WATERKLOOF PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 16 – 2015
7 September 2015
ROSE AVENUE IS A ONE-WAY STREET
Mrs J. Shee
Please note - Rose Avenue is a one-way street. Parents must refrain from driving up Rose Avenue from Julius Jeppe Street. Rose Avenue may only accessed from Milner Street!
Uniform Change Over The weeks from 31 August to 11 September 2015 will be the change-over weeks to summer uniform. On Monday, 14 September 2015, all children must be in summer uniform.
Entrepreneurs’ Day
Mrs R. Lee Fon
A big thank you to all who helped make the Grade 7 Entrepreneurs’ Day a success. The Grade 7s worked very hard to produce products of a very high standard. We are proud of their achievements and efforts.
Inter-House Quiz
Mrs J. Shee
Thank you to all the parents and children wonderful evening and our children were categories! The results were as follows: 1st Jupiter (36 points) 2nd Neptune (35 points) Well done!
who attended our annual Inter-House Quiz. It was a most impressive with their knowledge displayed in all 3rd 4th
Saturn (29 points) Mercury (27 points)
ANA Exams
Mrs J. Shee
The National Maths and English exams (ANA) will be written by all children countrywide from Grades 1 to 9. Please see the timetable below SUBJECT Language
Language
Mathematics
Mathematics
GRADE 3 6 1 2 4 5 7 3 6 1
DATE Tuesday 15 September
Wednesday 16 September
Thursday 17 September
Friday 18 September
TIME 09:00 - 10:00 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:00 09:00 - 10:00 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 11:00 09:00 - 10:00 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:00
2 4 5 7
09:00 09:00 09:00 09:00
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10:00 10:30 10:30 11:00
No additional studying is required for these papers. Revision has been done in class or given as homework during the course of this term. Please ensure, as far as possible, that your child is at school on the days of the exams. This is an excellent opportunity for our school and children to show how much they have learnt! There will no extra-murals during the ANA week. ANA results will be sent to parents as soon as the papers have been marked by the teachers and moderated by the Department of Education.
SPCA - Charity
Mrs A. Stobbart
A special reminder that the charity we support during Term 3 is the SPCA. We ask our children to bring dog food, cat food and blankets for the SPCA animals, to school. We would like to appeal to all our valued parents and learners to support this project. It would be appreciated if each class can donate dog food, cat food, old or new blankets. All the food and blankets can be sent to the learners’ register teacher each morning. Each term SPCA collection tins that are placed in each register class for children to put their change into. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
From the Sportsdesk
Mrs J. de Beer
Karate
- Congratulations to the following children who achieved accolades at the Shotokan Develop-ment Karate Championships held in Magaliesberg on 20, 21 August 2015. Fabio de Sousa achieved Gold medals for Kata and Kumite. Anarobi Onkonkwo achieved a Gold medal for Kata. Ayakha Qhomfo achieved Gold medals for Kata and Kumite. Sachin du Plooy-Naran achieved a Gold medal for Kata, a Silver medal for group Kata and a Bronze medal for Kumite. Well done to these budding karateka.
Gymnastics - Congratulations to Blessing Tshifularo in Grade 5 and Lee Nelson in Grade 2 who qualified to represent Gauteng North at the Central Zone Challenge festival.
Chess - Congratulations to the U/9 Chess players who
played three friendly matches against other schools. They enjoyed the bus trip and match experience.
Recycling
Mrs L. Eagle
We had a bumper start to Term 3 - thank you to everyone who collected their waste over the holidays and brought it to school. We are experiencing some problems with the recycling and wish to clarify some issues. Waterkloof Primary School has a recycling depot. This means that it is a place where RECYCLABLE items are collected for recycling. It is therefore obvious that: it is NOT an alternative place for dumping your empty household containers; the different items for recycling must be sorted; it is not merely a fun activity for Grade 6 learners; it is not a place where you can drop-n-go; because glass and tin waste can be hazardous to the children, it must be treated appropriately - under no circumstances may glass and tin waste be left on the field, and all items must be CLEAN - no dirty peanut butter, oil, margarine, yoghurt containers, milk cartons or bottles must ever be brought for recycling - they must be washed!
We are not able to sort bags of mixed items. Please place all paper and cardboard on the field. All other recycling must be brought into the enclosure and placed into the appropriate container. The containers are labelled according as to the type of recyclable material which may be placed in them. Our helpers are willing to direct you to the correct container. It would be helpful if you checked the recycling triangle on the bottom of the plastic item. We only recycle those plastics with 1s, 2s, 5s and 6s. All plastics should be sorted into these groups before you come to the school on Wednesdays. Your co-operation in this regard will be greatly appreciated. Failure to sort in this way will result in closure of our recycling depot which would be a sad thing, as well as being a bad example to the children, who for survival in the future will have to get to grips with the recycling concept. We will also be losing a fantastic and easy opportunity of fund raising for the school. Please, please, please make the effort!
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