Dear parents,
Please note that the After School Recreation Centre (SFO) is opened during the summer holiday weeks 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 – from June 28 to August 13. The price per child per week during the summer holiday is DKK 400.00.
Due to the planning in the SFO, it is important for us to know before the end of April, if you wish for your child/children to attend the SFO during the summer holidays.
Purpose: A
two days introduction to the international upper secondary school education – IB for students in the 8th classes.
Contents: You will get an impression of what it will say to be an IB-student; there will be an introduction to the IB-system and
meet present IB-students. You will be taught of some of the IB-teachers.
Dates: March 15 and 16, 2010
Time: The days begin at 08:05 and end at 14:00.
Place: Skovvangen 10, The main entrance by the info-screen, telephone 7633 9600.
Transport: Bus number 5
Cantina: You can buy food and beverages in the cantina. It is open all day. The lunch break is from 12:15 to 12:45.
Further information:
Contacts: Hans-Kurt Gade, GA@kolding-gym.dk or Mel Malone, MM@kolding-gym.dk
Responsible: Karsten Skov Mogensen, KM@kolding-gym.dk
For More Information Contact: Cheryssa Jensen, Promotions Representative
Office: 88 20 21 10, Mobile: 27 99 75 84, E-mail: cjensen@upwithpeople.org
Families in the Kolding area will have the unique opportunity to bring a bit of the world into their own homes between November 8th and November 14th when an international cast of Up with People arrives in Kolding as a stop on their 2009 world tour.
Host families are being sought to keep one or more students from the 85-member Up with People cast which represents 20 countries and more than 25 states. “It is a great opportunity to experience other cultures while sharing your own,” explained Cheryssa Jensen.
The opportunity to stay with local families during their stay in each community is a centerpiece of Up with People’s 22-week program. The giving goes both ways…while families share their traditions and local attractions; the cast members share their experiences and cultures.
Local host families are asked to provide a bed, local transportation at the beginning and end of each day, as well as breakfast and most dinners. During most evenings, cast members will be home with the family to participate in their activities and interests.
In addition to many wonderful experiences with their new “son” or “daughter,” each host family will be invited to a special Up with People Show on Friday, November 13th.
Host an Up with People Cast Member
“I can honestly say that the dozens of families who have opened their homes to me during my time with Up with People is one of the most meaningful and memorable experiences I have had,” said Cheryssa Jensen. “I still stay in contact with many of them and I believe they will become lifelong friends,” she added.
“Those with smaller children or young teens in their home often find that the Up with People cast members are wonderful role models and provide a glimpse into other countries, cultures and traditions they might not often experience in Kolding,” Jensen added.
Local families in the Kolding area are being sought to host the cast members between November 8th and November 14th. Those interested in hosting are encouraged to contact Cheryssa Jensen on the Kolding Advance Team at cjensen@upwithpeople.org or by calling 27 99 75 84.
Up with People’s visit to Kolding is sponsored by Aperian Global, Business Kolding, Kolding Realskole, and The Cosmo – International School of Southern Denmark.
Up with People is an independent nonprofit, [501(c)(3)] organization without any religious or political affiliations. It provides young adults an international and intercultural experience that teaches service leadership and uses the performing arts to deliver messages of hope and goodwill throughout the world. Up with People exists today to spark people to action in meeting the needs of their communities, countries and the world while building bridges of understanding as a foundation for world peace. For more information visit www.upwithpeople.org.
Welcome back after the autumn holidays. We have nine weeks and two days left before the Christmas holidays, starting December 22nd.
In week 46 – from November 9th to 13th – we will be visited from Up With People. And week 47, we have the school parties from Monday to Thursday evenings. There will be separate posts on the blog about these events.
December 1st all students at the school will make Christmas decoration for the classrooms and December 13th, we celebrate Lucia, which is a Nordic tradition.
Simon Mosekjær
More than 400 million people around the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seem, try to. It would be charitable to say that the results are sometimes mixed.
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies a buzzing insect, which at times can be rather annoying; a comfortable means of travel, unless you accidently have chosen one of the low budget companies, which will try to rob you blind with extra charges and fees for this and that; and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel, hiding his most private parts from sight, is clearly asked to be mangled.
As non-native speakers we have to learn that in English one tells a lie but the truth, that an American who says “I could care less” means the same thing as someone who says “I couldn’t care less”, and that a sign in a shop saying ALL ITEMS NOT ON SALE, doesn’t mean literally what it says – that every item is not on sale – but rather that only some of the items are on sale.
Most writers of the messages below, which we hope that you will enjoy just as much as we have, were not about to let a little ignorance of English stand in the way of communicating. In fact, it would appear that one of the beauties of the English language is that with even the most tenuous grasp of the English language you can speak volumes if you show enough enthusiasm – a willingness to make do. And the authors of these signs, which were all produced for the Olympic Games in Beijing, China, surely had a willingness to make do.
In week 11, from Monday the 15th to Friday the 19th of March, there is an introduction course for students in 8th classes.
The course at IB – International Baccalaureate – at Kolding Gymnasium is either Monday and Tuesday or Wednesday and Thursday.
Further information is available later.
Please bear in mind that it is very important for the students to remember to bring their lunch every day. They all have rather long school days, and we see a clear difference in their concentration before and after they have eaten.
They are sometimes able to borrow money from a teacher, if they forget their lunch, but of course they like their own lunches better, which are healthier and more nutrient than the food which they are able to buy at the school.
As we spoke about at the parents-teachers’ meeting we would like to make an automatic link to your mail addresses, when we post news on the blog. This way you will always be updated on news written on the blog.
In order to be able to do so, we need your mail addresses. Please send a note from home or mail it to the headmaster info@thecosmo.dk Simon Mosekjaer or class room teacher Synne Lindum Haagensen synne.lindum@kolding-real.dk with mail addresses on every parent in the family, who would like the automatic link.
Moreover you also have the possibility to subscribe to new posts published on the blog. This subscription is called RSS feeds. Read more about RSS feeds at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS.
After each post on the blog you will find the following text: “You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.” If you press RSS 2.0, a new page will appear, and on this page you need to click on “Abonner på dette feed”; “subscribe to this feed”, in English. Thereafter you will receive all updates from the blog.
Foreigners seeking residency through family reunification may be required to pay 3,000 kroner for a new mandatory Danish language test, reports Kristelig Dagblad newspaper.
The “immigration Test” has been in the works since 2006 with several trial tests and reviews being conducted. It will also be mandatory for all religious preachers seeking residency here.
According to the government’s new budget proposal the final version of the mandatory Danish language test will be ready from early next year.
In addition to testing Danish language skills, the exam will also require a residency applicant to know general facts about Danish culture and society.
Although it has not been ratified by Folketinget – the Danish parliament – the Liberal-Conservative government’s proposal reportedly has the support of Dansk Folkeparti, the Danish People’s Party, which is enough to pass it into law.
Mariann Jelved, Det Radikale Venstres integrationsordfører, spokeswoman for integration for Social Liberal Party, was astounded by the cost of taking the test and said her party did not support such immigration procedures.
“For us it’s more important that Danish residents can live here with their spouses and children”, she said.
Henriette Kjær, the Conservative immigration spokeswoman, said the test was unlikely to be difficult, rather like mastering “tourist Danish”.
But Danish People’s Party MP Jesper Langballe said if the test could cut down the number of immigrants coming to Denmark, then it would serve its purpose.
“We would not be sorry if it meant the number of applicants fell,” he said.
Spouses of Danish citizens who come to Denmark after living in another member country of the European Union will be exempt from taking the test.
The photos used in this feature are file pictures.