Friends of the Quentin-Blake Europe School / Förderverein der Quentin-Blake-Grundschule e.V.

Welcome!Willkommen!


News

Einladung zur nächsten Mitgliederversammlung / Invitation to the next General Assembly

Wed April 18 - 8.00 a.m. in the Canteen

Finally!

Vote on the Curtain for our stage in the gymnasium!
More info: estimate 1, estimate 2, estimate 3

Vote on the Carrousell for the backyard!
More info: estimate 1 (other company's products are not exactly comparable)

Vote for lower membership fees...
... that hopefully get more families involved!
More info given in the agenda

Download your invitation and agenda here!                    


Endlich!

Stimmen Sie ab über den Bühnenvorhang in der Turnhalle!
Mehr Info: Kostenvoranschlag 1, Kostenvoranschlag 2, Kostenvoranschlag 3

Stimmen Sie ab über das Karussell für den Pausenhof!
Mehr Info: Kostenvoranschlag 1 (Angebote anderer Hersteller sind nicht exakt vergleichbar)

Stimmen Sie für niedrigere Beiträge!
Mehr Informationen finden Sie in der Tagesordnung

Hier geht es zum Download der Einladung mit Tagesordnung


Direkter Draht zum GEV-Vorstand /
Get in touch with the board of the parent committee

Der GEV-Vorstand hat jetzt einen eigenes, vertrauliches, ausschließlich den GEV-Vorständen zugängliches
Kontakt-Postfach (Kummerkasten): gev-vorstand-qbes@friends-of-qbes.de
E-mail your concerns, problems, needs straight to the board members of the parent committee (GEV-Vorstand). Your emails will be treated confidentially and forwarded only to the members of the GEV board. Here's the link: gev-vorstand-qbes@friends-of-qbes.de


The Book Bird has landed -
Quentin Blake's Book Bird schmückt die Kantine



Quentin Blake's Book Bird has been mounted in the casino this week. Please treat this precious piece of wall art with great respect.
Quentin Blake created this picture and presented it to the school when it first opened in 2002. The original painting has been reframed and put up in the library for all visitors to enjoy.

The Golden Age / Goldene Zeiten!

Remember the old, ugly, rusty dustbin in front of the students' entrance?

Thanks to the Selow family it has metamorphosed in the most pleasant way...





Good Bye, Mr Lange!

We're in school now, look at me...
Can you feel the Christmas Spirit?
The Chocolate Pilot ...

So many songs...
so many happy kids...
so much heart in teaching!
... after 15 years at Quentin Blake Europe School we have to sadly say good bye to Mr Steven Lange, the most wonderful teacher, musician, leader of the school choir AND songwriter.

Dear Mr Lange,
we wish you many happy years in good health with good friends and all the wonderful things in life!
We'll keep your songs alive!
And we'll keep in touch and come see you perform on stage with Singadream.

The board of the Förderverein's farewell present to Mr. Lange
was a little bronze statue of Matilda. The miniature model of the - our vision!! - big Matilda statue that will be out in our courtyard one day is the second one out of ten made by artist Chavarch Khatchatrian. # 1, by the way, will of course go to Quentin Blake.

 



 Benni Brems passt auf

To make the way to school safer,
the board decided to spend 100 Euros to buy two "Benni Brems" figures and put them near the zebra crossing to raise cardrivers' alertness. Let's hope it works!

 Now on sale again!                  




Available for 5 Euro at the Friends' Café - or just email us!
All profits go to a school project in Gambia (More info: www.sukuta-wannsee.de)

This most amazing CD was recorded a few years ago to support
CARE's Airlift Memorial Project school in Nepal.

 The perfect QBES gift!

Listen to songs written by our teacher Mr. Steven Lange and sung by the QBES Wee CARE Choir. Plus a special message from the Chocolate Pilot Col. Gail Halvorsen!
The Friends of QBES Förderverein want to keep this school treasure alive, so we'll try to  relaunch it in 2012, this time to support the Sukota School Project.





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Chronicle / Rückblick

 Friends' Café                                              

A big THANK YOU to everyone who made our Thanksgiving Friends Cafè such a big success!
Lots of relaxed parents and some staff members got together and had a good chat:




Missed it?
We'll do it again!

-> Friends' Café

THANKS A BUNCH as well to Roland Münter,
owner of "Dein Druckfreund" printing shop in Lichterfelde and a parent at our school

who provides and updates our Friends' Café banners every time for free!




Unser Green School Projekt                                                 

 

mehr Infos hier

Our first Friends' Café                                                

... was a huge success!

Thank you, everyone, for being there! And thanks for bringing all those yummy cakes!

Have a look at the Quentin Blake Livestream here

Matilda's wish list is still open for your additions - please email us or drop it into the Förderverein's mailbox at the secretary's office.

 


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Our new newsletter is out!


If you haven't received it by e-mail from your parent reps,
please Download here



We'd like to keep in touch with our members by e-mail, so please send us your current e-mail address for updating our distribution list: mail@friends-of-qbes.de

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New information board on 1st floor

Since the Student's entrance will be closed for security reasons during the school day, the old info board is not accessible any more. We're setting up a new info board near the secretary's office on first floor. The main entrance can be used at any time to get there and find out what's going on in Förderverein and Library.
Please check out our Website for news as well.
To get you informed more quickly, we're updating our mailing list So please send us your current e-mail-address (plus the name and class of your child): mail@friends-of-qbes.de



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Welcome!

The Förderverein Friends of the Quentin Blake Europe School e.V. is immensely pleased to be able to welcome two new members to our library team: Maryse Benzler and Karen Craig.



We are actually welcoming Maryse Benzler back, since several years ago she was instrumental in getting our library out of the card box and into the computer age by putting the entire library into a computer data base as well as writing and finding programs to run the library check out system. To our great good fortune she is returning to us as our technical expert.
Karen Craig, a native speaker, mother at the school and warm-welcoming spirit, will be joining Georgina Morris, our innovative and hard working staff member, as our native speaker librarians.
With this industrious team we will be able to have the library open for more hours per week, process books more quickly; and in general keep our Quentin Blake English Library, the heart of the school, vibrant and beating strong.

Farewell

to our fantastic librarian Claudia Trepte, who is moving to Bavaria this summer.
After four years of enthusiastic work for Quentin Blake Library we'll try to remember her by with a rose planted in her honour out in Quentin Blake's Garden near the student entrance.
Good luck down south, Claudia - and thank you for everything!!!
Hope to see you soon for a visit ...




 

"Peter Pan", this year's musical production was on stage June 25 and 26. What a wonderful performance by students, teachers and parents! The Förderverein supported the project by paying for GEMA-fees and other expenditures.


 
     


On June 23 2011 by-elections to the board were held by the General Meeting:



                     Martin Selow (Chairperson / Vorsitzender), Franz Pfeifer (Treasurer / Schatzmeister), Kathrin Finke, Heidi Klotz, Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann (Board Members / Beisitzerinnen)


On May 24 2011 a new Board was elected by the General Meeting:




Martin Selow, Kathrin Finke, Heidi Klotz, Madeline Hoyt, Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann

Das Protokoll der Mitgliederversammlung finden Sie hier /
Read the Minutes of the General Assembly here




Farewell to 2010-11 Board 
Gabriele Heinichen (Chairperson/Vorsitzende), Winnie Küfner (Secretary/Schriftführerin) and Anna Zühlke (Treasurer/Schatzmeisterin)

"We achieved a great deal this year with our motto "Transparency and Open Communications". We are proud to have introduced and established new practices, from our Funding Procedure,  Newsletter,  Website, extra winter AGs, cleaning action to participating/supporting/running of many school events.  Thank you for giving us the opportunity to work for the members of the Förderverein and the school community.  We strongly urge you to become a member of the Förderverein, if you are not already a member.  ''Your membership fees help the QBES to be an exceptional all-day school''.  With your unequivocal support, the Förderverein will continue to serve our school community more effectively."




                                    16.  May 2011
                                           
Sir Quentin Blake visit to the school



                                   


                                   07.March 2011
                                        
Green School Carnival 13:00-16:00 (tickets available at office)


                                

                                    22. January 2011
   
                                        Alumni Party (17:00 - 20:00, School Gym)
                                           For classes of 2009-10 and classes of 2010-2011


                                 
                                    03. December 2010
                                          
Hip Hop class

                                       

                                
27. November 2010
                                       
Winter Fair

 
                                  

                                    25. November 2010
                                           First Ballet AG lesson

                                                  

                                    18. November 2010
                                           General Meeting/
Mitgliederversammlung

                                           Information & Agenda
                                           English version / German version


                                    29. October 2010
                                            Halloween

                                    26. October 2010
                                         
  Board meeting/Vorstandssitzung
                                            English Native Speaking Staff meeting



                                     06. October 2010

                                         
  Open House 5:30 - 7:30pm 

  
                             

                             
                                 1. October 2010
                                     
Fun Run


                                27. September 2010
                                       Board meeting/Vorstandssitzung
                                       Smart Board Demonstration (16:00, Room 111)



     
                             13. September 2010
                                        
Promotional Sale on School Attires



                                  

                                    

    
                                25. August 2010
                                          
Board meeting/Vorstandssitzung


                                    
                                     30. June 2010
                                          
Parents information evening for new first graders
                                           Elternabend für die kommende Einschulung     

                
 
   
        
                                     24. June 2010
                                        
   Yearbook goes on sale! 9 Euro each



                                      23. June 2010
                                          
General Meeting (Info/Agenda)/Mitgliederversammlung
                                           Canteen, 08:00(am)/Kantine, 08:00 Uhr (morgens)
                                          
Board meeting/Vorstandssitzung



                                   
                                    
27. May 2010
                                       
   Board meeting/Vorstandssitzung
                                           Staff meeting/Mitarbeiterversammlung



                                      07. May 2010

                                      
     QBSR Clean up/Reinigungsaktion
                                           Joint venture of the GEV & Förderverein




                
                                    24. April 2010 
                                          Jumble Sale/Flohmarkt



                                                         

                                   19. April 2010  
        
                                         Official handover from the 2009 Board
                                         First meeting of the 2010 Board




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                          Besucherzähler