Dear Parents
Your outlook on life, basically your attitude can determine your
happiness and success in life. Far too often we tend to focus on the
‘things’ that get us down and this in turn perpetuates more
negativity. What we need to remember is that attitude is a mind-set,
how you view your world. Do you see the positive or do you focus on
the negative? Do we focus on what we have or are we obsessed with
what we want and possibly cannot have?
Our perception of the events in our life, and how we regard these events can be
attributed to our attitude. How can we change our attitude? - When dealing with a
situation try and find the good in it. Focus on the good; do not dwell on the negative.
Depending on the situation, you sometimes have to look hard to find the good but it is
there! By doing this you start changing attitudes to a positive attitude rather than a
negative attitude.
Remember the saying, "you can't change other people, you can only change yourself."
So if someone tells you that you have a poor attitude, don't try and convenience them
otherwise, as you won't change their mind. When someone tells us this we have a
tendency to take a defensive attitude, instead focus on how you can change".
You will end up becoming very frustrated if you try and change other people.
Remember, you can only change yourself and how you deal with that individual.
COMPILED AND CREATED BY:
Marcelle Curry
74 Ringwood Drive, Parklands, 7441, Cape Town, South Africa
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MR ANDREW NORRIS
PRINCIPAL
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Year 1’s Outing to the Science Centre
The Year 1’s set off to Cape Town on their very exciting outing last week. They visited
the Cape Town Science Centre where they learnt new concepts about Science. Our
students were so excited and could not wait to arrive at the Centre. The Year 1’s were
taught:
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How to build a house:
They were given foam blocks and cement, they that to show responsibly and
team work by building their very own home.
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Our five senses and how different we are then one another.
Students were taught about their visual perception and what we use our
senses for.
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Experiments:
Students were shown many fun experiments; one was foam that developed
from chemicals and sunlight liquid. They loved this.
The children loved exploring the different exhibits, while learning new and interesting
things.
Once the day was over we had 60 very tired children that were all “Scienced out” but
so excited to return.
Miss de Wet
Year 1 Teacher
Kirsty-Lee Loureiro and Mia Velev
both 6 years
Angelina Hemmingway 6 years
Erin Cawcutt 6 years
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Boris and Ian Scrooby both 6 years
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Our teacher creature stories
The Year 2’s have thoroughly enjoyed their creative writing lessons in which they
have learned all about the writing process. Turns out, we definitely have some
budding writers in our class! The class began investigating by reading a story and
answering questions about a teacher that turned into a rabbit.
The students were captivated by this tale and were soon on their way to
creating their own teacher creature tales. We then explored sequencing a story
by making our own storyboards, and finally we felt ready to begin writing our
own original stories. We had toad teachers to tiger teachers, zebra teachers to
robot teachers!
‘I will return as soon as I turn the rest of the teachers into toads. But I
warn you for now because I am working for the witch company! ‘–
Lwandile Shabane, 7yrs old
‘One of the children caught her and took a spell book to turn her into a two
headed human. “Oh no Miss Ham!’ – Giannu Gabriel-Ronchi, 7yrs old
‘Suddenly the teacher turned into a squirrel. The children chased after
her but the teacher got away.’ – Rebecca Wiese, 7yrs old
By Miss A Crake
Year 2 Teacher
Lwandile Shabane, 7yrs old
Year 2's showing their storyboards and pictures
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Table Mountain Outing
To end off their History and Geography Unit on ‘Our local Environment’ and Science Unit on
‘Rocks and Soils’, the Year 3’s embarked on an outing to our very own Table Mountain. Here
is what they saw and did:
“We saw Dassies and learned that they are related to elephants because they have
tusks on their sculls” –Mikaeel Dramat
“We saw a café and a souvenir shop and they had snow globes, pens, hats and
other toys.” -Sithara Naidoo
“We went on a cable car and saw the whole of table mountain and I felt happy” – Oswald Pieterse
“We saw people hiking and we saw the Castle of Good Hope from the top of Table
Mountain” –Karma Smuts
“ We had a good view of the blue ocean and we saw a Blister Bush” – Xoan Rangaka
Teachers
can also be
afraid of
heights
“We saw the different layers of rocks and we learned how table mountain gets smaller
because red mold eats the rock” –Ariana Barrote Coelho
“We learned about the climbers best friend, a prickly bush but its roots go six meters deep into the
ground so if a climber slips he can grab onto it and it wont pop out of the ground like others would”
–Kade Collocott
In the cable car on the way to
the top
The Tour Guide taught us about the history of Devils Peak
The
Dassies
get
friendly
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The Year 3 girls posing
The view from
the top of
Table
Mountain
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BIS U/11 CRICKET TEAM ENDS THE SEASON UNBEATEN!
On Wednesday, 18th March 2015, the U/11 cricket team played against the U/11 side of
CBC. BIS was send in to bat first. Matthew Petersen and Mackenzie Gardner got off to a
good start as they batted really well. Mackenzie lost his wicket in the 9th over. Matthew
and Daniel Schlacher went all out with the bat, but it was Matthew who got really into in
smashing 52 runs not out. After 15 overs BIS got 91/1. The target was set at 92 runs.
BIS managed to bowl very well and did some very good fielding. CBC didn’t hold back
and only required 15 runs from the last over. The pressure was on the young Kéno
Theart as he bowled the last over. Kéno bowled very well and handled the pressure
flawlessy as the opposing team only managed to score 6 runs from his bowling. BIS won
the game with 9 runs.
BIS ended the season unbeaten and I wish to thank each and every player who
contributed to this outstanding achievement. This was really a team and squad effort.
Also, thank you to all the parents who have come out to support us.
Batting Scorecard:
Daniel Schlacher – 12 runs not out
Matthew Petersen – 52 runs not out
Mackenzie Gardner – 10 runs
Bowling Scorecard:
Matthew Petersen – 2 wickets for 9 runs
Kathleen Seager – 1 run out
Mackenzie Gardner – 1 wicket for 4 runs
Daniel Schlacher – 1 wicket for 13 runs
By Mr J Harrison
U/11 Cricket Coach
Aastha Purohit 5yrs and Ronan Macey 6yrs took part in the Junior
Cape Town Junior cycle tour on Saturday 7 March. They completed
the 7.5 km ride.
Tom Carter-Hutton and Alexander Byerley both 6yrs
earned their medals at the Clifton Micro Fun Day on
Sunday 15 March. They were part of the Big Bay Life
Saving Club Micro Nippers team and they collectively
won the Spirit Trophy.
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Clarinet and Saxophone Lessons
We are excited to announce that our Music
Department is expanding.
From the second term Mr Ernst Van Tonder
will join our extra-mural music team. He
will be teaching Saxophone, Clarinet and
Piano and is currently busy with his
Masters degree in music.
Umhlanga College Choir came all the way from Durban and performed for
us on Tuesday 17 March
Lessons cost R1 145 per term for 8 lessons
of 30 minutes each.
Instruments can be bought or hired at
some music shops.
If you are interested in the lessons please
e-mail Mr Smal on
[email protected]
Year 6 Monitors
Cameron Bowley (11), Chloe Goldman (12),
Matthew Seager (12), Dylan van Zyl (11),
Gabrielle Luyt (10), Darrien Nagel (10)
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Uniform/Supplies
Shop Hours
SCHOOL
BANK DETAILS
OPEN
Wednesday & Thursday
08:00 – 10:30 & 13:00 – 15:30
IES Blouberg International School
First National Bank
Current Account Number:
62335707694
Branch: 250655
CLOSED
Monday, Tuesday & Friday
Please note that as per IES policy,
uniforms may only be purchased upon
receipt of tuition fees!
Weekly Diary
Monday 23
March
High School
Monday 23
March
FS & KS1
Verbal Meetings
Tuesday 24
March
FS & KS1
Verbal Meetings
Test Week Commences
Wednesday
25 March
Outing
Year 6
Simonstown Museum
Wednesday
25 March
Inting
Year 5
Science & Design Technology
Thursday 26
March
Inting
FS
Musical Rascals
ASSEMBLY TIMES
Monday
8am
High School
Senior
Hall
Tuesday
8.30
PR - Y2
Junior
Hall
Thursday
8am
Y3 – Y6
Senior
Hall
School Sport
and Clubs will
end for Term 1
on Friday 27
March 2015
Results for the Junior Fun Sports Day
House points:
BODIUM
- (GREEN) 84
LEEDS
- (BLUE) 61
WINDSOR
- (RED) 57
Results for parents Tug of War
The winners are:
Moms:
Keystage1
Dads:
Foundation stage
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MARCH BIRTHDAYS
McGahey, Jasmin
Du Preez, Steyn
Neethling, Nicholas
Parker, Michael
Bowley, Daniel
Muller, Caitlin
Abbey, Erin
Oyoto, Etseoghena
Macey, Kiara
Smorenburg, Siobhan
Pillay, Shakita
Hinrichsen, Kate
Velev, Georgieva
Hermabessiere, Samuel
Hermabessiere, Jemima
Purohit, Maahi
Petersen, Matthew
Abbey, Liam
Mawaya, Lily
McClelland, Callie
Cawcutt, Ethan
Sinclair, Logan
Kweyama, S'Phesihle
Naidoo, Yovesh
Reddy, Pranav
De Sa Pereira, Karina
Fischer, Jordan
Jones, Jensen
Shain, Rebecca
Thornton, James
Kessel, Patrick
Hoggins, Anaya
D'Alton, Gabriel
Frank, Lloyd
Pearce, Joshua
Barber, Jack
Hill, Kristen
Fischer, Jamie
Lazoski, Luca
Nagel, Jerri
Maritz, Jordan-Lee
Maleta, Kamogelo
Leitner, William
Mthwana, Maya
Du Plessis, Tia
Siyengo, Stella
Wendy Beato
Soxexe, Litha
Joynt, Lauren
Kiley, Samantha
Hack, Mandy
Van Niekerk, Sumeen
Bender, Yolande
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