Dear Parents

What an exciting week of Reading as our Readathon week inspired, encouraged, ignited and grew imaginations beyond what we could ever imagine. We had fun dress up days, amazing staff from other sections of the school visiting and reading to our boys, real authors from South Africa who took the time to come and read to our boys, showing them that any of them could be authors, illustrators and so much more. Our theme was "Reading is your superpower" and we focused on South African authors. Thank you to parents for supporting your boys to find their dress up ties, character outfits and for helping to decorate our school. To those who would still like to support our local authors and purchase their books, please see the books available in the hall. Thank you to Mrs Wallace for organising this wonderful week of wonder, paging through, reading books and listening to rich, inspiring stories.   

Wishing Mrs Lundi Krewu a wonderful birthday on the 8th of August. All the very best to Mrs Nureen Maged as she goes on maternity leave.  Welcome to Ms Zuki Gibbs who will be standing in for her until her return.  Wishing you all a wonderfu,  warm weekend!  

Kind regards

SHARLENE GROOM
HEAD:PRE-PREP

Parents, please be reminded that your son’s Readathon sheet must be returned to school on Monday the 7th of August. Kindly ensure that you have totalled the number of pages read.If you would still like to donate books, please feel free. Thank you to all those that contributed.

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The Grade N's have had such a wonderful Topsy Turvy book week of crazy hair, funky socks and slippers and creative characters from their favourite books. We have read many many stories and were delighted to have Mr Reeler come and read to us as well as the author Lulu Fellowes and our very own Mrs Fraser. Another highlight this week has been mudplay which we have welcomed along with the warmer weather. 

A blast of books and bookworms emerged this week, bringing much energy and enthusiasm to our Grade!  Our boys were thrilled to be read to by South African authors, and engaged in exploring why they love books so much.  We discovered different books for different uses, and especially enjoyed sharing their book character matching the book!  Thanks must go to our parents who got all the dress up days correct! The boys were so enthusiastic, and tons of fun was had.  Well done, boys!

The beginning of this week sparked great excitement as Spiderman greeted the boys as they came into the school after our Chapel service. We were privileged to enjoy a visit from a South African children’s author, Tamsyn Alfino. She gave them some insight into her stories about “The Big 5 Feelings.” The Grade 2 boys were also engrossed in the stories read by various teachers from the Prep School. They loved wearing their onesies and pyjamas and enthusiastically participated in music lessons learning about rhythm and notes. New coding skills were developed learning how to programme Bee-Bots.  Beautiful masks that were created in art lessons wear worn proudly by all. Cross country runners improved their stamina while running barefoot on a very muddy field! Congratulations to all the boys for embracing our readathon with such enthusiasm. We have thoroughly enjoyed watching them read and have fun throughout the week.