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Five Grade 7s Qualify for Tritech Competition

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Week 4 of May 2011 School for the PlanetSchool for the PlanetSchool for the PlanetSchool for the Planet

Important Dates:

College play chess

against the Christian

School.

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May

Open boys’ hockey vs

Merensky. (A)

01

June

Soccer vs Unicorn Prep

and Educare. (A)

02

June

Gymnasts who qualify

compete in provincial

qualifier in Polokwane.

03

June

2nd Quarterly SCS

Board of Governors’

Meeting.

03

June

3rd SANESA qualifier

in Vivo.

04

June

Reach-a-Cross District

Science Expo.

04

June

Self Protection Course

in Resource Centre.

05

June

A Peek at Last Week …

• A group of just over 30 board-

ers enjoyed an overnight outing

to the Kruger Park on Saturday

28 and Sunday 29 May.

• Our Grade 12s presented their

English Orals on Saturday 28

May.

• Another Reach-a-Cross work-

shop took place at the Commu-

nity and Resource Centre on

Saturday 28 May.

• A successful Boot Sale was held

in the Spar car park on Saturday

28 May.

• Our senior 7s rugby team played

against Frans du Toit’s 1st team

on Thursday 26 May.

• Our College netball teams trav-

elled to Phalaborwa to play

league fixtures against Frans du

Toit High on Thursday 26 May.

• Our Grade R class celebrated

World Play Day at Bavaria on

Thursday 26 May.

• Our Grade 7s attended the

Drakensig Revue on Monday 23

May.

children mixed with approximately 80 other chil-

dren from Montessori, Acornhoek and a children's home. Each child was given a hotdog, drink and a

piece of fruit to eat and a party pack to take

home. Thanks to Nicky Goldschmidt and Michelle

Groves for assisting in various ways on the day.

Five research projects done by our Grade 7s will be taken to the Tritech Competition which is to be held on 22 July (last Friday of our holiday) at Ben Vorster High in Tzaneen. Our internal Science Expo, which was reported on in the Babbler last week resulted in a number of medals being awarded. Emma Gibbs, seen in the photo above with her project dis-

Grade R Celebrate World Play Day

On Thursday 26 May our Grade R class went to

Bavaria to celebrate World Play Day. The class

was a credit to Southern Cross Schools, they

played so well and displayed very good manners. The event was very well organized by Bavaria. The

OUR PA WILL GIVE YOU WINGS!

Come and support our Parents’ Association

at their Aeroplane Party fundraiser on

Friday 17 June. Travel to exotic destina-

tions on SCS Airlines and enjoy the flavours

and fellowship of the destinations you en-

counter. Contact Terry Dold or Rodney Wall

for more details or book your seat with

Mitzi or Pauline at the front office.

We Welcome a New Music Teacher

At the beginning of this year we found our-

selves without a class music teacher. Thank-

fully, Ms Zani Kunz agreed to help us out,

and we thank her for her willingness to step

in and for doing such sterling work. Ms

Kunz is not able to continue teaching the

class music and so we are pleased to an-

nounce that Mrs Anita Lotz (left) will be

joining us from the beginning of June.

play was awarded a gold medal by the judges. Sabrina Beretta, Nicole Engel-brecht (both featured in last week’s Babbler) and Kerri Collinson (shown in the photo below) were each awarded silver medals. Morgan Wheeldon was awarded a bronze medal and will also be taking her project to Tzaneen.

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Limpopo

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Phone: 015 793 0590

Fax: 086 530 5153

E-mail: raptor@scschools.co.za

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SCS PA Events: The SCS Parent Association

has a number of fundraising

events lined up:

• 17 June - Aeroplane Party;

• 25 June - Gourmet Safari

Evening in Kayalami.

• 5 August - Night of a Hun-

dred Lots;

• 26 August - Spring Walk;

• 30 Sept to 2 Oct - Sus-

tainable Living Festival;

• 29 October - SCS Golf Day

Support our PA in these fun

events to raise funds for

school development projects.

The Southern Cross Schools Reach-a-Cross Commu-

nity Partnership Programme has expanded its work to

try and improve the quality of Grade 12 results from

local schools. The programme focuses specifically on

Mathematics, Science and English and this year targets

Grade 10 learners from the schools that are currently

participating in the Reach-a-Cross workshops. On Sat-

urday 21 May forty learners from previously disadvan-

taged schools attended the first set of tutorials offered

at Southern Cross Schools. The aim of the tutorials is

to tackle challenging topics and improve the learners’

performance with the hope of ultimately seeing a huge

improvement in their Grade 12 results. The learners

will also be given career guidance in the fields of Maths,

Science and Technology. The programme is coordinated

by Mr Mandla Mangwane and supported by both local

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A group of more than 30 boarders went off to the Kruger National Park for an overnight trip this past weekend. They stayed over in the youth hostel at Sku-kuza. Their trip was extremely productive with the group seeing leopard on four different occasions in addition to the many elephant, buffalo and general plain’s game.

A special word of thanks needs to be extended to Ms Amy Evans, Mrs Colleen Taylor and Mr Don de Boer for driving the vehicles and accompanying the boarders.

Thank You:

• Lolli dos Santos for the two

framed posters of SA birds.

• Dot Arthur for the donation

of magazines.

• Karen Puttkammer, Andre van

der Merwe, Winnie Silinda and

Warren & Candice Cary for

helping transport soccer

players to Phalaborwa.

• All parents who sent items for

the Boot Sale. An amount of

about R4 600.00 was raised.

and corporate sponsorship. Should you wish to contrib-

ute to this programme which aims at improving the

Grade 12 results from our area, please contact Mitzi

van Rensburg on 015 793 0590 or on rap-

tor@scschools.co.za.

Green AwardsGreen AwardsGreen AwardsGreen Awards

The following Green Awards were presented at

assembly on Friday 27 May: Grade R - Isabella

Buyst; Grade 1 - Sydney Wall & Jemma Henning;

Grade 2 - Kate Schwaeble; Grade 3 - Ferran

Gómez-Olivé; Grade 4 - Nozizwe Ramoshaba;

Grade 5 - Daniel Spencer Wilson; Grade 6 -

Trystan Arthur and Grade 7 - Emile Marais.

Boarding House News

Inspiration for College Learners Mr Alan McSmith presented an inspirational encounter for all our College learners on Friday 27 May. He shared some of his experiences in nature and high-lighted certain “golden threads” that learners should take note of in their lives going forward. The encounter allowed learners to reflect on their own emotions, fears and aspirations. There is no doubt that learners were both moved and inspired during the course of the experience. A special word of thanks to Alan for shar-ing such valuable messages with our learners. In the photo above our Grade 12 class can be seen with Alan.

“A Night of a Hundred Lots”

We would like to encourage all our parents to consider donating something for the auction being planned by our Parent Association. As indicated in the letter sent out a little while ago, anything goes. If you have exper-tise or a skill that can be auctioned or a special experi-ence you can offer, please think about making a dona-tion to the organizing committee of “A Night of a Hun-dred Lots”. Donated items will be published in a cata-logue and auctioned at a fun event on Friday 5 August. Please assist our PA to raise funds so that we can de-velop our very own sports fields at the school.

Help Needed with Costumes We need parents to volunteer their sewing skills to help Sally Wiggill and Melissa Ferguson in the making of costumes for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. If you have the skill, the time and the energy, please contact Sally at school to offer your help. Every extra pair of hands will be greatly appreciated.

Scaly Encounters at R-a-C Workshop Mr Justin van Breda did a presentation on snakes at the R-a-C workshop on Saturday 28 May. Fear and trepida-tion were replaced with curiosity and knowledge.