1. Southern Cross Schools
PO Box 116
Southern Cross Schools
Hoedspruit
1380
Phone: 015 793 0590
E-mail: raptor@scschools.co.za
A Peek at Last Week … Weekly Newsletter 13 of 2011
• The Gauteng Shuttle delivered
boarders at 4-Ways Mall on School for the Planet Week 3 of April 2011
Wednesday 20 April.
• School closed for the Easter Break
Easter Bunnies Galore!
at 12h00 on Wednesday 20 April.
• A group of College girls have quali-
fied for the 2nd round of provin-
cial hockey trials to be held later
this term.
• Our Prep School netball players
completed a tough set of matches
against Rooiskool in Phalaborwa on
Tuesday 19 April.
• The Grade 11 Committee organized
a successful Easter civvies day on
Tuesday 19 April.
Important Dates: On Tuesday 19 April learners were given the opportu- around in search of the illusive treats. The day was
nity to dress up according to an Easter theme. As can organized by the College’s Grade 11 Committee as
The Gauteng Shuttle 02 be expected, there were Easter Bunnies as far as the part of their fundraising drive to raise money for
returns from 4-Ways May eye can see. Easter egg hunts were also the order of the Grade 12 Farewell which will be held on Satur-
Mall at 10h00. the day and children big and small rushed excitedly day 15 October. Photos by Ms Kathleen Painter.
Boarders return to 02
the boarding lodges May Experimental Learning
from 15h00.
Two of our Grade 10 learners get to grips with a
2nd Term lessons 03 physical science experiment in the school’s science
resume at 07h15. May laboratory. Observing and recording the results of
experiments offer learners a wonderful firsthand
Netball vs Laerskool 03 opportunity to draw conclusions from their data.
Mariepskop. (H) May
College girls’ hockey 03
trials in Tzaneen. May
Prep School district 04
netball trials. May
Prep School netball vs 05
Lulekani. May
College boys’ hockey 05 Close Encounters of a Reptilian Nature
vs PHS at Stanford. May
This beautiful specimen of a Spotted or Varie-
Mpumalanga Schools’ 6&7 gated Bush Snake was found outside the Lead-
Climbing Challenge. May wood Lapa. It is a fairly common diurnal snake
College netball vs 07
that spends most of its time in trees or bushes
Northern Academy. May hunting lizards and geckos. In the photograph
Ceilidh Ferguson can be seen handling the
Protrac Soccer Tour- 07 snake. In A Complete Guide to the Snakes of
nament. May Southern Africa, Johan Marais says: “This non
College boys’ hockey 07 -poisonous snake is often wrongly identified as
vs Louis Trichardt. May a green mamba.” Photo by Mr Donovan de Boer.

2. School for the Planet - Learning & Succeeding in Many Different Ways
Southern Cross Schools Cathan Moore (Gr3)
PO Box 116 received his yellow belt
in Karate JKA on
Hoedspruit Saturday 16 April. The
Limpopo sport’s assessor Sencei
1380 from Polokwane said that
the standard of karate
Phone: 015 793 0590
he had witnessed in
Fax: 086 530 5153 Hoedspruit was
E-mail: excellent. Cathan is a
raptor@scschools.co.za club member of the
Hoedspruit Tigers.
Daniella Cowden (Gr7) happily accepts the
R500.00 prize from Mr Mickey Buyst, owner of MS
IT & Communications, for winning a logo design
competition. Daniella’s design will be the new
company logo of Mr Buyst’s business he has
opened in Hoedspruit. Entries were received from
Sustainable Living Hint: learners as young as Grade 6 all the way up to
Grade 12.
Unfortunately our society
seems increasingly to tend APPEAL TO HELP KNIT SQUARES
towards REPLACING rather Our Grade 10s are knitting squares to make blankets for peo-
ple or animals who may need them this winter, as part of their
than REPAIRING and RE-
service project for LO. You too can help by knitting squares on
USING. If it can be repaired 4mm needles, 45 stitches with double knit wool. Please send
& re-used, please don’t dis- completed squares to Mrs Sue de Boer.
pose of and replace. Most
resources are not renewable! Learning about the natural environment at SCS in- Green Awards
cludes the daily discovery of the many wonderful
The Grade 4 class was away from school on an outing on
SCS BOOT SALE
creatures we share our planet with. From the top anti
Friday 15 April so a Grade 4 Green Award was not
-clockwise we have Eulender with a young rock
The annual SCS Boot Sale will presented. Mrs Cowden therefore presented Thomas
monitor, Zandi with a small tilapia and Merrick with a
take place at Spar on Saturday
tortoise. There is always something new and inter- Mayes with the Grade 4 Green Award on Monday 18
28 May. Please donate any old or
esting in Bush Lore. Photos by Mr Donovan de Boer April.
usable items to Debbie Davies.
She can be contacted on:
0825773411.
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Thank You:
• Karen Puttkammer for the bag
full of achievers’ ribbons;
• Tanya Harper for donating a Boarding House News
pile of books for the library;
It is worth mentioning how weekend boarding duties work at
• Stan Watt for your donation Southern Cross. We have eight resident staff at the boarding
of books for the library; complex. These resident duty parents are responsible for
• Lisa Martus for donating maintaining the daily routine both during the week and on
books for our College Fiction weekends. When school is in session, there will always be a
Library; resident staff member on duty and present at the boarding
houses. The non-resident day staff take it in turns to be on
• Mickey Buyst for the donation call during weekends. The day duty staff responsibilities
of a network printer. include transporting boarders to town on a Friday afternoon
and Saturday morning; taking boarders who wish to attend
church to a service on a Sunday morning; dealing with medi-
cal emergencies that require a doctor, x-rays, hospitalization
etc. and offering activities that potentially add value to the
boarding experience. The photograph alongside shows some
of the younger boarders that went on an outing to Franklyn Park on Saturday 16 April. Some outings are free of charge and
others require the boarders to cover the cost of the outing. The photograph was taken by Mrs Tania Cowden.