WATERKLOOF PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 8 – 2017
9 December 2016
Mrs S.C. Monyai A sincere thank you to all staff, learners, parents and support staff from the hard work done this term to wrap up the year. Congratulations to all our children who have written their assessments and exams. The special assemblies were beautifully organised, conducted and well attended. Well done to all the parents, learners and staff. We have come to the end of the year and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Staffing Congratulations to Mrs R. Moonsamy who has been appointed as the NS and Mathematics HOD. We wish her well in her new post. We say goodbye to Mr Niemann, Mr Wissing and Miss Viljoen, who are all leaving at the end of the term. We thank them for their contribution and hard work, and wish them all of the best.
RCL Congratulations to our 2016 headgirl, Kayleigh Adamson, and headboy, Thato Nako. We thank Mrs Moonsamy for all the hard work that she has done with the RCL this year.
Grade 7 Group We wish all our Grade 7s all of the best in their high school careers. They must always remember that they are part of the Waterkloof family. Farewell and good luck to them.
School Governing Body A warm word of thanks to all our Governing Body members for the time and hard work that they have dedicated to the school. We wish them a good rest.
PTA A sincere thank you to all the PTA members. We thank them for helping the school raise funds.
Charity
Mrs J. Shee
Thank you to all parents, children and staff who so generously donated Christmas gifts for the charity we support - Tumelong. You have sent Christmas cheer to children’s hearts - thank you. Another big thank you to all the children, parents and staff who gave their change to the SPCA. It all makes a difference to the animals in need, particularly over the festive season. We collected R2540 this term, making it a grand total of R10 565 for 2016! Well done to all parents, children and staff.
INFORMATION DAY 2017
Mrs J. Shee
All parents and learners are expected to attend an important meeting on the day before school starts, i.e. 10 January 2017. Parents and learners please bring a black pen, and all medical aid information, i.e. Medical Aid Scheme, Medical Aid Number, Main Member’s details, Family Doctor’s name and contact details. The times are as follows: Grades R, 1, 2 & 3: 13:00 - 14:00 Parents to the School Hall for an address from Mrs Monyai (Principal) and Mrs Dorfan (Chairlady SGB). 14:00 - 15:00 Parents go to your child’s register class to receive information packs and books. 13:00 - 15:00 Children go to their register teacher’s classroom.
Grades 4, 5, 6:
15:00 - 16:00 Parents to the School Hall for an address from Mrs Monyai (Principal) and Mrs Dorfan (Chairlady SGB). 16:00 - 17:00 Parents go to your child’s register class to receive information packs and books. 15:00 - 17:00 Children go to their register teacher’s classroom.
Grade 7:
17:00 - 18:00 Parents to the School Hall for an address from Mrs Monyai (Principal) and Mrs Dorfan (Chairlady SGB). 18:00 - 19:00 Parents go to your child’s register class to receive information packs and books. 17:00 - 19:00 Children go to their register teacher’s classroom.
Textbooks
Mrs J. Shee
Parents and learners Thank you for returning all the WPS/GDE textbooks and readers that were loaned to you in 2016. Thank you also for paying (R200 per book) for replacing books that had been damaged or lost whilst in your child’s care. Please note that any books that have not been replaced or paid for that were lost or damaged in 2016 will result in your child not being issued with his/her textbooks for 2017. Mrs Engelbrecht and Mrs de Jong will be available on 10 January 2016 from 14:00 to 18:30 to receive payment and issue textbooks. Academic Awards
Mrs J. Shee
Grade 4, 5, 6 and 7 top academic winners from Term 4 2016 - congratulations. Grade 4 Aleksis Andreitchenko Olivia Andreitchenko Raquel de Freitas Kayla Dorfan Bedanga Gautam Alisha Govender Thomas Gurnell Jenna Jammine Isabella Joao-Palm Wesley Karam Bontle Kolisa Jonathan le Roux Jenny MacDonald Malebo Makhananisa Enzo Neto. Mulan Perring Eden Lee Rebelo Ray Simbule Hayley Stanton Pierrette Sukisa-Makasi
Grade 5 Christiano Baptista-Rosa Sakhile Basi Daniela Bernardo Jessica de Wit Lloyd Donaldson Raquel Guimaraes Tia Lamont Podu Mabula Kganya Mdlovu Yerin Oh Joel Okonkwo Rachael Pillay Yashay Ramdass Jordan Reddy Michael Roux Nonku Skhosana Caitlin Tuck Adriana Wepener Alexandra Wohlfahrt Marcello Yanes Verrier
Grade 6 Iloke Alusala Ethan Crous Jazirah Fakey Raphael Gibberd Isabella Grobler Lamine Jeppie Kareena Jivan Julia Karato Aldin Kieser Minh Le Crystal Magezi Justin Marais Tina Modiba Lukhanyiso Ngongoma Rayna Ramrabbie Thembelihle Sgudla Christine Siebert Shreeya Thakur Mewalal Qhama Twala Abigail Williams
Grade 7 Kayleigh Adamson Tala Elhussiny Sara Fiachetti Lindsay Gurnell Olerato Kgotle Simntu Kolisa Tshegofatso Krappie
Charlotte le Roux Megan Logan Yanila Makhudu Yasser Noor Mahomed Joshua Okonkwo Onthatile Pooe Marquis Pretorius
Aren Repko Megan Roux Ntando Sgudla Shival Sookay Aloise Wepener Bianca Windt
Recycling
Mrs L. Eagle
Our recycling endeavour has grown constantly over this last year. I am grateful for all the waste that you bring; for collecting, washing and sorting it. You have no idea how it helps to have carefully selected and packaged waste brought to the centre. We will continue our effort at educating our school community as to what recycling really is and how we can all benefit from proper recycling. Mrs Elizabeth Boje has continued with her bottle cap collection untiringly, and numerous needy people have received wheelchairs through her effort. Thank you to all who have embraced this charity and separated the capse from the cold drink bottles - which saves us hours of work! In fact, consider making this your new year theme - don’t replace caps on empty bottles, rather collect them separately. We are still collecting bread tags and our first bin is almost full. Keep on saving them over this festive season please. We were very excited to hear that Waterkloof Primary won second place in the MPACT recycling drive. The school won a prize of R5000! Apparently we missed first prize by a mere 400kgs of paper/cardboard. So we are all motivated to collect that first prize next year! MPACT recycles mainly paper and paper products so please send all your waste paper to us - it is clean to work with, stacks easily and recycles well. MPACT has a special appeal for magazines, so if you bring your old maga-zines, please make sure they are placed in the GREEN bins. Finally, a word of thanks to: Our Gr 6 recycling monitors - they have manned our recycling project with enthusiasm and loyalty. Without them you would probably have to wait for much longer on a Wednesday. The parents who have given of their precious time to help us - thank you. We always need more people who can donate an hour of their time each Wednesday morning from about 07:00 to 08:00. Happy reducing, reusing and recycling!