from the headmistress - cedarwood school · 2017-01-23 · save the date! 29 march 2014 postponed...

C e d a r w o o d P r e p a r a t o r y

From the Headmistress

1 2 M a r c h 2 0 1 4

W e e k l y N e w s l e t t e r

Dear Parents

As I am sure you are aware, Cedarwood is a member of ISASA – The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa, which is the largest, oldest and most inclusive independent (private), and non-profit schools association in Southern Africa. With nearly 700 member schools in South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia

and Angola, it services more than 160 000 pupils.

You might ask – “so what does the ISASA brand do for Cedarwood School?” Firstly the brand is a hallmark of high standards of educational and ethical practice. Quality, Values and Diversity characterise its membership, and the criteria for acceptance into the organisation are extremely rigorous. Secondly, ISASA regularly offers training and workshops for teacher’s professional development, as well as leadership courses for Head’s . I was fortunate enough, in 2007, to complete the LDP (Leadership Development Programme) run by ISASA through Wits Business School and both Dr Kotze and I are members of SAHISA which is the Association for Heads of Independent Schools, of which the LSEN schools have an offshoot cluster group. Likewise, Karen Beevers belongs to SABISA – the Association for Bursars of Independent Schools. These peer groups offer wonderful support and collegiality – there is always someone to call upon when you need advice and guidance! We have attended training on school sustainability, corporate governance, performance appraisal systems, disciplinary proceedings, and curriculum development to mention but a few, and the annual conferences are always informative and uplifting. Thirdly, it provides member schools with services to protect their interests, promote best practice and support quality education and school sustainability.

Cedarwood is very proud to belong to such a quality organisation.

Please have a look at the link to the quarterly magazine published by ISASA. It’s well worth a read. http://www.isasa.info/books/Autumn2014/

“Highlight an aspect in your life that has bolstered your spirit and enriched your life….and celebrate!” – R.S. Jacobson

God Bless Jayne Eurelle

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From the Sports Desk

As most of you have probably surmised, there is not much to report from the spor ng front at Cedarwood. These past two weeks have been unbelievable with the rains that have poured incessantly. The so ball match that we had meant to play against Northsands has had to be postponed due to the wet weather. As you read this, you will probably have heard that the match we were supposed to play against Northsands has been cancelled for the same reason. In fact, all the fixtures for this week have had to be cancelled due to the rains. This deals a huge blow to the athle cs season which seems to have been s llborn. That leaves the athle cs team with only the meet for the 27th of March. However, a en on needs to be drawn to the fact that we will also be doing athle cs in the third term. Another reminder has to do with sports photos. We take school photos every season in order to capture all members that par cipate in the various sports disciplines at our school. These are merely team photos and these will appear in the school news magazine at the end of the year. The school uniform for that par cular term is worn for school photos. You will be advised about the date for the sports photos for this season shortly. Please take me to say a prayer for 239 people that are on the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared without trace enroute to Beijing, China.

Oliver Ngwenya

Cedarwood congratulates our MERIT recipients

Grade R Shemaya Musau

Grade 1F Baraka Mudavanhu

Bulelani Roda

Grade 1W Daniel Trapani

Jared Engela

Grade 2A Cassandra Maree

Keano Govender

Grade 2B Christopher Brits

Cole Sibindi

Grade 3H Ian Mostert

Ethan Damon

Grade 3V Aiden Kennedy

Kelsey Fennell

Grade 4L Luc Binstead

Seth Arends

Grade 4R Luke Cowley

Callum Lucas

Grade 5B Alexandra van Loggerenberg

Faith Zevgolis

Grade 5D Amber de Goede

Kimberley Turner

Grade 6A Dominic Stern

Grade 6J Joshua Neilan

Inge Muller

Ethan Allschwang

Bryden Turnbull

Leopards 94

Lions 75

Tigers 95

Cedarwood congratulates the TIGERS on winning this weeks

House Cup

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

Congratulations to Troy Roscoe on receiving the Principal’s Courtesy Award and Seth Arends on receiving the Principal’s

Appearance Award.

Dear Parents,

Entries are open for the second Inter-Schools qualifier to be held on Saturday, 29 March (High) and Sunday, 30 March (Prep) at Kyalami Equestrian Park. A reminder that riders are required to compete in at least 3 qualifiers in order to be considered for any teams, so should you have missed Q1, you need to ride Q2, Q3 & Q4.

Should you wish your child to ride in this qualifier, please click on the link below to enter (Entries close on the 14th of March).

www.sanesa.co.za go to ‘Gauteng’, ‘Gauteng Central’ and click on Dates & Schedules.

Should you be one of the Fourways Riding Centre clients, please contact Marion on 083-275-8278 prior to entry to confirm your pony and costing involved. Kate is wonderful for trucking, kindly contact her directly on 082-487-2794 to organise transport for your pony (tell her I sent you for a reduced rate).

Dawn Schmitz


Cedarwood PA Uniform Shop Be the Best Dressed You Can Be!

Please Donate Last Year’s Uniforms for This Year’s Cedarwood Stars

All Proceeds Go To Our School!

We are situated between the main office and the hall, and are open every Thursday morning during

drop-off from 7:15—8:00, or by appointment.

Please note that we are currently CASH ONLY. Contact Sharon Simpson on 078-800-5880 or [email protected]

Reminders

School Fees

A gentle reminder that fees are payable in advance on the 1st of

each month.

Interest will be levied on all overdue accounts.

Wednesday, 12 March School Photographs

Friday, 14 March PA Lemonade & Popcorn Friday (R5 each)

Monday, 17 March Assembly: 4R

Friday, 21 March Public Holiday—Human Rights Day

ASSEMBLY NEWS Thank you to 4L for their lovely assembly on ‘The Fable of the Lion & the Mouse’. Our next

assembly, on the 17th March, will be presented by Grade 4R. All parents and visitors are welcome to attend. Assembly begins at 07h30. We look forward to seeing you there.

Cedarwood has our own Business Directory which is issued once a month.

In addition - Your ads will also be displayed on the Cedarwood website under Cedarwood Classifieds

Categories as follows:

Classifieds – Free of Charge (For sale/To swop, lifts required etc.)

Small Business Adverts (Business Card Size) – R100 Quarter Page (A6 Portrait Ads) – R200

Forward your advert to [email protected]. Adverts will not be published without proof of payment

Advertising payments needs to be paid directly into PA account: Account Name: Cedarwood PTA

Bank: Nedbank Branch: Epsom Downs

Account Number: 1522-116-737


FREE CLASSIFIED LISTINGS!

CEDARWOOD BUSINESS ADVERTISING

Cedarwood Welcomes Brandon Sachs (1F) who is on trial this week. We know you

will love it here!

Save the Date!

29 March 2014

Postponed due to weather

Come and join the fun

Cedarwood PA Lumo‐Tas c Race

When: Saturday, 29th March 2014 from 9am—12pm How: Pupils are sponsored for each lap they walk around a designated track, doing fun obstacles along the way.

Please diarise the date as this is a compulsory school event

Entry Card Fee – R10.00 per child. Non‐Cedarwood siblings may also par cipate at R15.00 per child.

Please dress your child in their house colours (as well as par cipa ng siblings).

Wors rolls, chicken prego’s, popcorn and snacks will be on sale.

Cash bar available.

Raffles and Prizes to be won! We look forward to seeing you there!


Reliable and trustworthy maid/ home or office helper, with driver’s licence

looking for fulltime, live out work.

Thoko was a facilitator here at Cedarwood and comes highly

recommended.

Please contact Thoko Ncube on 082 964 8598

The Art Department is looking for any old CDs. Should you be able to assist, please drop off them off at Reception.


Please support Kids Haven in their ‘Charity’ performance of the Sound of Music at Teatro,

Montecasino on Sunday 13 April @ 2pm. It is the ONLY Sunday

afternoon charity performance of the show and we would love you

to be there…

Please contact Debbie Greve at : [email protected] or 011 7067959 (Mornings Only)

Cell: 0833052113 to secure your seats.

Akhila Chetty being creative with her

Polygon properties. David Stainforth explains his sweet

advertisement using persuasive tools.


The University of Pretoria has joined the Bread Tags for Wheelchairs initiative and we would like to help as well. If you would like to help,

please collect your bread tags and drop them off in the bread tag jar in the front office, or alternatively, send them with your child. All the tags will be collected and sent with Miss de Bruyn to the University of Pretoria. They will then be recycled and the money raised from recycling will be used to

buy wheelchairs for those who cannot afford them.

Please visit the Bread tags for wheelchairs Facebook page for more information.

Chelsea Munn

competed in the

Equitation Super

League held at

Fourways Riding

Centre. She placed

1st in the Novice

Equitation on her

horse, Mr Baggins.

Well Done!

‘The Long and Winding Road’ to school each day—MacInnes Road,

Glenferness—March 2014. Please support GEKCO in their fight for our wetlands, the fixing of our roads and the diversion of the K56.

Visit their website at www.gekco.co.za to see where and how you can

help.


The PA Corner Hi – welcome to our second instalment of the PA Corner!

Lumo-Tastic Race postponement

The big news of the week is that unfortunately we are going to have to reschedule the Lumo-tastic Race that was scheduled for this Friday from 5pm-8pm. This rain doesn’t look as though it’s going to stop and we don’t want anyone floating away! We did consider asking you to come in wellies and raincoats, but weren’t sure if you’d be up for that. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience this may cause.

We are going to move it to:

Saturday 29th March from 9am to 12 noon

We thought it would be better to move it to the morning since it seems uncharacteristically cool for this time of year, so maybe the kids will enjoy it more in the morning. We’ll save the glowsticks for the camp-out later in the year. All the wonderful glow in the dark paint that the teachers have used on the obstacles will be in vain – sorry Miss Bristow!

House T-Shirts and Caps

The house t-shirts and caps are selling quickly – please come and get yours from the uniform shop on Thursday morning at drop-off if you’d still like one. We’re also going to get adult house t-shirts in – don’t know about you, but I don’t have a plain red t-shirt to wear at these functions and can’t wait to get mine!

Lemonade and Popcorn Feedback

We had our first Lemonade and Popcorn day this past Friday and it was a big success, the kiddos were so excited and we even ran out of popcorn (we’ve made sure it won’t happen again!). We made about R1 050 from the morning, which will go towards paying for the new signage in the parking lot. Thanks so much to Hayley Jonker, Antjie Mynhardt, Elmarie North, Kerry Perrins, Terry Lucas and Sharon Simpson for their hard work. This Friday the 14th we’ll be at it again, so please send R5 for popcorn and R5 for lemonade!

Again, please feel free to email or call me if there are any comments you have that you’d like to share.

Have a wonderful week, Lara (PA chairperson)

[email protected] or 072-122-6049

Don’t forget the PA Popcorn and Lemonade sale this Friday

Only R5 each

PA Popcorn & Lemonade Friday—7 March 2014

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