Language Olympics Update
Our congratulations to Jacob and Shelin in Year 9 on making the national finals in English in the language olympics. They travelled to Malmö and scored an impressive second place!
News
Taking the challenge for innovation
Recently, all of Year 5 participated and presented their ideas in the Innovation Challenge at Chalmers. A special mention for Leah, Luciana, Lara, and Nandana who won 5000 kr for the Year 5 class account with their app idea.
Cheerleading Achievement
Congratulations to Hana in Year 7 who has excelled with her cheerleading team and recently placed third in the district competition!
Language olympics
Big congratulations to Ellie Year 9 and Elisabeth Year 8 who have come in the top 10 for English as a mother tongue and will now compete in the regional finals. Congratulations to Jacob and Shelin in Year 9 who came in the top 10 in the language Olympics in English and will also now compete in regional finals.
Singing prodigy
Congratulations to Kelly in Year 3 who against big competition has auditioned for and been selected to Göteborgsoperans Barn och Ungdomskör. Kelly has since performed in a production of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Solving future problems through technology
Year 8 competed in the nationwide competition TänkTech at Universeum. They were given future scenarios where they had to identify problems and create a product to solve the problem using speculative design. They developed a model using computer aided design and created a pitch film to support their model. Eight groups from ESG became finalists and were rewarded with day passes for Universeum!
A grain-y outing
Year 6 got to have a practical lesson at Botaniska trädgården, in their facility called “Lilla Spannmålsverkstan”. They made their own flour from grains and baked bread and made straw figures. They even got to eat the bread!
Instrument-making workshop
Year 3 recently had an organ making workshop. The visiting teacher did two sessions, one for each classroom. The children worked in groups to put together different parts of the organ, then they all worked together to put the whole mini organ together and afterwards they each got a chance to play it as well. The classes had a great time!
Good News
We always like to celebrate our students’ interesting achievements, even when it is activities they’ve taken part in outside school. This month, our congratulations to Alma Year 9 who is a member of the national water polo team who won bronze in Stockholm in November. Also, congratulations to Advait Year 7 who has represented Sweden in Malayalam poetry recitation recently.
Paragliding Record Breaker
A big congratulations on a remarkable feat performed by the father and son team of Ellis in Year 6 and his dad Gillis. Earlier in the year, they set a new Swedish tandem paragliding record* starting from Falköping, they flew an incredible 30,8 kilometres. We think this record will take some beating!
*Category “Tandem XC Sverige. Deklarerad distans till ett mål.”