 | What’s been going on at FSG in 2001/2002? – First term |
| This web page informs you of events at FSG in the first semester of the current school year. For the most recent entry, click here. This will also lead you to our quarterly publication Letter to Parents. To proceed to the second semester, click here. Unless stated otherwise, all links lead to web pages in German. | |
| Our school year... |
For all these reasons, the »real« beginning of the school year was generally felt to coincide with the introduction of the »little ’uns« – our new fifth-graders – on Wednesday, August 22. The event was organized by Herr Graas, our new Orientation-Level Coordinator responsible for 5th and 6th grades, in co-operation with numerous other teachers and pupils from 6th grade onwards. Take a look at the programme for that special day! |
| This year’s 13th-form field trips... | … were scheduled for the period between September 7 and 15 and took students to
Click here to find the study agendas prepared for and by the students. |
| September 11, 2001 |
Jasper Johns, Three Flags (1958; Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York) |
| The »Festival of Languages« |
Parents, pupils, other guests and teachers were invited to take part in »mini language courses«, to taste delicious ethnic food, to watch foreign-language theatrical presentations, to listen to live music and to enjoy many more activities. The many-faceted programme lasted from noon to 6 p.m. Part of the programme was the publication of a magazine with articles by FSG pupils, parents, alumni and teachers. The articles give an idea of how the ability to speak foreign languages can change people’s lives. |
| September 26: The »European Day of Languages« |  Six FSG girls, mostly of our 11th and 12th grades, were accompanied by Herr Suckrau to spend a day in Muenster. The girls had been invited to participate in the »Day of Special Events« organized by »Terber & Partner«, a firm specializing in international translations. |
| Foreign student exchange at FSG |
In her new advisory capacity, Ms Thomale will cover these aspects:
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| »Union of German University Chairpersons« informs on courses |
The »Union of German University Chairpersons« has just published their University Compass on the internet. The URLs are |
| Murat Uyman dead | Teachers, parents and students at FSG are deeply shocked by the sad news that on Wednesday, October 24, 2001, Murat Uyman, alumnus of 1997, succumbed to the severe injuries he had incurred in a motorcycle accident the previous Monday. More than four years after his graduation, Murat Uyman was still present to most FSG teachers and to many students and parents as well: Many of us saw him working in his family’s travel agency right across from Luenen’s public baths, and often he waved to us as we walked by the premises, or even came out to exchange a quick word or two. All FSG teachers, parents and pupils who knew Murat will not fail to remember him as the friendly and optimistic person that he was. |
| New board of directors for »FSG Friends’ and Sponsors’ Club« |
The new board members can all be reached via e-mail. |
| Table tennis vice championship goes to FSG |
In the quarter finals the boys had managed to beat both City Gymnasium Bergkamen II and Kamen Comprehensive School 8:1 each. In the semi finals, the FSG team prevailed over Marie Curie Gymnasium, Boenen, at a score of 7:2. However, in the finals the FSG team succumbed 5:4 to City Gymnasium Bergkamen I. »Considering that last year the Bergkamen school participated in the federal finals, the FSG team’s achievement cannot be overestimated,« Herr Schröder points out. |
| Former pupils’ soccer team wrests »Generations’ Cup« from teachers | On November 9, more than 7 enthused spectators watched the fascinating game in which the former pupils’ team took the trophy they had had to yield the year before. Read the inspired report by former pupil Martin Israel and admire the vivid photographs! |
| Parents’ and teachers’ consultation day | In the ecclesiastical year, November 21 is the Day of Penance and Prayer for Germany’s Protestants. Surely, it was a mere coincidence that in this scholastic year the first consultation day for parents and teachers was scheduled for Wednesday, November 21. As has been the tradition for nearly twenty years, the school seizes the opportunity to let parents know what has been going on in the previous months and weeks. Read the first Letter to Parents of this year. Like all of the previous 70-plus editions, the Letter was edited and printed by Herr Gehrmann. |
| FSG pupils successful at DELF exams | The exam results for (DELF), the »Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française«, show it: FSG pupils do well in the exams for foreign language certificates. Under the tutelage of French teacher Ms Thamm, 23 pupils were awarded certificates of proficiency in French at three levels:
Congratulations are due to the boys and girls who excelled in the exams as well as to Sarah Gemicioglu, who is the first FSG pupil to pass a DELF exam at level A4. As a consequence, Sarah was given a First-Degree DELF Diploma of Proficiency. New DELF exams are coming up in January 2002. Already, 35 (!) boys and girls have signed up. Interestingly, there is also an application for a DELF exam at level A5 – for the first time in the history of DELF at FSG. If the applicant passes the exam, a Second-Degree DELF Diploma of Proficiency will be handed over to the lucky candidate. |
| FSG hosts visitors from Institution Jeanne d’Arc, Etampes | Can’t be true, can it? Seems like our French colleagues and their pupils said good-bye to us only last week, but a year has passed since their last visit to Lünen, and here another group has arrived from Etampes to take part in our school life and to catch a glimpse of German family life. The FSG French department under the guidance of Ms Haverkamp and Ms Thamm prepared the programme for the stay. |
| Fantastic turnout at Christmas Alumni Volleyball Tournament | The oldest participants are closing in on fifty, the youngest are barely twenty years old: The annual »WWT«, our Christmas Volleyball Tournament for FSG graduates, definitely spans the generations. This year, it was held on Saturday, December 1. A good time was had by all, as you can see in the many photographs illustrating Herr Stemmerich’s lively, albeit tongue-in-cheek report.
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| FSG’s final exam candidates can now calculate likely exam success themselves | A neat little »Microsoft Excel« application now enables FSG students in their final year to calculate the grade average they will probably achieve in their final exams. The algorithm was programmed by Michael Müller, student of our 13th grade. The application, which works on Macintoshes and on Windows computers alike, can be downloaded here. Knowing the grade average of one’s Abitur diploma is both complicated and important: Until Michael wrote the application, students either had to use very intricate formulae to compute their grade average themselves, or they had to wait for the official results to be handed out by their counsellors. Only with their exact grade average figure were students then able to evaluate their chances at being allowed to study one of the more sought-after academic subjects. Those studies – like medicine or architecture – are open only to Gymnasium graduates with a certain – usually rather high – grade average. |
| »New Zealand, here I come!« | It’s only another four weeks before Romy Siegert From December 6 to 12, Romy stayed at the YfU Student Training Centre in Nienwohld, near Hamburg, to learn as much as possible about making a success of one’s exchange year. Read Romy’s lively report. |
| »Lünen, here I come!« |
Hardly a year has passed since 1991 that Beth didn’t come to Lünen to visit friends and to stay with her host family, Mr and Mrs Volkmer. It was great to see you again, Beth! |
| How on earth did the elephant get on the bag? |
Janine (in the foreground), Henriette and Friederike are presenting the first results of their work in the new Fashion Club. |
| Report about field trip to Poland now in the World Wide Web | The reports and the pictures of the field trip to Krzyzowa (Poland) have just been uploaded to the FSG website. Marius Hempel, a student of our 13th grade and participant of the field trip to Poland, was responsible for the layout of the Poland pages.
The last photograph: After a speedy trip of a mere ten hours or so, students unload their suitcases from the bus’s luggage hold. Next stop: home! |
| Fuegen 2002 | Every year, all ninth-grade forms spend ten days at the Austrian skiing resort of Fuegen in order to be introduced to the tricks of »white magic«. This year, the first group – comprising forms 9a and 9c – departed from Luenen on January 7 and returned on January 16.
Look at the 22 pictures spread out over five web pages. Each page is about 1 MB in size. |
| New: »Current events« page now available in French |  Dominik Wied, pupil of our tenth grade, has taken up the post as editor of the new French-language pages in the FSG school website. His first job right after the Christmas holidays was to translate the »Current affairs« page you are reading now. Why don’t you look up the new page! |
| Letters to Parents | Our Letters to Parents of the present scholastic year:
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| Back to the beginning of the scholastic year | |
| Proceed to the second semester | |
| German-language version |
... began formally on Monday, August 20, with a long staff meeting, with move-up re-examinations of under-achieving pupils that had to stay down at the end of the last school year, and, of course, with form masters’ lessons dedicated to the red tape inherent in the beginning of a new school year.
The terrorist attacks in the USA left their mark on FSG pupils, parents, 
To conclude the »European Year of Languages« at FSG, the school celebrated a »Festival of Languages« on Friday, September 21.
From Friday, October 5, 2001, onwards, Ms Kirsten Thomale, English and German teacher at FSG, will advise students, parents and fellow teachers on matters related to foreign exchange programmes for students and recent alumni alike. Ms Thomale carries on the work done by Herr Weinhold since 1980.
FSG students of grades 11to 13 may now check courses and universities at their ease and free of charge.
On October 25, the members of the »FSG Friends’ and Sponsors’ Club« held their annual meeting. At the top of the agenda was the election of a new board of directors, since the old board, after many years of dedicated service to both club and school, had declined to stand for re-election.
The FSG table tennis team won second place in Unna County’s table tennis championship held at »Römerberg Arena« in Oberaden on November 6. Under the tutelage of Herr Carsten Schröder, student teacher at FSG, Stefan Gresch (form 7c), Timo Butzke (form 7d), Christopher Peters (form 7d), Oscar Pakos (form 7d), Tobias Otto (form 7d), Sven Schützner (form 7d) and Sebastian Drews (form 6c) proved unstoppable right until the finals. 12th-grade student Sarah Gemicioglu co-coached at the event.
of Form 10b will be »leaving on a jet plane« to fly to New Zealand, where she is to spend a year as a »Youth for Understanding« exchange student.
Beth 
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