28 September 2012 - St Columba's School

St Columba’s School
28 September 2012 Volume 28.2012
Inside this issue:
From the Principal’s
desk 1
Big Walk 1
Senior Choir 1
Pre-Primary
News
2
Merits 3
Calendar of
Events
3
Sports News 4
St Columba’s School
107 Howard Ave
Benoni 1501
PO Box 17224
Benoni West 1503
Phone: (011) 421-3057
Fax: (011) 421-8009
E-mail: admin@stcolumbas.co.za
“Where children love
to go to school.”
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From the Principal’s Desk
The term is really gathering momentum
as we move from one event to the next.
I am always so impressed with the way
the children cope with various events
and demands on their time. It is amazing
how the children who are really busy
always manage to cope with everything.
Thanks of course must go to you the
parents for your support in all this.
Big Walk
For our annual Big Walk tomorrow we
would like everyone to be here by 09:00
so that we can leave promptly at 09:30.
The Pre-Primary children will, as always,
walk around the school grounds. The
Junior Primary will walk up Howard Avenue
to just before the Woburn Avenue
bridge, where they will each receive a
bottle of water before their return to
school. The Senior Primary children will
continue into Westdene and round
Korsman’s Pan. They will receive their
water before proceeding round the Pan.
The Tuckshop will be open from 09:00
so you may purchase refreshments for
yourselves before the walk or in the
course of the morning. There will also
be bacon rolls and boerewors rolls on
sale and tea and eats at the teagarden.
Special thanks to School and Leisure
for sponsoring the water.
Choral Verse
We have received the times for the
events at St Dominic’s, if you would like
to attend and support your child and the
school. They are as follows:
Monday 1 October
Grade 1: 14:00 to 14:45
Grade 2: 14:45 to 15:30
Grade 3: 15:30 to 16:00
Tuesday 2 October
Grade 4: 14:00 to 14:45
Grade 5: 14:45 to 15:30
Grade 6: 15:30 to 16:15
Grade 7: 16:15 to 17:00
The children will all be travelling by bus
from school at the allocated time and
we would like them to return to school
with their group for security reasons.
They will be supervised by their teachers
before they leave for St Dominic’s and
at school afterwards.
Senior Choir
The Senior Choir took part in the Choir
Festival arranged by the Catholic
Schools Office on Thursday. We boarded
the two buses with much excitement
early on Thursday morning, and
after a traffic-filled trip, arrived at the
Linder Auditorium where we joined the
other 27 Choirs from various Catholic
schools. Seating was at a premium,
and as one choir went on stage, the
choir leaving the stage took their
seats! Over 1000 young voices joined
as one in singing the two massed
items, World in Union and Amabhayisikili,
under the expert baton of Sue
Cock. The enthusiasm shown by all the
choristers was a great encouragement
to each choir as they sang their two
chosen items and any nervous feeling
melted away as soon as they set foot
on the stage. St Columba’s Senior
Choir was especially commended for
their excellent behaviour while waiting
to go on stage and also in the Auditorium.
Their singing of Ukuthula (with
selected soloists) and El Cumbanchero
brought thunderous applause from the
audience.
It was a unique experience to be part of
such an ambitious undertaking – you
can be very proud of your own chorister!
Music
Many thanks to the Perumal family
(Liam –5H, Tegan-2H, Jayden-0N) for
donating two beautiful traditional African
drums to the music room.

“The golden
thread that
binds
humanity to
itself is love
and kindness”
St Columba’s School
Pre-Primary News
Stories and rhymes:
Intellectual value:
� It increases the child’s knowledge and
logical thinking.
� Sequencing and relationships between
events are encouraged and
concentration/ memory improves.
� It serves as a preparation for reading
Emotional value:
� Helps with overcoming negative emotions
� Forms an appreciation of literature for
later years
� Strengthens bond between caregiver
and child
� Enjoyment takes place
Language development:
� Good language and sentence construction
� Creative use of language
Physical development:
� Finger rhymes improve fine muscle
control
� They deal with specific parts of the
body, eg left/right
� Body image improves
Page 2
Social value:
� Child learns compassion for other
people
� Values and norms are conveyed in
a pleasant way
CONCERT
Practice for our concert is well under the
way and we are very busy with all the
preparations.
Please have all costumes at school by
next week Wednesday. Please check with
your child’s teacher what needs to be
done. We will be having a full dress rehearsal
with make-up on Friday 5 October
and will need everything ready by
then.
We would like to appeal to you for old
sheets as we would like to make a cover
for our back drop. It is a huge frame and
we need a few sheets to cover it for protection.
Our deepest sympathy goes to the Durand
family (Dylan in GrR) on the passing
of his great grandfather. May you feel
deeply comforted at this sad time.
Please send your child to school with
shorts as we have tumbling on Wednesdays
and dresses/skirts (of course this
applies to the girls) are inappropriate for
the exercises done.

Volume 28.2012
Merits
Isshani Chhagan, Giuliana Millard, Teagan
de Bruin, Devak Mistry, Jainil Kalan, Luke du
Plessis, Tshehla Mathe, Khushil Ravjee,
Shereezia Sattar, Sheetal Singh, Nathan
Ukunda
Calendar of Events—Term 3
Saturday 29 September 09:00 Big Walk
Grade 1 Merits
Divani Veragaloo
Sunday 7 October 07:30 First Holy Communion
Tuesday 9 October and Thursday
11 October
Thursday 18 to Monday 22 October
07:00 Pre-Primary Concert
Mid-Term break
Thursday 25 October Parents Evening
Thursday 1 November Orientation Day
Wednesday 7 November 07:45 Sports and Cultural Awards
Page 3
A person’s
life is like a
piece of
paper on
which every
passer-by
leaves a mark.
Chinese
proverb.

Sports News Page 4
Athletics
Last Friday a group of our runners took
part in a friendly Athletics meeting at
Sacred Heart College in Observatory. The
children were all very excited and some
of them were quite nervous at the prospect
of competing with children from
other schools.
It was a well organised fun afternoon.
There were ten other Catholic schools
that took part (like De la Salle, St Matthew’s,
Holy Rosary, Holy Family Convent).
Our U7 and U8 children had to run in the
U9 age group and still did well. Mashau
Madzie (U7) came 7 th, Erin Lazarus (U8)
came 4 th, Joshua Steyn (U7) came 6 th
and Khaya Sithole (U8) came 8 th in the
100m.
Other results were: Adrian Roberts 1 st in
his 100m; Ndivhuwo Madzie 6 th ; Nathan
Ukunda 1 st; Daniella Zulu 1 st; Cameron
Dansie 2 nd ; Zama Vilakazi 3 rd and
Fuaad Mohammed 4 th.
Our long distance runners: Daniella
Brown and Marlon Dickerson ran 800m
and came 8 th and 4 th respectively; Calvin
Borrageiro and Justin Brown ran 1200m
for the Opens and Justin came 5 th.
Very well done to all our runners. You did
St Columba’s proud!
Sports and Cultural Awards
We have traditionally had our Sports
and Cultural awards ceremony the last
week in October however we realise
that this does mean that the cricket and
swimming seasons are very short as
from the point of view of attendance.
On beginning to look at the attendance
registers with a view to awarding certificates
we feel it would be fairer to all the
children concerned to give them a few
more weeks. We have therefore decided
to move the Awards Ceremony to
Wednesday 7 November.
Please make a note of this in your diaries.
Specialising in sports Injuries,
management of chronic conditions,
cardiac rehabilitation, lower
back pain and lynosport therapy.
Stephen Louw (B.A. Hons Biokinetics)
stephenlouw13@hotmail.co.za
084 406 7291.