Grade 7 Leavers' Dinner

Time: 18h00 to 21h00
Venue: Stanmore Field
Dress: Long Pants, Collared shirt and Tie

Relay Sports

Time: 08h30
Venue: Lutgensvale
Please see further details under TAKE Note

Cricket Trials for Grade 8 (2025) Cricket Boys

Time 16h00
Venue: Frank Reid

No Extra-Murals for the rest of the term

Grade 6 Go-Kart Racing

Time: 08h00
Venue: Stanmore Field
Parents welcome to support

Championship Gala

Time: 11H00 to 13h00eChampionship Gala
Venue: Prep Pool
Parents welcome to support

School Closes at 13h30 ( Monday to Thursday and 12h50 on Friday)

Interhouse Tennis

Time: 12h30 to 14h00

Carol Service

Time: 18h30 to 19h15 (Bramley and Brooke)
Time: 19h30 to 20h15 (Charlton and Van der Bijl)
Venue: Memorial Chapel

Toy Collection - please see details under TAKE Note

Grade 7 Garden Route Tour

Athletics Relay Sports

Wednesday 20 November

• House Relay practices at 07h00 at Lutgensvale for U10-U12 4x100m athletes
• House Directors will advise who must attend
  

Friday 22 November

• Interhouse Athletics Relay Sports 
• 09h00 -12h00 at Lutgensvale
• Boys to arrive at Prep at 7:30am as normal
• Dress - House shirt, blue shorts, white socks and takkies and cap, please apply sunscreen
• Boys will be walked to and back from Lutgensvale
• School will end at the normal Friday time of 12h55pm at the Prep
• Normal afternoon extra-murals to follow

Shoe Collection

With the festive season on the way, we want to make the Christmas season just as good for the boys and girls at VUSA as it will be for all of us.
That’s why we’re collecting any type of shoes; may that be boots, takkies, casual shoes, running shoes and more; if you can wear it we will take it!
The collection will start on the 22 November and will end of the 29 of November.
We encourage you to bring one or more pairs of shoes to make a big difference.

Please drop them off at the Prep Library.

Next week, during House meetings, the House Directors will discuss sport choices for 2025 with the boys. While the sports policy requires boys to participate in at least one summer and one winter team sport, we do encourage our boys to play both team sports offered in summer and winter. This helps us create maximum and competitive teams for matches against neighbouring schools. Please discuss your son's sport choices with him before next Tuesday. Early sport choices are essential for us to determine the number of teams to enter into the leagues.

Please click HERE for the Term 1 and 4 Timetable

Please click HERE for the Term 2 and 3 Timetable 

These Timetables will be placed on the Parent Communication Page on MyBishopsLife for future reference.

Please click HERE for the Great Escape Holiday Clinic

Please click HERE for the Soccer Madness Holiday Clinic

Please click HERE for the Drama Workshop

Please click HERE for the Water Polo Holiday Clinic

The meowment has come. Time to send all your library books back to school for the 2024 wrap up please! 

On Tuesday, we held the finals of The Grade 7 Public speaking competition.  After presenting their motivational speeches to their teachers in class, 15 boys were selected from across the Grade to present to the judges: Mr Brown, Mrs Dallas and Mrs Schultz-Mofokeng (from the College).  The boys wrote outstanding speeches and spoke with passion, confidence and commitment, and the judges were hugely impressed. Third place was awarded to Shafeeq Brinkhuis, who spoke passionately about what it takes to win at sport; second place to Adam Hendrickse, who challenged us to step up and make South Africa a nation we can be proud of; and our winner was Jack Stansfield, who delivered his speech with a natural flair,  anticipating the changes and opportunities that going to high school might bring. Well done on an impressive and exciting morning and to the whole of Grade 7 for their support of their peers. 

Last Friday we hosted our Bishops Family Carnival at Rossall. Everyone had loads of fun and whilst throwing pies, eating and playing, we also raised funds for our school and for the various outreach programs that the PA supports.  A big thank you to everyone involved; from parents to teachers, groundsmen, boys, our ADT security staff and all the vendors and suppliers who came together to create such a memorable evening of fun! The PA and Carnival Committee are busy reconciling all the financial elements and will share the outcome with you in due course.