2nd Term | 27 June 2014

Market DayOur ever-popular Market Day for 2014 was held on a cool Saturday morning earlyin May. Entire Eduplus families turned out in full force to support their young entrepreneurs' budding businesses.

Eisteddfod

The St Michael's Music, Drama and Visual Arts Festival took place for a week in May this year. This festival, which happens every second year, saw a great display of drawing, painting, singing, drama and instrumental music performed by learners of all ages.

Front: Lintle Moletsane who was selected to say her poemat the prizewinner's concert, Danielle Ceronio who receivedthe award for best drama performance in the primary school section as well as the St Michael's Versatility Awardfor excellent performance in all three areas of the Eisteddfod (music, drama and visual arts) in the primaryschool section. Lara Clarke received an award for best promising drama performance in the primary schoolsection. Back: Petro Muller (Drama adjudicator) and Robynne van Zuydam (drama teacher)

The five Eduplus top achievers at the St Michael's Music, Drama and Visual Arts Festival: These five girls participated and excelled in 79 items altogether: Front: Danielle Ceronio (21 items), Elizabeth Rossouw (11 items), Berné Beukes (13 items) Back: Maria Yazbek (18 items) and Lané Rossouw (16 items)

The following learners all received special certificates forthe best visual artwork in their grade at the St Michael's ArtFestival. Eduplus learners received the award for the bestartwork in every primary school grade! Front:Bea-né Schoeman (Gr 1), Kishen Reddy (Gr 2), Zandri Harmse(Gr 3)

Back:Leané Barnard (Gr 4), Maria Yazbek (Gr 6), Danielle Ceronio(Gr 5)

In addition to our Grade 4, 5 and 6 learners, for whom the Market Day forms partof their Economic and Management Sciences curriculum, many other younger learners also seized the opportunity to have a stall selling their wares. With plentyof delicious treats to eat, to pony rides and a jumping castle, and all sorts of creative handmade gifts, the Eduplus Market Day was a shopper's paradise.

Eduplus boasted a record number of 193 entries, with the majority of our primary school learners participating in at least one item. Formany of our learners, it was a daunting yet highly exciting experience to perform on a stage in front of strangers.

Our learners did extremely well, achieving no fewer than 153 A symbols and 40 B symbols altogether. Eduplus also featured at the awards ceremony, where Lintle Moletsane had the honour of performing for the guests with a selected group of artists. Lara Clarke wonthe prize for Most Promising Drama Performer in the Primary School section and Danielle Ceronio won the prize for the Best Overall Drama Performances in the Primary School section. Danielle was also awarded the Versatility Trophy, an award for excellence in allthree disciplines represented at the festival.

The Guinea FowlArticles: Naledi Bauer - Photos: Robynne van Zuydam

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forgethow you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Bloem Show Art

At the annual BloemShow, visual art by a number of Edupluslearners was displayed. Many of these colourful, cheerful works of art caught not only the eyeof visitors to the Show,but those of the judges too.

The following learners all received first or special prizes at the BloemShow: Front: Hannah Abrahams (Gr R - firstprize), Juanré Botha (first prize)

Back: Leané Barnard (Gr 4 - special prize and another first prize), DanielleCeronio (Gr 5 - trophy), Elizabeth Rossouw (Gr 4 - two first prizes)

Danielle Ceronio won a trophy at the Bloem Showwith her art work "My dog".

Leané Barnard won a special cash prize at the Bloemshow with her artwork, titled "School still life".

Music Exams

Some of our learners recently played music exams. Lané Rossouw passed her Trinity Flute examwith merit. Danielle Ceronio passed herUNISA piano exam with distinction! Congratulations!

The "Big Pitcher"With winter here in all its icy glory, it’s quite common for water to become the forgotten hero. Water needs to form animportant part of you and your child’s lifestyle as it aids in the absorption of important nutrients, contributes to immunityand is essential in all bodily functions. The main sources of water include drinking water, beverages, moisture content of food and water produced by processes within the body. By encouraging your child to drink enough water and healthy beverages- constipation, dry skin, nose bleeds, headaches and urinary tract infections may be avoided. But how much is enough? The fluid recommendation for boys and girls aged 4-8years is 1600ml/day and 1900ml/day for girls and 2100ml/day for boys aged 9-13years. Most of the recommendation should be made up of good, old-fashioned clean water with healthy beverages and moisture from food making up the difference. Registered Dietitian (UFS)

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Important Dates21 July: 25 July: 29 July: 8 August: 14 August21 August:29 August: 6 September:12 September:

School reopensPlanetarium Evening (Gr 1-6)Parents’ meetingsDebating final"Dink of Sink" Volksblad Debate CompetitionLiterature EveningGrandparents’ Day (Gr 000 and Grade 00)G.I. Mom and Son Function at Tempe Eduplus Golf Day

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Energy-Dense/Sugary beverages should be avoided asthey contribute to tooth decay, poor eating patterns and unnecessary weight-gain. Let’s make an active effort in keeping water a part of the ‘Big Pitcher” thiswinter.

Michelle FouchéRegistered Dietitian (UFS)

Examples of healthy beverages:• Low-fat/Fat-free Milk (2-3 cups/day)• Decaffeinated tea• Diluted fruit juice ( ½ cup water : ½ cup juice)

The following learners received awards for their art:

Elizabeth Rossouw also achieved two first prizes.

Juanré Botha and Hannah Abrahams in Grade R received first prize awards.

Lieschen Bornman and Florichia Pool (Grade R), as well as Ntoetse Jonathanand Lintle Moletsane (Grade 5) were placed second.

Jardel Jonathan, Tshireletso Llale, Phia-né Pool (Grade 3) and David Mofolo (Grade 1) were placed third.

Lizerie Roos and Liani Greyvenstein (Grade 1),as well as Herman Spies (Grade 4) and LukasStone (Grade 6) received merit awards.

Danielle Ceronio won a trophy for the best artwork inGr 5 at the show and Leané Barnard won a special cashprize for her picture. Leané also obtained another firstand second award for two more art works.

Museum ExhibitionThe third annual Eduplus Museum Exhibition took place in April this year. All our Grade 4, 5 and 6 learners participated, as part of their Social Science curriculum. Each grade had to create an exhibition based on a specificarea of history relevant to them.

My TownThere was great excitement among the preschool learners and parentswhen we covered the theme "My Town", with our very own TweetyStreet and Dolphin Street on display. The cardboard box houses wereconstructed with great care and attention - with a couple of dads coming in to make special "repairs" before the great painting job began! These colourful box houses each had their own house numbers,and were of a very high standard!

Another highlight of the preschool calendar this term wasthe "Occupations" theme. Our enthusiastic parents werekind enough to come in and share something about theirjobs with our Tweety and Dolphin classes. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about different occupationsin such a practical way. Ethel Botha, a social worker, camealong with the Child Protection Unit to explain these people's valuable work to our children. Justin Marx came to talk about being a sushi chef at a local restaurant. There was also great excitement about the visits of DenbyRidler, an airforce pilot, and Shereez Simmons (Isaacs), apaediatrician. Moreover, the children had the opportunityto dress up in the outfits of their favourite occupations. Grateful thanks to all the parents who offered some of theirvaluable time to inspire our preschoolers. Who knew hard workcould be such fun?

The Tweety and Dolphin classes learn about occupations

Dr Lloyd Rossouw, an Eduplus parent and experienced museum researcher, officially opened the exhibition, afterwhich parents and teachers visited the various detaileddisplays to learn more about significant historical figures,places and events.

Congratulations to all our Intermediate Phase learners (andtheir parents!) for a job very well done!

"Tannie" Lettie came round to knock on each door and offer a "Smurf" pancake to each preschool homeowner. What a way to start a week ofgreat fun playing "House, House"!

Lian Venter(Gr 5) receiveda gold medal atthe recent FS Target ShootingCompetition.

Alexja Coetzee (Gr 3) came first in the SA Friesian Horse Championships in the u/10 years category in the Walk/Trot Class at the Bloem Show.

Erin Clarke and Tumelo Mohale - Cross country stars!

Sport highlightsTwo Eduplus learners did particularly well at cross country this term. Erin Clarke (Gr 5)and Tumelo Mohale (Grade 2) were invited to the interprovincial cross country event inKimberley as a result of their achievements in this sport. Erin won all the cross countryevents in Bloemfontein in her age group and came third in Kimberley. What an excellentachievement!

ComradesCongratulations to Teacher Lizl Schoeman who completed hersecond Comrades Marathon this June, earning herself a bronzemedal in the process! Lizl was the first athlete of the PentagonPistols Club from Bloemfontein to cross the finishing line. Shewas also the second woman athlete from Bloemfontein to finishthe race at only 9 hours and 36 minutes. Eduplus is proud ofyou!

All the pompom groups performed on31 May at a function at the Gardenia-park Dutch Reformed Church. Theyperformed very well.

GymnasticsThe following three girls did exceptionally well in gymnastics competitionsover the past term:

"If you want to know what a mans' like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."- J.K. Rowling

Congratula

tions!

Phia-né Pool, Taljah Hansen and Annmari de Villiers

Estie Rossouw, Jaco Botha and Lizl Shoeman

Eduplus hockey also had a busy term. The biggest success was the StMichael’s Hockey Festival, where a number of our girls’ and boys’teams took to the field. The teams which did particularly wellwere the Grade 1 boys, the Grade 2, 3 and 4 girls, and the Grade 5 and 6 girls. Well done!

The chess teams of Grade 1-6 took part in the recent chess leagueand gained lots of experience in chess playing. Congratulations!

Estie Rossouw and Jaco Botha, two of our Eduplus parents, alsocompleted the race well. Congratulations!

Phia-né Pool was placed first once and third twice in two invitation meetings of the H. Botha Gymnastics Club and the Bloemfontein Gymnastics Club.

Annmari de Villiers achieved a first, second and two third places at the second competition. She was also placed third overall in her age group.

Taljah Hansen won a silver medal in rhythmic gymnastics level 4 at the SAFederation Inland Trophy event. She also won a silver medal at the Bloem-fontein Gymnastics Club's invitation meeting in artistic gymnastics level 5.