Southern Cross Schools held various sporting events and exams last week. The U11 and U13 cricket teams both played in provincial finals, with the U11 team winning and the U13 team finishing as runners up. The school also held exams, trips, workshops, and a Halloween social event. Upcoming events include swimming galas, exams, trips, meetings, and workshops. The school thanked supporters of Santa Shoebox and Organic Earth Market donations. Green Awards were given to students for environmental efforts.

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 36 of 2011
• Our U13 cricketers played in the
provincial inter-schools final on School for the Planet Week 4 of October 2011
Tuesday 25 October.
• Our Grade 12 EGD and Tourism
College Production a Musical “Time Warp”
candidates wrote final IEB exams
in these subjects on Tuesday 25
October.
• Our Grade 6 class depart for
Wakkerstroom, on a school trip, on
Wednesday 26 October.
• Our U11 cricketers played in the
inter-schools provincial final on
Thursday 27 October.
• Our Grade 12s wrote EGD Paper II
IEB exam on Friday 28 October.
• A Foundation Phase cake sale took
place on Friday 28 October.
• The monthly educator workshop
took place on Saturday 29 October.
• The Prep School’s Halloween Social
took place on Saturday 29 October.
• The third Organic Earth Circle
took place in the Founders’ Circle
on Sunday 30 October.
Important Dates:
SCS Swimming Gala 01
with Mariepskop & Nov Under star filled night skies and in the warm ambiance created Audiences, particularly on the final night during the "Barnyard"
Drakensig. by the school's Earth Circle, Southern Cross College presented style show, clapped and danced as they sang along to songs
its annual drama production from Wednesday 19 October to that took everyone on a nostalgic musical journey. The entire
Travelling Bookshop at 01 Friday 21 October. This year a song and dance extravaganza cast of learners deserved every bit of the warm applause they
SCS. Nov transporting the audience through four decades of popular music received from a very appreciative audience. A great deal of
was presented. Time Warp, as the production was titled, had the credit needs to be placed at the door of Ms Tracey Osborn and
Grade 7 class departs 02 learners singing songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. The Mrs Sophia du Preez who directed the show and to Letsatsi
on trip to Magoebas- Nov costumes and dance routines were carefully choreographed to Ramonyai who developed and choreographed all the dance
kloof. match the songs as the trip through memory lane progressed. routines in the show.
Grade 12 Exam - Eng- 02 they once again carry the mantle of Provincial Champi-
U11 Cricketers - Provincial Champions
lish PI. (am) Nov Our U11 cricketers played in the provincial inter-schools ons! Well done on an outstanding achievement.
cricket final against Heuwelkruin Kollege on Thursday 27
Skukuza inter-school 02
October. The match took place in Tzaneen and our team
swimming gala. Nov fielded first. Tight, accurate bowling did not allow Heu-
welkruin to settle or establish any meaningful partner-
Grade 12 Exam - Maths 03
ships. They lost regular wickets and were bowled out in
& Math Lit PI. (am) Nov
the 20th over for just 58 runs. Thomas Mayes took 3
Grade 12 Exam - His- 04
wickets for just 18 runs in his 5 overs. Murray White and
Daniel Dixon took two wickets each.
tory PI. (am) Nov
The Southern Cross reply was swift and emphatic despite
SCS Board of Gover- 04 losing their first wicket in the 3rd over with the score on
15. Our players scored the required 59 runs to win the
nors 4th quarterly Nov
match in the 10th over with just 1 wicket down. Kieran
meeting. McDonald top scored with 27 not out and Thomas Mayes
weighed in with 17 not out. We are very proud of this
SCS Strategic Planning 05
young team. They have gone unbeaten in two seasons and
Workshop. Nov

2. School for the Planet - U13 Cricketers Finish as Provincial Runners Up
Southern Cross Schools Cross bowling uncharacteristically lacked penetration and
PO Box 116 discipline and found it tough to break through the Heuwelkruin
defences. In the meantime the Heuwelkruin batsmen
Hoedspruit accumulated runs at will and ended their innings on 182 for 8
Limpopo wickets in their 30 overs. The most successful Southern Cross
bowlers were Kevin Braun and Mubashar Asif who both
1380 returned figures of 2 wickets for 24 runs in their 6 overs
Phone: 015 793 0590 respectively. Chasing 183 to win the match, the Southern
Cross batting innings got off to the worst possible start when
Fax: 086 530 5153 the first wicket went down with just 14 on the board. After
E-mail: steadying the innings anchor batsman Kevin Braun was run
out when he slipped as he turned for a second run. Southern
raptor@scschools.co.za Cross then got to 68 for 3 wickets in the 16th over and it
looked like they were still in with a shout. Unfortunately there
In the U13 provincial inter-schools final played in Tzaneen on weren't any batsmen that were able to stay with Fritz Pohl who
Tuesday 25 October, Southern Cross won the toss and sent had managed to establish himself at the crease. Fritz Pohl
Heuwelkruin Kollege in to bat. Southern Cross could not take eventually top scored with 43 runs but was not supported with
advantage of some early chances to get wickets and as a any other batsman that could stay with him to build a solid
result the Heuwelkruin openers made a solid opening stand of partnership. Southern Cross was bowled out for 128 in the
68 in 12 overs before the first wicket went down. The Southern 27th over and so lost the match by 54 runs.
Thank you:
• All who contributed to the collec-
Green Awards
tion of Santa Shoeboxes. The
school was able to make a very The following Green Awards were presented at
significant contribution, thanks to
assembly on Monday 31 October: Grade R - Did
your generosity.
not attend Assembly; Grade 1 - Aurora van der
• To all who support the Organic
Earth Market. This month’s mar- Burgh; Grade 2 - Joshua Fairhead; Grade 3 -
ket grew substantially from the Kayla Daniel; Grade 4 - Brendan Taylor; Grade 5
one before and the next one - Diana Frost; Grade 6 - Walsh Harmse and Grade
already looks to have more ta-
7 - Zandi Mathebula.
bles booked than this past one.
• Mr Shaun Petzer for making a
On Friday 20 October a group of Southern Cross learners Grade 6 Field Trip to Wakkerstroom
number of the trophies for our went to Stanford Lake College to participate in an adventure
College Awards Evening. challenge, consisting of activities such as: swimming, kayak-
• Foundation Phase parents for ing, rock climbing, kas-karring, running, hiking and many
donating cake for the Cake Sale. more. Southern Cross Schools sent two girls’ teams and three
boys’ teams each consisting of four learners. One of the
Southern Cross boys’ teams was good enough to win the rock
climbing, and night challenge awards, making them the overall
a
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oo ls.c night challenge. Samkelo was awarded the most adventurous
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The Grade 6s spent two wonderful nights at the Wak-
kerstroom Bird Life Centre last week. They studied Grass-
lands and looked at why these play such an important part in
the ecology of the planet. Many tiny and beautiful forbs were
found among the many grasses. Much fun was had fishing
and identifying small insects and other aquatic creatures from
a healthy wetland system. The vital role of wetlands and the
threat they are under was made very apparent to the group,
The Grade 8s seen doing a traffic survey in their
by guide Mr Andre Garland. After an early tea and rusks, the
Social Science class this past week.
group headed out with binoculars, to the western side of the
wetland. There an exciting time identifying the many birds
found on the wetland from a hide followed. The thrilling finds
among others, were a Marsh Harrier swooping along the
edges of the wetland as well as two brightly coloured Purple
Swamp Hens. Wattled Crane, Southern Crowned Crane, an
otter and a yellow mongoose also caused excitement for the
more persistent birders. The Grade 6s and Mrs Evans would
like to thank Mr Don de Boer for accompanying them, Mrs
Silke More O’Ferrall for organizing the groceries and Mrs
Pauline Naude and Mrs Kim Hastings for assisting with the
finances.