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SPORT EVENTS
BASKETBALLNS!
COMPETITIO
sports in
the most important
Basketball is one of
at the
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uld like to tell yo th
our school and we wo
boys
A
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ments have starte
championship tourna
on
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ok place in our sc
basketball match to
. We played against
the 20th of February
score
d beat them with a
Anafartalar Lisesi an
m
tea
e girls basketball
of 73 to 43. Also th
23rd
in our school on the
played against TMK
ng
gi
en
h was very chall
of February.The matc
a
th
wi
st
their best but lo
and our team played
score of 58 to 62.
(Year 9)
Aylar Gimadiyeva
www.gau-americancollege.k12.tr
March 2012
ISSUE 1
Be a winner! Choose the
Message from our Senior
Leadership Team!
n On Febru
ary 26th an
d on March
ou girls’ ba
9th,
ske
Near East C tball team played with
ollege and
English Sch
of Kyrenia
ool
respectively
. Our team
the first ma
lo
st
tch, but the
second matc
finished wit
h
h a score of
91 to 7 to u
We congratu
s!
late our gir
ls’ basketba
team and h
ll
ope that the
y keep up
their good w
ork!
n Our stud
ents Utku Ö
cal and
Emre Çetin
aslan have
selected for
been
the nationa
l basketball
team. We a
lso congratu
late our
students for
their success
!!!
DID YOU KNOW THESE….?
breath.
n You can’t kill yourself by holding your
n You blink 15,000 times a day.
n Coca-cola was originally green.
n Butterflies taste with their feet.
will increase
n Wearing headphones for just and hour
the bacteria in your ear by 700 %.
tongue.
n Giraffes can clear their ears with their
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College Newsletter
name for our newspaper. Your idea
should be e-mailed to the newspaper
committee by 01/04/2012.
(e-mail address: duriyecelik@gau-ame
ricancollege.k12.tr)
Hello and welcome to the first edition of our
whole-school newsletter! We are very pleased to be
undertaking this brave new venture and we hope
that you find the contents interesting and
informative. Congratulations to Düriye and her
hard-working team for their fantastic efforts in
making sure that we hit our deadline for
publication.
Many thanks,
Aysu Balkanlar (Principal-College)
Peter Shaw (Principal-International Middle
School)
Nagehan Diner (Principal-Elementary School)
Editorial Board Message!
Hello everyone! We as an editorial board came up with the idea of creating a school Newsletter.
We aim to publish monthly with your future contributions being most welcome..
We are going to inform you about the activities, academic events and sport competitions which are held in our school
and our teachers and students will also contribute to this task with their written work and ideas. In order to best represent
our student population, our newsletter committee consists of students from all years. We also need more students that will
assist in editing. If you want to be a member of our committee, you can apply to Miss Düriye or Tulip Dedekorkut (year
9).We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and trust this may be the beginning of many more exciting issues to come!
Editors: Düriye Çelik (School Psychologist), Tulip Dedekorkut (year 9), Thomas Holloway (year 9), Aylar Gimadiyeva
(year 9), Çinare Mametli (year 8), Derviş Mustafa (year 7), Eda Vechi (year 6), Shannon Melis Basar (year 12).
Photographers: Ayşe Hacımehmet (year 12), Barlas Şahinoğlu (year 11), Social & Cultural Activities: School
Captains (Faika Kuşappi, Ayşe Sertsoylu, Utku Bıçakçı, Esra Enver, Hamide Özdoğdu) Computer systems managers:
Sermin Mayın, Mert Mertkaya (IT department). Academic Events: A Level—AS Level Students.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
PEER MEN
to the
March, College students went
n On 24th February and 1st
have
ts
chers. Some of our studen
film ‘Fetih 1453’ with their tea
ter.
the film for our newslet
written their comments about
our
ntoring Study Program’ with
n We have started a ‘Peer Me
t
por
l of the program is to sup
12 A Level students! The goa
el
help in our school. 12 A Lev
students who need academic
their
in
p
the students who need hel
students will be mentors for
ly
app
can
t of this program, you
lessons. If you want to be a par
Y
(HO
chologist), Şehnaz Nadiri
to Düriye Çelik (School Psy
12) and Rana Çetin (HOY 9).
n updated!!! You can be
n Our school website has bee
, activities, academic programs
informed about the new events
g
American college by clickin
and everything about GAU The
k12.tr
on www.gau-americancollege.
was held on
in World Maths Day which
n Our school has taken part
r 200
ove
5.5 million students from
March 7th 2012. It involves
pated in this
tici
par
all of our students who
countries. Congratulations to
competition!..
8th every
y (IWD) is marked on March
n International Women’s Da
ic, political
nom
men and hope that the eco
year. We celebrate for all wo
r the world!
ove
all
tus of women improves
and social empowerment/sta
NEED ACA
TORING
DEMIC HE
LP?
Joseph?
are you late,
Teacher: Why
n the road.
w
do
se of a sign
au
ec
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ith your
:
ph
se
Jo
have to do w
t does a sign
Teacher: Wha
?
being late
ad, Go Slow!”
, “School Ahe
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si
he
Joseph: T
Why choose Geography...
le world.
Because it’s the best subject in the who
SOCIAL&
CULTURAL
ACTIVITIES
A Day of Teamwork
On 28th February, KKTC Özel Eğitim Vakfı
(ÖZEV) from Nicosia came to GAU and had a
game of football and basketball against some of
the year 6 students. In the 80 minute game of
football and basketball, the year 6 students
were defeated by them. It was obvious that
both teams were having fun and eager to win.
After the long match finished, both teams were
tired, but still in a good mood. Before the
match, both schools got their photographs
taken with their teachers. Also, the winning
team had a small celebration with juices and biscuits, snacks…
ACADEMIC BOARD
etc. The Nicosia school was well-trained and most
importantly, they had a fair game and had
TEAMWORK, which was the whole point of the
game. The football game was played with 5-6 people,
and the year 6 boys mostly played this game. After
that, the basketball game was played with 5 people
again, but the year 6 girls played the first half and the
boys played the second half.
The winning team left the sports-hall in a victorious
and good mood. This match was not about
competition, it was about TEAMWORK and fair-play.
Eda Vechi (year 6G)
Fetih 1453 Review
Fetih 1453 tarihteki en önemli fethi mükemmel bir şekilde izleyicilere aktarabilen bir film. Filmin efektleri ve oyuncuların göstermiş olduğu performans filmi izlenmeye değer kılan unsurlardandır. Fetih 1453 İstanbul’un fethedilişini konu almakla birlikte bize tarihimizde yapılan kahramanlıkları hatırlatmış oldu. Zevkle izlenilebilecek bir film olması dışında aynı zamanda da eğitsel bir yönü olması filme artı bir puan daha kazandırmıştır.Kısacası bu film
tarihi ve kahramanlıkları seyirciyi sıkmadan anlatabilen, seyircilerin aklında kalıcı olabilecek niteliklere sahiptir.
Şerife Hikmet (year 9)
, the
Don’t just take my word for it, Michael Palin
enter, very
famous comedian, actor and television pres
d in 80
well known for the series “Around the worl
h holds the
Days” says “Geography is the subject whic
key to our planet”.
rstanding
In IGCSE we develop a knowledge and unde
te the
of what’s going on in the world. We investiga
ronment. For
earth and its people and the physical envi
hurricanes,
example we study earthquakes, volcanoes,
these
rivers and coasts; we also study the impact
stigate the
inve
We
le.
peop
on
have
rds
haza
disasters and
to the
ways in which people adapt and respond
activity and
omic
econ
like
s
topic
gh
throu
environment
urban
energy, ecosystems, rural environments and
environments.
or whatever
Whatever you want to study in the future
Geographers
career you want, geography prepares you!
loyable.
with their skills of analysis are highly emp
y and hear
So, log on to youtube; why choose geograph
to say!
for yourself what students just like you have
Enjoy.
Linda McGowan / Geography Teacher
Yurt Sevgisi
Yurt sevgisinin geliştiği, vatanına
bağlı bireylerin arttığı ülkelerin yıkılması mümkün değildir. Çok çalışmak,
başarılı olmak, kurallara uymak,
aydın olmak, kültürlü olmak, medeni
olmak gibi unsurlar bizim hedefimiz
olan gelişmiş ülkeler seviyesine ulaşmamızı sağlar. Başarmak için çok
çalıştığımız zaman bize yardım eden
ve destek olan ülke sayısı artacaktır.
Geleceğimizin aydınlık olması için
karamsar olmadan çok çalışmalıyız.
Vatanına bağlı, yurdunu seven insan
yetiştirmek için küçük yaştan başlayarak okullarda yurt sevgisi dersleri
arttırılmalıdır. Birlik, beraberlik,
huzur, başarı, kendine güven ve geleceğe umutla bakan gençler olmamız
için gerekli çalışmalar hızlandırılmalıdır.
Yurdumuzun ileri seviyeye yük-
Sinem ALDAĞ (Maths Teacher)
In 2004, I graduated with Applied
Mathematics and computer from EMU.
After graduating, I decided to stay at EMU
and I started my M.Ed. While I was
studying for my M.Ed, I also worked in the
mathematics department as a Teacher
assisstant. When my M.Ed was completed,
I started work in the Engineering
d
department at CIU as a Mathematics teacher. I worke
e
privat
ent
differ
in
d
worke
have
I
years.
2
there for
educational sectors and have done temprorary substitute
I
teaching at government schools until now. And this year
the
of
part
a
be
to
happy
so
am
I
started to work at GAC.
GAC family. I hope I will work here for many years.
Dylan Djavit (French Teacher-Elementary School)
Bonjour !
My name is Dylan Djavit and I am
proud to be a French teacher at
G.A.U’s Elementary section.
My mother is French and I was born in
a beautiful town in the centre of
France.
As my father is from Cyprus, I regularly came here as
a child with my parents during summer holidays and
now I 'll be able to enjoy Cyprus all year long !
I graduated in English, Mandarin Chinese and
International Management during my studies in
France and then specialized in teaching for 5 years in
China and 3 years in France. I love reading, meeting
people from different cultures and learning foreign
languages. I hope I will see you soon !
A bientot !
selmesi için biz gençler cesaretimizi
arttırmalı, aldığımız eğitim ve kültür
ile vatan sevgisinin en kıymetli temsilcileri olmalıyız. Mustafa Kemal’in
söylediği gibi ‘İstikbal gençlerindir’
sözü unutulmamalıdır. Cumhuriyeti
yükseltecek ve devam ettirecek bizleriz. Genç nesil olarak geleceğimizin
daha iyi olması kendi elimizdedir. El
ele vererek sonsuza dek yurdumuzun
yaşamasını ve çağdaş uygarlık seviyesinin üstüne çıkarılmasını sağlamak azmi ve inancı içinde özveriyle
çalışmalıyız.
Vatanımızda bölünmeden, huzurlu,
mutlu ve gelecekten emin olarak
yaşamamız için geçmişten dersler
çıkararak birlik ve beraberlik içinde
daha çok çalışmalı ve yurdumuzu
daha çok sevmeliyiz.
Gaye Tozlu (12 ÖSS)
Arkadaşlık
sırBir insanın arkadaşı olunca ona n
onu
r,
bili
uşa
kon
r,
bili
ata
larını anl
yanında rahat olur ve şakalaşır.
n,
Benim için arkadaşlık; heyeca
degi
sev
ve
m
laşı
mutluluk, pay
dürüst,
mektir. Benim arkadaşlarım
ek
dem
sadık ve arkadaşlığın ne
göre
na
Ba
dir.
iler
olduğunu bilen kiş
ve
ldir
öze
çok
ım
şlar
benim arkada
ik
iyil
r
bire
de
için
nin
biri
sanki her
z
ımı
şlar
meleği vardır. Arkada
ü
bizim iyiliğimizi isterler ve köt
.
rlar
olu
zda
ımı
yan
a
anlarımızd
Arkadaşlık, hayatı iyisiyle
aktır.
üsü
köt yle birileriyle paylaşm
ir,
likt
deş
kar
;
şlık
Kısacası, arkada
tur…
tluk
dos
Mine Aşçı (Year 6A)