newsletter | 8 april 2016 -...
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Dear Parents, Welcome back to the Second Term. We trust that you had a restful break and that our students are ready to negotiate the demands of another busy term, which includes examinations! I have noticed that many students are not dressed in the correct Reddam House College uniform. I have checked with The Uniform Shop and I have been assured that the Reddam House size 4 – 7 College socks will be in stock by Wednesday and all other winter uniform is in stock. Please ensure that your child is dressed correctly and that their hair style and colour conforms to the Reddam House Code of Conduct to avoid being contacted to fetch your child from school. Parents will note from our app that we have a term full of events ahead. Our sporting programme is filled with league fixtures and tournaments and we encourage our parents to support our enthusiastic players at their games. Commitment to a team is vital as we are endeavouring from our side to source as many matches against other schools as possible. This will allow for every student to be given an opportunity to represent our school on the sports field. As a result of this, students who sign up for a team sport need to understand that they are signing up for the whole season and cannot come and go at a whim. It is always an inspiration to watch our young students play their sport with such energy and determination John Burroughs, who wrote in the late 1800s, expressed very aptly what we as adults could learn from the youth: Oh, the eagerness and freshness of youth! How the boy enjoys his food, his sleep, his sports, his companions, his truant days! His life is an adventure; he is widening his outlook; he is extending his dominion; he is conquering his kingdom. How cheap are his pleasure; how ready his enthusiasms! In boyhood I have had more delight on a haymow with two companions and a big dog – delight that came nearer intoxication – than I have ever had in the subsequent holidays of my life. When youth goes, much goes with it. When manhood comes, much comes with it. We exchange a world of delight sensations and impressions for a world of duties and studies and meditations. The youth enjoys what the man tries to understand. Lucky is he who can get his grapes to market and keep the bloom upon them; who can carry some of the freshness and eagerness and simplicity of youth into his later years; who can have a boy’s heart below a man’s head. From time to time, I receive complaints from parents that other parents do not act considerately when dropping off and fetching students, and as a result of this they block the parking area and inconvenience others. Please be considerate of fellow parents and pull into a parking bay when dropping off a student – if you come to a standstill in the thoroughfare this has a domino effect on all the traffic behind you. After viewing a picture of ducks in our swimming pool on social media I felt it prudent to give our parents an update on the construction of our pool: the contractor is finishing up the refuse and heat pump room and retaining wall, which he is expecting to have completed within two weeks. BD Pool Specialists will be on site next week to start cleaning out the pool and preparing it for plastering and pool completion. Based on the project schedules the pool should be completed by 2nd week of May, ready for handover. I am sure you are all holding your breath in excitement with me… Our Grade 11s are furiously starting off the second term with their Matric Dance fundraising, please support them in their efforts by purchasing tickets for The Barnyard event on the 26 April.
NEWSLETTER | 8 April 2016 | VOLUME 2:1
From the Headmistress
Liséttè Noonan
A bag of Reddam House branded clothing was found on the street over the past weekend. On investigation it was found that the uniform had been given by a family to their worker. I would like to appeal to parents not to give the Reddam uniform to their workers without first removing the Reddam House badge or alternately if the uniform is still in good condition please give it to our Second Hand Uniform Shop to sell on your behalf.
My congratulations go to the following students who participated in the Computer Olympiad and received
these fine results. My gratitude to the staff, Mr Thinus Bothma and Mr Rob McClelland for all their efforts in
ensuring that our students at our school are able to achieve these stirling results.
Name Grade Achievement Name Grade Achievement
Bessie Obidike 9 GOLD Sarah Mtonga 8 BRONZE
Isabella Erasmus 9 GOLD Tinoonga Ngorima 8 BRONZE
Kiara Govender 8 GOLD Keola Pillay 8 BRONZE
Leanne Maher 8 GOLD Sonal Raghubir 9 BRONZE
Gemma Muller 8 GOLD Taegan Reekie 9 BRONZE
Natasha Yoko 9 GOLD Montana Robinson 8 BRONZE
Junhe Chen 7 GOLD Yusuf Seedat 9 BRONZE
Hannah De Almeida 7 GOLD Andrea Weinert 8 BRONZE
Krishna Moodley 7 GOLD Uzayr Ally 7 BRONZE
Sepp Bakker 9 SILVER Massimo Araujo 7 BRONZE
Christine Jacobs 9 SILVER Matthew Bisset 7 BRONZE
Kagiso Laobatsi 8 SILVER Leonardo Di Cecio 7 BRONZE
Sabrina Lenci 8 SILVER Solange Dos Santos 7 BRONZE
Nhlanhla Matthews 9 SILVER Tiaan Dreyer 7 BRONZE
Simon Meaker 8 SILVER Hannah Edelman 7 BRONZE
Noah Mphahlele 8 SILVER Jaimee Gungiah 7 BRONZE
Tshilidzi Tshibubudze 9 SILVER Amy Hardicre 7 BRONZE
Tintswalo Zwane 8 SILVER Nariska Haripersad 7 BRONZE
Zané Gasson 7 SILVER Julian Hart 7 BRONZE
Joshua Hill 7 SILVER Qaylah Humby 7 BRONZE
Kirthi Motilall 7 SILVER Max Mayer-Mader 7 BRONZE
Keshav Naidoo 7 SILVER Deanne Morris 7 BRONZE
John Ngaara 7 SILVER Tondani Mphaphuli 7 BRONZE
Emma Steyn 7 SILVER Nandi Msimanga 7 BRONZE
Abhay Tilakdari 7 SILVER Tommy Murray 7 BRONZE
Izabella Van Pletsen 7 SILVER Nikayla Naidoo 7 BRONZE
Nicholas Wilmans 7 SILVER Shanay Naran 7 BRONZE
Bronwyn Cornish 8 BRONZE Joy Njoroge 7 BRONZE
Katelyn Gouvias 9 BRONZE Gabrielle Otto 7 BRONZE
Caileen Gungiah 9 BRONZE Kylie-Anne Pienaar 7 BRONZE
Kiara Haripal 8 BRONZE Shaneya Pillay 7 BRONZE
Kaela Kokkas 8 BRONZE Thatayaone Ramalitsi 7 BRONZE
Medha Maharaj 9 BRONZE Tanya Rice 7 BRONZE
Sharon-Rose Maja 8 BRONZE Shekhar Rooplahl 7 BRONZE
Naledi Mogale 8 BRONZE Trent Vandenberg 7 BRONZE
Georgina Wertz 7 BRONZE
Wishing you a wonderful warm weekend with your family.
Regards
Liséttè
The South African Championships of Performing Arts, will take place in Rustenburg from 1 -10 April 2016. This is a wonderful opportunity and great honour for Deanne Morris, Lauren Bowes, Khanyo Dyakala and Katelyn Gouvias to participate at this level of competition. The Provincial Semi Final Auditions have been completed through 9 Provinces and approximately 16 000 Semi-finalists competed and only 3000 Contestants make it through to the National South African Championships Of Performing Arts 2016 final round.
Aimee Grefen recently participated in the Karate South Africa All Styles Championships held in Durban 18-19 March. She achieved bronze for individual kata in the 12-13yrs age group. In so doing Aimee remains Karate South Africa’s number 1 ranked athlete for individual kata, girls
12-13yrs.
Georgina Wertz and Gabi Otto on Sunday performed a duet in the U12 age
group of the South African Performing Arts National Dancing Championships
currently being held in Rustenburg. The results will apparently be available on
Friday 8 April and, should they be successful, they could be selected to represent
South Africa at the World Championships in the USA in December.
Bonakele Mahlangu U14 and Santhea Sinivasan U16 have been selected for JOMO Regional Trials for U14, U15 and U16 will take place on 18 April at
Hoerskool Randburg starting promptly at 14h00.
Tayla Beckley has been selected represent Dunkeld Equestrian Estate and Spa at the Mpumalanga Nationals next week Thursday, Friday and Saturday. As it stands she will be riding under her SANESA passport number, which in turn means that she will be accumulating points for the Reddam House Waterfall Estate
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS
Mrs Charmaine Naude recently umpired at the St Andrews Netball Festival, representing Reddam House Bedfordview as an umpire, where she was selected to umpire the Gold Trophy Final, and won the prestigious award of ‘Umpire of the Tournament’. She has also been selected to represent Gauteng as the U/17 team’s umpire at the Netball South Africa Tournament to be held in the Cape. This will take place during the July Holidays.
WELL DONE! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU MRS NAUDE!!
This was the site that greeted me as I arrived at my Grade 10 AP lesson a few weeks ago. A group of students debating and
discussing the correct method of solving a fairly complicated question. In fact, they were so involved in their debate that they did not even see me enter the room or take the photo! And this is what Advanced Programme Maths is all about: stretching students to think differently, to question one another’s methods, and often, to figure out why their choice of method is not giving them the desired answer. The grade 10 AP Maths students have spent their Thursday afternoons solving complicated algebraic fractions, factorising cubic expressions and mastering the feared topic - partial fractions. They have discovered new techniques and have survived their first, very nerve-wracking term test. One thing is sure, all the students have now realised that taking Advanced Programme Maths is not for the faint-hearted. Your hunger for solving questions (that you have never seen before) should be bigger than your fear of not getting it right! Those who are succeeding are fast getting addicted to that wonderful feeling of success, and knowing that they have discovered a talent within themselves. I look forward to spending many more challenging Thursday afternoons with my fearless AP students! Vanessa Rudmann
FOCUS ON | ADVANCE PROGRAMME MATHS
FOCUS ON | COLLEGE STAFF
The EMS classrooms of 2016, have been busy with a critique of the National Budget. Students were asked to research the 2016 National Budget and provide two viable changes that they thought would better serve the country. Students had to then present their findings in the form of a speech. Various interesting points were made by students
and the debates that followed were very insightful and bodes well for the future leaders of our country Viven Naidoo
On the last day of Term 1, the Grade 12 Social Portfolio organised a picnic for the Grade 7 students. Assisted by the other Grade 12 leaders, the Social Portfolio put together a lovely event. Each Grade 7 student was allocated a Grade 12 buddy, who would support them throughout the school year. The Grade 7s participated in some exciting activities in their buddy groups, and then had a delicious picnic. Thank you to Ms Williams, Ms Roberts, Mrs Marais and Ms Slabber for also attending and supervising the event
FOCUS ON | ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
GRADE 7 PICNIC
Please support our Grade 11s in raising funds for the Matric Dance A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEAD OF MUSIC DEPARTMENT – MRS DAMMANN Kindly take note of the concert dates for Term 2 Studio concert on 23 April from 10:00- 12:00 Gala concert on 15 May from 14:00-16:00 Watch this space for further information.
NOTICE BOARD
Uniform:
1. Students will only be allowed to participate if they are dressed in the official Reddam House
cycle shirt and black cycle shorts.
2. No helmet, no ride.
Events:
1. The following internet site has all the information pertaining to the cycling races.
www.highschoolmtb.co.za
Date Event Name Where?
Feb 6 2016 - 07:00 ̶T ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶d̶e̶ ̶P ̶a̶r̶y̶s ̶ ̶#̶1̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶s ̶e̶n̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶A̶n̶a̶t ̶o̶m̶i ̶c̶ Parys, Anatomic Factory, Ride Arena, Free State, RSA
Feb 27 2016 - 07:00 ̶T ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶d̶e̶ ̶P ̶a̶r̶y̶s ̶ ̶#̶2̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶s ̶e̶n̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶A̶n̶a̶t ̶o̶m̶i ̶c̶ Parys, Anatomic Factory, Ride Arena, Free State, RSA
May 7 2016 - 07:00 Solomons Primary Schools Development Series #1 John Vorster Hoër Tegniese Skool, Pretoria
May 14 2016 - 07:00
Tour de Parys #3 presented by Anatomic Parys, Anatomic Factory, Ride Arena, Free State, RSA
May 21 2016 - 19:00
Spur Gauteng #1 Tour de Vaal - presented by Anatomic Phoenix High School, Vereeniging, Gauteng
May 28 2016 - 07:00
Spur North West #1 - Tour de Boom Rustenburg Hoërskool, Rustenburg, NW, RSA
Jun 4 2016 - 07:00 Solomons Primary Schools Development Series #2 Hoërskool Wonderboom, Pretoria
Jul 23 2016 - 07:00 Spur Gauteng #2 Tour de Plaas - presented by Anatomic Bekker Hoërskool, Magaliesburg, Gauteng, RSA
Jul 30 2016 - 07:00 Spur North West #2 - Tour de Dam Hartbeespoort Hoërskool, Hartbeespoort, North West, RSA
Aug 6 2016 - 07:00 Solomons Primary Schools Development Series #3 Midstream College, Pretoria
Aug 13 2016 - 07:00 Spur North West #3 - Tour de Mielie Klerksdorp Hoërskool, Klerksdorp, NW, RSA
Aug 20 2016 - 07:00 Spur Gauteng #3 - Tour de Blieng - presented by Anatomic St Stithians College, Sandton, Gauteng, RSA
Aug 27 2016 - 07:00 Spur North West #4 - Tour de Bos Hoërskool Brits, Brits, NW
Sep 10 2016 - 07:00 Solomons Primary Schools Development Series #4 Randburg Hoërskool, Johannesburg, Gauteng, RSA
Sep 17 2016 - 07:00 Spur Gauteng #4 - Tour de Wonder - presented by Anatomic
Hoërskool Wonderboom, Pretoria
2. Please download the following app to assist you with information.
Event information - contact Deon Steyn 082 320 8878 [email protected]
Solomons Primary Schools Development Series #1 Saturday, May 7, 2016 - 07:00 John Vorster Hoër Tegniese Skool, Pretoria
Please complete the printable entry form and send to e-mail: [email protected] / fax (012) 546 7757 Payment on the day of the event
MOUNTAIN BIKING
Download the MTBZA App to register and enter For guideline on the entry process click here
KAUAI HAS MOVED INTO THE COLLEGE
Monday 4 April:
1) Term 2 and Co-curricular program begins. 2) Squash at JCC Woodmead courts.
Duma departs 14h15 and returns 15h30.
Monday 11 April:
1) Squash at JCC Woodmead courts. Duma departs 14h15 and returns 15h30.
Wednesday 13 April:
1) College LO day and Inter House soccer and netball. 2) College netball against Holy Family College at Reddam House [TBC] 3) College Sevens Rugby against Sagewood at Reddam House.
Thursday 14 April:
1) College LO day and Inter House soccer and netball. 2) Netball against Orchards Primary. Orchard Road Orchards.
U13 at Reddam House Waterfall Estate
3) College Girls Hockey at Hillview High School 71 Franzina St, Roseville, Pretoria [TBC]
DATES TO DIARISE
13 - 14 APRIL Life Orientation Day – Inter House Netball and Soccer
26 APRIL Matric Dance Fundraiser – The Barnyard
27 APRIL Public Holiday – Freedom Day
Arrangements for 4-16 April 2016
SPORT
NEWSLETTER | 8 April 2016 | VOLUME 2:1