I liked playing mini-golf. The teams were me and Idil, Alana and Marcos and Maximiliaan and Pablo. Idil won!"

Marcos – "I loved mini-golf because there were a lot of different mini-golf tracks".

Idil –" I liked everything but it was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming".

Pablo – "I liked it when we played football because the teams were equal. We also saw a bunny rabbit running around. On the way back to school it was very funny when the bus driver told us off . Someone pushed the STOP button even though we weren’t getting off!"

Alana -  "I enjoyed the adventure playground because it was so fun and there was a maze".

At the end of the day Vedant scratched his little finger on a bush. Luckily we had anti-bacterial wipes and plasters to repair him!!

Sports Day

On Thursday the 6th of June, 2013, ISG school went to Team Adventure in Deinze for a Sports Day. The primary and pre-primary pupils did different activities.

Pupils met up at school and took a train to Deinze. It was a sunny day! They walked a long way to a park and ate their snack. Then the staff from Team Adventure picked them up and took them to the big building where all the activities took place. Pupils did a treasure hunt, archery, an indoor bouncy castle and an outdoor pirate ship. During the treasure hunt the pupils searched for pictures and collected points for the team. Pupils played dodge ball in the bouncy castle, and in the pirate ship they climbed a mast to bring coins to the middle of the mast. It was lots of fun! Pupils had lunch and the staff from Team Adventure gave them orange juice or choclate milk.

It was a fantastic day! The pupil's favourite activity was the indoor bouncy house. It was a hot, hot day! Pupils came back to school, tired and a bit grumpy, but Ms.Sonja gave them some lovely ice-cream and then they were happy again!

By: Alyson and Maximiliaan

Today is Monday, June 3rd 2013.

We now have had most of the lessons today, this the very first Monday in the month of June. School ends on Friday June 28th, so we don't have that many days to go now. Summer holiday is getting closer! We still have many things to learn, though, and lots of challenges, before we can relax and start the holiday! Our teacher just handed out our homework. This week, we have numeracy (basic facts and measure length), literacy (spelling words, books to read and texts to work with), but this week we don't have any IPC. It takes some time to glue the homework sheets into the homework book, since we all have different homework assignments, because we are of different ages and we don't know the same things, or speak English on the same level. It is always interesting to compare your homework with your neighbour, and see what he or she has to work with during the week! This week pupils are working with "shorter/taller", "estimate length" and "perimeter and area" - so the homework often challenges the same area, but at different levels.

After putting the homework in our bags, we can sit down and read for a little while. This Monday we could choose if we wanted to read or if we wanted to continue working with an art assignment, where we used a technique called "quilling". Some of us really liked to try this new technique, while others found it a bit more challenging. Some of us enjoyed sitting down on the carpet, with a book in our hand, and just read quietly for a few minutes. We were quite tired today, so we really enjoyed the calm end of this Monday!

Greetings from Primary

PS. If you are curious, the green plants that grow in the middle of the classroom, are the white beans that we planted a few weeks ago! They have grown a lot since we put the small beans in the soil! The longest beanstalk now starts to reach up towards the ceiling.

A tippy tap is a simple device for hand washing with running water. In some countries people don’t have access to running clean water. This economical and effective station encourages proper hand washing. A container of about 5 liter with a small hole near the cap is filled with water and tipped with a stick and rope tied through a hole in the cap. As only the soap is touched with the hands, the device is very hygienic. During our lesson we worked in two groups. Upper primary pupils were able to build a tippy tap more independently following instructions whilst lower primary pupils received more help.  Both groups had to do lots of digging, attaching and assembling. A great activity to work on team work!