School closing

SCHOOL CLOSES ON

WEDNESDAY 23^RD SEPTEMBER

AT 11:00

AND RE-OPENS ON

MONDAY 12 OCTOBER

AT 07:50.

Reaching into Liberia

In the beginning of October Mr and Mrs Norel, Mrs van Wyk and Miss Anastassopoulos will embark on a trip to Liberia, West Africa where they will assist a war torn country to rebuild schools and train teachers.

The PTA is very excited about this venture and wanted to share some of the vision and plans with all the parents.

Plans for the schools in Liberia in the future:

• Sustainable educational material – biblically integrated lessons and reading.
• Basic teaching practices - flash card approach
• Work with 3 schools who will pass on information to 3 more schools. (If this is repeated 4 times - more than 100 schools will be reached.)
• The ultimate goal: teacher’s association in Liberia to help each other and link with international organisations.

How is NWCS involved?

• Creating an awareness of world missions - in the children and in the local community
• Releasing 4 staff members from NWCS to go to Liberia for one week in October 2009
• Creating a platform for community involvement

As parents how can you be involved?

• Prayer – for the safety and protection of Mr Norel and the staff as well as Wisdom and Strength for all that God has in store for them
• The PTA are making up packs of pencils and crayons to send up with the teachers. If you have some unused crayons and pencils at home please send them to school in a clear “glad” bag. Please leave them at the school office.
• If you would like to assist financially we would ask you to speak directly with Jacky Stonley
• The learners have been challenged to take part of their pocket money and put it towards the purchasing of the “Challenge” newspaper.

If you would like to know more, there is a board up by the school noticeboard with ALL the details. Please pop in sometime and have a look.

Our Prayers are with all the teachers as they head up to West Africa. May God’s peace and Wisdom be with you.

Grade 7 Market Day

The Grade 7’s and Mr de Beer will be hosting a Market Day on Wednesday 23 September during school hours. This day forms part of the Grade 7’s project for EMS.

Lots of Fun, Food and Fabulous things to purchase and lots of games to play.

Proceeds to be donated to the Charity of their choice.

Prices range from :

Games R4 to R5

Eats R3 to R15

So learners come prepared to support the Grade 7’s.

Order your water

NWCS PTA, in association with Premier Water, has launched a range of branded mineral water for use by the school in the tuck shop and for purchase by parents, friends and relatives of the NWCS community to use at work or at home. The product prices are very competitive and orders for water will be able to be placed electronically via our blog page (there will be a link up shortly on the right---->)

Payment should be made by electronic transfer to Premier Water.

Delivery will be made every fortnight morning and orders can be collected from school when dropping your child at school.

NWCS will receive 40c for every bottle of water sold.

All bottles can be re-cycled by placing the used bottles into a plastics recycling bin, which will be located at NWCS to ensure we remain environmentally friendly.

The NWCS “water depot” will be open shortly and orders can be placed throughout the year, including the holidays.

Spring Walk - photos

We were absolutely blessed with a beautiful sunny spring day for our school walk. The attendance was great, the enthusiasm was abundant and the fun was electricfying. And so we set off at 8:30 for the walk... once around the block for most (4km) and twice for the very energetic!

Halfway round there was a most welcome watering hole... juice/water and oranges for the humans and a well-deserved drink for the four-legged participants too.

And even Keegan got to go for the "walk".... so if you missed out know that next year you will be able to make it round!

After the walk there was lots to see and do to keep everyone amused.... stalls to buy eats and drinks....

slip 'n slide for the children to cool off in (or just get more dirty with the mud!), clowns and mimes. The Fairlands Police helped with the marshalling around the course - thanks so very much.

And not forgetting the whole reason for the walk.... the Sports Committee arranged to have professional cricket coaches on hand to help out our boys (and girls) with their cricket game.

The day was brilliant. Now it's up to YOU.... please collect all the sponsorships and donations and bring it to school ASAP.

Congratulations

The children in our school achieve greatness in many aspects and they get recognised for their achievements in Assembly each Friday morning. Here are photos of just some of those achievements.

Kelsey Dawson - Silver certificate for Kumon Maths

Then there were lots of medals handed out to our SACSSA athletes. These medals are very special and show the athletes running... they actually look like they are running off the medal as their feet hang over the edge.

Mrs van Vuuren has worked exceptionally hard in training the athletes... here is some of the team.

Ryan Elsley - 1200m 1st

Caitlin Wilson - Turbo Javelin 1st

Bianca Simon - Javelin 3rd

Matthew Jonck - High Jump 3rd

Sarah-Jayne Du Plessis - Javelin 3rd

Rati Sanyamandwe - 1200m 2nd

Shaquille Stevens - 800m 3rd

Lara-Jane Holding - 800m 3rd and 1500m 2nd

Devin Mey - 200m 3rd and Shot Put 2nd

Well done to each of you... you have made us sooooooo very proud.

These athletes and a few others will be travelling to Durban on 15th September for the SACSSA athletics championship.... good luck to you all.

(these photos were taken on casual day.... hence the civvies!...)

Pre-School Spring Day

Spring sprung with a bang and our littlies got in on it... they all came to school decked out in civvies (for casual day) and donned their best spring hat too.

It sure looked like a festive day was had by them. Well done to all the children for their hard hard work.

Casual Day

We had virtually 100% support for Casual Day at school.... well done to all the staff and children for being so generous in your support... and it sure looked like everyone enjoyed the civies day immensely.

An amount of R3 311,30 was raised which went to Casa Do Sol School.

It's happening on Saturday!