The Ultimate Outdoor Adventure

Saturday 4 August dawned bright and warm. Hundreds of excited people headed to Northwest Christian School for The Ultimate Outdoor Adventure. Bright inflatables filled the fields and equally brightly clad children ran around, ready for a day of running wild without reprimand.

 

Watch the fun on video here!

After much fun, hilarity and great energy, the prizes were awarded for fastest feet in each grade, as well as the spirit trophy which was awarded to the Grade 5s. The food stalls, each run by a different grade, were fantastic too. The PTA managed to raise R120 000 which they are using to upgrade the Mrs Tschohl's classroom. Thank you to everyone who was involved!

The Interhouse Gala

Friday 30 January was an exiting day filled with cheering and swimming, sunshine and water. The children were very well behaved and supported their teams enthusiastically.

The competition was VERY close with house positions being swapped right until the end. Mr Norel kept everyone very excited with his constant updates. Grade 2 up to Grade 7 swimmers dived and swam and smiled and grimaced their way to the finish until they were exhausted. Good sportsmanship and fantastic support were the order of the day. Samson  was awarded the Spirit Cup and David won the day with Caleb in second place.

Some enthusiastic teachers and parents competed as well. A relay was swum between teachers and parents which the teachers won! Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you to the teachers, especially Mr McNab, for helping everything run smoothly. 

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.