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by Julita Kowalów, Karolina Krukowska, Magdalena Mańkowska, Katarzyna Sielaczek (LOG)

Sport is one of the most famous way of spending free time in our school. It’s very important for young people’s health and mental condition.

Our students take part in many competitions and they attend many extra ordinary lessons after school. They devote their time for improving their sport skills. Also our teachers commit themselves to training pupils.

We have 3 school representations: volleyball team, football team and basketball team. They achieve many successes in regional competitions. Our biggest achievement is the fact that we have been champions in our region for 7 years in volleyball and basketball as well.

We are proud of our sportsmen and we wish them more and more success.

by Niklas (BvA)

You could discuss this topic for days and days. For the majority of the boys, being a dancer is boring, stupid or not masculine. The majority of the girls has got a different opinion. If a boy can dance, he is very grown-up, masculine and interesting in the eyes of most girls.

I’m a ballroom and hip hop dancer for more than two years now. I started when I was 15 with a standard course. I had never heard of “Quickstep” or “Rumba” before. But I’ve quickly started loving it. Not just because of the nice girls who where in my group . Dancing is a real sport. People who have never danced before would think it isn’t, but it really is. You can compare 90 minutes of dancing with half an hour of running. Hip hop is even harder than ballroom dancing. After one hour of hip hop training, you’re totally exhausted.

The good thing is not only the dancing itself, it’s the feeling of doing something different. If you ask around, you’ll hear “Oh, I play football” or ”I’m into basketball” or whatever. Dancing is still something special nowadays.

You also get to know many things, you’ll need in job interviews or on occasions like that. Part of the standard course is a behaviour training and “Dining-Seminar” where you learn, how to behave when you’re dining out and how to avoid all the traps that reveal “bad manners”. Another point is that you learn to control your body and get a better feeling for it. On top of that people say dancing improves your ability to concentrate and your memory.

All in all you can say, dancing is a sport for everyone who loves being active in a modern and fancy way. Especially for young people. So, don’t be a fool and say “Being a dancer is boring!” Get up, go to your local dancing school and take a look. You’ll love it!

- Do video games encourage violence? -

by Ailish, Frauke und Oliver (BvA)

Many experts are discussing if video games make young people aggressive. Some of them say that video games should be prohibited for adolescents.

In our opinion video games aren’t the worst thing leading to an aggressive youth; in fact, those who play them need special skills when it comes to reaction, logic and agility. Multiplayer games also encourage teamwork.

Most TV shows for children encourage violence even more than video games. If small children at about 6 years of age already watch cartoon characters killing each other in a bloody bout and see them laugh at it, to us that is a lot more violence-encouraging than adolescents’ playing e.g. ‘’Counterstrike’’ – that is just the next step on what has started in their childhood.

Video games can be violence encouraging, too. But those youngsters who really became a danger for the people around them were mentally ill before they started playing those games.

So, to us it’s clear that most video games aren’t as bad as it is always said after one of those killing frenzies. It depends on who is playing them and it’s impossible to judge all adolescents by some exceptions.

by  Jessica and Denise   (BvA)

Shopping in England is just great. For example “Primark”. Primark is a big shop for clothes, jewellery and so on. In Germany we just have two shops of that chain; they are in Frankfurt and Bremen.

But in Germany we’ve got a lot of H&M shops. That’s our Primark. But it’s more expensive than Primark & the quality isn’t as good.

We think that Primark is a nice shop and we spent a lot of time in it when we were in Birmingham.

In England they also have some H&M shops but not so many as Primark.

It was a new experience to see a shop in England because they’re different from ours in Germany.

Von Charlotte Dwyer and Ellie Smith (LHS)

In unserer Schule treiben wir jeden Tag Sport, weil wir der Meinung sind, Sport wichtig ist . Montags spielen wir Fussball, Dienstags spielen wir Netzball und Federball, Mittwochs spielen wir Kricket, Donnerstags spielen wir Hockey und machen Gymnastik und Freitags spielen wir Basketball und Rugby. Wir finden Sport spannend und spassig! Es ist gut für unsere Gesundheit, und für Teamarbeit.
Die `Lady Hawkins’ School’ hat ein sehr gutes und erfolgreiches Netzballteam in der 10ten Klasse. Wir sind dreimal Meister in Herefordshire geworden und wir haben in unserer Region West Midlands gespielt.
Die Schule gibt Studenten eine Sportskrawatte wenn sie sehr gut in Sport sind. Auch werden Studenten Preise für sportliche Erfolge gegeben.

by Holly Williams (LHS)

In meiner Freizeit tanze ich gern. Ich mache Ballett, Jazz, Gesellschaftstanz und Lateinamerikanischen Tanz. Am Donnerstag mache ich Ballett, am Freitag mache ich Jazz und am Samstag mache ich Gesellschaftstanz und Lateinamerikanischen Tanz. Ich tanze auch am Dienstag in der Schule. Zum Ballett trage ich einen schwarzen Turnanzug , eine weissrosa Strumpfhose und rosa Ballettschuhe. Zum Jazz trage ich schwarze Hosen und ein T-Shirt. Dieses Jahr habe ich an einer Show teilgenommen, die ‘The Tales Of Beatrix Potter’  heisst. Es war gut und spannend! Ich mag tanzen, weil es Spass macht.

by Jessica Cotton (LHS)

Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanz, das mache ich jeden Tag. Ich gehe zum Ballett; das ist für mich toll! Ich habe Donnerstags und Freitags Tanzstunden, und am Dienstag in der Schule. Ich tanze mit meinen Freunden, weil sie auch gerne tanzen.
Ich mag tanzen, weil das entspannend und spassig ist. Ich tanze seit zwölf Jahren und ich will für immer tanzen!!
Letzte Woche habe ich neue Spitzenschuhe gekauft, ich war sehr aufgeregt, weil sie mein erstes Paar sind. Spitzenschuhe sind spezielle Schuhe für Ballett, wenn Tänzer Spitzentanz machen; Spitzentanz ist tanzen auf den Zehen. Ich habe einmal Spitzentanzen gemacht, und das war top!
Jedes Jahr machen wir mit der Tanzschule eine Show. Letztes Jahr haben wir in der Show “Beatrix Potter” getanzt, und das war sehr spannend . Ich habe mit den Choreografien geholfen, was für mich super war. Nächstes Jahr hoffe ich, dass ich  bei den Choreografien wieder helfen kann.