Dear Parents

Another eventful week has passed by.  We are enjoying the sunshine and the opportunity to be outdoors as much as possible. A gentle reminder to start collecting donations of dog/cat food for our Valentine's Day collection (as per last week's newsletter).  These can be dropped off in the week of 13 - 17 February.  Boys have all had their individual photographs taken and you should have been notified by 'That's Me' with guidelines on how to order your prints. We hope to be able to fit in some class photographs within the next week or two but we will keep you updated on when it will be. We continue to put great emphasis on good manners and will particularly emphasize greetings next week. We ask that you support our efforts by having these conversations with your boys and by modelling the behaviour we expect from them.  If we are wanting the boys to greet and be respectful towards others, let us as adults be the ones who lead by example.   As we head into week 4 of the 2023 school year, we wish you a wonderfully relaxing weekend.   
Kind regards

SHARLENE GROOM
HEAD:PRE-PREP

We would love any parents to join us to Connect and Pray every second Thursday at 7.30am in the Mitre (opposite Bishops Astro).
The whole Bishops Community is invited from Pre-Prep to College and we look forward to meeting you.
If you are unable to join on Thursday 9th February and would like to know further details, please e-mail Louise: freedom@mweb.co.za

The Lord be with you
This week we commemorated the presentation of our Lord Jesus to the temple. This was a time when the old man Simeon finally saw the baby Jesus whom he had waited for many years. God had promised that he wouldn’t die without having met with Jesus, and this promise was fulfilled.
I do wish to echo that as we continue with the epiphany series of Jesus, that we await Christ to be presented and be present in our lives from this day forth. May our deepest graces be met in the coming of Jesus.
Let us pray
Almighty Father, your son Jesus was presented to the Temple and was acclaimed the glory of Israel and the light of all nations. Grant that through him we may be presented to you. My we receive and reflect his glory in the world as we await divine revelation in our lives through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

Dogs on campus

We have a few boys that are highly allergic to dogs and it has come to our attention that some lovely dogs are being brought to visit us.  We respectfully ask that you do not bring your dogs into or near the school buildings as these boys are really struggling to manage their allergic reactions. Thank you for your understanding in this situation.       

We have all been enjoying the beautiful weather this week. The Grade 2 boys are still having lots of fun on our new jungle gym. They have also been very active outside during gross motor sessions where they were involved in team competitions. There were some fantastic creative towers and bird feeders that were built in Design Technology. It is wonderful to see the boys working so well in teams and supporting one another on the playground.

This week the Grade 1s explored the topic of pets and we spoke about how to best care for our pets. The boys continue to explore words and have expanded their word banks. They are also enjoying reading and using their "pointer power". The boys are working neatly in their writing books and are learning to write in the lines and “touch-touch”.