Kartongmatchen
Selma in junior school was chosen as one of the winners for Kartongmatchen. The task was to design the back of a milk carton with a recycling message. Look out for her design on milk packages in stores.
News
Badminton Success
Our student Rama has had great success in badminton. Rama has competed in competitions in Stockholm, Trollhättan and Denmark and came first in a Gothenburg badminton tournament competing in an older age group for Göteborgs Badminton Klubb. She also won in doubles partnering Akshadha.
International Literacy Day
On Thursday 15th September both students and staff enjoyed a day of dress up and lots of fun activities to promote their love for literacy. The students came dressed up as everything from Hermione to Mary Poppins to astronauts. To everyone’s surprise we had a visit from Cat in a Hat!
Year 8 Student Wins Gothia Cup
A big congratulations to our Year 8 student Kennedy Okpaleke who was the Gothia Cup gold medalist in the older devision U18 with his team BK Götaholm. On winning Kennedy said, “it felt amazing to win in front of my family and my friends”. We wish him good luck on his future football endeavors and follow him with great enthusiasm!
Gothia Special Olympic Trophy Winner
Our congratulations to our former student Jesper Richter who won the gold medal in the 2022 Gothia Special Olympic Trophy with his team Grunden Bois.
Player of the Year
Our Year 7 student Adam was recently awarded ‘Player of the Year’ for New Boys by Högsbo Basket. A big congratulations to Adam on his wonderful achievement!
Young Editor
Congratulations to Linus in Reception who spotted a mistake in his dinosaur book. The book said that in dinosaur times the temperature was 10x more than it is now when it should have said the temperature was ten degrees higher. Linus mother wrote to the Swedish publisher who agreed that this was a mistake and said that the English publication was also wrong. The mistake will be corrected in future editions of the book.
A Famous Greeting
Ahmed Berhan from the Swedish children’s show ‘Med Ahmed i Medeltiden’ (also seen in SVT humor and Sveriges Radio) sent our Year 4 students a warm greeting. Both classes have been watching the educational program during their history lessons and as a reward for the students hard work the teacher surprised them with a recorded greeting from Ahmed.
Reading Challenge 2022
With over 1500 books read and reviewed in Years 2 to 7 we are sure that many students have improved their reading fluency, comprehension, and stamina in English and Swedish. This is the number one key to success in learning. Our congratulations to Years 2 & 6 who were this year’s winners and had pizza parties. But well done to all for taking part of the challenge as improving our reading is the real win.
Back to a Bake Sale
Our Year 3 students and parents organised a fun and successful Bike & Bake Sale for the first time in over two years.