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Our English and German teacher and long-time school website editor Artur Weinhold has this message for you:

After almost ten years as this website’s sole editor, I would like to say good-bye not only to FSG parents, pupils, teachers, non-teaching staff and alumni but also to all the other users from all over the world who happened to pay a visit to our school’s website since November 1997. From scholastic year 2007/08 onwards, somebody else will look after it.

Take care!

FSG Head Teacher Dr Czischke writes:

Sunny and relaxing holidays to all and everyone! Before you start off, take a look at the website of professional a-capella vocalists Wise Guys. There you can listen to the contributions of schools in a song competition initiated by the Wise Guys. And you cannot only listen to the schools’ contributions, you can also vote on them.

FSG participated with three entries. One of them is ranked at third place. In my opinion, it should make # 1!

You can cast your vote until June 24, 10 p.m. Click here: http://www.wiseguys.de/cgi-bin/abstimm/public/abstimm.cgi !

On the last day before the summer holidays, Herr Suckrau, our Deputy Head Teacher, met a delegation of Chinese teachers visiting Europe to find schools interested in partnerships:

The talks with the delegation were fruitful. It is quite likely that in 2007/08 FSG parents, pupils and teachers will team up in a partnership with Fenghua High School in Zhabei, Shanghai.

For more photographs of Fenghua High School in Shanghai, click here!

… by our editor-in-chief also put an end to this half-term’s reporting. The surgeon’s verdict on 25th May: six to eight weeks in a plastic cast! It will be the second week of our six-week summer holidays when it comes off.

Foto: Thomale

The boys and girls in Ms Thomale’s Religious Education Class for Protestants did not hesitate one moment when it came to donating two euros each for a tree-planting project.

In our lessons, we were dealing with the topic »Animals and people as part of God’s creation« when we also discussed global warming and what everybody might do against it personally.

One of the girls came up with the idea of planting a tree. All the others liked the idea, too, and so did Ms Thomale, and therefore we decided to collect 40 euros for a tree.

Of course, we soon realized we would not be able to buy a somewhat larger tree all on our own. So we first inquired with Biology teachers what tree we could plant this late in the year in the first place. Then we asked the FSG Student Body Council if they would help us buy a tree – and they said they would!

On May 22 we finally planted the tree, and by now the new chestnut is just doing fine (see photograph). Everybody in our Religious Education class was glad we had been able to chip in our small bit for Nature.

So… what about you planting an apple tree or a plum tree? Why not do something for our environment?

Lünen’s mayor Heinz Wilhelm Stodollick welcomed visitors to the opening ceremony of the exhibition, FSG senior Arts teacher Ms Sophie Hochrein talked about »Lünen, the Up-and-Coming Industrial Town of 1907, and Ideas of Reform«, and Professor Ernst Peter Fischer (University of Constance) took visitors along on a »Journey into Abstraction« in his lecture entitled »Einstein Meets Picasso and Takes Him to the Cinema«.

The musical background to the opening ceremony of the exhibition was provided by 11th-grade FSG Music courses. Catering came from FSG’s »Peace Club«.

The art objects and installations to be seen (until May 20) were developed and prepared in FSG Arts classes during the last months.

More on this exhibition can be read in our website’s special centenary section.

For a tour of the exhibition, click here.

We guarantee our »Steini« sculptures to be weather-proof. Resilient as they are, they should be exposed not only to the view of passers-by but also to the elements.

This fern-crowned specimen, however, »must stay indoors«, as the notice says. Could it be that an abduction was imminent? Or was the fellow grounded because he had misbehaved?

»Congratulations«, that is what, on March 28, Frau Thamm said to the members of this year’s DELF Club, a group of students studying and practicing for the Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française (DELF), a demanding French proficiency exam regularly set by representatives of the French government all over the world. All Frau Thamm’s students had passed the exam, and all were given their Attestations de réussite, the diploma certifying their achievement.

Recipients of diplomas at level A 2 of the European proficiency reference system were:

Recipients of diplomas at the even more demanding level B 1 of the European proficiency reference system were:

FSG is one of 160 pilot schools worldwide for developing and teaching projects on the basis of TI Nspire computer algebra systems. The software allows teachers to teach Mathematics by integrating all compulsory didactic modules between 5th to 13th form.

From March 16 to 18, TI Nspire pilot teachers from all over the world came together in Brussels to exchange new teaching ideas on the TI Nspire CAS basis. FSG teachers Frau Schmidt and Herr Hüllen delivered a paper on their most recent teaching projects developed at FSG. Teaching trainee Herr Schulz went along for new ideas to incorporate in his trainee lessons.

Read Ms Schmidt’s full report.

Only 18 of our 20 prospective exchangees are in this photograph, Herr Suckrau (in the rear on the right), Deputy Head Teacher and co-organizer of this year’s student exchange with Webster Groves High School of Webster Groves, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), reports. But their enthusiasm is all the more visible. On February 23, they convened for the first time to prepare the exchange in FSG’s Exchange Club. From now on, the club will meet every fortnight, and of course the language spoken will be English. The aim of the club is to provide the exchangees with intercultural facts and to prepare in detail their activities in Webster Groves. Our American counterparts are doing the same in their Exchange Club.On March 20, FSG parents will be informed about our preparations. The meeting is one of many to be held before the exchange. Apart from those meetings, FSG will use e-mail newsletters to stay in touch with exchangees and their parents.

FSG participants in 2007 were:

Herr Suckrau, FSG deputy headmaster, reports:

Ms Zhang, our Chinese teacher, has found two Shanghai schools interested in student exchange with FSG: Fenghua High School and Huimin Middle School.

What FSG needs now is parents with an inclination for adventure, prepared to accompany students to China and to help us organize the exchange.

For a first impression, look at the pictures and the self-portraits presented here by the two schools.

… refuses to freeze over, as it is likely to do in these times of climate change, what options do fifth-graders have if they want to go skating?

On Thursday, February 15, boys and girls of Form 5d went on an excursion to Bergkamen Skating Rink. Their teachers Carsten Schattauer and Dr Pigulla accompanied them.

Yacov Levi was born in Lünen. Hadn’t the Nazis in this town driven him from FSG in 1937, he would have graduated with the
Class of 1942. He was just a boy of 14 years of age when he had to flee to Palestine, where he first became a carpenter. Later, he worked as a teacher, and toward the end of his working life, he looked after youngsters in difficult educational circumstances.

Now Yacov Levi is a pensioner and, as such, has started another new life: the life of an artist.It is not the first time that he presents his work to the public. But now, there is a new exhibition of his to be seen on the internet. Why don’t you come by at http://www.art-levi.com/!

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Read the report by band member Malte Eiffler:

Steinrock« did rock!

The concert began at half past seven.But for the active participants, the hassle began at 3 p.m. when all the equipment was loaded into cars and unloaded at FSG. We had to install all the amps and p.a. systems and do the soundcheck. We were done by 6 p.m. and managed to put in a short break before all hell broke loose half an hour later.

There were more and more people in the school hall’s foyer by 7 p.m. So many? We hadn’t quite anticipated such a crowd!We all awaited feverishly the beginning of the concert at half past seven. Then it all started: Ratcatcher began. Our audience was really up to the occasion and very lively. Surpisingly, the sound system worked quite well – although we had to use a number of tricks to make it sound good. Actually, the audience reaction stayed what it was like at the beginning. All the bands played well, it was a great experience for everyone.

By 11 p.m., it was all over – at least for the audience, because the musicians had to pack their instruments and equipment. By midnight, we were finished and ready to go home. What a great concert it was – and what fun everybody had!

This is the occasion to say thanks:

• to our teacher Herr Schattauer for helping us organize this evening
• to Dr Czischke, Herr Gehrmann and Herr Graas for being so forthcoming
• to Reiner Fröhlich for being such an expedient sausage cook
• to those of our fellow students who helped us to get the concert organized.

After a teaching life of well more than thirty years, two FSG teachers were given their adieux by FSG staff and former colleagues on Monday, January 29. Their good-bye ceremony was more a revue of music, film and sketches than a conventional series of speeches and eulogies. In a witty and ironic drama scene written by themselves, Herr Frank Fellenberg (Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science) and Herr Hanfried Müller (German, English, Practical Philosophy, Latin) allowed their mellowed and not wholly merciless gaze to sweep over past and current educational fashions and to dwell upon bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo. Actually, their sketch was only the first act of a two-act minidrama – the second act, written and performed by Head Teacher Dr Czischke and a fellow teacher, continued much in the same vein, albeit from a different perspective, and added the element of regret at having to let these two experienced colleagues go in times of accelerated school reform.

Representatives of the FSG student body and the departments thanked the two teachers for their decades of reliable and inspired service to parents and pupils in Lünen and handed over presents before everybody consoled themselves at the buffet graciously set up by the two senior teachers.

Herr Suckrau, Deputy Headmaster of FSG, writes:

Our new cafeteria has been in use since the beginning of December 2006. On Friday, January 26, it was opened officially. City of Lünen representatives as well as members of our school’s governing bodies inspected the new premises and sampled the cafeteria food from a buffet donated by Mr Barry Mohomed, the cafeteria’s new operator.

Our cafeteria offers a wide variety of meals and beverages between 7.55 and 2.30 p.m.