Act2Aid Reception
Dearest Parents and Teachers, We cordially invite you to a reception at our school When: Friday 25th May 2012 Time:19:30 to 21:30 (doors open at 19:00). You will be able to enjoy food and drinks and a presentation about the work we do! There will even be a guest speaker! We’re very much looking forward to this night, and we hope you are too! Kind Regards, Act2Aid
Price: 3.50 Euro
Dress Code: Business Casual
RSVP: before: 21st May 2012
Minibus Service between Amsterdam area and the European School Bergen
The European School Student Bus Association is the main coordinator of this service, which is fully outsourced to Amsterdam Vogel, a transport company. Our association keeps the School and the Parents Association informed about our services and conditions. Here is a description of the sort of ‘door-to-door’ service Amsterdam Vogel offers, using 8 seater cars: Each car picks up children living in the same area, either directly from home or at a nearby central pick-up point (depending on how far each family lives from each other). Children are brought back home or at this central point in your neighborhood. For more information visit Transportation section.
Swimming Information
Dear Parent/Guardian, As you all know, Alles Kits agreed upon a contract with swimming pool ‘de Beeck’. Basically this was set up to offer your children swimming lessons during after school child care and, most of all, organized as a service to the parents. However, not all children need A, B or C lessons as they already have their certificates. But swimming is also fun! So for all professional swimmers we offer you on Thursday afternoons: snorkel lessons. From 17:00 – 18:00 hours we will bring the children to the Beeck and bring them back to the location European School around 18:30. In order to start we need a minimum of 4 children. We did already hang out posters for this event. If you want to join and want to know more, please let us know! We will inform you about the conditions and possibilities. Best regards, Marit Kriek General Manager Alles Kits www.alleskits.org
World Book Day
Dear Colleagues, Parents and Students,
World Book day this year is 23rd April. In conjunction with many other International schools in the Netherlands we have been asked to collect used books in good quality, or gifts of new books in English and French for all ages to be sent to projects, schools and organisations in developing countries. In our school we will be collecting books from tomorrow in the aula. The books need to be in French or English, fiction, reference or school textbooks and suitable for children from 1-18.
If all members of our community could contribute one or two books for this project we would have made a difference to other less fortunate children. See www.readtogrow.eu for more information.
Please use this as an opportunity to sort your bookshelves for a good cause.
Many thanks
Julia Charlton & Madelon Polak
Thank you!
Dear Parents, Teachers, Students and Staff, We would like thank everyone for coming to our party Friday evening. The food, drinks, preparation, help, support, entertainment and all the positive feedback you provided made the evening very special! Everything was appreciated and we hope even the children that came enjoyed themselves as well. We hope you all had a nice time and we look forward to having another party with everyone from the school again! Thank you. The PAC
Dr Lewis, teachers and student performing at the party.
European School wins Silver medal in School Chess Championships second year in a row
On Saturday January 21 the European School succeeded in securing a second place in the Bergen School Championships. This is already the second year in a row the European School wins the silver medal after winning gold 2008-2010. The winner this year was the Teun de Jager school from Schoorl who participated for the first time ever. The Van Reenen school came in third.
We all had a very nice day at the Bergen chess club and each and every European School participant was able to win at least one game. Stefano Jakaubek (P5N) was unbeatable all day together with Max le Blansch from the Lucebert school and therefore both also received a special personal best boy player award handed out by the mayor of Bergen!!
The team Europese 1 hence came in as second which also means they are now invited to participate in the North Holland finals which will be arranged in Haarlem on Saturday March 17. The silver medalists on team Europese School 1 were Tom Biasi-Gelb (S1F), Thierry Nalinkamba (S1N), Stefano Jakaubek (P5N) and Aaron Holmberg (P4N).
The Europese 2 team came in at 11th place after a really close race leaving positions 8-11 all within 1.5 points. On the Europese 2 team were Martin Spencer (P4E), Pauline de Ruiter (P3N), Tim Spencer (P2E) and Klemen Simonovski (P1E).
Attached the final score as well as pictures of the best boy player and silver team award ceremonies presented by the Mayor of Bergen, Mrs Hafkamp!
A web album with even more pictures from the day can be on
Congratulations to all participants and especially to the medalists and first time participants! Looks like the school has a lot of new young talented chess players who have just started which is very good and important as two members of the silver team will next year be too old to participate.
Best regards,
Andreas
Chess co-ordinator
SPANISH BOOKS
The School library needs more Spanish books. If you have any Spanish books/magazines you do not need, please donate them to the school library so our students can make use of them. Thank you! Thanks! PAC
