This newsletter from Southern Cross Schools provides updates on recent and upcoming events. It discusses that 12 students participated in a cooking competition TV show, 4 students attended an adventure camp supported by a foundation, and a grade 4 class visited a historic baobab tree. It also announces netball match results, recipients of green awards for sustainable practices, and kayaking and fishing activities. Finally, it provides boarding house news including outings taken and changes to morning routine.

1. Southern Cross Schools
PO Box 116
Southern Cross Schools
Hoedspruit
1380
Phone: 015 793 0590
E-mail: raptor@scschools.co.za
Weekly Newsletter 12 of 2011
School for the Planet Week 2 of April 2011
A Peek at Last Week … Cooking Up A Storm On “Whip The Chef”
• The monthly Reach-a-Cross
teacher support workshop was
held on Saturday 16 April.
• Our U16 and Open netball play-
ers traveled to Polokwane to play
matches against Heuwelkruin
Kollege and Stanford Lake Col-
lege on Saturday 16 April.
• The Grade 11 Committee organ-
ized and ran a successful pool
party for College learners on
Friday 15 April.
Twelve of our Grade 7, 8 and 9 learners were fortu- other to see who can cook the dish the best. The
• The Prep School fixtures against nate enough to be selected to participate in the winning team gets to turn a cream pie over the
Laerskool Mariepskop on Thurs- heads of the losing team. Two episodes of the show
filming of the SABC TV programme called “Whip the
day 14 April had to be post-
Chef”. The programme involves a chef from a local were filmed at the Safari Club and at Tangala Lodge.
poned, until after the Easter
Break, due to rain.
restaurant teaching the children to prepare a spe- The learners also got to visit Jessica the Hippo.
cific dish. The two teams then compete with each Photos by Kathleen Painter.
• Our Prep School netball teams
played a full set of fixtures, at
home, against Fauna Park Pri- Enjoying a MAD Camp
mary on Tuesday 12 April. The four learners from Southern Cross Schools who
receive support from the Make a Difference Foun-
dation (MAD), Mashudu Mutshaeni (Gr10), Dikgetho
Important Dates: Mamet ja (Gr10),
Zandi Mathebula
Easter Civvies Day for 19
(Gr7) and Samkelo
the whole school. Apr
Mahlalela (Gr6) at-
tended an adventure
Prep School netball 19
camp in Cape Town
versus Rooiskool in Apr
this past week. The
Phalaborwa. children were ex-
College girls’ hockey 19 posed to a wide range
of exciting and often
trials in Tzaneen. Apr
challenging new ex-
School closes for the 20 periences. Thanks to
Easter Break at those who made this
Apr
camp a reality.
12h00.
The Gauteng Shuttle 20 Encounters with an Ancient Giant
will depart at 12h30. Apr The Grade 4 class visited the Glencoe Baobab Tree on
the Essex Road on Friday 15 April. They were de-
The Gauteng Shuttle 02 lighted to see that this amazing wonder of nature was
returns from 4-Ways May still standing there and not bulldozed to the ground,
Mall at 10h00. as reported in K2C News on 1 April! The boys and girls
enjoyed their excursion, discussing the many fasci-
2nd Term lessons 03 nating facts about the baobab tree, while still having time to enjoy a pancake at the Upside Down Restau-
resume at 07h15. May rant. A big thank you to Erika Schwaeble for assisting with the transport. Well done to the Grade 4s for
behaving so well on their outing! Photo and story by Mrs Tania Cowden.

2. School for the Planet - SCS Girls Get The Netball Rolling
Southern Cross Schools Our Prep School played
PO Box 116 a full set of fixtures
against Fauna Park
Hoedspruit Primary last week. The
Limpopo girls did very well win-
ning two and losing two
1380 matches. Our U16 and
Phone: 015 793 0590 Open teams from the
College played
Fax: 086 530 5153 matches against Heu-
E-mail: welkruin Kollege and
raptor@scschools.co.za Stanford Lake College
this past Saturday. The girls managed to beat Stanford’s U16 team but went down in the other
three matches. Zinhle, Nicole, Dikgetho and Elizabeth were awarded medals for their good play.
Green Awards
The following Green Awards were presented
Sustainable Living Hint: at assembly on Friday 15 April:
Start a compost heap. Make Grade 1~ Seth van der Merwe & Asha Loon;
compost from your vegetable
Grade 2 ~ Felix Puttkammer; Grade 3 ~
peelings and other organic
household waste. Compost Gemma Ferguson; Grade 4 ~ Away on an
lawn cuttings and leaves outing; Grade 5 ~ Oriol Gómez-Olivé ; Grade
from the garden. Use the 6 ~ Luke Burns and Grade 7 ~ Keri-Anne
resultant compost to mulch
Collinson.
and fertilize your garden!
Our kayakers had a chance to test their shiny new
SCS BOOT SALE kayaks in the Blyde River on Sunday 10 April. They
The annual SCS Boot Sale will certainly seem to be very happy with their new toys.
take place at Spar on Saturday They also seem to be very skilled at handling them
28 May. Please donate any old or in white water. Exciting stuff!
usable items to Debbie Davies.
She can be contacted on:
0825773411.
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fish in Raptor’s View’s Osprey Dam during a
catch and release fishing activity in their Bush
Thank You:
Lore class last week. It was pleasing to note that
• Simone Braun for donating a a large number of fish were caught.
microscope to the school;
• Terry Dold for helping to size
Boarding House News
College learners for school
shoes; On Sunday morning, the 10th of April, a group of cyclists
• Caron McDonald for donating went on a ride to the Bird Hide and Lion Trail on Raptor’s
View. Along the way the group encountered six giraffe in-
books to the College fiction
cluding a baby, two wildebeest and a number of impala.
library;
On Saturday afternoon, the 16th of April, several boarders
• RVHOA for giving our Grade from Tamboti Lodge accompanied Mrs Tania Cowden to
7s permission to catch and Franklyn Park. The boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed the
release fish at Osprey Dam. expanses of lawn in the shade of beautiful tall trees as they
• Erika Schwaeble for donating either kicked around a soccer ball, relaxed on a picnic blan-
books to the school.
ket, played French Bowls and Crocket. A very successful
outing sure to be repeated in the future.
The early morning routine for boarders has been moved later
by half an hour from the beginning of this term. This means
that boarders get to sleep a half an hour longer and break-
fast is delayed by the same amount of time.
We would like to wish all boarders an enjoyable break with their families. We also wish all our Christian families a happy
Easter. We trust that all our boarders will return safely after a relaxing and energizing break.