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German Hip Hop Puppet Show
We have the pleasure of hosting the following highly acclaimed show in the school hall on 21 August RUMPELSTILZCHEN GOES HIP HOP [ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS] 21 August (Saturday) | Auckland Takapuna Grammar School | $8 | For ages 6 - 66, under 5 yrs free 12.00 English Version 2.00 PM German version This internationally acclaimed production sees the famous German fairy tale of Rumpelstilzchen go Hip Hop! Musicisthelanguage has been touring this unique rapping/puppet/music show to the world and now it's in New Zealand.

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German Radio Project
Year 12 and 13 German students are presently involved in contributing to a German language programme on Wellington Access Radio 783 am organised by Musicisthelanguage, a company run by Werner Nowitzky, a previous national German adviser, with the support of the Goethe Institute, Wellington. The first programme goes to air at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday 3 July and the second one on Saturday 28 August. They will be discussing their tastes in music and introducing songs and musical items. 		 
 
 
   
German Partnership News 2010
(photo: Talya, Tim and Alex with international friends) Takapuna Grammar is privileged to belong to the Partner School Initiative run by Germany’s Goethe Institute. Our students and staff have greatly benefited from this. Three students of German - Talya Avram, Alex Revell and Tim Williams - have just spent 3 weeks as guests of the Goethe Institute in the beautiful south German city of Freiburg, with students from countries around the world, studying German language and culture and sharing one another’s cultures.
They stayed in the local Youth Hostel, attending classes at the Goethe Institute and going on outings in the afternoons to beautiful destinations such as the Titisee Lake in the Black Forest, the baths and casino town of Baden Baden and the Alsatian town of Colmar across the border in France. All 3 students found the generosity of the Goethe Institute amazing and were inspired by the chance to make international friendships.

Last September to December Mr Barrowman completed a 4-month on-line ICT course for Partner School German teachers in which he and a group of German teachers from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe did on-line presentations and shared comments and ideas.

In August this year Mrs Avram will do a German pedagogical course in Berlin, also courtesy of the Goethe Institute.
 
 
 
   
Talya, Tim and Alex preparing a haka for a party evening.
  
 
 
   
German Band Visit
On Thursday 26 February Takapuna Grammar hosted a performance by the Berlin band Die Kleingeldprinzessin und die Stadtpiraten (The Busker Princess and the City Pirates) led by the highly talented lead singer Dota Kehr. The Bossa Nova, Pocket Swing and Reggae style music of her poetic songs was enthusiastically received by a large group of German students from Takapuna Grammar and visitors from Lynfield College and Michael Park School. The concert was arranged under the auspices of the Goethe Institute and the German embassy. At the start of the concert Mr Christoph Anton, cultural attaché of the embassy, presented Mr Lamb with a plaque recognising Takapuna Grammar’s relationship in the partnership.

(photo:  Dota Kehr, the Busker Princess, leading her band.)