1. Southern Cross Schools
PO Box 116
Southern Cross Schools
Hoedspruit
1380
Phone: 015 793 0590
E-mail: raptor@scschools.co.za
Weekly Newsletter 8 of 2011
A Peek at Last Week …
School for the Planet Week 1 of March 2011
• Our Grade 5 class was hosted at
Makutsi Safari Lodge on Tues- SCS Learners in Weekend Sporting Events
day 1 March returning on
Wednesday 2 March. Nicole Wentworth (Grade 11) and Tony Mokoena (Grade 11)
• Angella Trzeciak participated in
and Jennifer Mokoena (Grade 10) all participated in the Lim-
the Limpopo Primary Schools
popo Athletics Championships at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in
Athletics Championships on
Polokwane on Saturday 5 March.
Friday 4 March. Although none of these athletes qualified to take part at the
National Championships, they performed admirably. Tony
• Nine riders from the SCS
achieved a 2nd position in the U19 boys shot put with a dis-
Equestrian Team participated at
tance of 12m , unfortunately he injured his knee in his first long
the 1st SANEF Schools Quali-
jump attempt and could not continue. Despite this he still
fier in Polokwane on Saturday 5
achieved a 6th place. The SCS SANEF Equestrian Team competed this
and Sunday 6 March.
Jennifer and Nicole achieved a 4th and 6th place respectively, past weekend at the First Limpopo Qualifier in
• Three College Athletes partici- Polokwane at the Broadlands Equestrian Centre.
Jennifer for triple jump and Nicole for shot put.
pated in the Limpopo Athletics
Meeting on Saturday 5 March. Well done!
The SCS team consisted of 9 riders. From the Prep
• Two Dutch university students School, Erin Vogler (Gr4), Sasha Mittermayer (Gr
arrived at SCS to complete their 7), Rebecca Moolman (Gr7) and Emma Gibbs (Gr7).
final year thesis in partnership Team members from the College were, Robert-Louw
with the school’s Reach-a-Cross
Booysen (Gr8), Callan Mittermayer (Gr8), Zoë Mool-
programme.
man (Gr9), Alex Jansen van Vuren (Gr12) and Shan-
Important Dates: non Thomson (Gr12).
Pre-school outing to 08 Our riders competed in 4 disciplines – show jumping,
Buffalo Land. Mar working hunter, equitation and dressage. The results
were fantastic! Our riders were awarded a total of
First Round of the de 08 21 rosettes: the Prep School achieved 3 firsts, 4
Beers English Olym- Mar seconds and 1 third, while the College riders took
piad. home 6 firsts, 5 seconds and 2 thirds. Congratula-
tions to the team on a job well done!
U18 Netball and U16- 08
U18 Boys Hockey Tri- Mar
GRADE 5 OUTING TO MAKUTSI
als in Tzaneen.
Grade 12 Teachers’ 09 their home and they had a lovely time. They went on
IEB Subject Cluster Mar game drives and swam in the natural spring pool.
Meetings. Star-gazing and scary stories were the order of the
’night’ and their trip concluded on Wednesday with a
Fine motor develop- 09
visit to the dairy and the cheetahs. Thank you to
ment & stimulation Mar
the Puttkammer family for creating such a fantastic
workshop.
outing, for the lovely food and the generous hospi-
Grade 2 and Grade 6 10 tality.
overnight outing to Mar
Letaba.
College Inter-house 11
Swimming Gala. Mar
PEPPS 7’s Rugby and 12 On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the Grade 5
Indoor Hockey Festi- Mar class was treated to an outing to Makutsi Safari
val - Polokwane. Lodge. The Puttkammer family invited them into

2. School for the Planet - Dutch Students Choose SCS for Their Final Year Thesis
Southern Cross Schools Nicoline Landman and Ellen Tichelaar, two Dutch
PO Box 116 students have chosen Southern Cross Schools to
complete their final year thesis in Education. They will
Hoedspruit be here from 26 February until the 14 May.
Limpopo Their research involves looking at the focus in our
Reach-a-Cross programme of improving Mathemat-
1380 ics and Science in three of the schools in the pro-
Phone: 015 793 0590 gramme, compared with three schools that are not
in the programme. The ladies will work with Mr
Fax: 086 530 5153 Mangwane, our Reach-a-Cross coordinator, and will
E-mail: travel to the schools with him to conduct their re-
search. Welcome ladies, we are extremely proud
raptor@scschools.co.za that you have chosen Southern Cross Schools.
SCS PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB
During the Thursday afternoon cultural slot a
photographic club has taken root. The club
which is offered by Mr Ant de Boer chooses
Sustainable Living Hint: a topic every week and then present their
Turn off all electronic equip- best photos during the next week’s meeting.
ment that is on standby, or The photographs are reviewed by the group
not in use, such as television and feedback is given to the photographer.
sets, cell phone chargers, The photograph alongside titled “Rays of
HiFi’s, DVD Players etc. Al- Grass” was taken by Mathew Giles according
though you may think they to the theme “sunsets”.
use a negligible amount of
power, if everyone followed
Green Awards
suit, the negligible amount
The following Green Awards were presented at
becomes significant.
assembly on Friday 4 March:
Grade 1~ Michaelle Provis and Rachel Behne;
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o. z Grade 2 ~Metja Mosehla and Melindi Randall;
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ho Grade 3 ~ Ceilidh Ferguson and Tricia Ndlovu;
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c ro s Grade 4 ~ Leonie Elbertse , Thomas Mayes,
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w .so Michaela Naude and Brendan Taylor ;
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Grade 5 ~ James Goldschmidt and Faith Khosa;
Grade 6 ~ Cameron Blair, Dominic More O’Ferrall ;
Thank you: Grade 7 ~ Savanna Teubes.
• To the van der Merwe family
for their donation of a new
carpet to the Grade 3 class,
as well as for the ice-cream
Boarding House News
which they gave the class to A few weeks ago some
eat with the fruit salad that boarders went to Tsakane
they made last week. in the Balule Reserve to
• To the Puttkammers and staff help eradicate alien plants
at Makutsi Safari Lodge for with Mr Don de Boer and
hosting the Grade 5 outing. Mrs Sandy Schulze.
• To Rael and Helene Loon for
The group injected poison
the donation of a large dining
into the alien plants. They
room table for our boarding
dealt mainly with Moon
house.
Flowers and Prickly Pears,
two cactus species that
• Mrs Patricia Fulton for
have taken hold in the re-
donation of History books to
serve.
the school.
These photos show exam-
ples of plants that were
injected and are now dying
as a result. There will be
follow-up trips to continue
the good work that has
been started.