Inside this issue

Note from Mrs Van Dyk ......... 1

Cultural News ....................... 2

Sport News ........................... 3

Happening around School ..... 4

Book Week………………………...5

Hooked on Books………………...6

Eisteddfod Results…………..7,8,9

Gr 7 News……………………………10

Dates to Diaries…………………...11

Junior School

Newsletter A Note from Mrs Van Dyk’s Desk

Since our last newsletter many functions and events have taken place. The Music Carnival, Lady of Fatima Tour, Heritage Day and Arbor Day Celebra-tions, Bishop Bavin Speech Competition, St Dunstan’s Eisteddfod, Angel Mass , Gr 7 Farewell Dinner as well as many sporting and cultural activities . I thank every staff member, parent and pupil who helped in any way , to make all these events successful.

The following prayer was read at the angel Mass:

A Prayer for our earth (by Pope Francis) All-Powerful God , you are present in the whole universe

And in the smallest of your creatures.

You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.

Pour out upon us the power of your love ,

That we may protect life and beauty.

Fill us with peace, that we may live

As brothers and sisters , harming no one.

O God of the poor,

Help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth,

So precious in your eyes.

Bring healing to our lives,

That we may protect the world and not prey on it,

That we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.

Touch the hearts

Of those who look only for gain

At the expense of the poor and the earth.

Teach us to discover the worth of each thing,

To be filled with awe and contemplation,

To recognize that we are profoundly united

With every creature

As we journey towards your infinite light.

Thank you for being with us each day.

Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle

For justice , love and peace

October 2016

As we reflect on this prayer let us remember to be thankful for our earth and to never be too busy to pray and strive for justice, love and peace within our school and the communi-ty around us!

Cultural Badge Chess

Danae Kellet

Paige Dolman

Tayra O Gama

Robyn Evans

Jenna Fyfe

Megan Daws

Media Monitors for the Third Term

Gr 6 L

Trisha Alho Naaila Banda

Daniela Bergonzi Tyla Campbell

Dominique Da Silva Paige Dolman

Ruby Healing Fezile Hlatshwayo

Khwezi Kheswa Oratile Khonkhobe

Morgan Klopper Noluthando Kunene

Dylan Lee Ayanda Linda

Paki Maphike Khutso Mlambo

Gomolemo Morolo Kimberly Munyoro

Yasha Naidoo Jordan Purves

Tyla Whitehead Nandi Yende

Malcolm Gooding Speech Competition

Olivia Ostermeyer, Olivia Smargiasso and Claire de Graaff took part in the annual Malcolm Gooding Speech Competition at Bishop Bavin School. It was a wonderful evening of speeches presented by eight different schools. Congratulations to Claire, she came first in the Grade 6 category and to Olivia Smargiasso for second place in the Grade 7 category. Well done to all our speakers and thank you to the teachers and parents for all your hard work preparing for the evening.

Congratulations to Olivia Teeling 5M who was selected to represent her club at the SA Games Novice Nationals for Tumbling.

Well done to Tamika Ashton who received her East Gauteng Colours for Acrobatics.

Well done to Erin Guy who received East Gaut-eng colours for Tumbling.

Congratulations to Abigail Crawford, Katarina Jardim and Madjozeldi Nel who were chosen to represent for the Eastern Gauteng Gymnastic Association at the Zone Competition held in Au-gust.

Well done to Katarina Jardim 3 T who received a Gold Medal and 1st place in the 8 year old Lev-el 1 at the Gymagic invitational gymnastics com-petition on 23 July 2016 which qualified her to participate in the Gauteng championships held on 29 July . She received another Gold medal , her Eastern Gauteng Colours as well as qualifi-cation for the North Zone championships (Mini SA) which was held in August to represent Eastern Gauteng.

Well done Madjozeldi Nel on obtaining a silver medal for Level 2 Competition on 15/16 July and

qualifying to compete for Gauteng Regional Tri-als. Received a bronze medal on the 29/30 July and Eastern Gauteng colours and qualified to compete in Gauteng regional finals from 25-27 August.

Tennis News Well done to Tamica Cameron for representing Gauteng East in the interprovincial match in

July.

Life Saving Congratulations to Sydney Munks 6S on her wonderful achievements in the National Stillwa-ter Lifesaving Championships held in Durban in April.

She broke numerous Ekurhuleni Lifesaving rec-ord for her age group

Set new GPLA records for her age group

Was awarded Victrix Ludorum for both Ekurhu-leni District and Gauteng Provincial District in her age group.

Tumbling and Gymnastic News

Well done to Lia Armstrong 4 D who took part in the North Zone gymnastics festival ( she is a member of the Germiston Gymnastics Club) , as during this event she earned her Eastern Gaut-eng Gymnastics Colours.

Well done to the following girls who were se-lected to represent Eastern Gauteng Schools water polo at the SA Schools Tournament 2016

Caitlyn O’Hara Olivia Smargiasso

Emma Mark Olufunke Gando

Gabriella Teixeira

Gabrielle Sayer

Isabella Sayer

Kaylin De Freitas

Micaela Pinto

Nicole Fawcett

Gymnastics Water Polo

On 28 September the St Dominic's Gr 4 girls participated in the Super sport let's play challenge. The aim is to see the amount of students that can get through an obstacle course in 45 minutes. The girls managed to get 74 through in 45 min. Unfortunately St Dominic's did not go through to the semi finals but however did make the top ten and first in the all girls school group. Well done to all the Gr 4 girls that took part in this fun event and well done to all of the girls.

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The Junior School celebrated books during Book Week which was held from the 22 – 16 September. The week started off with a book character dress up and picnic. The girls looked wonderful and had creat-ed beautiful outfits from household items and a little imagination! Various reading activities prepared by the Grade 7 Media Committee were held in the Media Centre at break, including a birthday party quiz to celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday. Many girls came together to test their knowledge of Roald Dahl books. A competition to “Guess how many books are in the Media Centre” was won by Geneiva Ackerman from Grade 6G, well done! Her guess was only 52 books short of the actual number of books.

The Readers Warehouse book sale was enthusiasti-cally supported and many girls left the book shop with lots of reading material. Thank you to Ms de la Hunt for arranging them.

The Book Week ended with a performance by Hooked on Books, which is always very popular with the girls due to the actors’ antics on stage. This year they included books across a wide variety of genres. Ad-venture books such as My Brother is a Superhero and The 13-Storey Treehouse to books on poetry such as Poetry Pie.

All the books presented by Hooked on Books are available in the Media Centre along with many excit-ing adventures waiting to be started. Keep reading!

Book Week

Hooked on Books On Friday 16th September, the Grade 0 – 3 girls were treated to a perfor-mance by Hooked on Books in our Jubilee Centre. The performers present-ed excerpts from six children’s books, stopping at crucial points in the sto-ry, motivating our girls to go out and find these books to read to see how the stories will end.

The books presented were:

Geronimo Stilton’s Treasure of Easter Island. This is a funny “whisker licking good” tale of Geronimo the mouse’s adventures as he goes off on Wild Willy’s plane to find his sister Thea, and the treasure on Easter Island.

The Step Monster. A story about Tom whose mother, Flying Freda, has gone off to join the circus. Tom’s father has met a young lady who he wants to introduce to Tom. All Tom knows about step mothers, he has learned from fairy tales and he is afraid that this lady will become his “step-monster.”

Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants. King Collin has a pair of gold-en underpants. These underpants are stolen by a giant and Sir Scal-lywag, who is six years old, has to get them back.

Poetry Pie. This is a collection of “delicious” poems by Roger McGoush. Cinderboy. This is a story loosely based on the fairytale of Cinderella.

Cinderboy loves soccer. When his step family refuses to take him with to watch Royal Palace United play in the final, his TV godmoth-er arranges to get him to the match, warning him to be back before the final whistle.

Explosive Adventures. This book contains two stories. The one which was presented was The Bubblegum Tree. This book follows the ad-ventures of Billy as he flies to India to find the Bubblegum Tree.

This was the perfect way to end our book week. Our girls are encouraged to look for these books in our Media Centre or to go to www.hookedonbooks.org.za to find out where they can get hold of these books.

Grade 7

Own Choice Poetry

Isabella Domiter Prestige

Gabriella Teixeira Honours

Katja De Freitas Gold

Courtney Stride Honours

Nicole Fawcett Prestige

Jordan Kobrin Honours

Samukelisiwe Dube Honours

Chaeli Fisher Honours

Khanyi Mbele Silver

Tayla Ashton Honours

Kiara Oliveira Honours

Claire Olsen Honours

Kayla Richardson Gold

Nicole Fawcett Honours

Jordan Kobrin Prestige

Caitlin Richter Prestige

Prepared Speech

Lisa Mwewa Honours Kate Black Honours

Nokhwezi Nqeketo Honours Isabella Domiter Prestige

Jessica Crawford Honours Gabriella Teixeira Prestige

Daniella Lilje Prestige Olivia Smargiasso Prestige

Katja De Freitas Honours Nicole Fawcett Prestige

Olivia Smargiasso Prestige Caitlin Richter Prestige

Jordan Kobrin Honours Kayla Richardson Honours

Samukelisiwe Dube Gold Tayla Ashton Prestige

Chaeli Fisher Honours Kiara Oliveira Prestige

Claire Olsen Honours

Thank you to the Gr 7 girls who helped at the Face Facts annual Cuppa for CANSA on 6

August

Grade 6

Own Choice Poetry

Gabriella Berimbau Prestige Gabriella Berimbau Honours

Jordan Purves Honours Ruby Healing Honours

Fezile Hlatshwayo Honours Bridgete Zhekov Prestige

Xolile Fry Honours

Tayla Barrett Honours Undramatised Prose

Raquel Ferreira Prestige Ruby Healing Gold

Samukelisiwe Zwane Honours Yasha Naidoo Honours

Casey Norton Prestige Casey Noron Prestige

Mahlatse Ramadinbane Prestige Siphiwe Pangwa Gold

Jordan Purves Gold

Fezile zhlatshwayo Honours

Skyla De Freitas Honours

Sibongile Ndaba Prestige

Yasha Naidoo Prestige

Mahlatse Ramadibane Honours

Bridgete Zekhov Honours

Prepared Speech

Raquel Ferreira Honours

Skyla De Freitas Prestige

Smaukelisiwe Zwane Honours

Sibongile Ndaba Honours

Xolile Fry Honours

Tayla Barrett Prestige

Notice

Reminder

As per contract conditions, a

terms (3 months) written no-

tice is required should your

daughter be leaving at the end

of the current year. Failure to

do so will result in a term’s

notice being charged in lieu

thereof. School fees are due

monthly in advance. Please

ensure that accounts are kept

up to date monthly. All ac-

counts for the current year to

be settled in full by no later

than the 15th of December

2016. Should you have any

queries, please do not hesitate

to contact Lynn Stewart or Iris

Kruger on 011 917-0133; fax

011 917-8081 or ac-

counts@stdominics.co.za

Grade 5

Own Choice Poetry

Anke Pretorius Honours Ashley Richardson Honours Siphumelele Mfusi Honours

Megan Daws Honours Carey Rees Honours Anebel Kruger Honours

Tlotlang Moloi Honours Robyn Evans Honours Olivia Teeling Prestige

Haily Wilson Honours Olivia Ostermeyer Honours Shannon Massolini Honours

Kaylee Rossouw Honours Lenita Silva Prestige Ashley Richardson Honours

Siphumelele Mfusi Honours Qhawe Stemela Honours Carey Rees Honours

Anebel Kruger Prestige Olivia Teeling Honours Robyn Evans Prestige

Claire Marland Honours Olivia David Prestige Olivia Ostermeyer Prestige

Sharon Ibe Honours Qhawe Stemela Prestige

Taylor Stanton Honours Tlotlang Moloi Honours Prepared Speech

Kayla Victor Honours Haily Wilson Prestige Mariam Latif Honours

Shannon Massolini Honours Kaylee Rossouw Honours Haily Wilson Honours

Kaylee Rossouw Honours

Anebel Kruger Prestige

Well done to the following girls on their scrolls and Certificates:

Waterpolo: Olufunke Gando

Kaylin De Freitas

Gabrielle Sayer

Caitlyn O’Hara

Drummies: Palesa Mocheko

Sibongile Ndaba

Mahlatse Ramadibane

Fezile Hlatshwayo

Asiphe Selubana

Karabo Mokhiwitjane

Anke Pretorius

Gymnastics: Erin Guy

Tamika Ashton

Tennis: Julia Monticelli

Angel Mass

Our annual Mass of the Archangels is the final Mass which the matrics attend with the whole school before their own Valedictory Mass and the start of their final exams.

The matric girls and Grade Ones walked in procession in front of Fr Mark James, who cele-brated this special Mass for us.

The theme of caring for and stewardship of the earth, inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laud-ato Si’ was evident in the posters made by all classes and displayed behind the altar.

The Archangels, Mi-chael, Gabriel and Raph-ael were brought up at the Offertory by the Grade Fives.

Thank you to all those girls who brought in non-perishable goods.

Angels before you, guide and direct you

Angels behind you, guard and protect you

Angels above you, keep watching over you

Angels beside you, care for and comfort you.

Learn to Cook General Information The cookery courses last for six weeks and are run in the afternoons and evenings, Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays in the form of 2-hour work sessions which are “hands on” classes.

Two classes will also be available on Saturdays 9-11am or 11.15 -13:15

Only 12 students can be accommodated in each course.

Basic cookery will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturday mornings. (a variety of main meals) and baking will take place on Wednesday. However, depend-ing on demand I may have to alter this schedule to accommodate clients. Evening classes will only be available if numbers are suitable.

It is school policy that girls and boys who are studying Consumer Studies as one of their elective subject choices in Grade 10/11 or 12 are not eligible for the courses; however, children are welcome from Grade 5 upwards.

The new sessions will begin on Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd and Saturday 24th

of September and continue until 25th October 2016.

Another set of classes will begin on Tuesday 1st November, continuing until 6th December.

Work sessions begin promptly at 14:30 in the afternoon and 17:30 in the early evening. It is important to arrive 10 minutes before starting time.

Venue:

The venue is the Cookery Centre in the Senior School. Please use the Kruger Street gate. Secure parking in the visitors’ carpark is available.

Attendance:

A certificate of participation will be issued on completion of the course. However, students who miss more than two sessions will not qualify for the certificate.

Absence:

Please advise Mrs. Lithgow of absence via the school office or by email.

It may be possible to make up a lesson but this is not guaranteed.

Certificates:

As this is a course of practical sessions, please note that individual enthusiasm and participation are essential for success.

As with any practical course, mistakes will and do occur, some meals do not always turn out well at home. This is all part of the learning process, bear in mind practice makes perfect. Success does not always happen at the first attempt.

Everyone is attending the course to LEARN TO COOK!

DATES TO DIARISE

Friday 7 October Campout

Thursday 13 October Valedictory School closes at 12:00

Thursday 20 October Grade 7 Final Assembly

School closes at 12:00 for mid-term

Tuesday 25 October School opens after mid-term (Day 6)

Thursday 27 October Gr 1 Orientation

Friday 28 October Gr 7 Mass

Friday 4 November Ladder 8 Gala

Tuesday 8 November Grade 4-7 Prize Giving at 8:00

Wednesday 9 November Grade 1-3 Prize Giving at 8:00

14-25 November Grade 4-7 Exams

Tuesday 29 November Grade 2 Violin Concert

Thursday 1 December Carol Service at 10:30 all are welcome

Christmas Market at 15:00

Friday 2 December Grade 1-7 Reports go out