With the approach of our mid-year three week holiday, I want to point out three areas where I think our boys might need direction or prompting:

• Living out our theme of kindness, assisting others, building them up instead of name-calling or putting down, something I am going to write about in more detail next term; use any negative as a teaching and learning moment.
• Physical activity – our boys are so active during term time – please find ways to keep this up during these holidays – especially when poor weather and the lure of technology make it easy to be largely sedentary.
• Healthy eating with a few treats – we are going to be working on our boys’ lunch boxes next term, getting rid of the crisps and sugary drinks – but please keep the takeaways and sugar to a minimum.

There is information about mid-year reports later in this newsletter – please do take some time to go through your son’s report with him.

I will be away from Monday visiting my family in the USA, so Chris Groom and Karen Dallas will be in charge over the last few days of term. I am also attending the International Boys’ Schools Coalition at Harrow School in the UK in the last week of the holidays and look forward to being able to feed  back to you on what is always a very stimulating time with Heads and teachers from boys’ schools around the globe.

I wish our boys very happy, relaxing and rejuvenating holidays and hopefully you will be able to enjoy some extra time with them too. Safe travels if you are travelling.

CHAPEL FAMILY SERVICE
We are making our first day of term Chapel Service a family one. So please join us at 11h00 on Tuesday, 9 July in the Memorial Chapel.  All parents, grandparents and siblings are very welcome.

MANDELA DAY
18 July will be a very special day with each boy doing 175 minutes of service at least – with different activities for each grade. We will send out Grade-specific information about this in the first week of next term.

Best wishes

Clothing collection - please see details under TAKE Note

Term 2 Extra-Murals End

Start of Term 3

Boys to wear No 1s
All Extra-Murals begin

Family Chapel Service

Time: 11h00
Venue: Memorial Chapel
All parents, grandparents and siblings welcome

There are various Workshops and Clinics available over the June/July holidays.

If you would like to take advantage of these opportunities, please click on the links provided for more information.

Please note that these clinics and workshops are not available to Pre-Prep boys. Please refer to communication from the Pre-Prep regarding the Holiday Clinics on offer.

• Study Skills Workshop - Click HERE
• Coding Workshop - Click HERE
• Soccer Madness - Click HERE
• Art Workshop - Click HERE
• Hockey Clinic - Click HERE
• Rugby Madness - Click HERE

Please direct any queries directly to the person running the workshop or clinic.

Grade 6 boys who are interested in taking part in the Whale Trail hike next year April (26/04-01/05) can sign up via this link https://forms.office.com/r/RLbtACghFY

There are only 7 places left. 

Please click HERE for the Brochure.

Please click HERE for the Information Sheet.

The Grade 3 to 7 Semester 1 Academic Reports will be released to your son’s profile on MyBishopsLife on Wednesday, 12th June. Reports may be accessed by selecting Reports from the Academic menu on MyBishopsLife.

To view a breakdown of your son’s Semester 1 marks (Grades 4 – 7), please select the Academic menu and choose Marks from the drop-down provided. On the Marks screen, please click on each listed subject to view a detailed breakdown of your son’s results. 
If you have any concerns or queries, please contact your son’s form or subject teacher at the beginning of next term to set up an appointment.

For your convenience, click here to log into MyBishopsLife Prep & Pre-Prep. Should you experience any login issues, please email portal@bishops.org.za

Please take note of the following dates:

A more detailed Extra Curricular schedule to follow in Term 3.

The Grade 7 Vocal Ensemble sang Hallelujah at our final concert for the term.
Back row: D Grever, M Thomashoff
3rd row: E West, S Horrell, J Coffee
2nd row: T Vomacka, G Coffee, M Fox
Front row: M Allen, S Khalfey, M Corelli

The musicians that performed were:
Back row: Mr C Nicholas, Miss F Brand, Mrs N Fyvie, Mr S Scott
3rd row: N Turck (announcer), B Richards (cello), S Yazdanpanahi (alto saxophone)
2nd row: T McCollum (clarinet), A Shaik (alto saxophone), A Sukha (piano), N Khilstrand-Spencer (piano), M Prain (clarinet)
Front row: D Hobbs (piano), H Edwards (piano), K Christodoulou (baritone)

Well done to all!