Our School Play

On Friday the 18^th of December the junior class and middle class (cadets) came together to make a wonderful performance.
Before the performance everybody had the chance to look at all the wonderful art work that we have been doing this term with Mr. Uroz.

Each class did a separate play but each one was as good as the other. It took the classes about a month to prepare the plays. The juniors' play was written by Mr. Laubacher and it talked about how people affect global warming and how we can make the Earth a better place to live in. The play was funny yet it had a message to all of us in it. It had a lot of song and dance in it (songs like 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Beat It'). The dances were funny and they had a bit of break dance too thanks to Lucas M and Dario S. The middles' play was written by us with a very fun method that Mr. Laubacher (our music and performing arts teacher, who organised the show) used with us. First he told us each to find a story and bring it in, and then we put all the stories together to make one big play.

A special thanks to Hannah Vissers for doing such a great job on the lighting and to Liza for her exceptional dancing, that included some tango.

Tonight!

We look forward to welcoming family and friends of St. George's to our spectacle of the visual and performing arts, tonight from 18h00. Please come along and see some of the wonderful work that has been going on here this term!

Our trip to Basel!!!

On the 10th and the 11th of December We went to Basel and it was groovy :)

On the first day we went on the train and when we arrived we got changed out of our uniform and had our lunch at a snazzy restaurant. We had a choice to have soup or salad and steak, chicken or the vegetarian option. Then we had a yummy chocolate cake for dessert.

After lunch we saw the actual Saint George slaying a dragon on the side of the big cathedral. After that we had a tour around the city and we went on a boat across the river which was attached to a wire so it wouldn't go down the river. After our boat trip we went to the main part of the city and had a chance to do some Christmas shopping.

After the Christmas shopping we went to the Christmas market. Some of us went on the rides, it was hilarious. After the amazing Christmas market we went on the tram back to the hotel and went to sleep.

The next day we had our breakfast buffet. Then we walked to famous Kunstmuseum with Mr. Uroz. We then looked around the galleries and we got into groups and researched our artists. Then we went to the Tinguely museum and we all got free postcards. It was fun, you had to pass by the art and it would come to life. You could even walk up one of the pieces, like a climbing frame of art. On the way back we saw Santa Claus in a tram and then had a pizza for lunch. Then went on the tram back to the hotel to pick up our suitcases and went home!

Thanks to Miss Beubry for organising such a fantastic trip, and to Mr. Uroz for being such a wonderful and knowledgeable guide around the art museums.

Curling With St. George's!

Last Wednesday, all of us at St. George's went curling. It was quite hard at first when we had to slide along the ice with a really strange shoe that made you slip. The best part of curling was the competition and yet again Neuchâtel house won. We had to practise a lot before the competition and we had to do things like learn how to slide on the ice with the strange shoe, how to 'throw' a really heavy stone across the ice (which made everyone fall) and how to brush in front of a stone while it was moving, which was the funniest part of the whole afternoon.

I think that St. George's is a excellent school because we get to do so many extra-curricular activities like going curling and going to laser tag. We can't wait until after the holidays when we can go skiing with the whole school!!!
Sebastien

Merit Points & House Points

Hello, I'm Anne-Gabrielle from Morat's House. In the school there are 3 different houses: Morat, Bienne & Neuchâtel. Each student is in one of the houses & can earn: merit points and house points, by doing good homework, exceeding expectations, after school activities or by doing a service to community. When you get 5 merit points you get a house point. I get most of my house points because of after school activities (sports, blog...). Last Friday we went to Fun Laser. A huge place where we have laser guns and we run around to shoot the people on the other team. Neuchâtel house won, I think because they have Alexander and Miss Fish! Alexander had the best score. This week we are going to go curling the day before we go to Basel!!!

Exams and Fun Laser

Congratulations to all our students on completing a gruelling week of exams. We are very proud of them for working so hard. We celebrated the end of the exam week with an inter-house competition at Fun Laser. After two hard fought games, everybody has been eagerly awaiting the final results. The winning team was the one with most point after both games. In reverse order...

3rd place went to Bienne house (who actually won the second game!) - 28300 points
2nd place went to Morat house - 40650 points
Which means the winning team was Neuchâtel - 44650 points

Here you can see Carla and Hannah from team Neuchâtel, getting ready to go into battle.
Special congratulations to Alexandre (Titi) and Agnieszka (above) who were our 'top guns'. Alexandre scored higher than anyone else this month, so his name is on the board of honour!


And as for next week's competition, the house curling teams are already in training.