1. Southern Cross Schools
PO Box 116
Southern Cross Schools
Hoedspruit
1380
Phone: 015 793 0590
E-mail: raptor@scschools.co.za
Weekly Newsletter 10 of 2011
A Peek at Last Week …
School for the Planet Week 3 of March 2011
• School closed for a two week
Preparatory School Inter-house Gala Great Fun
holiday on Friday 18 March.
• The final assembly of the term
took place took place in the
Community & Resource Centre on
Friday 18 March.
• The PA Social took place in the
Founders’ Circle on Thursday 17
March.
• The Prep School Inter-house
Swimming Gala took place on
Thursday 17 March.
• Our College learners partici-
pated in the 1st Round of the
National Mathematics Olympiad
on Wednesday 16 March.
The Prep School inter-house swimming gala was won by captains, Nicole Engelbrecht, Graham Wiggill
• The Travelling Bookshop dis- Griffon House this year. Despite Falcon House providing and Brandon Riekert are seen with the winner’s
played a wide range of books in strong competition they were just not good enough to floating trophy after being presented with it
the Founders’ Circle on Monday
challenge the might of Griffon. In the photo the house by Sports Organizer, Mr Neil de Boer.
14 March.
• Our Grade 4 class went out and
mapped Hoedspruit on Monday Of T-Shirts, Feathers & Farewells in the Pre-School
14 March.
It has been a bitter sweet last week of term
for our Pre-schoolers. On the one hand they
have had a lot of fun in both the Bush Lore
Important Dates: class and with the Grade 10s that came to help
them paint t-shirts. On the other hand they
Gauteng Shuttle col- 03
had to come to terms with bidding their
lects boarders at 4- Apr
teacher, Mrs Ann Teubes, farewell as she
Ways Mall.
moves with her family to the Eastern Cape. The
Term 2 Lessons begin 04 photos from the top right clockwise show the
at 07h15. Apr children wearing their
newly decorated t-
Term 2 afternoon 06
activity programme Apr
begins.
Family Build-it-Day. 09
Apr
Snake Handling 09
Course at SCS. Apr shirts; sticking
feathers to create
U9-U13 Netball vs. 12 a guinea fowl; a
Fauna Park (H) Mar proud Grade 10
helper with her
Primary School Net- 13 Grade 0’s product
ball Cluster Trials. Mar and the finished
guinea fowl.

2. School for the Planet - Top Academic Achievers Recognized at Final Assembly
Southern Cross Schools Four of our learners qualified for the 2nd round of the National Mathe-
PO Box 116 matics Olympiad after the 1st round was written on Wednesday 16
March. Caspar Elbertse (Gr.8), Tammy Godding (Gr.8), Alexis Mes
Hoedspruit (Gr.10) and Robyn McDonald (Gr.11) will do the 2nd round on 17 May.
Limpopo
1380 The top academic performers for the 1st term were recognized for their
achievements at the final assembly on Friday 18 March.
Phone: 015 793 0590
Grade 8: 1st-Kelsey Viljoen; 2nd-Tammy Godding and 3rd-Robert-Louw
Fax: 086 530 5153 Booysen. Grade 9: 1st-Zoë Moolman; 2nd-Virginia Mohlala and 3rd-
E-mail: Kirsten Braun. Grade 10: 1st-Alexis Mes; 2nd-Emma Smith and 3rd-Kayla
Wheeldon. Grade 11: 1st-Niké Mes; 2nd-Robyn McDonald and 3rd-
raptor@scschools.co.za Kayla Parker. Grade 12: 1st-Precious Ratshana; 2nd-Katelynd Strong
and 3rd-Shannon Thomson. We congratulate our top achievers.
Sustainable Living Hint:
Reduce your dependence on
plastic shopping bags by re-
membering to take your re-
usable bags with you to the
supermarket. Not only will
you be doing your bit for the FICTION LIBRARY A BIG HIT SCS MEMBERS DO FIRE COURSE
environment, you will also be A group of learners under the direction of Mrs
saving money. Sue de Boer has set up a Fiction Library in Mrs A large group of SCS learners, academic staff
de Boer’s classroom. College learners may sign and support staff completed a fire training
out books to read. The library has about 150 course at the school on Saturday 12 March. The
books at present. If you have any fiction books learners who completed the course will be able to
. za that you have read and no longer need, please
ls .co add their training certificates to their Life Ori-
sc ho o consider donating them to our Fiction Library. entation portfolios. The staff that received
r oss
rn c training all represent various departments within
the Matters of The
w. sou the school so that all areas have trained person-
ww Heart nel in case of a fire emergency. Thanks to Mr
Louis du Preez for setting up the training course
Our Grade 11 Life
and to Emcare for doing the training.
Top Prep Swimmers Sciences class dis-
The top swimmers at the Prep sected pig hearts
School Gala were: this past week as
Jnr Victrix Lurorum - Erin
part of their anat-
Vogler; Jnr Victor Ludorum -
omy course. In the
Felix Puttkammer; Snr Victrix
photo Kayla Parker
Ludorum - Rebecca Behne and
is seen getting
started on her
Snr Victor Ludorum - Kevin
heart dissection.
Bruan. Well done, swimmers!
Thank You:
• Mr Richard Braun for the On Tuesday 15 March our Gr. 12 Engineering
donation of window frames. Graphics and Design class went to the Mpuma-
langa Legislature Building and the Civic Centre
• All parents who were able to with architect Barry du Plessis. The Gr. 12 Practical
attend the academic Assessment Task set by the IEB, is to design a
interviews during the last 500 seater auditorium. Barry project managed this
week of Term 1. five year project. Our boys found his input very
informative.
After the legislature they went to the Civic Centre
Our Grade 4 class spent the day on Monday 14 where they looked at the 360 seater auditorium.
March mapping Hoedspruit as part of an integrated Seeing this auditorium helped put into perspective
learning activity. Once they had collected enough the size of the building they would be designing.
data to complete their maps, they enjoyed a treat Thank you to Barry for sharing his valuable time
at Wimpy before heading back to school. with the class.