FOURTEENTH EDITION    NUMBER 26    2 SEPTEMBER 2010

During our last Governing Body meeting the Governing Body approved our cell phone policy. The policy will be put on the school’s website, for the attention of all the learners and parents, soon. The policy was set up in the interest of your child and will be strictly executed for all learners in the school.

CLICK HERE FOR CELLPHONE POLICY

Thank you to all the parents who gave their children this opportunity. Everyone departed

with great excitement and expectations. Thank you to all the teachers who left their

households behind to escort the children. I hope the tours will be a success.

Thirteen of our learners qualified for the Gauteng championships. Congratulations to these

learners.

All our cricket teams qualified for the semi-finals. Will it not be an extraordinary

achievement if all the teams qualify for the finals ? Come on boys ! We can do it !

Our girls swing those sticks with such joy that I am sorry that I cannot participate in this

exciting sport. Keep it up !

Our tennis league is fully in progress. We hope your results will be good !

Our cultural evening with Jak de Priester was a huge success. Everyone who attended the

function can testify to it. Thank you to the cultural committee for their hard work.

Our Golf Day tee-off on Friday and the course is full. Good luck to the organisers for the

day. May all the players enjoy the day.

One of our parents lost R400 during the Mr and Ms Riebie evening, presumably in one of

the bathrooms. If you have picked it up, we appeal to your honesty to please hand the

money in at the office. Thank you for your co-operation in this regard.

6 September Day 3

7 September Day 4

8 September Day 5

9 September Day 6

10 September Day 1

Monday, 13 September Afrikaans

Tuesday, 14 September English

Wednesday, 15 September SS

Thursday, 16 September NS

Friday, 17 September Maths

DIVISION Ms van Niekerk will be available for assistance on the following days : Monday, 6 September, for English learners and Tuesday, 7 September, for Afrikaans learners.

We remind parents that all text book monies for 2011 (R300 per learner) must be paid by 31 October. If you pay electronically or in the office, please send a copy of the receipt or proof of payment to your child’s class teacher. Should your child’s text books not be paid by 31 October, text books will not be ordered for him / her and your child will start the 2011 school year without text books for Afrikaans, English and Maths.

Supervisory timetable for the week 6 - 10 September:-

Practice : Wednesday, 13:00 – 14:00 (Gr 1 and 2 girls)

Remember your clothes and tackies !

Practice

Monday, 6 September U/10B & U/11B 13:30 – 15:00

3rd & 4th 13:30 – 15:00

Tuesday, 7 September U/10A & B + U/11A & B 13:30 – 15:00

2nd, 1st 13:30 – 15:00

Wednesday, 8 September U/10A & B + U/11A & B 13:30 – 15:00

4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st 13:30 – 15:00

Thursday, 9 September U/10A & B + U/11A & B 13:30 – 15:00

4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st 13:30 – 15:00

Matches

Monday, 6 September U/10A vs L/s Kruinsig At H/s Birchleigh

U/11A vs L/s Edleen At Jeugland

Tuesday, 7 September 3rd vs Bonaero Park Away

4th vs L/s Kreft Home

Congratulations to all the teams who qualified for the Kempton semi-finals. We are still waiting for the fixtures that we will only receive on Friday. As soon as we have received the fixtures, we will give it to you. Congratulations and thank you to all the Riebies !

Practice for Hockey-bokkies (7-9 September)

Transport will be available to H/s Jeugland and back :

Thursday ? Matches at L/s Bredell (only U/11 and U/13)

Programme for matches on 9 September at L/s Bredell

The bus will depart at 13:15 and should be back at ? 16:00.

Hockey coaching for boys and girls of all ages. For registration and more information, contact Clint Bailey, 073 349 3412.

Congratulations to the 13 athletes who qualified for the Gauteng Championships.

Good luck to the 17 athletes who will represent the school at the Noordvaal final on Saturday. Make the Riebies proud !

The matches for 8 September are:-

Nike vs Birchleigh 1 at Pine Grove

Nadal 1 vs Kruinsig 1 at Kempton Club

Nadal 3 vs Kruinsig 4 at Kempton Club

Reebok vs Impala 1 at VRP

Adidas vs Oosterkruin at Witfield

Good luck with all the matches !!

Our chess players played a team game during practice on Monday. Four players played together on one big board. It was very exciting and a good spirit prevailed.

There is practice again on Monday.

Psalm 37:4 "Seek your happiness in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desire."

God believes in us. He enjoys us, is proud of us and only expects the best from us. If we fail, we are forgiven and get another chance to make it right. This is how God treats us and this is how we should treat each other. Do not think bad thoughts, but only expect the best of each other.

Parents are welcome to pray for our school and community in Bet-El (behind the stage in the hall) from 07:30 – 08:00 on Thursday mornings. We appeal to you that, if you feel like it in your heart, to come and support us ! We need your prayers urgently ! We remind you of the wooden container in the entrance hall, where you can place prayer requests. All requests will be treated confidentially.

Teacher Dinki is very excited about our new songs on after practice on Monday. The songs were learnt in a jiffy. If we concentrate and listen carefully, it can only go well with our choir.

Our next performance is Wednesday, 8 September at L/s Kruinsig. Keep the afternoon open. We need your support. Thank you for the R30 entry fees that have already been paid. Unfortunately there are still a lot outstanding. Please pay (if possible) to the class teacher, on or before 6 September.

Thank you to the wonderful parents who supported us on Thursday evening. What a wonderful performer he is ! Thank you to Mr Hentie Herbst (Governing Body Member) with all his arrangements for the evening.

Senior choir practice : Monday afternoon, 6 September, 13:00 – 14:30.

Wow, did Jak de Priester bowl us out !! It was wow !! Thank you to all our parents and guests who enjoyed the evening with us.

We received so much positive feedback that we are already planning our next Barnyard. Our choir sang beautifully. Our Junior nightingales also did very well !

Senior choir, good luck with the preparation for our Eisteddfod performance. Intense practice is still lying in waiting. We will be performing at L/s Kruinsig on 8 September. Please do not stay away from choir practice unnecessarily. You miss a lot of detail during practice.

Attention, Percussion Band members ! There is little time left ! We still have to learn a lot of songs ! Please come to practice next Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, as usual !

See you in the Cultural room !

Good luck to the Riebies who will be participating this week. Make us proud.

6 & 7 September our Gr 2-learners will get the opportunity to brag with their talent at the Afrikaans section of the Eisteddfod at the Reformed Church in Huggett Street.

Remember to hand in certificates, already received, for merit purposes.

Gr 1 – 3 at class teachers, Gr 4 – 7 at language teachers.

Gr 6 learners may hand in their certificate to Ms Schoeman (received in Afrikaans section)

Next council meeting, in Teacher Darene’s class, second break on Monday, 6 September.

Herewith the expected arrival times for all the learners on tour :-

Friday, 3 September: Gr 4 12:00

Gr 5 12:30

Gr 6 14:30

Gr 7 16:30

Parents must please park on the B-rugby field and not in the road on the East side of the school, as the buses must park there.

On Cue Theatre will be visiting our school on 6 September 2010. This English show is an annual highlight at our school. The show will be "Cinderella has a ball." Cost is R10 per learner and must be paid to the class teacher.

According to departmental regulations, learners must be at the school for two hours in order to be marked present. Therefore, must learners be at the school until 09:30, or they will be marked absent. Should sick learners be writing a test on the specific day, they will be isolated and will write the test in the office, whereafter they may go home.

Should a child get sick at the school, the correct channels MUST be followed, which means that the ladies in the office will contact the parents to collect sick learners. LEARNERS MAY NOT SEND SMS’ TO PARENTS IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE COLLECTED !!

The Riebies think of Lambr頨Gr 5) and Ulrich (Gr 1) Krause. Their grandfather passed away last week.

Due to our learners who are on tour until Friday, 3 September, we will be having casual day on Friday, 10 September. Learners, who paid R10, may wear civvies to school. The school rules regarding hairstyles must be abided to. No ski-pants, please. Thank you to our parents who support this project. Our school will be supporting Casa Caritas, this year.

At last ! Tomorrow is our school’s Golf Day !

Thank you very much to all our Riebies and Riebie parents who donated prizes – it was received with gratitude.

Our golf committee is working hard and are very excited about our school’s Golf Day.

We believe it will be a wonderful day and will be a great success.

Individual photos / brothers and sisters, will be photographed on the above dates, @ R50 a packet. The packet includes the following :

1 A4 colour photo

2 post card photo (white and black)

4 ID-photos

1 photo on name tag (for suitcase)

Learners will only be photographed if the tear-off slip has been completed and the money, paid. Photo money must be paid to the class teacher.

All outstanding merit trophies must please be handed in at the office, or to Teacher Annestie Marais, at the latest, 20 September. Trophies must be cleaned and engraved.

This project is still carrying on. We appeal to our Gr 1 – 3 learners to fill the orange drum to capacity, every two weeks, this term. Funds will go to the school. In this manner we keep our planet green !! (The drum is situated at the Hasie Kwassie gate).

Together with the waste paper project, we would like to collect empty egg boxes. Please take it to Teacher Elmarie Schreuder (Gr 1), room 2.

AFTER-CARE PARENTS, PLEASE note that the after-care cell numbers are as follows :

JUNIORS: 076 515 5497

SENIORS: 082 265 4909

The ladies at the after-care will be available on these numbers from 11:30.

In an emergency, contact Ms H le Roux, 976-2633.

Menu for the week of 6 - 10 September:-

After-care parents must please note that our after-care is very dependent on the monthly fees for the functioning, as well as quality of service and salaries of staff.

As the after-care is a privilege, we cannot afford monies in arrears.

A debt collector has been appointed a while ago and he contacts all our parents who are in arrears.

We appeal to you to please contact our financial officer of the after-care, Ms Michelle Br?mer, urgently, if you are in arrears. Should you omit to do so, your child unfortunately may be expelled.

The new cell phone policy will also apply at the after-care.