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
Once again the school parties have come to an end, and the teachers and I wish to thank each one of you for a couple of very nice evenings. It is always a pleasure to meet under more informal circumstances, where we have a chance to talk with each other in a less structured manner.
It is impossible to avoid that a huge project like our school parties with between 800 and 1000 guests each evening will cause some disturbances in our everyday life and daily routines, but I do believe that everything has gone without problems, and that it has been an eventful week for us all to remember.
So thank you very much for your participation and your good spirits.
On behalf of the teachers,
Simon Mosekjær
PE day at the Cosmo
CIPP – Omar and Lina
8.05 – The students meet in the class room and go with Lillian. Please make sure to wear clothes suitable for outdoor activities and PE.
There will be a treasure hunt on the school.
9.05 – Departure for Marielundskoven with Lillian
9.45 – 45 minute-run around Marienlund lake starts
10.35 – Departure for Legeparken where they will get a bun, fruit and water.
11.45 – They go back to The Cosmo and get their diplomas. School ends at 12.00.
CIPP – Patrick, Thomas, Kai and Ayse
7.50 – The students meet at the school and walk together with Synne to the gym hall wearing clothes suitable for outdoor activities and PE.
Here we do different games together.
9.15 – Departure for Marielundskoven togther with Synne.
9.45 – 45 minute-run around Marielund lake starts.
10.35 – Departure for Legeparken where students will get a bun, fruit and water.
11.45 – The students go back to The Cosmo and get their diplomas. School ends at 12.00
CLSP – Lærke, Simone, Fatma, Sophie and Sarah
8.05 – The students meet at the gym hall – Fabienne Brahmsen will attend The Cosmo students
Warm up. Remember to wear clothes suitable for outdoor activities and PE.
8.40 – Michael Jackson Dance conducted by JO / Kolding Realskole
9.30 – Pump – conducted by LIN / Kolding Realskole
10.15 – Departure for Marielundskoven
10.45 – 45 minute-run around Marielund lake starts.
11.35 – Students will have a bun, fruit and water.
11.45 – The students go back to The Cosmo to get their diplomas. School ends at 12.00.
CLSP – Amin and Nabil
8.05 – The students meet in the gym hall.
Warm up conducted by JO / Kolding Realskole
8.40 – Ball playing on the playing fields
10.15 – Departure for Marienlundskoven
10.45 – 45 minute-run around Marienlund lake starts.
11.35 – The students will have a bun, fruit and water
11.45 – The students go back to The Cosmo to get their diplomas. School ends at 12.00
Bullying can be stopped if students, parents and teachers work together
The Cosmo and Kolding Realskole have a moral obligation to reduce bullying. Furthermore, the charter agreement lay down by the school board specifically states that the school strives to “provide a safe physical and emotional environment”. At school, teachers are doing their best to keep an eye open for potential bully situations and if possible stop them before they take place, though this is not always possible.
That being said, parents also have an obligation to help stop bullying, and we are not able to help and take action, unless we are informed by the students and/or the parents, so please inform the class room teacher, if there is anything we should be aware of.
If bullying occurs, we will have a serious talk with the student or students, who bully, and thereafter the parents will be informed. Should such an incident arise a second time, we will consider suspend the student in question for a shorter period, and if the bullying does not stop hereafter, the final step will be to expel the student from our school.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me…”
Do you remember that old nursery rhyme? Honestly, it wasn’t true when you were in school, and it isn’t true now. Teasing, taunting and other forms of bullying can cause serious emotional harm to children, and it may last much longer than a bloody nose or scraped knees.
Before the summer holidays a 12-year-old Danish boy committed suicide by hanging himself in a tree after having been the victim of excessive bullying from other students of his own age. Due to an Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, popularly called ADHD, this young boy proved to be an easy target for bullies at his school, and according to the Danish newspapers “…these bullies drove him over the edge of what he was able to endure”.
Even though the dead boy’s mother was well aware that he was having problems at school, she was totally taken by surprise by her son’s suicide. The dead boy was due to move to a new school, where his brother had already moved, because of the persistent bullying. The school has been criticised for not having done enough to stop the incessant bullying.
What can we do to prevent something as horrible as this from happening ever again?
Before trying to answer that question I believe it is necessary to explore what bullying really is and how we can stop bullies and bullying at school?
What is bullying?
Bullying can be defined in many different ways, and even though many countries do not have a legal definition of bullying, it can generally been seen as peer abuse. The reasons for bullying might be many; but most students have a tendency of bullying those who are in some ways different.
Bullying is every intentional act aimed at harming others, through verbal harassment, name calling and use of foul language, physical assault or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation, threats or the like.
A definition of bullying can be when a person is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more persons. The negative actions are, when a person intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort upon another person, through physical contact, words or in other ways.
Electronic bullying also known as cyber-bullying
Bullying can also happen on-line or electronically. This form of harassment is known as cyber-bullying. It occurs when someone bullies through the Internet, over mobile phones or via other electronic means of communication. Examples include sending mean-spirited text, e-mail, or instant messages; posting inappropriate pictures or messages about others on blogs or on websites; using someone else’s user name and identity to spread rumors or lies about someone and finally lying to hurt internally and externally.
Some facts about bullying
A rough estimate made by the Danish Children’s Council (Børnerådet) says that 7% or every 14th child will experience being bullied once a week.
According to the survey from the Danish Children’s Council:
Other facts about bullying:
Stop bullying
Please help us to stop bullying by informing us about any incidents that might be classified as bullying.
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.
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The oldest students in Primary class will start swimming lessons next week.
Please note that Wednesday the 16th, which is the first time, they will meet at the school at 7.50 am and the teacher will escort them.
From then on they will meet at Slotssøbadet every Wednesday at 8.00 am.
They also have PE lessons at the school on Wednesdays so please remember to bring clothes and a towel for this as well.
Every Wednesday the oldest students in Primary class will have Danish dictations.
They will also have English dictations on Thursdays starting next week.
Please remember and bear in mind that the students in Lower Secondary will have English dictation in 5th lesson every Friday beginning next week.
They will also have oral presentations in Danish every Thursday. We already started this week.