This weekly newsletter from Southern Cross Schools provides updates from the previous week. It discusses various sports fixtures involving the school's netball, soccer, hockey, and rugby teams. It also announces an upcoming boot sale fundraiser and requests donations of old clothing. It mentions that some college students received their new school uniforms and four girls being selected for the next round of provincial hockey trials.

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 14 of 2011
• Our College netball teams hosted
Northern Academy on Saturday 7 School for the Planet Week 1 of May 2011
May.
Very Smart College Learners in New Formals
• Our U13 soccer team played in
the Protrack Thornybush tourna-
ment of Saturday 7 May.
• Our College boys’ and girls’ hockey
teams traveled to Louis Trichardt
High to play on Saturday 7 May.
• Our Prep School netball teams
played against Lulekani Primary on
Thursday 5 May.
• Four College girls were selected
for the next round of provincial
hockey trials on Tuesday 3 May.
• Our Prep School netball teams
took on Laerskool Mariepskop on
Tuesday 3 May.
• Lessons resumed at 07h15 on Despite some delays in the supply of some items of the new formal
Tuesday 3 May. uniform for College learners, those who have a complete uniform wore
• The Gauteng Shuttle arrived back it to school for the first time on Friday 6 May. They looked very smart
fully laden with boarders on Mon- and all wore the uniform with a real sense of pride.
day 2 May.
Selection for Hockey Girls HELP NEEDED FOR SCS BOOT SALE
Important Dates: The annual SCS Boot Sale will take place at Spar on
On Tuesday 3 May a number of our College hockey Saturday 28 May. Please donate any old or usable
College netball vs 09 girls participated in hockey trials in Tzaneen. Four of items. We are looking for old clothes, toys and
Stanford Lake College May our girls were selected for the next round of trials. games in particular. Donations can be sent to Debbie
At U16 level Lene Belcher and Jennifer Mokoena Davies who can be contacted on: 0825773411. The
College hockey vs 09 were selected and at U18 level Megan Schulze and Boot Sale cupboard is looking a bit bare so please
Capricorn High. (A) May Kayla Parker were selected. We wish them every help! Simplify your life! Get rid of that clutter and
success in the next round of trials. pass it on to us for the BOOT SALE.
Pre-school outing to 09
King’s Camp. May
Literacy Gives You Wings!
Prep School netball vs 10 It was a wonderful surprise when members of the
Drakensig. (A) May Hoedspruit Air Force Base arrived at SCS on Fri-
day morning, 6 May, with a donation of books for
2nd round of girls’ 10 our library. We would like to thank Col. Moon-
hockey trials at PHS. May samy and his charges for their generous donation.
Practical netball um- 11
piring exam. (H) May
Prep School netball vs 12
Gravelotte. (A) May
Climbing Challenge at 13 Mother’s Day the Dutch Way!
Penryn. May
Ellen Tichelaar, her mother Birgit and her
Pecanwood sports tour 13
grandmother Maria Wenster, kindly spent a
departs. May
part of the morning helping the Grade 1 class
2nd round of the 14 to make special cards for their mothers. Great
SANESA qualifiers. May fun was had by all, thanks to the Dutch ladies.

2. School for the Planet - Another Week Full of Sports Fixtures
Southern Cross Schools We had learners playing hockey, netball and soccer
PO Box 116 this week. The Prep School netball girls played
Hoedspruit netball against Laerskool Mariepskop (drawing two
Limpopo and losing two) and Lulekani Primary (going down in
all matches). The U13 soccer boys played two
1380 matches, winning against Timbavati Primary but
Phone: 015 793 0590 then going down to WEM School. Our College
Fax: 086 530 5153 hockey boys drew against Louis Trichardt High
whilst our girls lost narrowly. Our College netball
E-mail: teams lost at home to the teams from Northern
raptor@scschools.co.za Academy. A busy time indeed!
APPEAL TO HELP KNIT SQUARES
As mentioned previously our Grade 10s are knitting
squares to make blankets for people or animals who may
need them this winter, as part of their service project
for LO. The Prep School has decided on an inter-class
GREEN REQUEST: competition to see which class can knit the most
squares. Knitting needs to be done on 4mm needles with
We have started an indige- double knit wool using 45 stitches. We encourage all
nous tree nursery at school. parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and neighbours to
Trees are being propagated get involved!
from seeds and will be Should you have any queries or if you are able to help
with sewing the squares together, please get hold of
planted in surrounding com-
Erica Schwaeble on 083 653 7805.
munities. If you have indige-
nous tree seeds to spare
In last week’s Babbler we reported that Daniella Cow-
please send them to school so den (Gr7) won the R500.00 prize for her logo de-
we can plant them in our nurs- sign in the competition run by Mr Mickey Buyst for
ery! his new company. This week we can report that Mr
Buyst has donated a network printer to the school
as a token of gratitude for allowing our children to
a participate in the logo design competition. In the
.c o. z
ols photo on the right, Mr Ant de Boer can be seen
ss ch o receiving the printer from Mr Buyst. We thank Mr
c ro s
ern Buyst for his generous donation and wish him and
uth his new company all the best here in Hoedspruit.
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Green Awards
Thank You:
The following Green Awards were presented at assem-
• Cathy Henning for the books
bly on Friday 6 May: Grade 1 - Calvin Severin; Grade
donated to the fiction library;
2 - Jadon Speelman; Grade 3 - Amy Gibbs; Grade 4 -
• Pippa Moolman for the mosaics
Kyra Harper; Grade 5 - Rebecca Behne; Grade 6 -
around the mirrors in both the
Sheldon van Zyl and Grade 7 - Fritz Pohl. We would
College and Prep School
bathrooms; also like to mention that on Friday 15 April the Grade 3
Green Award recipient was Kayla Daniel.
• John van Dyk for the two
The Grade 2 Afrikaans class enjoy “’n koppie tee”.
sleeper wood benches he made
for the Earth Circle;
• Zandspruit Estate for the
Boarding House News
truck load of half bricks; It has been extremely busy since starting school after the
Easter Break. In addition to the increasing pressure of the
• RVHOA and Byron Wright and
approaching mid-year exams, this past weekend saw board-
his team for the work done on ers playing sport in Louis Trichardt, at Drakensig and at SCS.
the SCS entrance road and On Sunday morning a group of boarders went to support
car park;
• Lori van Eeden for stationery
and books and
• Jurie Moolman for books.
“Spoon” as he heads off on his long walk from Musina to
Cape Town to raise awareness in the fight to stop Rhino
poaching. More busy weeks lie ahead.