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Goethe-Insitut and AGTV Primary Zoo Day 2008 - for a roaring day of fun, the Goethe-Institut and the AGTV invite all primary students Years 3 to 6 and their teachers to the Melbourne Zoo on May 22. We will see the animals, play games and dance with Schnappi at the Animal Carnival! Special prizes will be awarded for the best animal masks, which you can prepare at school before the day.
Your registration includes an Information Pack with fun Classroom Learning Activities, Games, Zoo-Rally, Teacher Information and Certificates for all students. Students will have to bring their own lunch. Registration is absolutely essential, by April 18, to enable us to plan the day and to provide you with the Information Pack for the Zoo-Day! DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE.
Resources for the Zoo Day Out
Bei mir - bei dir: Our place (Intercultural Learning through Photos) - What is considered completely normal on one side of the planet might be totally fremd on the other.
Students in Victoria take pictures of their lives. They show a unique world of local customs and every day life. Students share their photo stories via the Internet with their partner schools in Germany.
Students in a Germany learn about the Australian way of life. The German students reply with a photographic answer to one of the photos they receive from Australia. Using the Internet they share their answers with their Australian partners.
The focus on bei mir and bei dir facilitates the students' exploration of similarities and differences within and across cultures through sharing photos and individual stories. This promotes reflection about diversity throughout the world in which we all live - Our Place.
At the end of the project German teachers at Australian schools submit their best pairs of photos to the Goethe-Institut in Melbourne. A selection of these will be shown at an exhibition in Melbourne during Term 3, 2008 and may later be exhibited throughout schools in Victoria and Germany. For more details, CLICK HERE
2008 AGTV 15th Annual Years 5 to 9 Statewide Poetry Competition – as from 2008, the competition will be for students from member schools only. To date, almost every school participating is a member. (It means that these schools are accessing SZENE as well – an important resource for teachers in Australia).
CLICK HERE to download the selected poems for this year's competition.
CLICK HERE to download the compulsory poems for the 2008 State final.
For the REVISED JUDGING CRITERIA, to be used in 2008 CLICK HERE.
A reminder that students must compete in a Regional Final to gain access to the State Final, and only first and second placegetters at a Regional Final are eligible to enter the State Final, with only the third place getter as an emergency if either of the first or second placegetter cannot attend.
PLEASE NOTE: Each year we have questions about the use of gestures with the poems. The AGTV criteria emphasise delivery i.e. effective use of voice and phrasing. Gestures should only be used if they appear natural (not exaggerated) as would be appropriate for a recitation to an audience fluent in German.
For a report on the 2007 competition, follow this link to Germanlinx:
http://www.germanlinx.vic.edu.au/students/studentnews/index.htm
For a report on the 2003 10th Anniversary competition CLICK
HERE. To read what students wrote about being involved in the competition CLICK HERE.
BJR Student Exchange Program (see Scholarships and Exchanges)
Photo Competition - Traces of German in your Local Community
The photo competition was open to students from AGTV member schools and there was also a category for 'grown-ups' with an AGTV Individual membership. There were great prizes to be won. We received lots of entries to show how the influence of German can be found all around Victoria.
To view the winning photos CLICK HERE.
Student Programs in Networks eg Fasching-Umzug, Oral exam training for VCE students, Primary School days, Partner-school programs
Germanlinx website for students and teachers
In partnership with others the AGTV supports a range of other projects including:
"Learn German for the
Future" Student Day 25 July 2008 - The German Day Out!
Time: 10am – 2.30pm
Venues: National Gallery of Victoria (International) & Federation Square, Melbourne
Morning Program at the NGV, Years 8-10: Learn German for the Future! Join us in the morning for the German Forum in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. The speakers and presentations will focus on the many advantages learning German can bring in school in the future. Places are limited, so register early!
Lunchtime Program at Federation Square, Years 8-12: Savour a Bratwurst & Brezel (orders taken prior to day). Visit the Marquees. Play a game of Tipp Kick. SBS will host the program on the main stage from 11.45am to 1.30pm, including a Quiz and News Reading competition. The Goethe-Institut / AGTV Year 10 Award will be presented and screenings of award-winning German films from last year’s German School Film Festival will be shown on the Big Screen.
Afternoon Program: Teachers can select a language trail to available to download: e.g. Ian Potter Gallery, Migration Bridge and/or a new Trail for Federation Square (under development) - follow this LINK. Teachers of 15+ students can organise attendance at the German film screening at ACMI at 1.00pm as part of the Melbourne International Next Gen Film Festival. Information: www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au
German information packs & sun visors are provided with each school registration.
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE JULY 20 - download the registration form from the Goethe-Institut website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/au/lp/lhr/aus/fia_vic/en3311098v.htm
This event was held in the Melbourne Town Hall in 2005 and 2006. For a comprehensive report of the 2005 forum, visit Germanlinx: http://www.germanlinx.vic.edu.au/students/studentnews/yr10dy/yr10dy05/index.htm.
SAGSE Scholarship to Germany for a Year 11 or 12 student (see Scholarships and Exchanges) - looking for an exciting hosting opportunity, in which both family and student are enriched by their tearing down of cultural boundaries? Well, the Society for Australian-German Student Exchange may have just the chance for you. Visit their website for further information (http://www.sagse.org.au)
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