From the Headmistress

NEWSLETTER | 29 July 2016 | VOLUME 3:02
From the Headmistress
Shirley Oosthuizen
Dear Parents,
Do your little bit of good where you are. It’s these little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”.
(Desmond Tutu)
Welcome back to school and we do hope our new students and parents have settled in quickly.
The term started on a celebratory note with our special assembly delivered by Mr. Marcel Golding, Liam and
Erin’s dad in Stage 5 in honour of Mr. Nelson Mandela’s birthday and 67 minutes of doing good. Mr. Golding
worked closely with Mr. Mandela during his time prior to and during his years in office as President of South
Africa. Mr. Golding delivered a sensitive and informative talk about Mr. Mandela and what he gave his life for
to the young children, along with photographs in which they showed much interest. Some of the children
asked pertinent questions displaying curiosity and insight. We do believe that keeping our history alive in the
hearts and minds of our children is so important lest we forget where we come from and where we would like
to go to in designing our future together. The atrocities of the past government and its policies need to be
explained to the new generation so that they may never be repeated. We would like to thank all the parents
and especially the P and F moms who donated soup, bread and spreads. We thank you also for helping the
children to make sandwiches which were donated to facilities for distribution.
We do hope you took advantage of the demonstration of the Smart Heart Board Game ® as devised by the
Counselling Psychologist Christine Kritzas. We thank her for the talk offered to staff as it was valuable in very
interesting.
Our beloved Art teacher, Linda Sivitilli, has undergone some surgery and we wish her a speedy recovery and we
eagerly await her return to school. We welcome Jill Balcomb in Grade 1 and we do hope that she will be given
a warm reception as taking over a class mid-year is always a challenge for all concerned. Our Academic Head,
Christine Savides has been partnering the teaching and learning in the classroom to ensure a smooth handover.
Please do not hesitate to come and see either Christine Savides or myself should you have any concerns.
This serves as a gentle reminder to all parents that the children are expected to wear the Reddam House
uniform with pride and in its entirety. Please do not allow your child to wear casual clothing items along with
the uniform.
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant
can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine that a child of
farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we
are given, that separates one person from another”. (Nelson Mandela)
A brief synopsis of the first fortnight’s news follows in the Senior Preparatory and College:
• The Teacher-Parent Liaison meetings provided a meaningful opportunity for dialogue and
communication.
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The SP and College Mid-Year Academic Awards Assemblies commended students who had achieved in
the first half of the year. Well done to the award recipients!
The Gr 6 and Gr 9 students wrote the IEB Core Skill Examinations. These assessments are conducted
nationally. We await the results later in the term.
We say thank you and farewell to Dean Anthony who is transferring to RH Durbanville. We acknowledge
Dean’s contribution to Sport at ASB and look forward to our schools participating against one another.
We will welcome and introduce Byron v d Merwe next week.
Lynda Terblanche marked IEB Matric Life Orientation papers in Johannesburg.
Sincere sympathy and condolences to Susan Joubert and her family on the passing of her father.
We wish Kirsty Rielly a speedy recovery after their surgery and look forward to welcoming her back next
week.
The Gr 9 students and their families attended the Gr 10: 2017 Subject Choice Evening. This was
preceded by a special College Careers Assembly where several past students shared their studies and
career paths with the students. Later in the day, the Careers Expo provided a wonderful opportunity for
all students to start collecting information on future studies and careers options. Thank you to the staff,
exhibiters and to the students and parents for your positive support.
Isabella Sinn (Gr 12) was invited to attend the 52nd National Science Olympiad Youth Science Focus
Week in Pretoria as a guest of SAASTA.
Congratulations to Caitlin Doyle (Gr 8) on being selected to represent WP in the Karate-do Goju Kai SA
Championships in Bloemfontein over the coming long weekend. We wish her and the team success.
Shelley Robertson is extremely proud of the soccer girls who participated in the 5-a side soccer
tournament and zonal trials. Well done!
The Matrics are certainly looking forward to their Dance tomorrow evening!
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Today, 29 July in history
- 1565: Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart
- 1588: England defeats Spanish Armada
- 1836 Inauguration of Arc de Triomphe, Paris
- 1883: Mussolini born
- 1937: 18 yr old Crown Price Farouk crowned King of Egypt
- 1938: ‘Dennis the Menace’ first appears
- 1948: London Olympic Games open (first since Berlin, 1936)
- 1957: UN establishes International Atomic Energy Agency
- 1958: NASA established
- 1977: Ships ‘Antipolis’ (Oudekraal) and ‘Romelia’ (Llandudno) wrecked off Cape Town’s shores
- 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana wedding
- 1984: Los Angeles Olympic Games open
- 2011: South Sudan joins AU as its newest member
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Did you know?
Local places and landmarks: Llandudno- Named after Llandudno, the largest seaside resort in Wales.
Llandudno in Wales was named after the patron saint Tudno.
Appeal to Parents: Please check that before your child leaves for school in the morning their
appearance and uniform is proper and correct. Please check all uniform and personal
belongings are marked. Please remind your child to always take care of their personal items
(especially iPads, mobile phones, sports equipment, musical instruments and other
valuables).
ELS PRESENTS
WAMKELEKILE!
We are in full swing in preparation for our annual Early Learning
School concert. It will be taking place on Tuesday 13 September
(10:00- Grandparents Day) and Thursday 15 September (18:00).
For those of you who want to help, thank-you for filling in the
Google form. If you were unsuccessful with the google form, please
email your requests to Ms B at: [email protected].
Our first meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 10 August at
13:45 in Ms B’s class. This meeting is for everyone who wants to
help with the sourcing and mending of the costumes. Looking
forward to seeing you there!
STAGE 3 NEWS
Welcome back to Term 3, we hope you all had an enjoyable holiday. Our first theme of the term has been
“Winter” and we sure have had a few wet and cold days. In this regard, please ensure that your child has a
warm top/ jacket in their bag in case the weather changes. Our next theme will focus on the “Doctor, Dentist
and Nurse”. If there are any parents in this line of work who would like to share more about their occupation
with the Stage 3 classes, please let us know.
We would like to welcome Lana Motea and Sophie Levinson to our Reddam House family. We started the term
off celebrating Madiba Day, thank you so much for the kind donations of bread, spread and soups. The children
had a wonderful time making sarmies for the less privileged.
Term 3 always brings about our annual Early Learning School concert. This year our concert is called,
‘Wamkelekile’. Thank you to all the parents who have already offered to help. Please watch the notice boards
for more information in this regard.
Dates to remember…
Wednesday 3 August
Friday 5 August
Monday 8 August
Tuesday 9 August
Friday 2 September
Tuesday 13 September
Thursday 15 September
Friday 16 September
Friday 23 September
National Holiday - Elections
Reach for a Dream - Slipper day - R10 donation
National School Holiday
National Holiday – Women’s day
National Casual Day
Grandparents Tea
10:00
ELS concert
18:00
Bandana Day
End of Term 3
10:00
Just a thought…
Stage 3 Teachers
Debra Brinkworth and Nicola Walters
STAGE 4 NEWS
Dear Parents,
Welcome back and we hope that everyone enjoyed a great holiday. We have begun our term learning about
Nelson Mandela and giving back, where the children were very eager to help out on Mandela Day and make
sandwiches for those less fortunate than us. The rest of the week encompassed opposites and we concluded
this theme with an Opposite Day. The children thoroughly enjoyed dressing up to add to the fun aspect of the
theme.
This week we have been covering the topic of Domestic Animals and this will continue into next week. We have
also decided to incorporate the Olympics into our Term and will be covering this topic for two weeks following
our current theme. Please try and discuss the various Olympic sports and the countries participating in the
Olympics with our children.
Below are some pictures of the special events from the past week.
Please be reminded to return all reply slips ASAP and to bring in an A4 Flip File for Muscle Mania if you haven’t
already done so. Please also remember to send in hats, art aprons, tissues and spare clothes, especially warm
tops and long pants.
Stage 4 Teachers
Roxan Shapurjee and Jo Berga
STAGE 5 NEWS
Welcome back to all our parents and we look forward to a busy, concert filled Term 3.
We have begun the Term discussing both 2D and 3D shapes and finding these shapes in our
environment has proved to be lots of fun. These are the shapes that we would expect our Stage 5
children to recognise by the end of the year: 2D shapes - circle, oval, semi-circle, square, rectangle, triangle,
star, heart, cross, diamond, crescent and possibly pentagon, hexagon and octagon. 3D shapes – sphere,
cylinder, cube, cuboid, cone, pyramid. Please help us by encouraging your children to notice shapes all around
them.
For the following two weeks we will be discussing the forthcoming Rio Olympics. We would love to have
newspaper articles and relevant information on this topic brought to school. The sounds we will meet are ‘z’
and ‘w’.
Please note - For Art class with Ms Sivitilli the children are asked to bring in from home a 2L milk plastic
container and a stick that is about 15 to 20cm long.
General reminders;
Tissues in locker
Sun hats
Art aprons
5th August – Slipper Day, bring R10 for a sticker and wear your slippers to school.
Check noticeboard and letters with regards to the concert.
We had lots of Reading Eggs certificates at the beginning of the term which was great to see, please keep
working on this.
Stage 5 Teachers
Miriam Dawson and Alex Smith
GRADE 1 NEWS
Welcome back to the Third term. We hope you had a wonderful holiday and a good rest.
We are extremely privileged to have Mrs Balcomb on our staff and we welcome her warmly this
term.
Our themes for this term include: My Community, Manners and Responsibilities, Pets, Plants and
Seeds and Food. We have a number of fun classroom activities planned.
Please ensure that ALL of your child’s possessions are marked – this includes lunchboxes and juice bottles, as
far too many items are being misplaced and their owners can never be found if they have no names on them. If
you have any items of clothing at home that belong to someone else, please return them to school so that the
rightful owner can be found.
If your child’s hair is getting a bit wild and unruly, please take them to the barber or hairdresser to have their
hair cut so that they look neat and smart as they represent Reddam House.
Winter sport continues as in the second term. If for some reason your child is unable to attend a sport’s
practise a note in their homework books or an email to the teacher is required.
Thank you for your ongoing care and involvement.
Grade 1 Teachers
Barbara Houba and Jill Balcomb
GRADE 2 NEWS
We started the new term by celebrating Mandela’s Birthday. Guest speaker Mr. Marcel Golding told the
children more about Mr. Mandela’s life. We proudly did our 67 minutes of preparing sandwiches which were
distributed to Prestwich Primary and the Haven Shelter.
On Monday this week, the children enjoyed a stunning performance from “Hooked on Books”. The children are
very enthusiastic to start reading the books that were part of the show. In Mathematics next week, we will start
exploring fractions. In Literacy we will be recapping the importance of using correct punctuation in sentences
and using various verbs and adjectives in Creative Writing.
We started learning about “soil” and we will be starting our own Grade 2 herb garden.
Please continue working on Mathletics and Reading Eggs – we are always proud to see the results.
Grade 2 Teachers
Terry Beukes and Annel Mellet
GRADE 3 NEWS
It has been an exciting start to the term as we have begun with two favourite activities in Mandela Day and
Hooked on Books. Everyone was productive on Mandela Day and we peeled, mashed and spread to make
-egg mayonnaise sandwiches for the children at Prestwich Primary School. A huge thank you to all of you
for your kind donations!
We have introduced multiplication and will shortly touch on division as the two concepts are taught alongside each other
in Singapore Maths. In language work we have revised nouns, introduced adjectives and next week we will begin with
verbs. In reading we are encouraging the children to stop periodically and reflect on the characters, plot and storyline so
they focus on comprehension of more advanced texts. We have written return letters to our pen pals in Thailand with all
our holiday news and are eagerly awaiting their replies. Finding out all about them has been fascinating and the children
have really enjoyed practicing their writing skills in real life situations.
Next week promises lots of excitement with Market Day and Election Day. We have some electioneering of our own
planned and a few Olympic surprises as well which we look forward to sharing with all of you.
Grade 3 Teachers
Christine Savides and Taryn Doidge
SPORT
SPORTS REPORT
Welcome to term 3. We continued with our winter sports programme right form the first day of the
term. We would like to wish all our incredible athletes a wonderful term. Please remember to pack
warm clothing for our sports stars to put on after practice and matches as the temperatures are still
on the low side.
Rugby
We are extremely proud of the following boys, Oliver French, Oliver Beagrie, Luca Simone, Thato Kolisang, Luke
Mardell, Andrea Parrello, Ben Osborne, Riley Robinson and Remi Mentjies, who play for Hamiltons Rugby Club.
Last week on Saturday, these boys played against SACS in a very exciting match and they put on quite a show
with an excellent 50-25 victory. This is such a remarkable achievement against one the traditional top rugby
schools. Well done boys!!
NEXT WEEK’S FIXTURES
Sport
Monday 1
August
Tuesday 2
August
Wednesday
3 August
Thursday 4
August
Friday 5
August
1August – 5 August
Opposition
Venue
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Practice as
normal
U11A Soccer
U11B Soccer
School Closed
Weizmann
Kronendal
Election Day
GPCC
GPCC
14:30
14:30
16:30
16:30
U9A Soccer
U9B Soccer
U13A Soccer
U13B Soccer
SP Girls Hockey
SP Chess
Camps Bay Prim
Llandudno B
Good Hope Sem
Highlands
Kronendal
Weizmann
GPCC
GPCC
Away
Away
Away
Away
13:50
13:50
14:30
14:30
14:30
13:30
15:45
15:45
16:30
16:30
16:45
15:15
SP Girls Soccer
Highlands
Away
13:30
15:30
TRAFFIC POLICY
Revised Oct 2015
VEHICULAR ACCESS
Vehicular access to the school grounds is via Cavalcade Road entrance. The gate is open between the
hours of 07.00-09.00 and 12.00-18.00 generally. Parents of students are required to display the
Reddam House security decal on the bottom left corner of their windscreen to gain access. Parents
are provided with two decals upon enrolment, and additional decals may be purchased from the
Bursar’s office.
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Drivers entering the grounds of Reddam House are expected to obey traffic regulations at all times,
with special attention to the following:
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Please drive carefully and responsibly;
Please remain calm and respectful when using public access roads to the school or when in the
parking area itself;
Please enter the school by turning left from Cavalcade Road and exit the school by turning left down
Cavalcade Road ONLY! This is a City of Cape Town regulation;
No stopping or parking on yellow or red lines or anywhere which may inhibit the general flow of
traffic in and out of the parking area;
No stopping or parking in disabled parking bays or reserved parking bays;
No parking across bays or parking others in;
Please use the ‘stop and drop’ for the intended purpose ONLY;
Please do not hoot or behave in a disrespectful manner either in the parking area or when
approaching the school on a public road;
When the parking area is full, drivers must please respect security and/or staff by refraining from
entering the parking area and double parking;
Obey the instructions of our security staff/ Reddam House staff at all times; their priority is the
safety of all pupils of Reddam House.
Please be advised that users of the parking area or access roads who disobey the above will be
disciplined in accordance with the Reddam House discipline code.
STUDENT DRIVERS
Students wishing to bring motor vehicles/motorcycles to school must first obtain a Student Parking
Permit decal. Application for a permit is made to the Head of the College, and application forms can
be obtained from his Personal Assistant. Pupils will be required to provide a copy of their driver’s
license with their application form.
SCHOOL PHOTOS
Dear Parents,
YOUR 2016 SCHOOL PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE
Your children’s 2016 school photographs are now available for viewing and purchase online on the That’s Me
Photography website.
Please visit www.thatsme.co.za to access your photos. If you have not used the website before, please first click on
REGISTER to register an account. If you are already registered, just click on LOGIN to login with your username and
password.
For security purposes, please ensure that you register using one of your email addresses that the school has on their
records.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or queries.
Kind regards
That’s Me Photography
www.thatsme.co.za
[email protected]
DATES TO DIARISE
03 AUG
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Public Holiday – Voting Day – School & Adventure Zone closed
04 AUG
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Grade 8 Market Day
05 AUGUST
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Slipper Day – R10 – come in your slippers! In support of Reach for a Dream
Foundation
08 & 09 AUG
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Tuesday – Women’s Day – School & Adventure Zone closed Mon & Tues