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VOLUME 08: 12 MARCH 2021
FEELINGS
The Dormice have been exploring feelings this week and have been using different mediums and
techniques to show how they are feeling. Anna liked Excited but they all decided that Happy was the
best feeling EVER!
PUZZLES ON A RAINY DAY! What else do you do on a cold and wet day? Have fun and build all the different puzzles in the classroom of course! The Bees were very excitied to welcome Giovanni to the class this week.
ECO HEROES
In Grade 5 the pupils have been creating their own Eco
Heroes. These creative and unique heroes are trying to
prevent climate change. Each Eco Hero has specific eco
powers and a weapons or tool that helps to protect the
environment.
Meet Angelica, she breathes in carbon dioxide and
breathes out oxygen. Her tool is called The Nature Cube,
which can plant trees within a 5km radius the moment you
flick on the switch.
Introducing Bunnatural! He
has a power called Nature
Jump. When he jumps and
lands, the area around him
grows and is rejuvenated. His
stomach is made of iron so he
can digest the world’s trash.
Enter Zoe the Cloud Washer,
a baby eco hero. She has a
rattle that cleans the air when
she shakes it. It sucks in
carbon dioxide and shakes
out oxygen. Her flying cloud
transports her around the
world so that she can
disperse seeds to grow trees
from her magical rattle.
Meet Airceandroid. This
complex eco hero has a
water glove and an air glove.
The air glove purifies the air
by sucking out pollution while
the water glove sucks
impurities out of the water
leaving it clean and pure.
Last but not least, meet
Peely! Peely the flying
banana man has a freeze
spray that is refreezing all
the ice bergs and glaciers that are melting around the world. He
makes sure that the polar bears have enough ice shelves to hunt
from.
Well done Grade 5s. You came up with some really creative yet incredibly useful Eco Heroes.
NUTRITIOUS AND DELICIOUS! Our Catering Department is always hard at work making sure that our children’s tummies are full with healthy, satisfying, colourful meals.
TIMETABLE CHALLENGE The Grade 4s have been hard at work memorising their times tables. Paired up, they challenged one another with different multiples with the aim of cementing their recall effectively. Having a sound grip of multiples and their factors, stands them in good stead when having to calculate effectively. We are so impressed with their enthusiasm! Keep it up, Grade 4s!
DIFFERENT MATERIALS The Grade 1s looked for items on the school grounds made out of 4 different materials. These materials were wood, glass, plastic and metal. They then drew these items in the various categories on their pages.
SPORTS NEWS
SH CHAMPIONSHIP GALAS
We were delighted to be able to host our Junior and Senior Championship Galas on Monday afternoon.
The weather wasn’t great, but although rather chilly, our swimmers gave of their best and it was
wonderful to see them compete again. The top three swimmers in each event won rosettes, and the
top swimmer in each age group who had accumulated the most points from their events won the age
group trophy.
Special congratulations to Rio-Trent Kelly who broke the Boys U/7 25m Breaststroke Record. The
record stood at 37.53 (Rijk van Galen 2019) and Rio swam 33.96, very well done! This is the only
record that was broken on the day. Congratulations to all our age group winners and to the Victor and
Victrix Ludorum winners:
• Junior Victrix Ludorum Nia O’Carroll
• Junior Victor Ludorum Jonathan Coolen
• Senior Victrix Ludorum Sarah Stenslunde
• Senior Victor Ludorum Lukas Ochsenbein
CHAMPIONSHIP GALA TROPHY WINNERS
MOST POINTS GIRLS U/7 MOST POINTS BOYS U/7
Lily Coleshaw Leo van Galen
MOST POINTS GIRLS U/8 MOST POINTS BOYS U/8
Hannah Sloan Harry Ryder
MOST POINTS GIRLS U/9 MOST POINTS BOYS U/9
Sophia Castleden Nicolas Coolen / Rijk van Galen
MOST POINTS GIRLS U/10 MOST POINTS BOYS U/10
Madison Power / Ava Schreuder Ben Hingeston
U/11 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: U/11 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY:
PENFAM TROPHY PENFAM TROPHY
Nia O’Carroll Jonathan Coolen
U/11 VICTRIX LUDORUM: U/11 VICTOR LUDORUM:
BAIRNSFATHER CLOETE TROPHY Jonathan Coolen
Nia O’Carroll
MOST POINTS GIRLS U/12 MOST POINTS BOYS U/12
Ava-Lorén van Galen Makai Mitchell
U/13 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: U/13 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY:
HOLLOWAY TROPHY RHODESIA TROPHY
Sarah Stenslunde Lukas Ochsenbein
U/13 VICTRIX LUDORUM: U/13 VICTOR LUDORUM:
Sarah Stenslunde Lukas Ochsenbein
PE & SPORT ASSESSMENTS
Our PE & Sport Assessments for the summer season have been completed. Three assessments were
carried out in PE, while various skills were assessed during sports sessions. The PE Assessments are
as follows:
• Bleep Test Fitness & Endurance
• Illinois Test Speed & Agility
• Quad Strength Muscle Strength
The same tests are performed twice a year, and pupils
receive a PE and Sports Report at the end of the 1st and
3rd terms. They are then able to monitor their progress
from year to year. Thank you to all our pupils for giving of
their best during these assessments.
KATE INVITED TO PARA-OLYMPIC SWIMMING
TRIALS
Congratulations to Kate Allwood who has qualified to
participate at the Para-Olympic Swimming Trials which
take place in Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) from 7 – 12th April
2021. Kate will be competing in the 50m & 100m
Breaststroke events in an attempt to qualify for the Para-
Olympic Games which take place in Tokyo, Japan,
between the 24th August and the 5th September 2021.
MOUNTAIN BIKING
A few children have been enjoying the mountain biking
sessions on a Friday afternoon at the cycle track behind
Southey Vines. Special thanks to Coach Paul who has
been running these sessions.PLAYSMARTER HOCKEY CAMP
A number of our senior girls had the opportunity to participate in the Playsmarter Hockey Camp which
was hosted at Parel Vallei High School last weekend. Playsmarter is accredited by the WP Hockey
Union and had permission from the South African Hockey Association to host this event. Our girls
enjoyed coaching sessions from some very experienced coaches. These
sessions covered general fitness, attacking and defensive skills, and set
pieces. The girls then got to apply these skills in organised friendlies.
Congratulations to Eva and Isabella Herbertson who won the planking
challenge at 12 min 30 sec, and to Anna-Rose Cocks who was selected
as our team’s most promising player, well done girls!
It was a
fabulous
weekend and
a great
success.
Well done to
all involved.MUSIC READING GLASSES
This week we worked on two piano skills: 1) reading without looking at the keyboard and 2) teaching
our fingers to 'feel' where they are on the keyboard without needing our eyes to tell them where they
are. These prioperceptive skills are fundamental to becoming a good sight-reader and for memorisation
of pieces. We had lots of fun with our funky reading glasses!
THURSDAY MORNING LIVE!
It was such a feel-good
moment today to see children
pause, listen and react to
unexpectedly hearing live
music on campus. They sat
down to bask in the beautiful
sounds conjured by some of
our senior music students. Well
done to our performers who
broke ground today in this new
weekly venture aimed at giving our pupils more performance
opportunities.WORRY MONSTERS The Haydock Hall was busy with music activities on Thursday, so Drama moved into the Art room where we got to draw worry monsters. We talked about different emotions, first drawing different faces and emotions, and then drawing our worry monsters who can help us deal with any worries we may have. The children created all sorts of characters and even little worry baskets. Well done, Grade 3s!
ANIMAL STRUCTURES AND ADAPTATIONS
Our Grade 4 Natural Scientists have spent the last while
studying the structures of animals and how they are adapted
to their environment. We spent time discussing how different
structural adaptations allow them to thrive in their habitats.
Here are some of the adaptations we discovered.
• The albatross has a 4m wingspan that allows it to
conserve energy as it glides on air currents. It needs to
save energy as it can spend months in the air!
• Camels have long eye lashes to protect their eyes from
sand being blown into them during sand storms. Their
nostrils are sealable, also so keep sand out.
• Bats have large ears to allow them to effectively hunt
prey using echo location.
• Fish are covered in scales to allow them to move
smoothly through water. They have gills to absorb
oxygen directly from water.
• Parrots have strong beaks to break through tough tropical nuts found in the areas that they live.
These are just some of the amazing facts we learnt about this week.GRADE 4 SHOW AND TELL ORALS The Grade 4 children have set the bar high in terms of preparation and effort for their first orals of the year. We were treated to lego displays, cookie tasting, magic tricks, space expeditions and so much more. They all spoke confidently and enjoyed entertaining their peers.
MATERIAL FOR MATHS The Grade 1s loved this outdoor activity. They used materials that they could find outside to make different types of shapes. What an exciting way to learn maths!
GRADE 3 COLLABORATION This week the Grade 3s took on the challenge of collaboration; working together to achieve. They love the flexibility of space while learning. As part of the theme this term they are exploring the human body and vital organs. They are creating life size models which will soon be filled with all the necessary organs for survival. Ruby is enjoying the theme so much she shared some of her fact finding by presenting a PowerPoint presentation. What a proud teacher!
EMOJIS, FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN GRADE R We have been exploring the many feelings that we can feel in one day. We have learnt to read people’s faces to see how they are feeling, as this is how we can express ourselves too! We had to quickly pull our masks down to show the different feelings through our facial expressions – sad, happy, worried! The children made their own emojies and used straw to make crazy hair for when we sometimes feel crazy!
ALL ABOUT THE HEART The heart is a vital organ and the Grade 3s have taken the opportunity to learn about how it uses pressure to pump blood between atriums, vetricals, the lungs and then into the body.
ALL ABOUT GOODS AND SERVICES
The Grade 7s are learning about goods and services
hat is in their EMS lessons. This week they took a look at the
e ood sustainable provision of goods through reusing and
recycling materials to create an economically viable
product while also being kind to our environment. We
have been impressed with the high standard of their
presentations so far. Well done, Grade 7s!
lastic is shredded
eprocessed into their raw material
Colouredhat is eCycle
ecycle is a
usiness that
creates
icycles made
of plastic and
other
recycla le
goods
.
ART!
The Grade 3s have been working hard on creating the backgrounds for their silouette artworks.You can also read
