St Paul's Primary Yearbook 2013 by St Paul's College Namibia

Primary Yearbook 2013

Contents

Administration

Formal Photographs

Grade 1 - 7 Contributions

Languages 73 Science 79

Cultural Activities

Sport Activities

Other happenings at school

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20 Jan Jonker Road, Klein Windhoek P.O. Box 11736, Klein Windhoek Tel: 061-22 77 83 Fax: 302592 admissions@spcnam.org

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The

Head of Primary says ... Do we give our children what they really need: • Love • Time, not money • A listening ear • Motivation to persevere • Firmness with kindness • Consequences • Forgiveness

2012 saw us bid a well loved and much experienced Mrs de Villiers farewell and welcome Ms Roth in her place. The Grade 4 expansion process blessed us with Ms Ras, a teacher with Maths and Science as her majors. This year we are sad to say farewell to Mrs Jacobs and her family as they relocate to Oranjemund. Mrs Kankowski Jacobs will follow in her experienced footsteps. With the expansion of the Primary School, we introduce a second Grade 5 class in 2014. Mr Ambambi has been appointed to teach Maths and Science in this position.

TIME

My heart is deeply troubled about the innocence of our children that is eroding and that less and less time is available to spend with our most treasured assets.

TECHNOLOGY

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. We are the adults. We need to be informed, talk to other parents, educate ourselves and our children and set boundaries in place to protect them from the negative influences that it brings.

Cellphones – do our children need smart phones if all we want is to have them contact us

Have we protected our children from content that is harmful on the television and the internet

Have we taken the time to talk to our children about how to use technology wisely

Do we really know what sites our children are visiting and what types of messages they are sending

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Do we set time limits for usage Where is the cellphone / tablet at bedtime

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Lesley Saunders Head of Primary

Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff. - Catherine M. Wallace

MANAGEMENT AND ADMIN

Principal Mrs E Gudde

Head of Primary Mrs L Saunders

Primary Secretary Celia de Barros Sandra Bassingthwaighte Admin, Chess

LOWER PRIMARY STAFF

Cathy Jacobs Gr 1A

Jana Wessels Gr 1B

Suzรกnne Jacobs

Lauren Stainton

Gr 2B

Anni Roth Gr 3A, German

Anneli Pretorius Gr 4A

Hannemie Ras Gr 4B

Elna Rall Gr 5A

Jackie Luyt Gr 6A

Gr 2A

UPPER PRIMARY STAFF

Caryn Hosking Gr 3B

MUSIC DEPARTMENT

LANGUAGES

Fran Bolton Gr 7A

Anneke le Roux Afrikaans

Maggie Wakalela

German

Alfeus Mvula Art Grade 2, 3

Hermien Coetzee Music

Marietjie Buys Music

Eric Burger PE

Fortune Matawu PE

SPORT DEPARTMENT

ART DEPARTMENT

Pinkie(Sevelia Nanghama)Drama

Mrs J Koekemoer Library

Wanda Marais Art Gr 4 - 7

Tonja Weber Sport Admin

Teaching and Administrative Staff

The amazing staff of our Primary School made it a year of success once again. The hard work and passionate hearts make the difference in so many young lives. What really makes us a strong group is the strength we find in God and the support we give each other.

Ground Staff Back Row: Freddie Shavuka, Festus Hangula, Romondo Jordani, Simon Nambungu, Erastus Muhoko Middle Row: Titus Tobias, Manfred Fliede, Simon Shikongo, Samuel Waendama, Ephraim Shaanika Front Row: Victor Shanyengange, Taddeus Iipinge, Sakeus Kapula, Jonas Shaanika, Lautha Luiperth

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Grade 1A Back: Kyril Nghishekwa, Milah Malan, Luca Fennessy, Shanique Struwig, Sula Burger, Caitlyn Mandy, Max Voges, Ishay Kahimise Middle: Anthony Jacobs, Zoë Sinvula, Tamzyn Arendorf, Brunhilda Gaidzanwa, Marques Diergaardt, Mukena Mukena, Kaelyn Metcalfe, Hannah Goases Front: Suku Shirata, Cate Wahl, Joshua Dalling, Jonty Austin, Mrs C Jacobs, Zoë Nott, Guile Zapata-Pozo, Florette Nakusera, Mohammed Patel

Grade 1B Back: Kaylin Shebo, Zander Schmidt, Kyle Allies, Matthew du Plessis, Philip Jauss, Moné Graham, Joëlle Nuulimba, Samantha Jacobs Middle: Angela Maiba, Ashley Routh, Jamilla Hungamo, Max Magnun, Rylan Bombosch, Talita Barros, Jamoah Mohammed, Syrah Chaimberlain Front: José Tuoro, Anassa Jordani, Anne-Leen Thorburn, Hannah De Goede, Ms J Wessels, Zoé Waldschmidt, Rutendo Toto, Emma Landman, Che Jones

Grade 2A Back: Helina Shepard, Ryan Moffett, Naritunge Shiimi, Jett Austin, Lazarus Petrus, Garren Backhaus, Shana Arendorf, Mikah Burger Middle: Ndinahafo Shilomboleni, Zabeth Philander, Angela Haikali, Carl Bauernschmitt, Damian Beukes, Emma Tromp, Mackenzie Späth, Ebba Mulife Front: Ramsay McDonald, Kairiri Katjioungua, Fallon Becker, Keasha Tjipuka, Mrs S Jacobs, Keira McNamara, Satya Sehgal, Nontombi Moyo , Connor Murphy Absent: Mariana Amaral Machado

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Grade 2B Back: Wendy-Lee Milne, Cadence Van Rooi, Janice Kennedy,Danil Lyeschuk , Daniel Jauss, Adam Benaddi, Jason Barnard, Pascale Pimenta, Caitlin Coetzer Middle: Nathan Gee, Allan Tait, Ashton Dercksen, Antoine Segura, Ama-e Witbooi, Bernadette Naris, Carol Youssef, Ella Thomas Front: Ellie-Rose Outchoumou, Prosperity Aluteni, Mallex Shipanga, Ruth Musasa, Ms L Stainton, Daniel Tjimuku, Sofia Nycander Calnan, Tireni Amulungu, Jeskia Campbell

Grade 3A Back: Nathan Shave, Julian Schütz, Kalila Whitelock, Lara Backhaus, Jack Parker, Nependa Uremena, Alexandre Camelo, Tonia Karume Middle: Gina Olles, Airi Shirata, Azaylee Philander, Uri Katjioungua, Matthew Busse, Jono Strauss Front: Robbe Dewulf, Faith Kauta, Alice Young, Keith Mutandi, Ms A Roth, Samantha Baring-Gould, Gerhard Gerber, Dominique Clayton, Alicia-Lee Hans

Grade 3B Back: Lapita Amulungu, Katelyn du Plessis, Christopher de Jager, Charl Malan, Izaac Fallis, Marleny Dassala, Uno Nuujoma Middle: Mwangala Mukena, Mark Swanepoel, Linda Ndadi, Michaela Allis, Savannah Noirfalise, Dylan Openshaw, Alxander Cartwright, Léa Oriol Front: Chris Mutandi, Martha Mvula, Tyra Collins, Mrs C Hosking, Amelia Schuler, Declan Landman, Kamesha Jones

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor – Hindi proverb

Grade 4A Back: Krynauw Weber, Kyra-Asante Nghishekwa, Gero Kirchner, Michael Kotze, Hivi Haihambo, Jana Swanepoel, Sandra Youssef, Adam Landman Middle: Caleb Titus, Aidan Schwartz, Moroni Tembo, Sophie Young, Kayla Coetzer, Anoushka Seha, Carol Amaral Machado, Ntando Sibanda, Joshua Thomas Front: Djamila Du Plessis, Chiara Van Rooi, Leonardine Appolus, Elsie Jacobs, Mrs A Pretorius, Dylan Fourie, Tino Pack, Daniel Branch, Liam Adonis

Grade 4B Back: Cassandra Wannenmacher, Sheunopa Chani, Chaze Shakwa, Benjamin Singer, Chris Barnard, Panduleni Anuenjé, Yano Beukes, Ti-â Gaomas Middle: Morné Conradie, Hannah Murphy, Reagan Abrahams, Liya Herunga, Lance Hauuanga, Vseteka Pakote, Alana Adonis, Caleb Kapa, Jordan Titus Front: Jessica Kennedy, Kuria Kuria, Chevonne De Jager, Ms H Ras, Megan Smith, Olivia Shino, Temwani Bruhns

Grade 5 Back: Ava-Marie Greiner, Nelago Imbili, Mark Olles, Mandi Short, Gian Dresselhaus, Kennedy Hawala, Jodie-Lee Barnard, Rachel Edmunds, Joshua Strauss Middle: Christian Du Plessis, Tyler Hancox, Elavoko Pakote, Angelina Norval, Veri Hinda, Rowan Müller, Hertha Vilho, Fagan Hansen, Mare-Lise Gerber, Jan-Louis Nortjé Front: Tumna Kankondi, Adam Johnston, Henry Modestus, Sophia Trede, Mrs E Rall, Joané Van Rooyen, Hiren Naidoo, Martin Maritz, Tiago Pimenta

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Grade 6 Back: Kiana-Ché Cormack, Jamie Coetzee, Tjimaa Katjioungua, Ashia Whitelock, Zuné Weber, Daniela Brunido, … Jessica Norris Middle: Tengee Katjioungua, Rafael Neves, Siân Clayton, Tawana Matswetu, Marizelle Bezuidenhout, Layla Philander, Jessie Tembo, Bennie Van Zijl, Martin Shipanga Front: Carien Van Rooyen, Janet Cunningham, Megan Landman, Rachel Finch, Mrs J Luyt, Emily Shave, Uetuu Katjivena, Gwen Persaud, Kayla Nel

Grade 7 Back: Rejoice Vilho, Josua Cloete, Fortune Gaidzanwa, Dakota Hansen, Zani Van Lill, Stanley Dassala, Leilah Hansen, Penda Modestus Middle: Gerrard Damons, Kangwa Chakanga, Ndepewa Kapwanga, Tristan Kölling, Carli Le Roux, Otja Muruko, Uakaa Zaamuani, Thierry Karume, Kaja Pack Front: Christopher Wannenmacher, Jeani Holz, Liam Hermanus, Ngambui Katjivena, Mrs F Bolton, Damien Schütz, Nnuku Aluteni, Nguvi Hinda, Keenan Collins

Archery Front: Sophie Young, Caleb Kapa, Sandra Youssef, Kalila Whitelock, Adam Johnston Middle: Alana Adonis, Jana Swanepoel, Chris Barnard, Ava-Marie Greiner, Christian du Plessis, Rowan Müller Back: Ashia Whitelock, Ms S Jacobs, Mr Whitelock Absent: Coach: Bethany Kapa

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Athletics National Dakota Hansen, Jeani Holz, Ngumbui Katjivena Mr Burger

Athletics Regional Front: Panduleni Amuenjé, Kiana Cormack, Ngumbui Katjivena, Jeani Holz Middle: Liam Hermanus, Mark Olles, Marizelle Bezuidenhout Back: Dakota Hansen, Zuné Weber, Mr Burger, Gian Dresselhaus, Tristan Kölling

Athletics Zone B - Boys Front: Ngumbui Katjivena, Panduleni Amuenjé, Martin Maritz, Moroni Tembo, Ntandoyenkosi Sibanda Middle: Elavoko Pakote, Liam Hermanus, Yano Beukes, Mark Olles, Lance Hauuanga, Rowan Müller Back: Tristan Kölling, Dakota Hansen, Gian Dresselhaus, Mr Burger, Kennedy Hawala, JanLouis Nortjé

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Athletics Zone B - Girls Front: Marizelle Bezuidenhout, Janet Cunningham, Uetuu Katjivena, Sophia Trede, Rachel Finch Middle: Daniela Brunido, Kiana Cormack, Jeani Holz, Kyra-Asante Nghishekwa Back: Ashia Whitelock, Fortune Gaidzanwa, Zuné Weber, Mandisa Short Mr Burger

Athletics Small Schools - Boys Front: Adam Johnston, Mwangala Mukena, Reagan Abrahams, Moroni Tembo, Ntandoyenkosi Sibanda, Ndaua Ndilula, Krynauw Weber Second Row: Rafael Neves, Liam Hermanus, Michael Kotzé, Panduleni Amuenjé, Yano Beukes, DamienSchütz, Ngumbui Katjivena, Martin Maritz, Tawana Matswetu Third Row: Tristan Kölling, Elavoko Pakote, Hiren Naidoo, Mark Olles, Nguvi Hinda, Lance Hauuanga, Henry Modestus, Rowan Müller Back: Dakota Hansen, Kangwa Chakanga, Gian Dresselhaus, Mr Burger, Kennedy Hawala, Jan-Louis Nortjé, Veri Hinda Absent: Tengee Katjiuongua

Athletics Small Schools Girls Front: Jessica Kennedy, Jana Swanepoel, Kayla Coetzer, Hannah Murphy, Liya Herunga, Airi Shirata Second Row: Cassandra Wannenmacher, Chevonne de Jager, Kyra-Asante Nghishekwa, Janet Cunningham, Uetuu Katjivena, Sophia Trede, Joané van Rooyen Third Row: Jamie Coetzee, Kayla Nel, Daniela Brunido, Marizelle Bezuidenhout, Rachel Finch, Kiana Cormack, Jeani Holz Back: Rejoice Vilho, Mandisa Short, Ashia Whitelock, Zuné Weber, Mr Burger, Leilah Hans, Fortune Gaidzanwa

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Cricket Grade 1 Front: Guillermo Zapata-Pozo, José Tuoro, Che Jones, Jonty Austin, Rotendo Toto, Anthony Jacobs Middle: Luca Fennessy, Mohammed Patel, Hilton Lima, Sukuma Shirata, Marques Diergaardt, Mukena Mukena, Rylan Bombosch, Jamoah Mohammed Back: Kyril Nghishekwa, Zander Schmidt, Kyle Allies, Mr Matawu, Max Voges, Philip Jauss, Max Magnun Absent: Matthew du Plessis Insert: Coaches: Dickson, Zee

Cricket Grade 2 Front: Daniil Lyeschuk, Damian Beukes, Daniel Tjimuku, Connor Murphy, Allan Tait, Jett Austin, Rayn Moffet Middle: Ashton Dercksen, Nathan Gee, Garren Backhaus, Ramsay McDonald, Jason Barnard, Carl Bauernschmitt Back: Daniel Jauss, Mikah Burger, Mr Matawu, Antoine Segura, Lazarus Petrus Insert: Coaches: Dickson, Zee

Cricket U10 A Front: Urinaao Katjiuongua, Chris Mutandi, Keith Mutandi, Jett Austin Back: Dylan Openshaw, Jack Parker, Mr Matawu, Alexander Cartwright, Julian Schütz Insert: Coaches: Dickson, Zee

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THE ABC’S

OF HEALTHY EATING You’ll find only the very best quality fresh produce in our stores, encouraging you and your family to lead a healthy lifestyle. So come on over to Fruit & Veg City and Food Lover’s Market for a wide range of healthy foods to keep your kids strong and healthy. Your child’s health is very important, so be sure to encourage them to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Food Lover’s Market, Metro Hyper, Cnr. of Chasie Street and Frankie Fredericks Avenue, Kleine Kuppe, Windhoek, Tel: 414 700 • Fruit & Veg City, Cnr. Fidel Castro and Mandume Ndemfayo Avenue, Windhoek, Tel: 377 150 Food Lover’s Market Centre, 50 Moses Garoëb, Swakopmund, Tel: 414 400 • Fresh Produce Market, 69 Moses Groëb St, Walvis Bay, Tel: 207 152

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Cricket U10 B Front: Daniel Tjimuku, Allan Tait, Ramsay McDonald, Connor Murphy, Jason Barnard Back: Daniel Jauss, Mikah Burger, Mr Matawu, Ryan Moffet, Antoine Segura Insert: Coaches: Dickson, Zee

Cricket U11 Front: Alexander Cartwright, Chris Mutandi, Urinaao Katjiuongua, Vseteka Pakote Middle: Jack Parker, Isaac Fallis, Krynauw Weber, Benjamin Singer Back: Fagan Hansen, Michael Kotzé, Mr Matawu, Mark Olles, Tumna Kankondi Absent: Liam Adonis

Cricket U13 Front: Hiren Naidoo, Fagan Hansen, Elavoko Pakote, Nguvi Hinda Middle: Liam Hermanus, Martin Shipanga, Damien Schütz, Jan-Louis Nortjé, Veri Hinda Back: Keenan Collins, Dakota Hansen, Mr Matawu, Otja Muruko, Tristan Kölling Insert: Mark Olles

Life is like a box of Smarties. You never know which one you are going to get. Have fun with it! Tyler & Jessica

Hockey U8 A - Boys Front: Connor Murphy, Ramsay McDonald, Jett Austin, Ryan Moffet Back: Jason Barnard, Ms Wessels, Lazarus Petrus

Hockey U8 B - Boys Front: Damien Beukes, Rylan Bombosch, JosĂŠ Tuoro, Sukuma Shirata Back: Ashton Dercksen, Ms Wessels, Zander Schmidt

Hockey U8 C - Boys Front: Jonty Austin, Che Jones, Jamoah Mohammed Middle: Garren Backhaus, Daniil Lyeschuk, Mohammed Patel, Anthony Jacobs Back: Luca Fennessy, Kyril Nghishekwa, Ms Stainton, Kyle Allies, Max Magnun Absent: Matthew du Plessis

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Hockey U8 A - Girls Front: Mallex Shipanga, Bernadette Naris, Wendy-Lee Milne, Emma Tromp, Ruth Musasa Back: Caitlin Coetzer, Mrs Jacobs, Ndinahafo Shilomboleni

Hockey U8 B - Girls Front: Kairiri Katjiuongua, Keira McNamara, Fallon Becker, Ebba Mulife Back: Samantha Jacobs, Mrs C Jacobs, Mariana Amaral Machado

Hockey U8 C - Girls Front: Pascale Pimenta, Anne-Leen Thorburn, Zoë Nott, Talita Barros Middle: Caitlyn Mandy, Cate Wahl, Kaelyn Metcalfe, Satya Sehgal Back: Moné Graham, Brunhilda Gaidzanwa, Mrs C Jacobs, Milah Malan, Mackenzie Späth Absent: Zoë Sinvula

Why wish upon a star when you can pray to the One who created it? The Thorburn family

Hockey U10 A - Boys Front: Chris Barnard, Isaac Fallis, Yano Beukes Middle: Morné Conradie, Krynauw Weber, Panduleni Amuenjé Back: Tumna Kankondi, Ms Roth, Benjamin Singer Coach absent: Jerrica Cormack

Hockey U10 B - Boys Front: Urinaao Katjiuongua, Julian Schütz, Nathan Shave Middle: Mikah Burger, Jonathan Strauss, Alexander Cartwright, Jordan Titus, Caleb Titus Back: Tumna Kankondi, Ms Roth, Nependa Uremena Coach absent: Jerrica Cormack

Hockey U10 C - Boys Front: Keith Mutandi, Gert Gerber, Carl Bauernschmitt, Chris Mutandi Middle: Charl Malan, Dylan Openshaw, Christopher de Jager, Matthew Busse Back: Tumna Kankondi, Ms Roth, Daniel Jauss Coach absent: Jerrica Cormack

It does not matter who is against you because God is always for you. The Trede family

Hockey U10 A - Girls Front: Azaylee Philander, Martha Mvula, Airi Shirata Middle: Samantha Baring-Gould, Gina Olles, Liya Herunga, Carolina Amaral Machado Back: Hannah Murphy, Ms Rall, Unovandu Nuujoma

Hockey U10 B - Girls Front: Alice Young, Sophie Young, Kayla Coetzer Middle: Kyra-Asante Nghishekwa, Kalila Whitelock, Anneke Eisenberg, Elsie Jacobs Back: Sandra Youssef, Ms Rall, Katelyn du Plessis

Hockey U10 C - Girls Front: Tyra Collins, Michaela Allies Middle: Kathryn Callesen, Faith Kauta, Savannah Noirfalise Back: Sandra Youssef, Ms Rall, Marleny Dassala Insert: Kamesha Jones

Enjoy the rest of your primary school . The Hinda family

Hockey U12 A - Boys Front: Hiren Naidoo, Martin Mariz, Adam Johnston, Rowan Müller Middle: Kennedy Hawala, Jan-Louis Nortjé, Mark Olles, Fagan Hansen, Bennie van Zijl Back: Ms Ras, Gian Dresselhaus, Ms Holz

Hockey U12 B - Boys Front: Tiago Pimenta, Elavoko Pakote, Henry Modestus Middle: Hiren Naidoo, Christian du Plessis, Ndaua Ndilula, Bennie van Zijl Back: Kennedy Hawala, Ms Ras, Ms Holz, Veri Hinda

Hockey U12 A - Girls Front: Carien van Rooyen, Joané van Rooyen Middle: Daniella Brunido, Kiana Cormack, Jessica Norris, Zuné Weber Back: Shayne Cormack, Ms Pretorius Absent: Sasha Jarvis

We are all equal before God. Elavoko & Vseteka Pakote

Hockey U12 B - Girls Front: Angelina Norval, Hertha Vilho, Sophia Trede Middle: Tyler Hancox, Layla Philander, Nelago Imbili, Emily Shave Back: Shayne Cormack, Mare-Lise Gerber, Ms Pretorius

Hockey U14 - Boys Front: Martin Shipanga, Liam Hermanus, Damien Schütz, Nguvi Hinda Middle: Josua Cloete, Rafael Neves, Ms Ras, Penda Modestus, Danilo Dobrilovic Back: Kangwa Chakanga, Dakota Hansen Absent: Tengee Katiuongua, Yekuru Tjombonde (HS), Nico Jacobs (HS) Coach Absent: Trevor Cormack

Hockey U14 - Girls Front: Nnuku Aluteni, Rachel Finch, Marizelle Bezuidenhout, Kiana Cormack, Janet Cunningham Middle: Jeani Holz, Uakaa Zaamuani, Jamie Coetzee, Kaja Pack, Daniela Brunido Back: Rejoice Vilho, Carli le Roux, Ms Bolton, Zani van Lill, Zuné Weber

Practice makes perfect! Bow down and persevere! The Jacobs family

Pupkewitz Gala Grade 1 - 3 Front: Alice Young, Marques Diergaardt, Pascale Pimenta, Kamesha Jones, Janice Kennedy Second Row: Charl Malan, Amelia Schuler, Caitlin Coetzer, Julian Schütz Third Row: Keira McNamara, Milah Malan, Antoine Segura, Kalila Whitelock, Katelyn du Plessis Back: Connor Murphy, Ryan Moffet, Mikah Burger, Ivan Mueller, Christopher de Jager

Pupkewitz Gala Grade 4 - 7 Front: Emily Shave, Anneke Eisenberg, Hannah Murphy, Jessica Kennedy, Dylan Fourie Middle: Kayla Coetzer, Krynauw Weber, Chris Barnard, Nnuku Aluteni Back: Ashia Whitelock, Zuné Weber, Dakota Hansen, Gerrard Damons, Keenan Collins

Recorder Grade 1 Front: Cate Wahl, Che Jones, Florette Nakusera, Zoë Nott, Natalia Dobrilovic, Angela Maiba Second Row: Kyril Nghishekwa, Talita Barros, Sukuma Shirata, Tamzyn Arendorf, Ishayvani Kahimise, Jamilla Hungamo Third Row: Joëlle Nuulimba, Luca Fennessy, Jonty Austin, Sula Burger, Max Voges Back: Moné Graham, Ms Buys, Philip Jauss

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Recorder Grade 2 Front: Keasha Tjipuka, Keira McNamara, Connor Murphy Second Row: Fallon Becker, Mallex Shipanga, Ella Thomas, Ryan Moffet, Carol Youssef Third Row: Satya Sehgal, Wendy-Lee Milne, Emma Tromp, Naritunge Shiimi, Mackenzie Sp채th, Jett Austin Back: Shana Arendorf, Daniel Jauss, Ms Buys, Mikah Burger, Antoine Segura

Recorder Grade 3 Front: Gina Olles, Kamesha Jones, Alexander Cartwright Middle: Isaac Fallis, Samantha Baring-Gould, Airi Shirata, Lapita Amulungu Back: Charl Malan, Linda Ndadi, Ms Buys, Amelia Shuler, Julian Sch체tz

Recorder Grade 4 Front: Chiara van Rooi, Elsie Jacobs Middle: Anoushka Seha, Sandra Youssef, Chaze Shakwa, Benjamin Singer Back: Kyra-Asante Nghishekwa, Ms Buys, Ti-창 Gaomas

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A year in Grade 1B

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33 Kaylin van Jaarsveld: When I grow up I want ti ve an vet and

Ashley: I roll the dough then I put on tomato sauce then I put

Zander Schmidt: I want to be com a socplae (soccer player). I

Kaylin: When I come back form the shop I roll the dough. Then I put thee tomato souceo an then I put on the cheese and then I put ham and egg. Then I put my pizza in the oven.

a artist.

want to be com a soldier.

Anne-Leen Thorburn: When I grow up I whant to be a vet.

chees. I love my pizza. then I put on ham then I call mom.

Becos then I help anemles becos they can’t touk and som amemles get very sick. And also being a vet is fun for me. Way (why) I whant too be a vet is becos I love amemies.

Zander: I roll the doug. I put tatato sauce orr. Then I add mushrooms and cheese. Then I put in on te oven. I also like to put on polony and avoecado.

Jose Tuoro:

I want to be a soco playr bicoz it is fun and I can

Zoé: I roll the dough. I will put on topping. I like pineapple . I

Ruthendo Toto: When I grow up I want to be rascars (race car Zoe Waldschmidt: When I grow up I want to be a scietist.

Anassa: I roll the dough and then I put on polony and then I put on mushrooms and then I put on pineapple and then I put on cheese then I tell my mum that I am done, then she puts the pizza in the oven.

PIZZA Shopping for a pizza:

Rylan: I Roll the dough. I put tomato souce on. I put cheese and then my mom puts it in the oven.

go home.

driver) bcos I like cars. And I want to fly a eruplan.

Moné: When I go to the shop, I must duy pizza dough. I must also duy ckicken, cheese, mushrooms, ham, dacon pineaaple. When I have all my ingredients, I must pay. Then I ghome.

Emma: When I go to the shop, I must buy pizza dough. I must also buy ckicken and cheese and bacon.

also like polony and cheese. with egg.

Eating my pizza: Jamilla: Eatg my pizza, I tak out a plat. My mum takes out taks out the pizza when the timer goes off. SIice! Then I wait in the livnroom and eat. Philip: I take out a plate My mom takes out pizza, when the tim

Samantha: When I go to the shop I must buy pizza dough. I

goes off. I slice the pizza. Then I wait in livingroom, and watch a maxie. I eat the pizza.

Kyle: When I go to the shop, I must buy pizza dough. I must

Syrah: I take out a plate. My dad takes out the pizza when the timer goes off. Then I cut tho pizza Then I watch my favourite movie and it is surfer Barbie

Rutendo: When I go to the shop, I must buy pizza. I must also

Max: I am smelling the pizza. I go to the kichin and I get my mum and my mum takes the pizza out. Then I wash my hands. Then I go on the kaus (couch) and my mum is getting the pizza.

Jamoah: When I go to the shop, I must buy pizza dough. I must

Joëlle: My mum takes out the pizza when the timer goes off. Then my mum takes a knife and cuts the pizza then I wait in the livingroom I put in a movie and pray then eat the pizza!

must also gt cheese. When I have all my ingredients, then I go and pay. Then I go home.

also buy cheese. When I have all my ingredens I must pay. Then I go home.

buy ham. When I have all my ingredients. I must pay. Then I go hom.

also buy. When I have all my ingredients I must pay. Then I go home.

José: I take out a plate. My dad takes out the pizza. when the

Che: When I go to the shop, I must buy pizz dough. I must also

timer goes off. and cuts the pizza. I wait and eat the pizza.

Making a pizza:

Anne-Leen: I take out a plate. My mom takes out the pizza. When the Pizza is out of the over.My mom cuts the pizza. I wait in the livingroom and watch my favrit movie and eat my pizza.

buy mushrooms and cheese and then bacon and ham and tmatos and afd (after) I payed then I go home.

Angela:

Matthew: My pizza is done mum. Can you take it uot?Yes I can take it uot. Can you tuc the knife out. Yes mum I can. Can I eating in the kitchen? Yes!

Talita: I will roll the dough and then I will add the topings. I like

Hannah: I take out a plate my mom / dad takes out the pizza,

I roll the dough the pot tomato sauce on I put on cheese and pineappla and ham and mushroom. I also put on avocado and spinach and egg. I put it in the oven.

cheese, I put the cheese in the oven then I will put hamon. and pineapple.

timer goes off. Then I wait in the livingroom, movie and eat the pizza.

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A Year in Grade 2

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Outing to the SPCA

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My Mother, my teacher and other things... Grade 2A He works very hard. My dad spoils everyone. I love my dad very much. He lets me go on lots of sleep-overs.

My mother… My mom allways reads me one of all the books I like. When I am sick she allways gives me some water to drink and then we all go to bed. Then she holds me very, very tite at night time.

Zabeth Philander My mother likes to look good and swim. She also gos to the jime every day. Her favorit colour is purple. She plants seeds of hope.

Keasha Tjipuka My mother is sweet. I love her feet. She loves to jog, she follows God. If I have fear, she’s always near. My mother’s a dear.

Emma Tromp My Dad is cind and he is a lovely Dad. I love him because he gives me everything. He iven makes jox (jokes) and he is beautiful too.

Mariana Machado My dad halps me with my homework. He likes rubey (rugby), cricket and tennis. He takes me around the world. He tickles me and spoils me. I thing he is the best.

Fallon Bekker

Ebba Mutilife

My father likes to work on his car and he plays with me and he waters the garden and he lets me play on his I-pad and he reads storys to me and he spoyls me.

I think she is a lovely mom. She likes running with me. In the neight time she puts me in bed. She makes me feel better whene I am sick. She is the best mom in the world. I love her so much.

My dad is an arktect and he is very playful and he likes dogs that are big. He likes to fics things and he spoils us lots of times and he likes to sleep.

Damian Beukes

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Keira McNamara

My mother loves me. I love her too. She gifs good food every day.

My father is a grate person. He looks cool all the time and he loves soccer and he likes watching soccer. He is lazy when he comes from work (don’t we all need a rest!) and he loves me and I love him.

Carl Bauernschmitt My mom likes doring (drawing) pikshers and she also helps me with my homework. She teachis me Jermen every day and she reads me stories. She likes making cakes and a special banana bread.

Garren Backhaus I love my mom. She wheres pretty clothes. When we barbq (barbeque) she likes chops and pork belly. She drives a vw kombi.

Ramsay McDonald

Lazarus Petrus My dad likes swimming on TV and going camping. He sprays us with water when we are on the trapling (trampoline). He likes working on his phone. He also likes swimming in rilif (real life).

Connor Murphy My teacher…

My mom reminds me of a tiger. She is slim and she likes to jog and she is a nise mother. She plays games with me and she spend all her time on me.

I love my teacher. We learn with my teacher. She is so funny and fun. She makes us happy. We make jokes. She loves me and all the other class maitse. She is the best teacher I could have and sometimes she tells us about the Bible.

Mikah Burger

Nontombi Moyo She is kind and butiful and special. She’s not just my teacher, she’s also my friend. She likes teaching us. My favorit teacher ever! She like chokolit and her favorit colour is blue.

My father… My father likes to jog. He likes to take me to school. You buy food and loves soccer very much. You sign my diary. You read the nearypaper (newspaper). You like to build houses.

Ndinehafo Shilomboleni My father is very funny. He takes us on camping trips. He’s very tidey. My dad loves everyone. He koocks amazing food.

Keasha Tjipuka I like my teacher. She is a happy teacher. She gif hard maths and good books.

Carl Bauernschmitt

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38 My teacher is also very funny! She likes to be very silly. I like to hug her. But most of all I love my teacher.

Satya Sehgal She is whundifal. Mrs, Youckops, you are so talented. I can’t wait until I see Aleka and Balle’s (sisters) faces when they are in Gr. 2A. It is going to be so fun and I love her. She even helps us.

Mackenzie Spath My teacher is the best teacher ever. She gives us eesy tasks. She teaches 25 students. She’s a beese (busy) teacher.

Jett Austin What I want to be one day. I want to be a dentist because they help children that they can get healthy so I can also help my children.

Kairiri Katjiuongua

Zabeth Philander I went to the funday and it was amazing. I played on the gokarts and the jumping castle. I was looking for my sister, but I stopped and I played with Zoe. We saw Angela. We chast her around. We were so happy to see her, so we all played.

Kairiri Katjiuongua It was super, super, super awesome. It was very crazy and beautiful. I liked the gocarts and I went on both of the sides of the climbing wall. There was tea and cake. I didn’t want eny. There were pancakes and waffles. It was exciting. It was very cool and woderful.

Garren Backhaus

I want to be a teacher because I will no everything and I will study in Pootogul (Portugal) and love animals.

Mariana Machado I want to be a dancer, singer and doctor. I am going to go to Cape Town and study there. I’m going to study everything for 3 – 5 years.

Shana Arendorf I want to be sumwun who travels. I would go all around the whole world but I have to study. I can umagin how nice it is. I am going to college and going to travel.

Mackenzie Spath I want to be a fashion desiner. I’m going to be travering all around the world. I might study in America. I will open an academy called stley(style) it up.

Naritunge Shiimi I whant to be a soccer star and a docter that is a mionare (millionaire) because van pesy is the best soccer player in the wold and a Dr has a lot of money. I’ll go to inglend to study.

Lazarus Petrus

The funday was fun because there were go-karts and slush puppys and rock climbing. We saw men braaing and people getting hairspray. I saw people selling candy floss. There were amazing games. It was the best day of my life. I was loving that day. It was exciting. My favourite game was rock climbing.

Naritunge Shiimi I was excited at first when it started. It was more exciting and fun. I had lots of prizes and the bag was full. I did go-karting lots and lots of times and I made skid marks and they called me mikl shoomuku (Michael Shumacher)! I had 3 pancakes. It was super fun. At the airgun you got free targets. Paintball was allso awesome. It was very crazy. I did lots of games.

Ramsay McDonald On funday we went paintballing. I got shot. It was sore. We went go-karting. My go-kart’s wheel popt. The paintball was awesome, cool and exciting. It was so fun. I won a puppy for the prizes. I went rock climbing too.

Connor Murphy Visit to the S.P.C.A.

I want to be a doctor won day because they can save somwons life and they make lots of money.

Mikah Burger Funday I got a tattoo and I saw Emma. We had so much fun and I ran into Keasha and KK. Then we played rock-climbing. It was amazing. We got to see Angela. It was so cool. We really missed her. KK and I went go Karts. A boy was going supure fast and he bumped into someone else. I loved the braai. It was so delicious. It was so crazy, interesting and awesome. It was the best funday ever!!

Nontombi Moyo

We aet lollipops. We also drangk slush puppies. We had a braai. There was popcorn, tea and cake. There was hairspray and waffles, go-karts and candy floss. It was the best day ever. Every one loved it very much. We did fishing. It was amazing.

On Friday we went to the S.P.C.A. with our new bus and we were the first ones in it. It was big and good! We got there. Some of us brot money and dog food and cat food! We met someone to show us the way. We touched the dogs. Some are puppies and if your dog gos away, go to the S.P.C.A. Then we went to the cats. We went into the cage. And we went back to school in the bus again.

Ndinehafo Shilomboleni I gave a donation to the ladey. We were the first ones to get in the new bus. First we went to the puppies but we could not touch some dogs because they belong to other people so they were in kennels. The dogs barked. At the end we saw the cute cats and we

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Emma Tromp We were the first ones to go on the new bus. Some of the dogs and cats were under quarantine and they have to get the right medcine for the dogs and cats. And we also got to touch them. The cats really liked me very much.

Ryan Moffet We were the first ones to go on the new bus. I saw cats and dogs and it was very noisy and the dogs were barking and some were scared. The cats were very, very cute. When people go on holiday they take care of the animals.

Damian Beukes On Friday we were going to the S.P.C.A. and we were the first one to get on the new bus. When we got there we put the dog food and the cat food next to the door, and a lady came to show the dogs and cats. Then we went into a door where the dogs were, and they were very noisy, so we quickly went out. Then we saw the cats and we got to pet them. They were very cute.

Helina Shepard We went to the S.P.C.A and road in the new bus which has not being painted yet but we still had fun in the bus and our trip was very, very fun. When we got to the S.P.C.A. we had not to make a big noisy crowd of ourselfes. Why? Because we would scare the animals. So instead we were split into 2 groups. Each groups was not to make a noise and we all had fun.

Shana Arendorf

Science Fun Day I like the experiments. It was good. It was funny when they rubbed the balloon on Connor’s head. I liked Keira’s volcano. It was amazing. It was cool when Mrs. Jacobs burnd the newspaper and the smoke came into the jar. I relly liked it when I saw the Macaws. I said in my head I relly want a macaw. I liked the baboon, mongooses and the macaws.

Ebba Mutilife

On Science fun day I liked Damian’s experiment because I like voulkainows (volcanoes). When we went to see the macaws they were very nice looking. We went to see the baby mongoose, baboon and the meerkat. They were so cute. I liked when you did that smoke experiment and I also liked it when you were rubbing the balloon. It was so funny. I also loved Fallons lamp and I saw how it worked. It was such amazing experiments.

Ryan Moffet

We got a bucket and a plastic bag. We cot (caught) some air and put them together and the air could not get out. We measured (weighed) the balloons. There were two balls and we blew them together. We were blowing the air all out. I broot a volcanoe and it blasted up and there were lava lamps.

Keira McNamara

On Science fun day we saw that air has mass by blowing up the balloon and weighing it. Then we saw Macaws and lernd that they only live in the tropical forests or in Brazil. We watched a movie on the Macaws and we learned that the Macaws learn very fast. Then we went up and saw a bay baboon. We also saw baby meerkats. They were all very cute.

Satya Sehgal

On Friday we did experiments and we blew up a plastic bag and put it over a jar and we tried to push the plastic bag into the jar, but the plastic bag didn’t go in the jar, because air takes up space. Then we went to see the Macaws. Eleven species have died. Then we saw a baby baboon and it was an orfan and we saw two baby meerkats.

Helina Shepard

I did a lava lamp. It was very fun. Kiera made a volcano. It had a little itsplogen (explosion). I loved the Science fun day. We put a balloon on a skayel (scale) and whade (weighed) it. Then we blew it up and then it whade even more.

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Elephants and other things... Grade 2B Science Funday Floating egg ingredients: salt, egg, mix, water. It was a funday for me and my class. I tried 10 times and the 11th time it worked!

My mother is very nais to me because she alwais reads to me and she is the most risponsibl in the hous. She cocs (cooks), she clins and she is wondorful!

Ashton Derckson

Sofia Nycander Calnan

I liked when Ms Stainton did the bolloon thing. I like science. Science is fun. It was fun. I liked it when Nathan did the boloon thing. It was funee.

My mother is sweet, playful and fun. She is the coolest mom and she is advencherest. She is the dest mom ever!

Jeskia Campbell We learnt experiments about air and we played with balloons. We tyed some balloons on the string. It was very fun. The experiments were fun. Ms Stainton is very fun with experiments. It was very exsiting.

Daniel Jauss The fun thing as school was we got to play with balloons and experiments. We sat on the carpite. We saw balloons rasing.

Daniel Tjimuku

My mother is very kind. My mother is awesome! She buys me Skylander Giants. She is so awesome!

Antoine Segura My mother is the best mother. She is like the world to me. I love you mom.

Daniel Tjimuka My mother is the coolest mother in the unervis. She is so cool that I want to explode, so that is houw I love my mom, do you see? She is like a puppy.

Ama-e Witbooi

SPCA outing We visited the SPCA and it was luvely because we saw cats, dogs, puppies and kittens. I liked more the cats and it was fun.

Allan Tait

My mum is kind, loving, nice and cool too. In fact I think she is the best mum ever to me. I love her very very very very very much!

Mallex Shipanga

I liked the puppys. I almost cried. I got to touch the cats they were very cute. I hade fun! There were cute Beagles.

Jason Barnard The most intiristing thing that people were smelling the dogfood it was werd, but I thot that it was good because how woud you feel if you had to eat food that had bugs in it?

Wendy-Lee Milne At the SPCA I saw dogs and cats. The cats were so cute and I got two puppies from the SPCA on my birthday.

Mallex Shipanga I wanted to buy a cat, but I had no monye. I can imagen that they are saying: give me a home!

Sofia Nycander Calnan At the SPCA it was fun because I saw the cutest ginger cat that was lying down. All the dogs were so active and I saw the cutest black puppy. There was a little cat playing soccer and it was super fun!

Malenga Amulunga My mother is..

My mother wants me to be clever so she makes me study and she wants me to be active so she makes me go to swim class. My mom wants me to be healthy. She is the coolest mom in the world. I love my mom so much.

Janice Kennedy My mother is a doctor. She is kind. She helps me in my homework.

Carol Youssef My mother is lovely and kind and beutiful and I love her. She makes me cake.

Ellie-Rose Outchoumou

What I want to be I want to be a doctor maybe or an Archer, because I want to haf a lot of money.

Daniil Lyeschuk I want to be a scientist because they are fun and cool and extremely funny and discover dinosors that were exticked (extinct).

Daniel Jauss

My mother is fun and icsiting. And sumtimes mad. And happy. I like her when she is happy.

Jeskia Campbell

Malenga Amulungu

I want to be an Archer beacase it is fun. And a game driver beacase it is also fun. And a rugby player beacase it is a man

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Ruth Musasa

When I grow up I want to be a scientist. Why? Because I can find carirs (cures) for sick people!

My father is so kind and he larvs (loves) eating Kinder Joy and he loves me.

Allan Tait

Daniil Lyeschuk

I am going to have a family and I will be a teacher because I love little children. They are so sweet and they have a sweet hart and a sweet sound.

My dad is funny, kinde and mad at the same time. He plays with me.

Cailtin Coetzer I want to raise a family and have children one day too! If I can teach my children to behave and teach them maths, phonics and reading. I also would like a husband to take care of the children if the aunt is not here or me.

Ruth Musasa I want to be a house mom then I can clean, cook, sew, knit and care for a tiny baby. I will have two kids. When they are old enough I will be a teacher. My daughters name will be Brightny and my sons name will be Brad.

Pascale Pimenta I want to be a Doctor because I’v seen a lot from my aunt. So I want to follow in her foot steps.

Bernadette Naris

Nathan Gee My father is so kind. Sometimes he buys me toys when I even didn’t ask him. He is like my mom, he is so so awesome!

Antoine Segura My father is the best father ever. He gets me everything I want. He is so nice to me and he is very funny.

Prosperity Aluteni My father is an engineer and has a new car. When I go in December to Paris I think I am going to Park Asterix.

Ellie-Rose Outchoumou My dad is nice an di Love him for ho (who) he is. I love him very much. I no (know) he loves me, he lets me sleep late on weekends. He is amazing!

Bernadette Naris

I want to be a lego game seller or a scinist because I love playing legos and playing that I can build.

Nathan Gee I want to be a teacher like you Miss Stainton. I want children to think I am the coolest teacher in the universe. I want to teach phonics and maths. I want to give out sweets. The thing I like about teaching is that you get to eat when you like.

Ama-e Witbooi

My dad ROCKS my world. He is the best. I love him so so so much. He is very nice to me. I never want to say bye to go to school.

Ella Thomas My teacher is.. My teacher is fun, kind, cool and loves us. Sometimes she mad.

Ashton Derckson

I want to be a vet and a doctor because if my kids or my pet is sick I can heal them and they won’t get hurt or sick again.

Prosperity Aluteni

My teacher is very fun and she is better than all the others teachers and she can be funny. But she loves us.

Caitlin Coetzer

When I grow up I want to be two things. They are a zoo keeper and a vet. I want to be a zoo keeper and vet because I love animals a lot.

Ella Thomas

My teacher is a good teacher and she loves me and I love her. But she has to love all the children. I don’t want to leave her class because it is very fun.

Wendy-Lee Milne

My dad is… My dad is playful, kind and he likes to make jokes. His name is Rodrigo, his birthdate us on 21 February. His favourite colour is orange.

Pascale Pimenta

My teacher is Ms Stainton. She is cool. She wants her class to be clever so she teaches you stuff. She is the coolest teacher in the world. I love Ms Stainton so much.

Janice Kennedy My teacher is a STAR! And kind. She help me in my work.

My father is a hard worker and he loves me very very very very much! He also wants me to have a good life and pass all my

Carol Youssef

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A Year in Grade 3A

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Poems The best part of the Science day was when we went to the lab and got the chance to be scientist through making slime. The feeling of having slime on my hands was just so funny but “gross”. Once we pressed the slime it became solid, the moment we let go it began to run like crazy. My favorite part of the Science Day was when we did the colour changing milk experiment in our class. What makes the colour changing milk experiment so special is the way the colors start to move around after the soap was added to the milk. At the end of the day we had the chance to see a few animals from Naankuse, this is when I saw the baby baboon in a nappy.

Lara My favorite part of the Science Day is when we went down to the science lab. We made “goo” out of flour and water. After mixing those two ingredients we added green soap. Who would have thought that those three ingredients create “goo” which was pretty messy? I also enjoyed the part when we saw a baby baboon, however during the time when we were there he was moody. We did not get the chance to touch him. My sister later told me afterwards that the baboon jumped on her friend. In the box below were meerkats and mongooses. One of the meerkats poked out of the cage. I thought this was funny.

Nathan The “coolest” part of Science Day was the science lab. The time was incredible, as we had to make slime. For this experiment we had to choose a partner, Azaylee was my partner, which was really fun. The baby monkey we saw came from Naankuse. He wore a nappy which was very cute for me. During the day we were dressed up as scientists, I had a mustage on my face and everybody was steering at me.

But the best part about my friend, Whatever happens? He is always there for me!

Keith My best friend

My best friend is like a trend, She is nice, I never think twice, She is fun and funky and not chunky. She is gentle yet not a rental. She is like my sister, Can you see Tonia and I drink tea? She is like a fragile flower She is always soft, cuddly and buff.

Alicia The best part of going to the nursery was the part where I planted my very own Petunia. The soil was nice and soft and cold. But before we did the planting we walked around and looked at all the beautiful plants and all the different trees. The smell in the nursery was just divine. What I liked the most was all the different roses and water fountains.

Ivan My favourite sport

Hockey, hockey makes my poppy, my mom thinks this is soppy, this sounds a little crazy, but especially I’m not lazy, laziness makes me cry, therefore hockey makes me smile.

Gina

Nependa

The adventure

My dog poem

One night my ship broke in halve. So, I swam to an island. There I waited for the morning. In the morning the boy went through the Alligator Alley. The boy ran from the Alligators, as they looked extremely scary. Now, I started to swim through the yellow slime pit, past the hidden villages. After gaining energy I started to run around Devil Mountain, over the blood Lagoon. During the night I saw sharks so I started to run and scream. After reaching the vampire village I’ve decided to sleep over at the Forest of Doom. Here I felt save and warm. The next I climbed on Devil mounting and I found something really interesting. First I could believe my eyes, but it was treasure. What could be inside? I opened it with care and suddenly an ugly yellow slime appeared. Under the yellow slime I found tons of gold. Ahhhhhhh!

Alexandre My best friend

I want the red glue, but instead I got blue. The sun was quit yellow, which made me mellow although it was bright! It looked on my right and saw a green trawl trying to kill a mole.

I like dogs, and I have one Julian Dogs are cute and fun, Especially playing in garden where we run!

Airi Trip to the nursery

I enjoyed walking around the nursery and looking at all the different plants. Before putting the soil in our pots, the lady from the nursery gave us a seedling. The soil was cold and wet. Now, we had to put the soil in and tap it down softly to make the seedling ready to grow. We watered the little plant. Our Petunia’s are ready to grow. Yippy!

Jack My favourite food

My best friend is like my favourite guide, Sometimes we go for funky rides, My best friend is absolutely funky, Sometimes I think he could be a little chunky,

Colors

My favourite food is my mom’s mince pot. The reason why I like it the most? It just tastes delicious and reminds me of home. The best way of explaining is to put the stove on and put a pot on. The mince is added to the pot to make it much more tastier. Now to add some flavor: add some sea salt, coriander and

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46 black pepper. After the mince is seasoned well the noodles are added. The whole mixture is stirred and poured into a big tray. The big tray is put into the oven to cook.

Gert Trip to the nursery

Today we went to the nursery to plant a beautiful flower. Before we started, Gina and I wandered around to look at all the gorgeous plants. The nursery lady gave pots to us. Now we took a little bit of soil to fill up the pot. We then received our plant, which we put into the pot. We then had to fill up the gap with soil and press it slightly. I had a great time planting the flower.

Samantha Who lives here?

Once upon a time there was a house. It was next to the woods. When I looked it the door shut. I heard a voice saying, “ Come into the house”. I went in the house, which were five stories high. Suddenly a Zombie starts chasing me. I ran to the second storey. In a spur of moment it was nighttime. Unaware a dog comes around the corner and started to talk, “YOU WILL DIE IN ONE DAY”. If you fight back you will suffer. Without a warning I realized it was a bad dream.

Jonathan

My own poem

My garden has beautiful flowers, trees and butterflies. The grass smells divine, this which reminds of playing outside, I like to pick some fresh flowers, which attract the beauty of a sunflower!

Azaylee Who lives here?

One upon a time I was walking by a path. I noticed a new street but only one house in it. The house looked old and spooky and I heard a strange noise saying, “Come inside, OHHHHHH”. I thought it was very strange. So, I said, “I’m just imagining things”, so I went home. The next day I went there to see the street, but not the house. I closed my eyes and opened them. Suddenly I saw it and went inside. “Hello?” Is anybody here? But all I could hear was “OHHHHHHH”. You must stay said the strange voice. I stayed for one night, but I had terrible nightmares. When I woke up it was just a horrific dream. When I got up I went to the kitchen and when I saw blood for juice and skeleton for bread, I was disgusted and ran away. This was also the reason for not coming back.

Faith Happiness

Chocolate

Chocolate, chocolate comes from a seed. Which grows on trees, then they pick it, grind it, mix it, cook it and they start to form it.

Robbe Kittens

My own poem

My mom bought me some glue for school, I went to the toilet to look at the pool, I saw a boy in a too-too, I laughed and cried, Suddenly I teacher passed by.

Uri

Kittens, kittens, they are fun, they have fun only fun to play in the sun. They sleep allot and then they have fun, I love them and they love me!

Alice Hunting for shark teeth

There was a young lady who was working in a shark teeth shop. She lived with her husband called Ulra. She got a baby and called her Trina. When Trina was four years old, her mother passed away. But before she died she gave Trina a special necklace and said; “If you find another shark teeth, I will be alive”. She looked around but could not fine one. When the father heard it he wanted the tooth but then he made a plan. He said; “I am going to look”. If you find it, bring it too me, then I’ll tell you if it is a shark tooth. Then you can have it but it was a lie. He wanted to take the tooth. The next morning Trina found the tooth and gave it to the dad. He then took it and ran away. Then it was to late and she never recovered.

What makes me happy is ice hockey, when I do it I think of indoor hockey When I score I feel very happy and think of butterflies. I think I am flying like a bee, when I go home I go play, with my dogs and think of roses, violets that are red and blue

Dominique My favorite 4 X 4

The Land Rover is driving in the bushes looking for snakes and animals hushing. We put up the tent next to the trees, which makes me want kill a swarm of bees, We go hunting for bucks and rabbits, which we suddenly start to feed carrots. We slept all night in the bushes when we couldn’t find our cushions. The next day we got up, to drive and drive all alive. This was such an amazing trip, which reminds me to look at the clip.

Matthew

Tonia

Roses

Roses are red, some are blue, some are purple, some are maroon. Roses are red, violets are blue, I like them because they fit in my room.

Kalila

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A Year in Grade 3B

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Athletics I did pretty well, it’s fair to say. I came first in the marathon, first in the sprints and second in the hurdles. My favourite race was the marathon because I came first! But it was tiring. I was very hot after the athletics. I drank a heck of a lot!

Alexander At athletics I was in Rudolph. Rudolph won. The marathon was hard. Long jump was fun and high jump difficult. We had watermelon. It was juicy! I was nervous but excited. We sang and danced.

At the athletics I was so excited! When the gun went for hurdles I was running so fast I couldn’t stop and I didn’t fall. I went over them. Then I went to shot put. I did very well. Then I got a hot dog from the tuck shop. After that I went to sprints. I was running fast! Then I went to high jump. I jumped high and it was hot.

Declan

Tyra My athletics was quite fun but I got lost now and then when I did the marathon. I don’t know which place I got but it was long. I saw that Rudolph won and I am very proud of them even though I am in Ernest. Their talent is athletics and ours is galas. When the grown ups ran their race I was amazed! I didn’t think they could go faster than us!

Charl

Our trip to Narrec My trip to NARREC was amazing! Let me tell you a little about my trip. When we got to NARREC this kind lady named Liz showed us all the birds and she had three adorable dogs, two were girls and one was a boy. The first bird was a falcon and we saw Liz feed the falcon. Then we took a walk and we had to pick different grasses and that pert was fun. So then we looked for different foot prints and then we walked to the cages and we saw birds with different feathers and beaks and claws.

Lapita When we got to NARREC we sat under the shade. Then Liz showed us a pyramid. It had the sun, sand, water and air. Then the dogs came. We drew our own bird and we could name it so I named mine The Rainbow Belly because I made him a belly with lots of colours. I made my bird live in a tree on a wetland. My bird looked funny. Then the bus came. I was so sad. Then we took our bags and went to the bus. When we left, we gave Liz some money for the birds’ food. And that is the end!

Linda

shadow! It was very fun at NARREC! But we had to go home.

Savannah At NARREC Liz showed us a pyramid and they were sun, sand, water and air. Then she told us that we share because we care. After that we went to feed the falcon. Then we went for a walk and we had to different kinds of grass. Then we had to find footprints and we found a kudu’s footprints. When we were done looking at the footprints we went to see the hens and chickens and they were so cute!

Martha At NARREC we saw the owls. Liz sent Isaac, Lapita and Micharla to run around the owl cage and we saw the owl turn its head. We also saw vultures and we saw a black eagle. Then we went to eat. We saw mice. Liz had three dogs. We learnt that the birds’ feathers are waterproof. Liz gave us some paper to draw a bird. Then the bus came to take us back to school. I really had fun!

Marleny

When we went to NARREC on Thursday it took us a long time to get there. Liz took us to a crow called Blacky. Blacky had one eye. Then Liz told us a story about Blacky. Blacky went to a farmer and the farmer looked after her. Blacky went away and came back when the farmer was out. She ate one of his lambs. He nearly hit her with a stick but his wife said no.

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Kamesha At NARREC there were lots and lots of owls. The owl that I loved was the one that looked like it had white pants on. He was so cute! There were owls that looked like they had pink eye

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Poems One nice morning I heard a bird sing Then I heard the church bells ring And the big clock go ding But I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to put on my bling.

Amelia We went camping And saw a tiny river flow And watched a pretty fire glow We helped some beautiful flowers grow Then I had to sow

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Amelia Our trip to the nursery

Yesterday we went to plant a seedling. We planted petunias. Some were pink, some were purple and some even had white on the edge. When I came into the nursery I saw an old bakkie that was made in nineteen forty-three and it had badges on it. There were also old bikes. There were six fountains and lots of different coloured flowers. There were lots of ornaments and pots and there were two kind ladies. There were also lots of fruit and vegetables. There was a greenhouse with lots strawberry plants in it.

Stasia Tree Story

I am a tree that lives in the park. I am a tree that has green colourful leaves. Boys and girls play and climb on me and it hurts! I see a lot of colourful birds on me and they build a lot of nests in me. A lot of insects climb on and it makes me itch and my leaves get old. When it got to winter all the leaves are gone. Birds went away and animals went home. In spring a lot of leaves were growing.

Mwangala The hideous House

As I came up to the house my knees were trembling with fear. The house looked abandoned and cursed. The mysterious house was spooky. When I was at the door the mat said unwelcome. I wanted to go back but I knew that was wrong. The door was wide open so I went in and saw the living room was ugly and creepy. When I went into the kitchen it smelt horrible like a troll made something.

Maria The Blood Covered house

The house looked really bloody and had lots of broken windows. There was an old torn teddy bear on the burnt grass. There were cracks all over the wall. The unwelcome mat was covered in red stuff! Inside the house there were dead bodies lying everywhere! As I approached inside I saw red eyes looking. The person had ears that looked like a werewolf.

Luca The Monster House.

The house I saw was horrifying. But I was a brave girl and walked on the grass. When I heard the grass crackling I got to the mat. It was unusual as it said unwelcome. I was scared and the windows were broken. The door slowly opened and screeched! What I saw inside was a tall figure and a decayed body. The tall figure with beady eyes invited me in.

Michaela

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A Year in Grade 4A

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What does Easter mean to the Grade 4A's? Easter is like a nice day when you get to eat chocolate, but Easter is not all about that. It’s about Jesus. That’s what Easter means to me. Easter also means that Jesus died for our sins. Thank you Jesus.

Carolina Machado

Sophie Young

Easter to me means the day that Jesus died for my sins and rose to save me from death. Easter to me also means that Jesus was doing the right thing. Daniel

Branch

Easter means a lot to me. Love the Lord and love your family and friends. Easter means to me as well as we get to spend time with your Saviour the Lord. Chiara

van Rooi

To me Easter means it’s a day to worship Jesus because Easter is the day that Jesus died for us. Easter is full of chocolate and bunnies. That ‘s how some people celebrate it. To me, Easter means that Jesus took away our sins.

Elsie Jacobs

Easter is a time when family comes together to remember when Jesus died on the cross and saved us.

Dylan Fourie

Easter means to me that we should celebrate because Jesus died for us and took our sins away and rose up and went to heaven. Kyra

Nghishekwa

Easter really means to thank Jesus for dying on the cross for our sins. We must not only think about Easter eggs, it is not the right way. Gero

Kirchner

Jesus died for us on the cross for our sins and that is very special to me. Anoushka

died on the cross and rose up to heaven for our sins.

Seha

To me Easter means celebrating when Jesus died for our sins so we can die and go to heaven one day. “God thank you that we can live here and that we can live with you once more. Amen.”

Moroni Tembo

Jesus got nailed to the cross and the gamble for His clothes and rose up to heaven for us.

Krynauw Weber Easter reminds me of betrayal and pain. It also reminds me there is no need for revenge.

Joshua Thomas What Easter means to me is that Jesus died on the cross for our sins

Kayla Coetzer Easter means the day Jesus was crucified and not only was He crucified, but he died on the cross for us and without Him we would not be here, we would be in hell !!!

Djamila du Plessis

Easter means a lot to me because Jesus died for our sins on the cross. We must be thankful and proud of this.

Sandra Youssef What Easter really means to me is you should think of what Jesus did for us and our sins. Easter is not just about Easter eggs and Easter bunnies.

Michael Kotze

Easter reminds me that we have to please the Lord and be

Easter is the day when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and He rose again so we celebrate this day. Some people celebrate with Easter egg hunts but they’re wrong.

happy. Tino

Pack

To me Easter means that Jesus died on the cross for us. To me

Caleb Titus

Ntando Sibanda

it means to praise the Lord on the very day.

Easter is not about chocolate eggs and bunnies. It’s about

Easter tells me to say thank you for everything that God did for us and He died on the cross for our sins and that he loves us.

remembering that Jesus died for me. Liam

Adonis

The reason why I celebrate Easter is because Jesus died on the cross for us and our sins. Adam

Landman

I love Easter because Jesus died for our sins. Some kids love it because they get chocolate bunnies and that kind of stuff. Easter is one of the important events I like. I love Easter it’s the best.

Leonardine Appolus

Aidan Schwartz Ah, yes Easter…. Well if I think of it, Easter appears to me that it’s a nice time to relax and have fun, but however it wasn’t fun for Jesus. He died just for us on the cross. I should think about that more.

Jana Swanepoel

Easter means that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He was on the cross for 4 hours.

Hivi Haihambo

To me Easter means a time of joy and sorrow. A time of death and miracles. A time of love and betrayal . Easter means Jesus

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53 Jana Swanepoel made sentences with her spelling words: 1. “This architecture is excellent”, the senior said about Aidan’s drawing of a home. 2. “I was trapped, kidnapped, captured” 3. “It must have been one of the witches evil creatures”, I thought to myself. 4. This is what I read from the literature, The Dragon’s Eye. 5. I enjoyed the novel while I was listening to One directions song, “Go for it” featuring Brittany Spears. 6. “I didn’t know where I was, darkness was everywhere and I couldn’t see any fixture around me.” I read on from the novel.

Poem by Caleb Titus

DEATH ISLAND Death Island is far away I’ll tell you more, if I may. There’s a man called Dead Man Dave, you can guess he died in a cave.

CHEETAH FARM – Liam Adonis Day 1: We went on the bus and our bus driver was Titus. We were on the bus for a long time. Moroni, Michael, Aidan, Hivi , Caleb and I were singing on the bus. After a while we decided to make a house out of blankets. A short while after that, we arrived at the Crocodile Farm. I saw baby crocodiles, I also even touched it. Then I saw the adult crocodile, it was huge. Some of us got to feed the fish. After driving for a long time on a very bad road, we arrived at the Cheetah farm. We were put into groups for different activities which included cooking, doing dishes, bird watching and making a play. In the night we told scary stories and had supper. Day 2: My group had to prepare breakfast and wash the dishes. After a while we went with a tour guide, Ignatius, to see the cheetahs. We arrived at the enclosure where they were held. We saw the cheetahs and learned interesting facts about them. After a while we left the cheetahs and went to see a dog and a sheep that got hurt, the dog got hurt in a fight. Later we went to a museum and saw the big cat family tree. There were skulls of big cats, there was a lot of things in there after we went to feed the cheetahs, it was very exciting to see the cheetahs eat. After that we made a play with stuffed animals. We found a place to sit and had chocolate muffins with cooldrink, we played on the playground. After we got back at the camp, there was this event which we did. The three teams did water balloon tossing. We made war paint and had a water balloon fight. At night we roasted marshmellows and dipped it in a chocolate dip and then went to bed. Day 3: We woke up early in the morning to pack and clean our rooms. Then we left the CCF. When we were driving we sang songs. After a while we arrived at Wimpy and had breadfast. After a long drive we arrived back at school.

CHEETAH FARM - Jana Swanepoel The Cheetah farm was the event of the year!! Though, it’s funny that you’ve been waiting for this the whole year, and as quick as

a flash, it’s over. I loved all the make-yourself-dirty activities. My favourite one was the apple pass. You have to pass a syrup covered apple to the next person, but the tricky part is, you don’t use your hand, you use your NECK! We also had a water pistol fight! Josh, Krynauw, Dylan and I did some spider hunting and found a little baboon spider. We sang songs around the fire. The food was delicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were divided into 3 groups. Each group had a name and a chant. My group was the Tigers and our chant went like this: “We are the tigers, we’re faster than bikers, we like to eat hikers and we’re always the strikers!” Everything was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND TRIP – Anoushka Seha Grade 4A got to go to the cheetah farm in Otjiwarongo. The bus trip was fun. We stopped at the crocodile farm and we had lunch. We looked at fully-grown crocs, and baby ones. Each of us shared rooms. The girls got room 10. Other boys shared with each other. We cooled off with some juice and got our rooms ready. Mrs. Pretorius told us rules, then we played rounders. We were put into groups. Each group made a chant. We also had to make a play. We ate dinner, had a shower and “went to bed”. The girls in room 10 talked until we were told off. Next morning Krynauw banged on the doors to wake us up. Later on we went on an adventure walk. It was cool. We looked in the museum. They had a dog and a goat kid at the clinic. We went back to camp and had lunch. My hair was so messed up. We went and watched the cheetahs being fed. Scary! They raced into the eating area and eat donkey meat. Eew!!! We went to camp and did these awesome activities, passing dirty balloons, holding a balloon and walking with a cup of water on your head, holding balloons and using your mouth to get Astros and passing sticky apples with your neck to each other. Last but not least the water fight!!! It was fun. We went to bed after we showered. The next morning we woke up early and left. No!!! We stopped for burgers at the Wimpy. They were disgusting. We got back safely.

Grade 4A Cheetah Foundation Fund trip

A Year in Grade 4B

Science Fun Day in Grade 4B The Grade 4s learned all about recycling. We learned the meaning of reduce, re-use and recycle. We paired with a friend. We made environmentally friendly glue with flour and water. I say from now on we should not buy glue but rather make it ourselves.

Alana On the fun day I enjoyed making glue. Putting our robot together was also fun, though hard to make it stand. We used recycled material to dress our robots. I enjoyed watching the other groups. It was extremely fun! Tia and Chaze had the nicest material on their robot. I loved working in a team and definitely want to do it again next year.

Olivia My class and I had so much fun. We all felt great about the fact that we could use recycled material. Then Miss Ras finally told us what we a going to build a robot! It was so cool, we used boxes, bags and plastic.

The thing I liked the most about the Science Fun Day was that we built a robot and wore sivvies. Shé, Vseteka and I worked on a robot that didn`t really looked like it was much of robot. Caleb and Jessica were the first ones to finish their robot. We also had a class discussion on recycling and how important it is. Unfortunately we had to clean up afterwards. At the end we got a piece of string and a button to make a toy called, “woer-woer”.

Morné Today`s headline on the special day I like to call Science Fun Day. I m your writer, Liya Herunga. On science fun day. our class 4B, made robots . We made all kinds of different robots tall robots, short robots and even haired robots . Now we were adding our materials, like buttons for the eyes. My partner was Alana. At the end the teacher gave us a deadline and the pressure was on to finish! Some robots were stuck to the wall to be able to stand up. Thank you to my class for a wonderful day and also our wonderful teacher Ms Hannamie Ras!!!!

Liya

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58 The first day I heard we were going to the Cheetah farm I was full of joy. When we boarded the bus, I was so excited. We were on the road for 4 hours; luckily I was with my friends. Our first stop was at the Crocodile farm, where we saw tortoises and crocodiles. After that we went to the Cheetah farm, we got roommates and slept in bungalows. That afternoon we went and played rounders. The next day we went to see the Cheetahs, we saw Little C, the leader of the pack. In our groups we had to wash dishes and help prepare the food. On our way back we had breakfast at Wimpy. We had a lot of fun and a great adventure.

Pandu AmunjĂŠ On the way to the camp in the bus was quite eventful. I was sitting next to Hannah, which was fun. The first time we stopped was at a garage. I donated a dollar to Ms Ras for the toilet. Soon we were at the Crocodile farm. We had food and drinks there. There were crocodiles of all sizes: big ones, small ones, medium ones and even tortoises! At the camp I was part of group 2. That night there were thunder, lighting and rain. We went to bed at 10:30. We had a delicious dinner and played fun games. For now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough, ahead of us an adventure awaits!

On our way to the Cheetah farm we had lots of fun. Our teacher divided us into groups. At nig ht time we all did our plays in front of the camp fire! The next day we went on a guided to ur and learned about: Play trees, other tre es, how Cheetahs live there and survival. We als o played rounders. We had a lot of fun!

Reagan Abrahams

Katie Callesen I am in Grade 4B. We went to the Cheetah farm on the 18th of September 2013. The Cheetah farm was so nice! The day after we arrived there, we went for a walk. Our guide, Ignatius told us a lot about Cheetahs and where they live. He was very nice. Later that day we went to the Cheetah feeding and I saw how Little C stole Blondie`s food, it was very funny! We also went to

the Cheetah centre and museum. We really had loads of fun!!! SO HELP SAVE THE CHEETAHS!

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A Year in Grade 5

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Martin My favourite subjects are P.E. and R.M.E. On Tuesdays we do fitness in P.E. and I like all the running. On Wednesdays we play games like soccer and baseball. What I really like about R.M.E. is that we get to know more about the Holy God, and about how he made our beautiful earth. Rowan I like P.E. the most because it keeps me fit and healthy. I also like it because we do soccer practice. Drama is also fun and we get to tell each other about our holidays or stories we make up. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like Afrikaans and English. We do it every day and the work is not nice. Mark My favourite subject is Social Studies because I like learning about the first people who arrived in our country and that kind of stuff. I also love Mathematics. I have no specific reason, I just like it. Adam

My favourite subject is P.E. because we play lots of games. My favourite game is soccer. At P.E. we have to run around the field and we do fitness drills. For soccer and other sport we do passing drills and then play a match. P.E. helps you on your fitness.

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My favourite subject is Science because it does not involve a lot of writing. Science also involves a lot of fun and interesting projects. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like English because I have to write a lot.

Tumna The two subjects I like the most are Mathematics and

English. I am best in Mathematics. I love addition and subtraction of mixed numbers and changing improper fractions into mixed numbers. In English I like tenses and homophones.

Tyler My favourite subject is Mathematics because it gives us a chance to think for ourselves. It is not only facts that we have to study. I also like Drama because we can express ourselves. My utmost favourite subject is R.M.E. Here we can write down our own personal feelings and we can communicate with God. Jan-Louis

My favourite subjects are Maths, P.E. and Art. I am good in Mathematics and it is fun. In P.E. we get fit and we play games. I like Art because it is fun and I am quite good in it. The subject that I like the utmost is Friday the last period when it is weekend.

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61 to tell stories. My last favourite subject is R.M.E. because I like to learn more about God.

Gian My favourite subjects are Science and Mathematics. I like Science because we learn about plants. We also learn about the needs of animals and the groups they belong to. I love Mathematics because it is my strongest subject. Kennedy St Paul’s is the best school ever! The teachers are

the best. My first favourite subject is Mathematics because it is awesome and it is the best. My second favourite subject is Science because we mix chemicals and it is interesting.

Nelago I have a few favourite subjects. Social Studies History, Science, English and Art. In History we learn about our country’s independence and it is very interesting. Science learn us about the world around us and our body. It is very challenging. English teaches us the different tenses and how to say things correctly and Art gives us the chance to be creative. Henry My favourite subject is Mathematics. I do a lot of extra Maths. I know all my times tables and it is the easiest for me. I do good in my tests and we also do money and length,

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Fagan My favourite subjects are R.M.E., English, Drama and

P.E. I like R.M.E. because everything is about God. I like English for the drawings and worksheets. Drama is fun because we play games. I like P.E. because we do fitness, play soccer, basketball and hockey.

Veri My favourite subjects are Mathematics, P.E., Science and

R.M.E. I like Mathematics because it challenges my brain. I like P.E. because I like to run and to be fit. I like Science because we learn about animals and plants. I like R.M.E. because it is very peaceful and we learn about God.

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My favourite subject is Art because I like to design things like shoes, clothing, faces and furniture. Art is interesting with the different colours, patterns, styles and different materials. When you combine them it brings out something so nice you will be amused about it.

Elavoko My favourite subject is Chess because I enjoy playing it. My mom taught me how to play it when I was young. I almost beat Hiren in the chess tournament, but then I lost in a stupid way. I play Chess a lot and always won Hiren in gr 1 to 3. Sometimes when we played we argued and then they called me a cheater. Angelina My first favourite subject is Drama because I like to express my feelings. Art is another favourite subject because I like to be creative. My third favourite subject is P.E. because I like to play rounders. I also like Creative writing because I like

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Science Experiments In the science class, the Grade 5s worked in groups to perform experiments to test different soil types.

Science Funday On Science Funday the Grade 5 class made their own compasses to determine where true north is and proved that seedlings need water to germinate. The four groups, the Shrikes, Eagles,

Flamingoes and Hawks planted their seedlings, and started to water them according to the inscriptions on each container.

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A Year in Grade 6

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Grade 6 Blumfelde Trip

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Boese The Pimenta family

Blumfelde 2013 was adventurous because: • We learnt to work as a team.

Megan

• It is an interesting place to go. Tengee

• The cows sang for us and it was BEAUTIFUL! Mandi

• The activities were extravagant, radical and kiff. Janet

• Not!! Bennie

• It was a fun way to enjoy nature. Emily

• Let the girls cook for you or else you will eat raw meat.

• The activities were really fun. Uetuu

Rafael

• It was nice making our own fire and drinking coffee.

• There was a lot of obstacle courses. Kayla

Kiana

• Cooking your own food. Rachel

• No Kiki, it was funny WATCHING Marizelle drink coffee!

• We learnt to survive in the wild. Carien

• We got a new odour called Smokey. Jamie

• We’ve got cuts and bruises that make good memories

• We learnt more about each other. Layla

• It was great learning experience. Marizelle

• I really bonded with my friends in a time of need and

• The swimming pool was nice. Ashia I lost my camera!!

• Tawana had a dip in the mud. Jessie

• Our worsies and choppies rolled into the sand and then

• The world’s softest mud! Tawana

• The girls got a new hairstyle called Frizzy. Mechelle

• We did lots of fun and dirty activities. Tjimaa

• Gwen got a foot full of blood. Martin

• We got to do lots of obstacles. Siân

Jessica forever. Daniela

Bennie kept calling everyone a demon cow! Gwen

we fed it to other people. Zuné

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A child living in Africa... A child living in Africa has freedom, but still has rules and boundaries. Being able to go out and see animals is quite fun.

Has an amazing life because she can do anything and be free and best of all is that you can be you. There is also

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the most beautiful nature and wild animals.

A child in Africa can wake up to a beautiful, yellow sun and can go on wild adventures to see some amazing new wild life and plants. A child in Africa is the

Carien

A child living in Africa can do so many things like swim in Swakopmund, see the pyramids in Egypt and the best thing ever is the

happiest child alive. Marizelle

Each child living in Africa is unique and nowhere else are children like them, they see original flora wildlife. SiĂ˘n and fauna, the clear African skies and love. Africa is not so primitive; we even have bathrooms and A child living in Africa is friendly, free and funny, cell phones! We all combine in one heart. living in extravagant extravaganza!!! Janet

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A child living in Africa gets to go to bed with the most beautiful sunset wishing them a good nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rest. Jamie A child living in Africa is lucky because they get to see the pyramids and lots of wildlife. They get good education and they see the animals in nature reserves, camp in nature and spend time on the beaches.

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A child living in Africa gets to see wildlife and has more space.

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Has a wonderful life because they have space and they get to see a lot of different cultures and traditions.

Mechelle A child living in Africa gets to feel the warm sun and smell the fresh air, see the beautiful wildlife, pure nature and a million beautiful sunsets.

Kayla

A child living in Africa is lucky because they can see all the beautiful wild life and all the golden sand dunes and the fantastical mountains.

Megan

They can experience wildlife and learn how to survive in the world. Learn new cultures and which plants you can or canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat and learn

A child in Africa can see the stars at night and run around in the mud and have a wonderful childhood. Daniela Leads a life of freedom, with love and nature around, all the African trees, and a family to lean upon.

Emily

Martin

A child living in Africa is free to do many things that one cannot do on other continents like watching the wildlife and playing on the sand dunes and swimming in the rivers. Rafael

Sees lots of wild animals, can play in the sun and swim in the sea and just have fun.

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A child living in Africa gets to see wild, amazing animals that are not kept in Layla cages and the sightseeing in Africa is amazing. Is very lucky because There are beautiful Africa has lots of buildings and huge wildlife, beautiful ocean mountains for the views, and awesome children to hike. sand dunes. Jessie

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A Year in Grade 7

Always have courage son. You need plenty of it to succeed. We are proud of you. The Tjimuku family

99FM and KFC - Winter Cozy Competition 99FM and KFC have successfully run the third annual Winter Cozy writing and book collection project this year. Every year a charity organization or school in need is identified in order to bring to children the fruit that is borne by literature and warm

hearts.This year the Uahekua Herunga Primary School (Otjorute Village) is the recipient. Carli le Roux in Grade 7 won third prize and we are very proud of her.

Grade 7 is the best class in Primary School. Take chances to shine!!! Tristan Kรถlling

My best friend Ranger By Carli le Roux Another lonely day at school passed and as I walked hom e, my sad face quickly turned one because my only friend into a happy was waiting loyally for me at home. He was waiting at welcomed me as if I had bee the door and he n gone for years. “Oh Ranger , I was teased again today! him tightly.” Luckily dogs can ” I said hugging ’t talk. I bet if you could, you would tease me too” I got up and looked in the mirror, “I know I’m no bea uty queen but if you look at back to Ranger “And I mean me,” I said turning really look at me, I’m not tha t ugly!” Ranger looked at me made me feel special, probab in a way that ly just to get me to give him something to eat, but at tha made me feel better. t moment it That afternoon my mom cam e home from work later tha n usual and when she rushed the door I knew something in through had to be wrong. “Bring the dog!” she said throwing her down and heading for the brief case door again not even explain ing why she was in such a she had no interest in unti hurry with the dog l now or why she needed the dog. “Hurry Anna!” She yel led impatiently. We jumped in the car, mo m still not explaining anythin g. Ranger and I were confus didn’t ask any questions. ed but we We were going faster than we’ve ever gone before bec exhaust fumes was strong ause the smell of and we were passing expens ive sport cars. We arrived at an abandoned warehouse where a big cro wed of people had gathered. out of the car people really As we got seemed happy to see us. “M om,” I said “why are we her answer until we reached a e?” she didn’t window of the abandoned warehouse blocked with sno “there’s no other way in, Ran w, then she said, ger has to help.” “What happened? Why do

we have to get in?”

“We don’t have to get in; we have to get children out!” I didn’t need to know any who it was. “Ranger, we hav more. I knew e to get them out!” I said, looking him in the eye. Ran ging the snow away and he ger started digdidn’t stop. As we waited I stood closer

to mom. “It’s Jessica and friends, right?

“Yes, they snuck in there but when the window closed, snow fell down and blocke She said disappointedly. “Ho d their way out.” w did you know it was the m?” “I heard them plan the wh ole thing after school. I kne w it was a bad idea, but not would stop them.” I could hing I say or do go on but I saw Ranger got to the window. When we Ranger jumped in and helped finally got it open them out. “Good boy!” I sai d when Ranger got out. Everyone was so happy and applauded Ranger and I. The y gave him hugs, cheered gave him treats. The cheerin him on and g didn’t stop there. The nex t day at school when I entere room everyone was cheerin d the classg and clapping even though Ranger wasn’t with me. “Yo us there, walked away, to u could’ve left get us back for everything we have ever done to you Jessica said . “You have a , but you didn’t.” kind heart and I’m sorry for everything.” She hugged me she meant it. and then I knew After that day, winter never felt that cold to me anymo re because I finally had frie me for who I was on the ins nds who loved ide and I owe it all to my bes t friend Ranger.

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Dear Ma'am, My homework is not done because... I got into a brawl with my stationery and lost.

My mom drew a line with a red pen and she gave it to my dog for dinner.

Nnuku

Otja

I had to go back in time to save Bobo the space monkey because his ship crashed on Earth.

We went away for the weekend and my window was open, so it flew out and a lion ate it. Kind excuses

Kangwa My imaginary friend destroyed it in his imaginary fire, but really what happened was that my brother used it as toilet paper.

Kaja It fell out of my bag and onto the astro turf, whilst I was on tour and one of the other team members squished it under her stick.

Josua I had to take my pet monkey to Mexico. His name is Chow. He got sick of English vocabulary and needed spicy Mexican food.

I first went on a cricket tour and then I went on a tennis tour and to be honest, your homework interferes with my sport!

Keenan

Nguvi

It fell in a pan of oil. PS. Please don’t kill me!

Erin wanted me to do her hair over and over again.

Gerard

Aliné

I left it at school, then I came back to fetch it but I did not have time to finish it because I had to go to the dentist.

I am allergic to homework and when I did some, I sprained my brain.

Fortune It ran away looking for my pencil.

Leilah I went on a hockey tour to George and when I tried to do my homework on the bus, Liam talked too much and I could not concentrate.

Ndapewa Sorry Ma’am I did not do my homework because I was battling a Cyclops while having tea with the Queen of England and after that I had a serious matter to attend to which takes hours (toilet – serious case of bladdercitis.)

Thierry

Zani We went fishing yesterday and the My b rother h as got r cat decided to and we abies nt eat a fish and everyth crazy. He destr in oyed g includ use my homew ork. We ing my homework as a calm down, b got him to ut a napkin. homew ork, we s for the ll , y o nly see Rejoice it tomo ou will rrow. Sorry I was too Damien busy having MacDonald’s with the President, then I was off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ, whilst living my secret life of Beyonce.

Erin I was trying to save my fish from drowning.

Uakaa

Dakota

Batman and I were fighting Mr Freeze and HE destroyed my homework.

I went on a hockey tour to George and I had to spend all my time distracting Dakota and so I never had time to do my own homework.

Ngambui

Danilo

Big Foot came over to my house and used it to get ear wax out of his left nostril.

I was walking down the street when a hobo stole my essay and ate it.

Liam

Christopher

Tristan

nthe Amazon ju I was walking in em ho y g ate m gle when my do animal ate my ild w a en work. Th all my homework dog and spread le. around the jung

Stanley

My homework got sick.

My private spaceship parked on it when it dropped me off on Mars.

Carli I did my homework as class work.

Penda

car on dow of the tch it in w e th t It blew ou I tried to ca me. When t of the sky my way ho d down ou e p o o sw h in the le an eag its nest hig to y a w a it and carried Jeanni s. mountain

The best way to get ahead in life is to help others get ahead The Beranova family

Gr 7 Kuiseb Canyon Hike The Grade 7 hike this year was to the Kuiseb River Canyon as the Fish River had been closed to hikers. This was new territory for the school and the hike leaders as we had not done this before. It was also an opportunity for the Grade 7 class to visit the Gobabeb Desert Research and Training Centre and the coast to see firsthand the plants and animals that exist in these ecosystems. The hike proved to be more challenging than the Fish River but more spectacular! A Scientific Investigation was carried out at Gobabeb where the children answered the following question. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which ecosystem at Gobabeb contained the greatest number and greatest diversity of Toktokkie Beetles; the River, the Dunes or the gravel plains?â&#x20AC;? Having collected specimens and completing the research process, it produced surprising results! The stay in Swakopmund allowed the children more free time and time to shop! A trip to the lagoon in Walvis Bay gave the children an opportunity to learn about the importance of the lagoon to Namibia and to study sea birds with the help of binoculars. They also learned about the salt works. At low tide we joined a scientist in the rock pools in Swakopmund and investigated the plants and animals that lived there. A great time was had by all!

72 “More people have walked on the moon than in this canyon!”

Chris Steenkamp

“It was FUN!” Josua

Worst hike phrases ever: “ Bags ON!” Carli

“Jeani’s best Birthday ever!”

“It’s just around the corner!” “Only 2km more!”

Fortune

Rejoice

“We’re nearly there!” Uakaa “I’m on the edge of Otja” “We’re not lost, we have taken a different route!”

Nnuku

“Wake up!” Danilo

“Nice experience for us all. Good bonding.” Damien “The bathroom is 1st class!” Liam “Rejoice is still looking for the shower tree!” Keenan Leilah the yellow caterpillar! “That is not a lion, Leilah, its guinea fowl!”

Mrs B.

Languages Afrikaans

Limericke Graad 7 ‘n Oulike outjie van Worcester Is erg oor ‘n koeksister Oppad na die winkel Vat hy sy hondjie Tinkel En gaan koop sy Worcester koeksister! Zani van Lill

Die lelike Hennie du Preez Het vir my ‘n blommetjie gegee Toe gooi ek hom weg Want hy ruik so sleg En toe het die outjie geween! Dakota Hansen

‘n Tannie wat woon in Prys Was bang vir ‘n harige muis Toe slaan sy hom plat En sit hom in ‘n gat En gaan terug in haar huis. Christopher Wannemacher

‘n Sekere Hennie du Preez se knieë het ingegee toe koop hy ‘n kierie wat net lyk soos hierie en nou loop hy sommer alweer. Carli le Roux

Die lelike Magdaleen Louw Het met ‘n groen ou getrou Sy kyk hom maar mis Want hy lyk soos ‘n vis Maar dit is hoekom sy van hom hou. Carli le Roux

Die lelike Magdaleen Louw Sy was ‘n snaakse vrou Met haar wange bloedrooi Dink sy sy’s mooi Maar eintlik lyk sy nes ‘n pou! Nnuku Aluteni

Die lelike Magdaleen Louw Hou daarvan om ‘n pou te kou Sy vang een aan sy bek En dra dit deur die hek Nou is tannie Magdaleen flou! Leilah Hans

Die lelike Magdaleen Louw Het eendag met Jannie getrou. Sy het nie geweet Dat hy so vreeslik kan sweet En nou sal sy dit ewig berou! Damien Shutz

Strive for creativity and innovation through education. The Amulungu family

‘n Sekere Hennie du Preez Het niks maar niks omgegee Hy draai net gou om As ‘n mens naderkom En hy lyk maar gelukkig daarmee. Carli le Roux

Die groot Pieter Marais Het altyd op Maandae gesê: “Ek haat my werk!” Dan gaan hy liewer na die kerk En pleit om by die huis te kan lê! Damien Shuts

Die lelike Magdaleen Louw Was regtig ‘n aaklige vrou. Sy eet en sy eet Maar sy hou nie van beet. Sy eet eerder smaaklike pou! Josua Cloete

In all your ways acknowledge the Lord, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:6 The Nuujoma family

Haiku Somer

Ons drink koue bier Dit reën en ons sweet nou Die son skyn lekker.

Gian Dressehause. Herfs

Blare val in herfs. Dit word kouer en droër En ons is moeër!

Rachel Edmunds Lente

Lentebome bloei Swaeltjies kom gou-gou terug. Bloeisels op die grond.

Joané van Rooyen Somer

Somer is warm. Ons almal dra koel klere. Ons speel by die see.

Martin Marits Winter

Daar is baie sneeu. Ek dra ‘n serp en ‘n mus. Dis tyd om te rus!

Jan-Louis Nortjé Somer

Ek hou van roomys. Ek gaan na die see en strand. Ek drink nou koldrank.

Jan-Louis Nortjé Herfs

Die wind waai tog koud Dis bruin, oranje en geel. Dis tyd om te speel!

Jan-Louis Nortjé

IN AFRIKAANS LEER ONS……… Rachel Edmunds - ons leer wonderlike goed. Ek hou baie van Afrikaans. Dit is lekker, want dit is ‘n bietjie moeilik. In Afrikaans is dit so lekker om mondelinge te doen saam met ‘n maatjie. Ek hou (daar)van om begripstoetse te skryf. Ek het ook (daarvan) gehou toe ons van die skoenlapper geleer het. Ek hou ook van die kappie-woorde. Ons het ook met die woordeboek gewerk. Aan die einde van die dag leer ons baie prettige goed en baie werk in Afrikaans. Joané - Ons leer van lettergrepe en kappie-woorde, ons doen mondelinge met ons maatjies. Ons doen reekstoetse wat baie lekker is, ons luister na musiek en dan moet ons vrae antwoord. Ons doen begripstoetse wat baie moeilik is en ons doen kalenderwerk. Ons het woordeboekwerk gedoen en ons doen verdubbleing van die medeklinker. Die beste was Tergrympies. Afrikaans is baie pret. Hiren - Ons het geleer van “Wie doen wat” en die brandweerman, tennisafrigter, busbestuurder, fotograaf, verkeerskonstabel en die polisieman. Ons het ook spelwoorde vir speltoetse geleer. Adam - Ons leer van woordeboekwerk en dit was baie hard (moeilik). Ek leer spelwoorde en dit is baie moeilik. Ek en die klas doen mondelinge van sokker. My gunsteling ding is “Weer en water”. Ek leer van skoenlappers, wie doen wat, kom bou saam, die kappie en lettergrepe. Jan-Louis - Ons leer hoe om Afrikaans te lees, van klinkers en medeklinkers, hoe om te spel, om slim te wees in Afrikaans, hoe om pret te hê in Afrikaans. Ons leer om sinne reg te skryf en dit in volledige sinne. Ons leer hoe om baie toetse te skryf en die woordeboek reg te gebruik. Fagan - Ons leer hoe om woordeboekwerk te doen. Dit is nie moeilik nie, dit is wonderlik. En ons skryf toetse, dit is nie moeilik nie, dis lekker. Ons lees boeke saam met ons maatjies. Ons doen ook mondelinge saam met ons maatjies, dit is ongelooflik! Mevrou Le Roux is kool.

Henry - Klaskamerplanne, spelwoorde, skoenlappers en Wetenskap-pretdag, vergelykings, klanke woordeskat, let-tergre-pe, alphabet abc, kappies, hoe om te bou en ons geniet Afrikaans! Angelina - Ons leer baie goed en dis vir my lekker om te leer. Ons leer vokale, konsonante en ons doen baie stories. Ons leer van woordeboekwerk en dit is baie, baie prettig. Ek hou baie van Afrikaans. Ons juffrou is baie vriendlik (vriendelik) en sy is baie lekker met (om mee saam) te werk. Tiago - Gediggie vir mondeling behandel: “My naam is Tiago Pimenta, bly om jou te ontmoet. Ek is in graad 5 vanjaar, ons leer nou nuwe goed. Dis Duits en Afrikaans praat van vroeg tot laat. Dis skryf en lees en doen. En as jy vergeet, word juffrou kwaad, dan moet jy strafwerk doen. Maar skool toe moet jy gaan, dit is uit en gedaan.” Tyler - Ons leer Tergrympies soos “Piet van Blerk, styf en sterk. Gou by die bak maar lui by die werk.” Dit is baie pret, maar partykeer ons praat te veel en dan begin ons sukkel en dit is nie baie pret nie. Dankie vir ons leer, juffrou Le Roux! (dankie dat u ons leer)

Hertha - In Afrikaans leer ons almal. Ons leer vergelykings, spelwoorde, selfs skoenlappers. Ons skryf, ons onderstreep, ons lag, ons is kwaad. Partykeer kan Juffrou Le Roux dit hanteer. Ons leer vergelykings en ons het geskryf ‘n toets, dit was nie mooi (goed) nie. Ons skryf baie toetse, arme ons! Ons leer woordeskat en lettergrepe en ook die alfabet. Ons leer hoe om te bou, ons is nou bouers! Afrikaans is baie pret, maar die beste ding van Afrikaans is ons Juffrou Le Roux!

Kennedy - Ons leer konsonante en die vokaalklanke en verdubbeling. Ek get (kry) reekstoetse. Afrikaans is van (fun) want ek has (het) ‘n ogelooflink (ongelooflike) jefrou en her (haar) naam is Jefrou (Juffrou) Le Roux.

Mare-Lise - Ons leer om te lees en skryf en Mrs Le Roux maak Afrikaans pret, en ek is so lief vir Afrikaans. Partykeer is dit moeilik, maar sy help ons.

Tumna - Ons het geleer hoe om ‘n huis te bou en hoe om ‘n woordeboek te gebruik. In Afrikaans daar is net pret. Ons doen baie begripstoetse.

Rowan - Ons leer Tergrympies soos “Ek is Sara Bamboes blare, ek lap my rok met rooi ru-gare” en ook “ Ek is Maans Terblanche, ek spring op die krans dat die paddas so dans.”

Mark - Ons leer oor meervoude en die reëls. Ons leer oor woordeboekwerk, ons het ook oor die bouproses geleer. In Afrikaans het ons baie pret, maar die reekstoetse is baie moeilik. Ons doen ook BAIE mondelinge en die mooi ding is dat as ons mondelinge doen mag ons met ‘n vriend wees.

Martin - Ons leer lettergrepe, spelwoorde, woordeboekwerk en Wetenskap. Daar is nog baie lekker goed wat ons in die klas doen, maar my gunsteling ding is mondelinge saam met my beste vriend Gian.

Ava-Marie - In Afrikaans leer ons van woordeboekwerk en lettergrepe, en kappieworde (woorde), die alfabet. Ons leer baie nuwe woorde in Afrikaans en ons doen mondelinge met ‘n maatjie. Dis pret in Afrikaans.

Sophia - In Afrikaans leer ons wondelike vokale, lekker lang klanke en kool kort klanke. Ons leer ook kekkelende kappiewoorde, vreemde voorbeeldsinne, super spelwoorde en veel meer! My gunstling is groot goeters en “wie werk waar” en ook laggende luisterbegrip. Dankie, Mevrou Le Roux!

“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” Charlie Chaplin The Allies family

German Deutsch Als Fremdsprache Klasse 5: Ich kann mich selbst beschreiben

arze ein schw Ich habe n. Mütze a ein e Ich trag s weiße Hemd.

Ich bin in der Klasse 5. Ich habe lange helle Haare und trage ein Haarband. Meine Name ist Mare-Lise.

Ich habe braune Augen, dunkle Haut und schwarze Haare.

Ich spiele gern Kricket.

Ich trage ein weißes Hemd. Ich habe braune Augen und braune Haare.

Ich habe gepflegte Haare. Meine Brille sind lila und ich trage ein weiß-undrotes Hemd.

Meine Haare sind lang und Braun. Ich habe ein rundliches Gesicht und trage Lippenstift.

Ich habe helle Haut und blaue Augen.

Meine Name ist Sophie. Ich bin neu in der Klasse 5. Meine Haare sind Schulterlang.

Mein Mund zeigt meistens ein Lächeln. Heute habe ich ein Helm und Schlagholz.

Mein Hem d ist weiß mit blau darau f.

Ich lächle gerne. Ich habe dunkle haare und dunkle Haut. . Ich habe grüne Augen. Ich trage ein Schal und ich liebe Sport.

Ich habe e in Kricket Schlagholz . Ich habe dunkle, bra une Haare und helle H aut.

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Ich trage eine rote Mütze.

Ich habe braune Augen und Haare. Meine Armen und Beine sind sehr lang.Ich habe mein Hemd rückwärts an.

Ich bin ein Junge. Ich habe kurze Haare und ich sitze in der erste Reihe. Ich trage meine Schuljacke. Ich habe kurze Haare.

Hallo, ich bin in Klasse 5.

Meine Haare sind braun und kurz. Ich liebe Manchester United Fußball Klub.

Ich habe dunkler Haut. Ich denke gerne.

Ich habe ein braunen Cowboy Hut an und dunkle Sonnenbrille.

Haare e meine Zopf. Ich bind zu einem n e m m a zus dunkle Ich habe d Haut un braune Haare.

Ich habe helle Haut, rote Lippen und braune Augen.

Meine Haare ist braun und gerade. Ich habe blaue Augen. Ich habe ein Hut an.

Ich trage Sonnenbrille. Mein Schal ist rosa und weiß. Ich habe lange, braune Haare.

Ich habe blo und blaue nde Haare Augen. Ic h habe ein grüne Hu t an.

Ich bin in Klasse fünf. Ich habe schwarze Haare und helle Haut. Ich habe eine Horloge auf meinen Arm.

Ich habe ein rotes Hemd und ein weißer Haarband an.

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Ich habe grüne Augen. Ich trage ein cowboy Hut und einen Schal. Ich habe blonde Haare.

Ich habe ein graues Hemd an. Ich habe kurze, blonde haare und grüne Augen.

Science Science Fun Day We held our annual Science Fun Day so that the students could experience Science and feel more excited about the upcoming Science Fair.

Grade 5 had a visitor: Mr Thys Rall He came to show them how not to get lost in the wild when you don’t know where north is. They made their own compasses.

Grade 1 had a visitor: Mr Nycander He brought a macaw which is a biiiig bird with beautiful colours and an amazing voice.

Grade 6 and 7 had a visitor: Marlice van Vuuren from the N/a'an ku sê Foundation. She brought a baby baboon, a baby meerkat and four baby banded mongooses. They also experimented with different chemical reactions and air.

Grade 2 did some experiments with air to see that it takes up space, has mass and can make things move. Grade 3 did all kinds of experiments with chemical reactions and made slime in a real Science Lab Grade 4 had a creative morning recycling rubbish to make amazing toys

Grade 7 did their own field study on ecosystems within the school grounds. They also visited the Science Lab to see light through a prism and experimented with different chemical reactions to create heat. They also had a visitor: Mr Julian Fenessy who came to tell them all about giraffes.

Grade 1 This year, the Grade 1s and 2s focused on Animal Science for the annual Science day and were privileged to attend a presentation on wild and captive Macaws in Peru. The presentation was headed by a world-renowned Macaw expert, Mr Eduardo Nycander. Rainforest Expedition is a Peruvian Ecotourism company. Since 1989 their guests and lodges, have added value to standing tropical rain forest turning it into a competitive alternative to unsustainable economic uses. The Tambopata Macaw Project was begun in 1989 by Eduardo Nycander (supported by the Wildlife Conservation Society) with the goal of studying the ecology and natural history of large macaws so that this information could be used to help protect these birds throughout the tropics. The site chosen for this research was on the upper Tambopata River in the center of a huge uninhabited track of pristine tropical lowland forest. The Tambopata Research Center was founded to host this research project. Intense investigations were conducted from 1990 – 1993 under Eduardo’s direction. After this point the research continued at a slower pace as Eduardo’s focus shifted towards creating the ecotourism company Rainforest Expeditions to ensure that the Tambopata Research Centre would remain open and active. In November of 1999, I (Don Brightsmith) joined the team and took over the direction and day-to-day operations and direction of the Macaw Project with the blessing and aid of Eduardo. Since 1999 the project has produced many new publications on a variety of topics and expanded to include studies of parrot biology and clay licks throughout southeastern Peru. Working as a mentor and consultant, I have taken the information learned in south-eastern Peru and applied it in many areas of the American tropics and even Indonesia. A major goal of the

study now is to provide opportunities for young scientists to run satellite projects under the macaw project umbrella, so that Peru and other parts of Latin America will have a cadre of trained scientists willing and able to tackle the conservation and research problems in the coming decades.

Grade 2

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81 Grade 3

The dancing spaghetti didn’t go so well because we did not stir well. I liked the racing boat because I had to put dishwashing liquid on my finger and put it behind the boat. Then we made food colouring and it was fun. We had to put some milk in the bowl and some food colouring into the bowl. Then we had to take an ear bud and put it in the food colouring. We took the other side and put some dishwashing liquid and then the colours spread out.

Martha

My Science Fun Day. Guess what I did? We saw a glass flame that changed green, blue, yellow and red. But our dancing spaghetti really didn’t work! But the changing colour milk was amazing! It was yellow, green and red.

Isaac

During Science Fun Day I went to the Science lab. We watched the lady make different colour flames and it was green, red, purple and iron sparks. We went back to class and we did some experiments. Our table did the boat race and it was fun! Next we made dancing spaghetti. It made fizz. It was supposed to go up and down but it didn’t.

Savannah

Dylan

Colour changing milk was a very beautiful thing to see because it went out like a big beautiful flower. It was fun to see the boats race without you touching them! The boats were very wet when we were done! We put dishwashing liquid behind the boat and it moved! The lab was so cool! We made green slime. It felt kind of hard but it would leak down the ball I made!

Amelia

On the day of Science Fun Day at school, we went to a very nice Science lab. We made slime out of maizena and green water. It was super cool! After the making of slime, Ms Austin showed us a burner. Then she lit it up and put little chemicals in the flames and the fire turned a different colour! Everyone liked it! After Art we went to see a baby monkey. It had a nappy on. It was really funny!

Kamesha

dishwashing liquid. What an exciting experiment!

Léa

The best part of the day was when we went to the lab and got the chance to be scientist through making slime. The feeling of having slime on my hands was just so funny but “gross”. Once we pressed the slime it became solid, the moment we let go it began to run like crazy. My favorite part of the Science Day was when we did the colour changing milk experiment in our class. What makes the colour changing milk experiment so special is the way the colors start to move around after the soap was added to the milk. At the end of the day we had the chance to see a few animals from Naankuse, this is when I saw the baby baboon in a nappy.

When I went to the lab we made goo but it did not work! Then I saw that it was fun. We saw a Bunsen burner. The Bunsen burner turned red and blue and made sparks! You wonder how it made sparks. It was iron that made the sparks. It looked cool! We had a good time.

The dancing spaghetti didn’t work. Last year it did work but this year no. Racing boats was such fun. You put water in a tray, then you cut a triangle from cardboard and put it in the water. You take a little bit of dishwashing liquid and then look what happens! Colour changing milk was so exciting! You put water in a bowl, put some milk just to cover the bottom, put in some food colouring in with droppers, then put in the ear buds and see what happens. On the other side put a little bit of

Lara

My favorite part of the Science Day is when we went down to the science lab. We made “goo” out of flour and water. After mixing those two ingredients we added green soap. Who would have thought that those three ingredients create “goo” which was pretty messy? I also enjoyed the part when we saw a baby baboon, however during the time when we were there he was moody. We did not get the chance to touch him. My sister later told me afterwards that the baboon jumped on her friend. In the box below were meerkats and mongooses. One of the meerkats poked out of the cage. I thought this was funny.

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Gina

82 Grade 4 This Year Valentines day wasn’t really full of love and romance, it was actually full of Science. I am in Grade 4A and our theme was recycling. First everyone and their partner got a paper with the recycling icon on it. They had to colour in the icon and come up with a name for their partnership. My partner and I were the “Reusers”. Next we made glue out of flour. All you do is put flour in a zip-

lock plastic bag and add water until it’s as sticky as glue. And last but not least, we made a robot out of all sorts of recycled things. For example, buttons, bottle caps, bottles, matches, match boxes, odd materials and all sorts of different recycled things. At the end of the day all the participants of the class had to take turns and stand in front of the class to exhibit their robots. It was a really fun day. That’s probably why they call it a ‘Science Fun Day’!

Jana Swanepoel

Grade 5

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83 Grade 6

Grade 7

The Grade 7 class started the day with a field study of a local habitat. They observed animal and plants present and identified a possible food web. They focused on one animal and completed a drawing of it. Marlice van Vuuren from N/a’an ku sê visited to talk about animals in the Savannah ecosystem. She brought an orphaned

baboon, meerkat and 3 banded mongooses. Not only did they learn about these three species but also about the work done at N/a’an ku sê. The day ended with Julian Fenessy giving a very interesting talk on the different species of Giraffe in Africa.

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Science Fair Ten of our students participated in the Khomas Regional Science Fair. Congratulations to:

Gold Medalists:

Emily Shave - The Rural Fridge Zuné Weber - Cooling Farm Workers’ Houses.

Silver Medalists:

Nathan Shave - High Cake (the best in Food Science Category) Jessica Norris & Kiana Cormack - Can You See What Eye See? Marizelle Bezuidenhout - How Much Iron In Your Breakfast Cereal Jamie Coetzee & Rachel Finch - The Impact Of Cell Phone Usage While Driving Carien van Rooyen - It’s A Jungle Out There

Bronze Medalists:

She Chani - Does The Loudness Of Music Affect Performance? All your hard work paid off! Congratulations boys and girls.

I enjoyed the Science Fair a lot and competition was most welcome.

Jessie Tembo

The experience of the Science Fair was amazing. Seeing other projects and learning new things was life changing. It also taught me about how to come up with good ideas. I also saw how different and helpful it could be to Namibia.

Emily Shave

The Regional Science Fair was a wonderful experience. There were so many projects. I lost count. The ideas were amazing! So many students had awesome ideas. It was fun being at the Regional Science Fair. Even though the competition was tough we still did our best.

Jamie Coetzee

Cultural Activities Entrepreneur’s Day, Art Exhibition and Talent Show The 2013 Entrepreneur’s Day was held on 2 October. This year we combined it with the talent show and the art exhibition. We wanted to create a real market atmosphere. The result was a vibrant evening that buzzed. The presence of the high school SMC’s was an added bonus and we thank them for their support. The parents turned up in droves and they enjoyed watching the talent show. The students performed confidently and it would have been quite understandable if people had thought that they were at a school for performing arts. We have natural performers in our school!

The musical, magical and dramatic skills were clearly evident. The classrooms were alive with the wonderful art displays. The level of art in the primary school is rather inspiring. The variety of stalls by the Grade 7s included reading stands, homemade preserves, crafts, milkshakes and ice cream, games, beauty therapy and digital cards. This evening was the culmination of a year’s work and the results were rewarding. In conclusion, St Paul’s students are confident, performing and artistic businessmen!

Art Exhibition at the Entrepreneur’s Day

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Chess Chess, being one of the most competitive games to play, is always more popular amongst boys, but both boys and girls enjoyed playing in the chess challenges. The winner for the first trimester was Josua Cloete, second trimester, Hiren Naidoo and third trimester, Josua again. That makes Josua Cloete our overall Chess Challenge winner of the year. Congratulations to you! Girls don’t despair. There is always another opportunity. The great thing about girls is that they never give up! They act like real ladies, even when defeated. Thank you to each one of you who gave up your Friday afternoons for this. You made it extra special.

INTERESTING FACTS ON CHESS • The word "Checkmate" in Chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means"the King is dead." • The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,949 moves. • The folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden from play chess. The priest found a way around it by making a folding chessboard. When folded together and put on a bookshelf, it simply looked like two books. • During World War II, some of the top Chess players were also code breakers. British masters Harry Golombek, Stuart Milner-Barry and CH O'D. Alexander was on the team which broke the Nazi Enigma code. • Chess is called the game of kings, because for many centuries it was played primarily by nobility and the upper classes. • A 7 year-old Filipino boy Alekhine Nouri became the youngest FIDE (World Chess Federation) Master in the world, after only 2 years of learning the game! • The current world champion is Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 and successfully defended his title against former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008, against Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010 and against Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2012.

UNDISPUTED WORLD CHAMPIONS 2006 TO PRESENT

Name Year Country Age Vladimir Kramnik 2006 - 2007 Russia 31 - 32 Viswanathan Anand 2007 - present India 38

“Noli Judicare”

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Library IT Committee This committee consists of skilled and committed parents and teachers. They are all working together towards a common goal which is to make the IT centre the most popular and best educational facility on the school premises.

with the set-up and the functioning of the IT centre. We are looking forward to working together in the future to ensure that everyone is in line with the development of technology all over the world.

The IT committee was established to assist the school with IT. Certain processes had to be put into place to ensure that most value could be gained from the money allocated to IT. It has been a concern for many parents that the media centre in its current state does not provide pupils with the necessary resources to prepare them for today's internet economy. One of the major projects undertaken by the IT committee has been to get funding for upgrading the media centre and to develop a strategy that will ensure that our childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education regarding IT is up to standard. The committee consists of parents who are IT professionals who volunteered their time to make decisions and collectively provide advice. This democratic process ensures that there is a balanced debate around spending resources towards the IT infrastructure.

IT steering committee

Kumbi Short (Chairperson) Erik Voges (Vice-chairperson) Jan Coetzee Jossie Koekemoer Wilfred Kuria

Members

Celia de Barros Lesley Saunders Liz Hentze Ilona Jauss Peta Austin Hans Callesen

Thank you for your patience and support over the last couple of years during which we experienced numerous problems

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Erik Voges

IT Club Chairperson

eLearning Conference 29-31 May 2013 I am most grateful that I was able to attend the 8th eLearning conference which was held in Windhoek. Over 1500 delegates from all over the world took part in the theme of “Tradition, Change and Innovation”. The conference was officially opened by our Prime Minister, Dr Hage Geingob. Various sessions, addressing different aspects of IT, were held throughout the conference. One aspect that came through often, was that we need to move away from a teacher-centred teaching style to a student-centred learning style. ICT should be an integrated part of our teaching. Speakers shared how the fact that people have access to mobiles encourages economic growth, financial awareness and learning. These are all factors that could help end poverty. We heard how, even in poor rural areas of Africa, technology was being used effectively in teaching and in connecting with the rest of the world. It was also shown how videos, podcasts and digital animation can be used in classroom activities by both teachers and learners. Various trends in Open Learning were discussed such as Massive Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Educational Resources (OERs). Exciting developments where technology supports the growth of early literacy and a reading and writing culture were discussed. A lively discussion with leading international experts and participants was the best way to end off a very positive and brilliant conference. The theme of the debate was: “The house believes that sustainability is more important than innovation for education in Africa.” The result was inconclusive but led to better understanding of both sides’ arguments, thus enabling better co-operation. I conclude with this quote: “Teachers should never teach like yesterday and rob their students from tomorrow.” May St Paul’s College never be guilty of this!

Jossie Koekemoer

Head of the Media Centre

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Library report 2013 This year we covered different topics in the Media Centre. We started the new year on a high note when we exhibited all the new books that we purchased during 2012 - a splendid way to welcome newcomers to our school. More exhibitions followed. To celebrate St Valentine’s Day, books about relationships and the all-time winner, love stories, were displayed. An exhibition on Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday was a highlight. This was followed by an exhibition of autobiographies and bibliographies of many leaders of the word who contributed to society

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It is heart warming to see how many Primary School pupils, as well as Junior Secondary pupils make proper use of the library. There was a huge demand for both new fiction as well as nonfiction reading material. This led to the ‘disappearance’ of the research and reading sections in the MC. We trust that with the expansion and development of the school, provision will be made for a well-equipped library, which serves the needs of the whole school community. A heartfelt thank you goes out to each and every parent who generously contributed to the library fund. These donations enable the Media Centre to acquire new reading material that would otherwise not have been possible. Thank you for donating books (old and new), games, magazines and puzzles. With your continued contributions and support, we will be able to develop the Media Centre and to expand our collection of information material to benefit our readers. You are always welcome to visit me at the Media Centre. The Media Centre has also continued appreciation for the work done by Mrs Christa Fourie. She processes the new books, a service that she has been providing to the Media Centre for the past nine years.

Jossie Koekemoer

St Paul’s College has truly enriched our three children. We will miss you sadly. Bless you all. Love from the Norris family

Read-a-thon On Monday morning, 24 September 2013 the 8th Readathon was opened by our guest speaker, Andy Callesen, an English teacher at the High School. The theme for the Readathon was “Don’t kill the world” and this theme focused on how each individual can make a difference to protect our environment. It really was a privilege to listen to someone with such a heart for the environment. A different activity was planned for every day of the Readathon. On Monday and Tuesday we once again had Diskonto books at our school which gave the pupils the opportunity to purchase fiction and non-fiction books at discounted prices. A record amount of books were sold this year during the two day sale. Every day the pupils looked forward to the daily DEAR lessons. (Drop Everything And Read) The school bell rang to mark the beginning and end of this 15 minute time slot which took place at random times during the day. In this quarter of an hour, pupils as well as their teachers dropped everything and read. Pupils were also encouraged to read at home and fill in a form with the help of parents to indicate their time spent reading. They completed a “leaf” with information about the author, title, spine label and pages that they had read. Every day we stuck the leaves onto an old dead tree in the foyer of the MC. There was huge excitement and anticipation to see how our tree came to “life” day after day. On Tuesday the pupils had the opportunity to donate old books, dvd’s, posters and other such items to the school. Wednesday the students contributed a large amount of old clothing, shoes and tinned food for a needy school in Dordabis. On Thursday,

children placed coins/paper money inside a drawing of a rhino on the ground, in the quad. It was exciting to see how the drawing filled up with coins of the money that was collected. It will be used to make the MC more environmentally friendly with plants and a water pump for our water feature. The children used a unique idea to motivate others to read. Once a child had finished reading a library book, he or she did something special before returning the book to the library. The reader cut out a heart and wrote a little note on it. This was slipped in between the pages of the book so that the next reader would find a special little note in the book! The week ended on a high note with a dress-up parade! The children outdid themselves, displaying great talent and creativity. Seeing what the children recycled from rubbish was amazing. They created anything from robots to garden pots to clothing. With the help of committed teachers, each class enthusiastically presented an item in keeping with the green theme. Plays and poems abounded! Our parents were thoroughly entertained by our future “greenies”. The motto of our Media Centre is “Knowledge is Power.” Thank you to each and every pupil, parent and teacher who made a contribution to the success of Readathon 2013 and thank you once again for attending our 9th Readathon. I look forward to Readathon 2014.

Jossie Koekemoer

Organiser of Readathon 2013

Elavoko & Vseteka Pakote – What a joy! “To God be the glory”

Grade 3 Readathon visit to Dordabis Preschool On Thursday, 10 October, both Grade 3 classes, Mrs Hosking, Ms Roth and Mrs Koekemoer, set off to Dordabis. They delivered all the Readathon donations to the preschool there that had been started for the children of the squatter camp. Our children were amazed at the thoughtfulness and the beauty that was evident at the preschool. The little ones were rather shy but gave us lots of smiles and looks. Their teachers were fantastic, filled with enthusiasm. The founders of the school, Mr and Mrs Joubert, told us a bit about the children living conditions and what the school’s mission was. Many of our children were overheard saying how lucky and grateful they were for their homes and parents. To everyones delight chips, lollipops and cold drink were dished out. The highlight was listening to these little ones singing the National Anthem with such gusto and an even more energetic “tooth brushing” song! We responded with a song of our own. We then went to Mr and Mrs Joubert’s farm. This was a wonderful experience and we were made so welcome! The children

thoroughly enjoyed exploring the farm, from the two cheetahs to the young oryx. There were also goats, sheep, cows, geese and a hen with baby chickens. Fiona gave them an educational talk about camel thorn trees and the use of their seeds for cattle feed. About eight dogs kept us company throughout the time we were there. The children were entranced with the week-old foal that seemed very happy to be petted and fussed over. At last, we all flopped on the beautiful green grass and had our picnic surrounded by greenery. The children drank it all in and thoroughly enjoyed everything they saw, even though some of them held their noses when the “farm” smell was too much for them! After many thanks and a last round of saying goodbye, 47 exhilarated Grade 3's jumped into the buses and travelled safely back to school, thanks to Victor and Titus, our bus drivers. Well done Grade 3's and thank you so much, Mrs Koekemoer.

C. Hosking

Music

YWAP Every second Wednesday the New Song Family Church has the awesome opportunity to teach the St Paul’s Primary School children about God. Youth With A Purpose is a youth group run for the youth of Namibia. Children aged from 10 years to grade 7 gather every Friday from 6-8pm, at 28 Daan Bekker Street, while grades 7 to 12, meet at St George’s Diocesan College from 7-10pm. Everyone was created for a purpose and it is the goal of the New Song Family Church to help everyone discover God and the purpose for their lives. Every second Wednesday morning we have classes in which we teach children about the Love of God, about following him, and about making wise life decisions. We love the children of St Paul’s and it is always fun as we gather for some great games and teaching! The primary school

looks forward to their time with YWAP and we in turn look forward to spending time with them and imparting a greater understanding of God. The kids are awesome and of course there’s always something you can learn from them too. We pray for St Paul’s College, the children, staff, and parents, that we all would be filled with the joy of God and continue to seek Him and to know Him better.

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Sport Archery Archery was introduced at St Paul’s early in March when the extra-mural program started. 12 eager archers started off, making string-bows and determining their dominant eye. Soon they were ready to shoot their first arrows! Seven archers participated in the National School’s Archery competition during the first weekend of June and impressed all the participants with their skill and excellent manners. The attendance numbers grew during the second term as a result of the earlier practice times. Many afternoons saw 20

archers practising – trying to improve their previous high scores or beating their friend’s high score. It was a great group to work with. Their skill and accuracy improved tremendously during the year. Their concentration and ability to focus also improved. Thank you to Glynnis Beukes-Kapa and Michael Whitelock for their patience and calm guidance and help during the practice sessions.

Athletics This year’s athletics kicked off with a very successful Interhouse competition with the Rudolph team triumphing once again. A special word of congratulations to Zuné Weber and Gian Dresselhaus, the Senior Victor Ludorums and Hannah Murphy and Lazarus Petrus, the Junior Victrix Ludorums.

55 of our children, from U10 – U13, were selected to participate in the Small Schools athletics meeting in February. Our athletes did us proud and 24 of the St Paul’s athletes qualified to represent the Small Schools team at the Zone B meeting in 64 events. During March 11 of our athletes competed in the Regional Athletics Meeting in 16 events: Pandu Amuenje (shot put),

Mark Olles (shot put), Kiana Cormack (shot put), Zuné Weber (shot put and 70 m hurdles), Gian Dresselhaus ( high jump and 75 m hurdles), Jeani Holz (shot put, javelin, discus), Marizelle Bezuidenhout (200 m hurdles), Liam Hermanus (javelin), Tristan Kolling (discus), Dakota Hansen (long jump and 200 m hurdles), Ngambui Katjivena (200 hurdles) The following athletes excelled: Zuné Weber - 2 nd shot put Gian Dresselhaus - 3 rd 75 m hurdles Jeani Holz - 2 nd javelin, 3 rd discus Dakota Hansen - 2 nd 200 m hurdles Ngambui Katjivena - 3 rd 200 m hurdles We had three athletes qualifying for the National Athletics competition. We are very proud of their results: Dakota Hansen - 2nd 200m hurdles Ngambui Katjivena - 5th 200 m hurdles Jeani Holz - 5th discus, 6th javelin Well done to all our athletes who participated in the above events. We are very proud of each one’s efforts.

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Cricket Our cricket league ended on a high note with our Mini Cricket Team reaching the finals. The B League team won and the A League team came 3rd. Daniel Jauss was appointed “Man of the Series” for the B League. These little ones played their hearts out throughout the season.

Nguvi Hinda, Liam Hermanus, Damien Schultz and Tristan Kolling were selected to participate in the Regional cricket team. All four of them were selected to join the Namibian squad. They will be touring to Worcester (RSA) in December to participate there.

The U11’s had a wonderful cricket season. They came third in their league. The U13’s reached the finals and played against Windhoek Gymnasium. They played like stars, but were defeated by Windhoek Gymnasium.

A big thank you to Fortune, Zee and Dickson for all the hours they have put into our school’s cricket.

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Hockey Once again St Paul’s had an incredible season! This year the league was run by the NHU. We entered 18 teams in the league: 6 U8 teams (3 boys’ & 3 girls’), 6 U10 teams (3 boys’ & 3 girls’), 4 U12 teams (2 boys’ & 2 girls’) and 2 U14 teams (1 boys’ & 1 girls’). Once again, our hockey players amazed us with their skill, sportsmanship and determination. They always put all their effort into the practices and matches. The results for the season were: The u/10A boys and u/10A girls, U12A girls and U14 girls won their respective leagues. The U8A boys and girls and U14 boys came 2nd in their leagues. We are very proud of our B-teams who always played their best and showed good perseverance throughout the year. We are very proud of the good behaviour of our players and we are honoured to be at the top of the league in many age groups.

We would like to congratulate the following children on their special achievements: Jeani Holz, Zani van Lill, Kiana Cormack, Rachel Finch and Zuné Weber who were selected for the NSSU U14 girls team. Liam Hermanus and Dakota Hansen were selected for the NSSU U14 boys team. The NSSU teams played in an IPT tournament in George during July. Our boys and girls had an amazing trip and a wonderful hockey experience – competing against 20 South African provincial teams. Thank you to every coach, teacher and parent who is involved with hockey. Your input contributes to our success. During the annual Mini World Cup held by K5 Sport, St Paul’s represented Argentina. We had an awesome day, with our stage performance including a dancing Pope, Eva Peron, the men and women’s soccer team and a carnival of participants. Argentina had seven teams in the finals and won six of the eight age group categories at the popular development hockey tournament.

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Physical Education Grade 1 PE Demonstration Lesson for Parents In order for parents to understand what is needed for a Grade 1 student to perform optimally, we arranged a day where they could see how the PE development programme works at St Paul’s College and why we do PE so intensively. PE has most definitely evolved since they were in Grade 1. A few stations were set out and the two classes were divided into groups and rotated until everyone had had a turn at the various activities. The activities highlighted a variety of skills that are practised in a typical lesson. Parents were able to see how much fun a PE lesson can be.

Without constant movement, children develop delays; they are not able to sit for long periods, they are not able to listen or respond effectively, they struggle to organize themselves and find it difficult to work with direction and shapes. All these have an impact on learning to read, write and do Mathematics. Lack of movement inhibits their imagination and self confidence. That is why they get bored and frustrated so easily. The lack of physical development has a huge and negative effect on school work.

Eric Burger

It is alarmingly obvious that the physical abilities of modern children deteriorate each year. It is important for a Grade 1 student to be able to handle a full morning of sitting, playing, listening and responding to all the daily demands. They need to be physically fit to do this. Therefore, it cannot be emphasised enough that children must crawl, walk, climb and run as much as they can when they are little. It would be wonderful if parents realised this when babies were born. Parents would then stop doing everything for their children, let them walk and not be carried, let them run, let them climb, let them carry their own bags and toys and pack things away themselves. Movement memory forms the basis of intellectual memory.

Failure and success teach self confidence, motivation and never ever to give up.

By running within a structured environment, they develop more than just muscles.

The structured environment is ideal to teach them discipline.

As they throw a ball, clap and catch, they learn problem solving skills, timing and courage.

By jumping, concentration develops and movement and emotions are controlled.

By changing direction while running, they learn agility and quick decision making.

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Swimming The opportunity our grade 1 and 2 learners have to do swimming as part of the P.E program is starting to show results. More inexperienced swimmers had the courage to participate in the Inter House Gala, in October. Congratulations to Milah Malan and Krynauw Weber who were the Junior Victrix and Victor Ludorums, as well as to Zuné Weber and Dakota Hansen who received the Senior Victrix and Victor Ludorums. St Paul’s participated in the Pupkewitz Gala in November. 33 swimmers from St Paul’s Primary school entered and we came 2nd in this event. Congratulations to the following swimmers for their achievements: Milah Malan - 1st freestyle, backstroke, butterfly (U8) Pascale Pimenta - 3rd backstroke and butterfly (U8) Janice Kennedy - 3rd breaststroke (U8) Alice Young - 3rd freestyle (U8) Antoine Segura - 3rd backstroke (U8) Anneke Eisenberg - 3rd breaststroke and backstroke (U10) Krynauw Weber - 1st in backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, 2nd freestyle (U10)

Mikah Burger - 1st freestyle, 2nd breaststroke, butterfly (U10) Charl Malan - 3rd backstroke (U10) Zuné Weber - 1st freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke, 2nd butterfly (U12) The under U8 girls and U10 boys’ relay teams came first, the U8 boys and U10 girls came second and the U14 girls came third. We are extremely proud of all the participants for their good behaviour and their positive attitude. Two of the Primary School’s students, Zuné and Krynauw Weber, qualified for the Namibian team in Biathle and Triathle. Both students participated in the World Biathle and Triathle Championship in Cypress during October. Krynauw came first in his age group in the Triathle Championship and Zuné came third. It was a great experience for them.

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Tennis This year was characterized by “up and coming” talent in the U10 age group. The under 10 group made up three-quarters of the tennis group, which consisted of about 22 players. Seeing that the U12 and U14 group was so much smaller, it was decided that Miss Stainton and her U10 group would join the U12 and U14 at the Eros tennis courts on a Thursday. They also joined the older ones at Johan Theron’s Tennis School at SKW on Tuesdays. At Johan’s Tennis School the tennis players were divided into three groups to be coached by different coaches. This was to each and every player’s advantage and they made amazing progress throughout the year. On Thursdays, Mrs. Le Roux and Miss Stainton developed and consolidated these skills. In the first term, a friendly tournament was played against Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaatskool. This was for the U10, U12 and U14 players. They had a choice between playing full court

or midi court, as some of them were not yet ready to attempt playing full court. There was another tournament for the U10 to U14 group in the second term. We invited St. George’s Primary School to the Eros courts and it was a very enjoyable afternoon. Later in the term, on 19th July, a Mini Tennis Tournament was organized for the Grade 2 pupils of St Paul’s College. We invited the Grade 2 tennis players from Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaatskool. The little ones coped well with playing matches and enjoyed the challenge of playing against each other, putting into practice what they have been taught in their tennis lessons with Johan Theron’s coaches. A third tournament took place on 4 October in the third term. Again St George’s Primary School met with us at Eros Primary School courts. Our players did very well and took first, second and third places in the full court and midi court events.

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On 1 November the Grade 1 and 2 tennis players had a “St Paul’s only” mini tennis tournament. The Grade 1's competed against each other and the Grade 2's against each other. The Grade 1's initially struggled, but quickly got into it and played very nicely. They thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon, sunburnt, but happy! The quality of their skills shows that tennis in Grade 1 and 2 at Johan’s Tennis School is an asset to our school.

Tennis at St Paul’s College is not noticed as much as some of the other sports, but it definitely has its place and is thoroughly enjoyed by those who participate.

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Other happenings... Mad Hatter's Walk

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Welcoming prospective parents to St Paul's at our Open Day

Celebrating the rain as only Namibian children do!

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Building dreams... parking and classrooms!

Cancer apples and the Pink & Denim Day

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Thank you to... ... ... ... ...

Dana and YWAP for the precious time spent with our students, sharing the teachings of God in a manner which they adore! Alex and Jakkals at the Namib Swimming Academy, for another excellent swimming season! Johan and Jurgens at Johan Theron Tennis School. The tennis players are becoming stronger and improve each year through your coaching! everyone who made it possible for St Paul’s students to have a better and more successful year!

A sincere thank you also to the following people:

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The prayer group who carried us in prayer and through the grace of God made the challenging times easier. The PPSG for ensuring that the events ran smoothly. Chris Steenkamp, Michael Whitelock & Lourens Bezuidenhout for leading our Grade 7s through the Kuiseb River hike. Oom Gert for yet again making the Blumfelde trip a great success. All the coaches who helped to make our sport programme a wonderful success.

See you next year!