Doodle4Google Awards Ceremony

As a school with one of the highest entries into the Doodle4Google competion, 10 NWCS learners were invited to attend the Award Ceremony on 29 November at Arts on Main. One of the judges was  Sven Ruygrok, who plays the part of Rambo in the movie Spud. Another was Yvonne Chaka Chaka who gave us an impromptu performance.

There was so much to do...

and eat...

We all had a great time, eating from the donut wall, drawing, painting, building, watching the 3-d printer and making music with fruit and sweets. We're hoping there will be another competition this year!

PTA Ladies' High Tea a Great Success

A little over eighty ladies gathered for a beautiful morning of high tea, gifts, entertainment and inspiration to raise funds for breast cancer research. Each table was beautifully decorated and catered for by a special lady.

A stunning dress made from printed pages by Charis McKeever graced the entrance together with a collection of bras to be donated to charity.

    

The speakers were Alison Dupen, a breast cancer survivor, who cheerfully faced a barrage of personal and practical questions, and Kona Brown, winner of Mrs United Nations International in 2012, who encouraged us as women to enjoy deeper relationships with each other in order to become true friends, the kind that God intended us to be, and to be less busy being busy.

Kona Brown, Katherine Bird, Nadine van Staden and Debbie McGowan 

 

Alison Dupen

  

Join us for tea

Doodle 4 Google

The Doodle 4 Google competition is ON!!! 

Every child in the school is drawing their own Doodle under the theme "South Africa of my Dreams". I am so enjoying seeing the results of their efforts as they are returned signed with explanations of the doodles and dreams for our beautiful country.

One of the challenges I gave some of the children was to design a Google Doodle (no theme) on MS Paint. Here are a few of the results from the grade 3s.

Casual Day a Great Success

Today we all had a lot of fun dressing up with 'bling' to enjoy Casual Day. The proceeds of well over R4000 will be going to Logwood Village to support the people there.

Parenting in the Digital Age

Tips from Author Nikki Bush on parenting in the digital age:

• Show an active interest in their children’s technology journey
• Overcome their own technophobia
• Interact with technology and social networks themselves
• Keep perspective about the positive potential of technology as well as the downsides
• Invest in their relationships with their children – this takes time and energy
• Stay awake, alert and conscious, without hysterically hovering

Keep an eye open for Nikki's new book Tech-Savvy Parenting, being launched on Monday 11 August.

Grade 5's entertain the Grade R's

Every year the Grade 5's are given the opportunity to dress up and read to the Grade R's. The Grade 5's love the challenge and the Grade R's love to see the characters of the books come to life. What Grade R child would pass up the opportunity to have a story read to them?