Dear Parents
Safety issues
There are 2 issues which I would like to bring to your attention:
I would like to appeal to parents to stick to the speed limit of 20km/h on the College campus. We do have boys crossing roads right down the avenue and speeding vehicles put them in danger.
The ISASA (Independent Schools’ Association of Southern Africa) policy unit have put out a memorandum to all schools about the use of the Uber taxi service. Uber’s own terms and conditions stipulate that the service is not available to persons under the age of 18 unless they are accompanied by an adult. I have attached the full memorandum for your attention. While the memorandum warns against the use of Uber we are aware that many boys are using Uber. This is largely a College phenomenon but I am aware that Uber is sometimes used by Prep boys: please note though that this is at parents’ own risk and the school will not be liable for any incidents resulting from the use of Uber by our boys.
Durbanville Primary Exchange
Last year was the first time we instituted a full whole Friday, whole school exchange with Durbanville Primary School, which was a great success. This year, as you know, is our turn to host Durbanville, so today is a completely different school day. We begin the exchange in the Chapel with Father Monwabisi leading the service assisted by Mr Woolls and boys from both schools. Our String Ensemble and Durbanville’s choir will contribute to the Service. The rest of the day consists of hockey, squash, golf and chess matches as well as a combined Amazing Race this afternoon and rugby tomorrow morning. Thank you to all of you who will be hosting the plus-minus ninety boys overnight.
There are a number of differences between us and Durbanville Primary. It is a dual medium school but with more Afrikaans speaking families than English, although both languages are used frequently at the school. The key difference of course, is that it is a co-educational school. Being as big as it is – two hundred in some grades – the number of boys is still more than the Prep put together. We are a traditional Anglican Boys’ School and Durbanville is a State co-educational school with a Christian ethos serving a completely different part of Cape Town. So for both schools it is a chance to interact - staff and boys and hopefully parents too – with a school community with whom we don’t overlap in the same way as that of Rondebosch and SACS.
A huge amount of work has gone into organising this and I hope it will prove an enriching experience for all.
Enjoy the week
Kind regards
GREG BROWN
HEADMASTER |
