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CONTENTS<br />
05 | Spotlight News<br />
10 | Matric Results<br />
25 | The Taste Bud Battle<br />
30 | Power of the Principals<br />
35 | PARENT POINT<br />
36 | Free to Succeed<br />
40 | What are Creative Thinking skills?<br />
44 | Health: Burn Out<br />
60 | KIDS CORNER<br />
61 | Crafts for and by kids<br />
46 | Dream Big Baby:<br />
Vision boards for kids<br />
62 | Puzzles & Games<br />
63 | Proper Parties<br />
67 | Travel: Road Tripping<br />
72 | The Final Word:<br />
Derek Watts<br />
51 | THE HANGOUT<br />
52 | Career Files<br />
56 | Alumnus: Tyla Gormley<br />
Published by: Contact Media<br />
Publishers: Donna Verrydt/Sean Press<br />
Editorial Director: Shelley Carroll (ADvTECH)<br />
Editorial Manager: Christelle Wolmarans (ADvTECH)<br />
Editorial Assistant: Kumari Lewis (ADvTECH)<br />
Editor: Donna Verrydt (Contact Media)<br />
Head of Finance: Lesley Fox (Contact Media)<br />
Design Director: Candice Masson/Quinten Tolken<br />
Copy Editor: Angie Snyman<br />
Production Coordinator: Gwen Sebogodi<br />
Writers / Contributors: Donna Verrydt, Margot Bertelsmann,<br />
Anthony Jansen van Rensburg, Traci Salter<br />
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DIVERSIFYING YOUR INCOME<br />
with U.K retirement investments<br />
10%<br />
Net Yields<br />
10<br />
Years<br />
It may come as a surprise that a first world country - like<br />
the U.K- has a shortage of suitable retirement properties.<br />
Compared with other developed countries such as the<br />
USA, Australia and New Zealand where as much as 17%<br />
of retirees live in retirement communities, in England it’s<br />
only 4%.<br />
There is an opportunity for South African’s to reap<br />
rewards by investing in this under-supplied market. A<br />
South African run property sourcing firm is working with<br />
experienced British developers who convert existing<br />
stately homes into retirement villages.<br />
The model is simple; one purchases a property which is<br />
leased back from the operator for 10 years at 10% Net<br />
Income.<br />
Expat South African entrepreneur, Arran Kerkvliet, runs<br />
One Touch Property Investment brokerage which sources<br />
retirement property. He says; “Retirement properties are a<br />
stable and lucrative investment because there is an aging<br />
U.K population with 23% over 65”.<br />
According to research in 2017 conducted by AgeUK 31.4%<br />
of those aged 65+ have said that their main company is the<br />
television, and 8.5% “often or always” feel lonely. In sunny<br />
South Arica there certainly are more opportunities to enjoy<br />
the outdoors. However, no one wants to do that on their<br />
own - wine tastings, country walks and weekly visiting<br />
entertainers could fill the days no matter which country<br />
you are in.<br />
Residents at retirement villages, based in the South West part of the England, enjoy gourmet meals created by a top chef<br />
who has worked at Michelin-starred Castle Hotel and alongside celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson. The beauty of<br />
the idyllic English countryside is not the only advantage; all the produce is locally sourced and residents can cultivate<br />
the gardens where the ingredients are grown.<br />
Unlike South Africa, there is a limited availability of land due<br />
to greenbelt protection and restrictive planning permission.<br />
The resulting outcome tends to be positive on two accounts;<br />
the types of properties that are acquired for retirement property<br />
investments are conversions of stately homes which have an<br />
enchanting character and charm. Understandably, there is a<br />
shortage of these type of homes and the obvious appeal drives<br />
demand far in excess of supply.<br />
Weekly rents, including meals and entertainment, are R21,450.<br />
Elderly guests that require an element of nursing care will pay<br />
extra for the additional services. The caring communities were<br />
designed for self-paying guests over 65 years of age that want to<br />
enjoy the company of like-minded people and also have access<br />
to care if required. For couples that have one sickly partner in<br />
need of 24-hour nursing care, they can still live together.<br />
Readers may be able to relate to the soft benefits that create a tangible positive impact on residents’ lives. There are also<br />
encouraging investment returns to be made; One Touch Investment director explains; “South African investors love to own<br />
property and that is what they will be doing. They will own a property (full title deeds) within a retirement village and the<br />
operator will lease the property back for a period of 10 years with 10% net income”.<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW THESE LATER LIVING INVESTMENTS WORK<br />
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE FREE GUIDE BY VISITING: www.onetouchinvestment.co.uk/craw-retirement-home-guide/<br />
OR CONTACT ONE TOUCH PROPERTY BY: 010 300 1200 | enquire@onetouchinvestment.co.uk | www.onetouchinvestment.co.uk<br />
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High Yielding<br />
Luxury Care Home<br />
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES<br />
• Number of over-65s forecast to rise from<br />
11.6m in 2016 to 12.9m in 2021<br />
• High end market is already under-supplied,<br />
impacting average weekly rents according to<br />
CBRE<br />
• Knight Frank estimates that the over-60s in<br />
England alone have £1,200bn in unmortgaged<br />
housing wealth.<br />
• Many over-60s wish to downsize but cannot<br />
due to lack of adequate housing options<br />
• Our retirement home opportunities are in<br />
areas with high numbers of over 60s such as<br />
Cornwall, Devon and the Isle of Wight<br />
• Purchase prices from R1.2m with 10% Net<br />
return over a 10 year commercial lease.<br />
• Diversify to your property portfolio and<br />
income stream with a very solid sector.<br />
• Invest in the UK while the pound is weak.<br />
One Touch Investment are retirement home property specialists, offering luxury<br />
retirement home investment opportunities across the country, in pockets where<br />
there is hight percentage of over 60s. These hands-off investments are ideal for busy<br />
individuals and those who want to own property without the headache of managing<br />
it day-to-day.<br />
Download our guide<br />
to learn more about the retirement market and our retirement home opportunities<br />
www.onetouchinvestment.co.uk/craw-retirement-home-guide/<br />
www.onetouchinvestment.co.uk<br />
Tel: 010 300 1200 | enquire@onetouchinvestment.co.uk<br />
288 Bishopsgate, City of London, EC2M 4QP<br />
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SPOTLIGHT NEWS<br />
HERE YE,<br />
HERE YE!<br />
Competition Winners<br />
In the last issue of Crawford Times, we ran some seriously cool<br />
competitions. In this issue of Crawford Times, we’ve drawn<br />
some seriously cool winners. Are you one of them? Read below!<br />
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New photo competition<br />
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Our new photo competition has kicked<br />
off, so get snapping because there are<br />
some cool prizes to be won.<br />
Send your entries to<br />
crawfordreporter@contactmedia.co.za<br />
before 15 March 2019.<br />
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SPOTLIGHT NEWS<br />
Crawford Prepatory Pretoria<br />
Students shine at 2018<br />
Tournament of Minds<br />
Competition<br />
Students from several schools across South Africa have<br />
once again outperformed and outdone themselves at<br />
the second Tournament of Minds (TOM) South Africa<br />
competition, which was held at Southdowns College on<br />
27 October 2018.<br />
TOM is an international problem-solving competition<br />
designed to give participants the opportunity to<br />
participate in creative thinking and reasoning,<br />
responding to open-ended challenges which demand<br />
collaborative inquiry and solution seeking while<br />
rewarding divergent thinking. TOM promotes<br />
learning and development as an individual within a<br />
team structure.<br />
“Education has moved significantly in considering the<br />
needs of the students of today and how we engage them<br />
in learning, as well as providing them with authentic,<br />
real-life scenarios. Having the opportunity to be part of an<br />
international competition means that we are connecting<br />
to and keeping up with international trends and practices,<br />
and providing our students with opportunities to<br />
participate in this too,” says Traci Salter, Director of TOM<br />
South Africa and ADvTECH Academics Advisor.<br />
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TOM is the biggest problem-solving competition in the<br />
world. The challenges include STEM, Language Literature,<br />
Social Sciences and Arts categories. A team consists of<br />
seven pupils made up from participants in Grade 4-7 from<br />
primary schools and Grade 8-10 from high schools. Six<br />
weeks prior to the tournament day, each team selects a<br />
long-term challenge that they want to present on the day.<br />
They work completely independently to solve the challenge<br />
posed to them. On the day an unseen spontaneous challenge<br />
is presented to the teams to solve. The combination of the<br />
prepared and unseen challenges determine the South Africa<br />
winners in each category.<br />
“TOM is a unique opportunity for South African participants<br />
to interact with their peers, test intellectual tenacity, and<br />
potentially compete internationally, should they win at the<br />
South Africa Finals,” says Traci.<br />
This year a total of 20 schools registered, with 46<br />
participating teams, making it the second largest group of<br />
participating teams globally.<br />
The winners in each category of the Asia Pacific regional<br />
event are automatically eligible to participate in the<br />
international finals to be hosted in Australia.
Crawford Preparatory Lonehill<br />
Crawford Preparatory Lonehill<br />
Crawford College Sandton<br />
Crawford Preparatory Lonehill<br />
Crawford Preparatory Lonehill<br />
Crawford Preparatory Pretoria<br />
The Primary teams include:<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Pretoria (Team 2) overall winners<br />
in the Arts category.<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Lonehill (Team 3) overall winners<br />
in the Language category.<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Lonehill (Team 4) overall winners<br />
in the STEM category.<br />
• Maragon Ruimsig Primary (Team 1) overall winners in<br />
the Social Sciences category.<br />
• The High School teams include:<br />
• Crawford College Sandton (Team 2) overall winners in<br />
the STEM category.<br />
• Pinnacle College Kyalami (Team 2) overall winners in<br />
the Arts category.<br />
The following teams received Honours certificates as<br />
close runners-up in each category.<br />
The Primary teams include:<br />
• Trinityhouse Preparatory Little Falls (Team 2) in the<br />
Arts category<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Sandton (Team 2) in the<br />
Arts category<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Lonehill (Team 1) in the<br />
Arts category<br />
• Pinnacle College Copperleaf Primary (Team 1) in the<br />
Arts category<br />
• Charterhouse School (Team 1) in the Arts category<br />
• Trinityhouse Preparatory Little Falls (Team 3) in the<br />
Social Sciences category<br />
• Crawford Preparatory Lonehill (Team 2) in the<br />
STEM category<br />
• St. Stithians Girls Preparatory (Team 3) in the<br />
STEM category<br />
The High School teams include:<br />
• Pinnacle College Founders Hill High School (Team 1) in<br />
the Arts category<br />
• Trinityhouse Little Falls (Team 1 & 2) in the Arts<br />
category<br />
• Maragon Ruimsig High School (Team 1) in the Arts<br />
category<br />
• Maragon Ruimsig High School (Team 2) in the STEM<br />
category<br />
In addition, there is a Spirit of the Tournament award.<br />
This is centred around the fundamental attitude of<br />
‘sportsmanship’ that underpins the entire programme.<br />
It encompasses all the activities involved in successful<br />
personal and team support participation. This years’<br />
Spirit of the Tournament was awarded to Trinityhouse<br />
Preparatory Little Falls.<br />
“We wish to thank all the participating schools and<br />
TOM Facilitators in our schools for the time, energy and<br />
enthusiasm in getting TOM active and happening in<br />
their schools, and inspiring the teams in their quest to be<br />
ready to provide the most original and unique solutions<br />
to the challenges posed to them this past weekend,” said<br />
Traci after the event. “In addition, we thank all parents,<br />
spectators, family, friends and sponsors for making this<br />
such a wonderful day. We are looking forward to an<br />
even bigger and better turnout in 2019, welcoming all<br />
interested South African schools onboard.”<br />
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MATRIC RESULTS<br />
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MATRIC RESULTS<br />
“The exceptional matric results achieved across<br />
all our Colleges testify to the CrawfordSchools<br />
commitment to consistently delivering academic<br />
excellence, while developing young people<br />
who are ready to take on the world. I would<br />
like to thank all our teachers for their passion<br />
in creating a dynamic, stimulating and happy<br />
education environment, our students for their<br />
drive and discipline, and our parent community<br />
for supporting the schools’ ethos to maximise the<br />
potential in every student”,<br />
says Morag Rees, MD of CrawfordSchools<br />
We anticipated a strong performance from the Class of<br />
2018, but these hard-working young people exceeded even<br />
those expectations.<br />
The Crawford College matriculants achieved a 100% pass rate<br />
with an astounding 97.6% Bachelor’s pass rate. In addition to<br />
this there were 6 students who achieved 9 distinctions, 22 with<br />
8 distinctions, 22 with 7 distinctions, 21 with 6 distinctions and<br />
44 students achieved 5 distinctions. This totalled an astounding<br />
169 students across our Colleges who achieved 5 or more<br />
distinctions. The average number of distinctions achieved across<br />
the group was 2,4 with one College achieving in excess of an<br />
average of 3 distinctions per candidate.<br />
There were also a number of students who were included on the<br />
‘Commendable Achievement’ list (placed in the top 5% in the<br />
country across 5 subjects) and the ‘Outstanding Achievement’ list<br />
(placed in the top 5% in the country across 6 subjects). In almost<br />
all instances the subjects averages achieved in our Colleges were<br />
also higher than the national averages (some significantly so).<br />
Many students across all our Colleges were also included on the<br />
‘Top 1%’ of students in the country list.<br />
Please join us as we welcome the Class of 2018 to the Old<br />
Crawfordian Society and celebrate their academic excellence,<br />
knowing that every teacher, coach and mentor has played a<br />
significant role in preparing them for this moment.<br />
Congratulations to all!<br />
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TOP 5% OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT<br />
ASAD AMEER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ADÉLE BOTHA<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
TOP 5% COMMENDABLE ACHIEVEMENT<br />
IMAN CASSIM<br />
SANDTON<br />
TOMER MELNIK<br />
SANDTON<br />
DENIELA NAIDOO<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
TOP 5% OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT<br />
SAYURI NAIDOO<br />
LONEHILL<br />
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MUHAMMAD AMEEN BODA<br />
PRETORIA<br />
NICHOLAS BRIGANDO<br />
LONEHILL<br />
KAYLAH CHETTY<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
TAMMY CRAGGS<br />
LONEHILL<br />
AMAARAH EBRAHIM<br />
SANDTON<br />
TASIYAH ESSOP<br />
PRETORIA<br />
SAMANN HARIPERSAD<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
TOP 5% COMMENDABLE ACHIEVEMENT<br />
RAPHAELA MYLONAS<br />
SANDTON<br />
SAIEN NAIDOO<br />
PRETORIA<br />
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GUENIVERE NGOI<br />
LONEHILL<br />
DYLAN PFAB<br />
LONEHILL<br />
KIVANIA PILLAY<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
GABRIELLA PILLHOFER<br />
SANDTON<br />
FIRDOSE RAJAH<br />
SANDTON<br />
TOP 5% OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT<br />
DANIKA RAMALINGUM<br />
SANDTON<br />
TOP 5% COMMENDABLE ACHIEVEMENT<br />
SHAYUR RAMDUTT<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
TOP 5% OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT<br />
DARSHAN RAMPHAL<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
SYLVANAH RANGIAH<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ARMIN SADIGH-<br />
LOGHMANY<br />
LONEHILL<br />
JESSICA SCHRADER<br />
SANDTON<br />
ADAM STRIKE<br />
SANDTON<br />
HAO TANG<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
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ZAAHID ABDOOL<br />
PRETORIA<br />
DOMINIQUE BINNS<br />
PRETORIA<br />
WENDY BUVANA<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
ALESSANDRA GALASSO<br />
LONEHILL<br />
SHREVANI GOVENDER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
BENJAMIN HACK<br />
SANDTON<br />
VIASHNA HANSRAJ<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
LAILA KHAN<br />
SANDTON<br />
MICAELA KOK<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
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AUDREY KUCHIO<br />
PRETORIA<br />
HANNAH MAEHLER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
RAFIE MEHRJI-MANSHADI<br />
SANDTON<br />
YUVIKA MITHOO<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
DERRIN NAIDOO<br />
SANDTON<br />
CHRISTIE NORTON<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ADAM NORWITZ<br />
SANDTON<br />
RAMIN SABET<br />
LONEHILL<br />
ESTHER SLABBERT<br />
PRETORIA<br />
AALIA TIMOL<br />
SANDTON<br />
JORDYN TROLLIP<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
RUOWEN WANG<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
BIANCA WARD<br />
LONEHILL<br />
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P ROFESSIONAL SPORTS SURFACES
ZOË BALYAMUJURA<br />
PRETORIA<br />
CROYDON BUSSE<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
BRANDON CHETTY<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
RADO DAMIANOV<br />
LONEHILL<br />
SANAM GOVENDER<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
NABEELAH ISMAIL<br />
PRETORIA<br />
NOA JOUBERT<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ANRI LOOTS<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
SAIUSHA LUTCHMAN<br />
LONEHILL<br />
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PAUL MAREE<br />
SANDTON<br />
GINA MORAN<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
DANIELA PACHECO<br />
LONEHILL<br />
SAARAH PATEL<br />
PRETORIA<br />
LESEDI PHALA<br />
SANDTON<br />
ERIN RUSHFORTH<br />
LONEHILL<br />
ALYSSA SMULLEN<br />
SANDTON<br />
BLAKE STEPHENS<br />
SANDTON<br />
AIDEN SWARTZBERG<br />
SANDTON<br />
CARA TURNER<br />
SANDTON<br />
CAELIN VAN DER MERWE<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
CHANTELLE WALKER<br />
PRETORIA<br />
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ALEXANDER ANDROPOULOS<br />
SANDTON<br />
IBUKUN BABAWALE<br />
PRETORIA<br />
KASHIV BHAGWANDIN<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
JESSICA BROOM<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
MUKUNDI BUDELI<br />
PRETORIA<br />
THUTO CHIMIMBA<br />
PRETORIA<br />
KYRA COETZEE<br />
PRETORIA<br />
LINDA DLAMINI<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ANGELA ECKHARDT<br />
LONEHILL<br />
EMMA FERNS<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
ERIN FUHR<br />
SANDTON<br />
MICHAEL GOODING<br />
SANDTON<br />
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MMELI HADEBE<br />
PRETORIA<br />
MARIA KAPARELIOTIS<br />
SANDTON<br />
PRASHAY KESSOW<br />
SANDTON<br />
ROBERT KOEN<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
MUHAMMED MADHI<br />
SANDTON<br />
SEJAL MAHARAJ<br />
LONEHILL<br />
SREYAS MAHARAJ<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
TSHOLOFELO MAPHITA<br />
SANDTON<br />
DALIA MARAM<br />
SANDTON<br />
EMMA MARSHALL<br />
PRETORIA<br />
LIAM MAYSTON<br />
LONEHILL<br />
DANISHKA MOODLEY<br />
LONEHILL<br />
RIVAN MOODLEY<br />
SANDTON<br />
KIRTHI NAIKER<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
TERYSHA NAICKER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
NICOLE NATHAN<br />
SANDTON<br />
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RAPHAELA NICOLETTIS<br />
SANDTON<br />
THEMBELIHLE NKOSI<br />
SANDTON<br />
QHAMANI NKUHLU<br />
LONEHILL<br />
KELLY OLIVIER<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
MUHAMMED-ABRAAR OMAR<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
KARTHIK PATHER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
JESSICA PRACHER<br />
LONEHILL<br />
KASHMIRI RAJBALLY<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
DINEKE SCHOLTZ<br />
PRETORIA<br />
KGABANG SEKHABI<br />
PRETORIA<br />
MOUTLOATSI SETLOGELO<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
CAMERON SHAW<br />
LONEHILL<br />
CAILIN STUART<br />
SANDTON<br />
MIKU TSUMORI<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
CLEA WELCH<br />
PRETORIA<br />
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS<br />
LONEHILL<br />
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MOJOYIN ABOLARIN<br />
PRETORIA<br />
AMMARA AZIZ<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
PAPHAWARIN BUTSRI<br />
SANDTON<br />
KEANU CALO<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
DIELLA DEAN<br />
SANDTON<br />
LIYANDA DUBE<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
DESHLIN GOVENDER<br />
LA LUCIA<br />
YASTIL HARILALL<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
AAZAM KALLA<br />
PRETORIA<br />
HANNAH KENNEDY<br />
NORTH COAST<br />
KHUMO KOMANE<br />
PRETORIA<br />
ALEXIS KOO<br />
SANDTON<br />
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GAURAV LALL<br />
SANDTON<br />
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IS FINALLY HERE!<br />
Calling all budding chefs, young foodies and teen culinary enthusiasts... it’s time to dish up<br />
your A-game because the cooking competition of the century is hot and ready to go. Besides<br />
having fun, learning new culinary tricks, meeting new people and being inspired, you may just<br />
walk away with some serious prizes and the title of Taste Bud Battle Winner!<br />
Who can enter?<br />
Any Crawford pupil may enter The<br />
Taste Bud Battle. There are various<br />
age categories, including:<br />
Pre-Primary (4-6 years old)<br />
Preparatory (7-13 years old)<br />
College (14-18 years old)<br />
Entry Theme: Character Dessert<br />
Challenge<br />
In other words: Create a dessert<br />
inspired by your favourite fictional<br />
character – cartoon, fairytale,<br />
Disney characters, superhero,<br />
Avengers, fantasy, Harry Potter, etc.<br />
Examples: The Beast’s Apple Roses<br />
or Angry Birds Chocolate Nest or<br />
Harry Potter’s Caramel Cauldron.<br />
How to enter?<br />
On 30 January, the Taste Bud Battle<br />
microsite will go live.<br />
Log on at<br />
www.tastebudbattle.contactmedia.co.za<br />
and enter the required fields of<br />
information, including:<br />
• Name and surname<br />
• Age<br />
• School<br />
• Character motivation (the big idea)<br />
• Your character recipe<br />
Upload 2 x pictures of your creation and<br />
1 x picture of you making it<br />
Entries close 6 March 2019!<br />
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What happens next?<br />
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From the First Plate Presentation,<br />
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SCHOOL FEATURE<br />
Crawford Schools TM principals offer up powerful words of<br />
wisdom to live by and guide you on your path to personal<br />
and academic success in 2019.<br />
André Botha<br />
Crawford College Pretoria<br />
“When you can’t control what’s<br />
happening – control the way you<br />
respond to what’s happening. That<br />
is power.”<br />
Chrisna Swanepoel<br />
Crawford Preparatory Pretoria<br />
“Always balance ‘screen time’<br />
with ‘green time’ – go offline and<br />
spend time in nature, with family<br />
and friends.Communicate using<br />
words, not social media. Learn the<br />
difference between real friends<br />
and virtual friends. Remember to<br />
‘keep it real’ in all that you do!”<br />
Ian Rothman<br />
Crawford Preparatory Fourways<br />
“The world is dynamic and<br />
change is inevitable. Be open<br />
to new challenges and embrace<br />
every opportunity that you are<br />
given. Never be afraid to try and<br />
follow your passion.”<br />
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Sulochnee Nair<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary Pretoria<br />
“Never let an opportunity pass<br />
to further enhance your skills.<br />
Tackle challenges head on<br />
and empower yourself through<br />
ongoing education. It really is the<br />
sure way to change your life for<br />
the better.”<br />
Jill Meintjes<br />
Crawford Village<br />
“Learn to voice your opinion<br />
and always stand up for what<br />
you believe is true and fair.”<br />
Barbara Killian<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary<br />
Fourways<br />
“Be brave enough<br />
to know that wisdom<br />
is not always<br />
measurable.”<br />
Caroline Miller<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary Lonehill<br />
“Change management!<br />
According to Charles Darwin’s<br />
Origin of Species, it’s not the<br />
strongest or the most intelligent<br />
who will survive but those who<br />
can best manage change. There<br />
are basically two ways to cope<br />
with change – acceptance or<br />
resistance. In this fast-changing<br />
world of the Fourth Industrial<br />
Revolution, you have to allow<br />
events to unfold around you and<br />
react to them spontaneously,<br />
without defeat. The wisdom of<br />
uncertainty allows the unknown<br />
to take place and welcomes<br />
it as a source of growth and<br />
understanding.”<br />
Gordan Ewen<br />
Crawford Preparatory Lonehill<br />
“Engage with as many people<br />
as possible.”<br />
Carolyn Warwick<br />
Crawford College La Lucia<br />
“Learn the power of asking<br />
the right question!”<br />
Cindy Tribe<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary La Lucia<br />
“Let me play! It is the highest<br />
form of research!”<br />
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Ingo Vogt<br />
Crawford College Lonehill<br />
“See all learning and each obstacle<br />
as an opportunity – an opportunity<br />
to explore the unfamiliar, an<br />
opportunity to discover new<br />
interests and talents, an opportunity<br />
to grow. Developing such an<br />
attitude will equip you to succeed!”<br />
Alan Angel<br />
Crawford Preparatory La Lucia<br />
“Be kind, dream big, have fun,<br />
work hard and be grateful for<br />
what you have.”<br />
Anthony Jansen van<br />
Rensburg<br />
Crawford Italia<br />
“If we want to go far, we need to<br />
go together…”<br />
Ryan Haigh<br />
Crawford Preparatory Sandton<br />
“Looking back, I would encourage my younger<br />
self to focus more on the experience or process<br />
than the result. It’s becoming more and more<br />
obvious how important the ‘softer skills’ are –<br />
the core from where learning happens. The<br />
result is only a specific moment in that time<br />
whereas the growth and development from an<br />
experience carries you forward and sets you<br />
up better for the next task.”<br />
André Loots<br />
Crawford College North Coast<br />
“Be where you are – try more, do<br />
more. Embrace the world and let the<br />
world embrace you!”<br />
Di Dawes<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary Sandton<br />
“Remember that a mediocre<br />
teacher tells, a good teacher<br />
explains, a superior teacher<br />
demonstrates, a great teacher<br />
inspires. Keep on learning and<br />
look for those inspirational<br />
moments.”<br />
Geertje Wadsworth<br />
Crawford Pre-Primary North Coast<br />
“Trust yourself, your intuition and<br />
your abilities. Many opportunities<br />
are heading your way. Stay<br />
present and be aware of them.<br />
Embrace them all. Give thanks<br />
for the blessings in your life, have<br />
gratitude and smile”moments.”<br />
Sally-Anne Henegan<br />
Crawford Preparatory North Coast<br />
“Focus on your strengths. See any<br />
failure as temporary and keep your<br />
expectations realistic. In that way you<br />
will always DANCE in the rain and<br />
NOT just get wet!”<br />
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FEATURE ARTICLE<br />
Free to<br />
succeed:<br />
The Power of Constant “Uptraining”<br />
By Anthony Jansen van Rensburg, Principal, Crawford Italia<br />
Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Intelligent<br />
robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain<br />
enhancements. Genetic editing. Coding. Cryptocurrency.<br />
The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s<br />
happening at exponential speed.<br />
Yes, I am referring to the Fourth Industrial Revolution…<br />
the one that has the potential to disrupt every industry in<br />
every country through large-scale automation, adoption<br />
of emergent technologies, big data and artificial<br />
intelligence.<br />
Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from<br />
animal power, made mass production possible and<br />
brought digital capabilities to billions of people.<br />
This Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however,<br />
fundamentally different. It’s characterised by a range of<br />
new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and<br />
biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies<br />
and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it<br />
means to be human.<br />
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There are many predictions and estimates on how this<br />
will affect labour markets, but one thing is certain – the<br />
jobs we do, and the skills we need to perform them, will<br />
change – and it’s already changing rapidly.<br />
The Department of Labour estimates that in 20 years<br />
about 47% of job types that we know today are<br />
no longer going to exist, they will be replaced by<br />
technology. A World Economic Forum (WEF) report<br />
predicted that current trends in a disruptive labour market<br />
could lead to a loss of 7.1 million jobs, two-thirds of<br />
which are in administrative roles.<br />
Which jobs are most immediately at risk of automation?<br />
CEOs across many sectors describe one painful current<br />
quandary. They have to lay off hundreds of people<br />
because their jobs are disappearing and companies no<br />
longer need their skills – on the other end, they have<br />
hundreds of job openings they just cannot fill because<br />
they just can’t find people with the right training and skills.<br />
This mismatch is bad for everyone: Lives are derailed,<br />
families and communities damaged, business<br />
opportunities lost.<br />
Technology itself offers one path to a solution. In<br />
fields from robotics and cybersecurity to supply chain<br />
management, many universities are pioneering online<br />
programmes – such as MicroMasters – that provide<br />
top-quality, industry-relevant skills and credentials, in a<br />
form recognised by leading employers, and at a fraction<br />
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For people with industry expertise who need to become<br />
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FEATURE ARTICLE<br />
an answer could be ‘continuous uptraining’: a system<br />
that would allow every employee to devote significant<br />
time – every week, every month or every year – to<br />
acquiring fresh skills.<br />
If educational institutions, employers and employees<br />
can imagine and refine a solution together, continuous<br />
uptraining could become a crucial tool to help<br />
individuals adapt to relentless change. In the future,<br />
talent, more than capital, will represent the critical<br />
factor of production.<br />
To make sure they are ready for a future that is still<br />
emerging, organisations and people need to be<br />
adaptable, innovative and responsive. If up to 65% of<br />
the jobs of tomorrow don’t exist yet, it’s impossible to<br />
“train” people in the conventional sense. Rather, we<br />
need to invest in their capabilities.<br />
To ensure we build talent that’s capable of mastering<br />
change we need to invest in resilient leadership.<br />
Leadership skills are not tied to particular jobs or<br />
industries, and solid leadership development provides<br />
the kind of transferable skills likely to be needed in the<br />
future.<br />
Education systems need to be redesigned if we’re<br />
going to tackle the transitions ahead. This entails<br />
The top 10 skills that will be<br />
most needed in 2020 are:<br />
• Complex problem-solving<br />
• Critical thinking<br />
• Creativity<br />
• People management<br />
• Co-ordinating with others<br />
• Emotional intelligence<br />
• Judgement and decisionmaking<br />
• Service orientation<br />
• Negotiation<br />
• Cognitive flexibility<br />
businesses, governments and educational institutions<br />
working together to provide curricula that meet<br />
current and future needs.<br />
As the African proverb goes: If we want to go far,<br />
we need to go together.<br />
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FEATURE ARTICLE<br />
WHAT ARE<br />
AND WHY DO WE NEED THEM?<br />
Content by Traci Salter, written by Margot Bertelsmann<br />
Writing for the Daily Maverick of 26 November 2018,<br />
Glenn Gillis, MD of tech communication company Sea<br />
Monster, says,<br />
“The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Future of Jobs report<br />
revealed the critical thinking and digital skills of the current<br />
workforce are inadequate for the progress of a successful<br />
economy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.<br />
“The workplace of the new world could create as many as 133<br />
million new roles but in order to fully take advantage of these,<br />
a workforce with the skills needed by digital-era organisations<br />
is essential.<br />
“Labour-intensive roles in sectors like mining and manufacturing<br />
are the most likely to disappear, while professional services<br />
roles adapted to the new technologies are most likely to grow.<br />
“With the manufacturing and mining sectors still employing<br />
more than three times as many people as professional services<br />
in South Africa, the country is set for massive disruption.”<br />
We’ve heard variations of this message before, and we’re<br />
going to keep hearing it – from futurists and analysts and<br />
employers: critical, creative and reflective thinking skills are<br />
essential if you want to have a successful career as a young<br />
person today.<br />
It’s why these skills are featured as as one of the key global<br />
competencies for students in ADvTECH schools. As ADvTECH’s<br />
Traci Salter says: “Responding to the challenges of the 21st<br />
Century requires young people to be creative, innovative,<br />
enterprising and adaptable, with the motivation, confidence<br />
and skills to use critical and creative thinking purposefully. By<br />
applying a sequence of thinking skills, students need to develop<br />
an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the processes<br />
they can use whenever they encounter problems, unfamiliar<br />
information and new ideas.”<br />
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In the last issue of The Crawford Times, we<br />
looked at how important critical thinking skills are<br />
for the rest of your life, particularly in the context<br />
of a future world of work – the much bandiedabout<br />
Fourth Industrial Revolution – where<br />
information has become democratised.<br />
Facts are easy to access. It’s how you handle that<br />
information that sets you apart. Critical thinking<br />
skills mean you can assess the strength of an<br />
argument and decide whether it’s a good one.<br />
This skill is great for deciding what you believe<br />
in, or whose life philosophy or business strategy<br />
to follow.<br />
Creative thinking skills are not completely<br />
unrelated to critical thinking skills, but they’re<br />
from different branches of the family. Creative<br />
thinking is like critical thinking’s more socially<br />
skilled cousin, the verbose, relaxed life and soul<br />
of the party.<br />
Specifically, creative thinking is learning to<br />
“generate and apply new ideas in different<br />
contexts, see existing situations in a new way,<br />
identify alternative explanations, and see<br />
or make new links that generate a positive<br />
outcome,” says Traci.<br />
It’s about thinking “broadly and deeply using<br />
skills, behaviours and dispositions such as<br />
imagination and innovation to find opportunities<br />
for new ideas and possibilities in all learning<br />
areas at school and in their lives beyond school.”<br />
It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? But how do you<br />
learn this elusive skill?<br />
Well, it’s actually possible to practise and hone<br />
your students’ creative thinking capabilities (and,<br />
conversely, through outmoded teaching and<br />
learning models, to inhibit and choke them).<br />
The first thing to note is that creative thinking skills<br />
get a bad rap. They’re floaty and ethereal and<br />
chaotic and unscientific. As Andre Croucamp,<br />
whose consultancy MindBurst teaches creative<br />
thinking skills in schools, says, “In creative<br />
thinking, the connections between things are<br />
messy, indirect and multiple. They are open to<br />
many different patterns and possibilities.”<br />
Why on earth would you as a parent who is a<br />
scientist or businessperson or lawyer or doctor<br />
want to encourage your llittle darling to engage<br />
with this kind of creativity and cram it into his<br />
or her head? The answer is simply that every<br />
innovation – from using artificial intelligence in<br />
surgery, to starting a game-changing, disruptive<br />
business, to making a devastatingly brilliant<br />
closing argument in a court case – started<br />
because a person was able to put two seemingly<br />
unrelated ideas next to each other, in a startling<br />
way, and create something of genius.<br />
Croucamp explains, “Creative thinking helps<br />
us to imagine possible hypotheses or even wild<br />
conjectures, while critical thinking criticises<br />
those hypotheses, testing them and refining them<br />
so that they can work within the constraints of<br />
reality – producing powerful explanations and<br />
solutions.” They work together.<br />
So yes, creative thinking can be unsettling, and<br />
our knee-jerk reaction can be to reject it outright.<br />
The challenge is to persist without judgement,<br />
knowing that most of your ideas won’t be the<br />
elusive Big Idea. But hopefully, you won’t miss the<br />
nugget of gold that’s lurking between all the sand!<br />
Creative thinking skills come in handy when you<br />
are confronted with a problem to which you<br />
have no answer, or that you know nothing about.<br />
You’re stumped. You’ve thought and thought and<br />
you just cannot decipher the question in your<br />
History exam, “What was Hitler’s strategic error<br />
in invading Greece in 1941?” Take out a piece<br />
of paper and start writing. Some experts advise<br />
a stream-of-consciousness exercise, where you<br />
write continuously and don’t lift your pen for five<br />
minutes, or half a page, for instance. Write down<br />
anything you do know about World War II and<br />
Italy and Germany’s invasion of Greece. Before<br />
long, you might arrive at the idea that invading<br />
Greece to help his ally Italy catastrophically<br />
delayed Hitler’s attack in Russia, as it meant his<br />
soldiers had to fight during the Russian winter.<br />
Brainstorm all the possibilities.<br />
In Maths or Accountancy homework, do<br />
you find that you fall into the same trap and<br />
make the same mistake at the same stage of<br />
the process, over and over again? That could<br />
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be because everyone’s thinking falls into patterns and<br />
routines. Sometimes the routine needs a shake-up. Next<br />
time you need to balance an equation or a spreadsheet,<br />
do something different. Write down a step that you<br />
usually do in your head. Do one thing out of the usual<br />
order. You may be surprised that you avoid your usual<br />
error.<br />
In your Maths or English tests, you may have been asked<br />
to solve for X, or what poetic device the poet uses to<br />
illustrate his loneliness. The familiar panic creeps over<br />
you. “Solve for X? A poetic device? What does this even<br />
mean?” One good creative thinking skill is to restate the<br />
problem in different words. So, you suspect you are being<br />
asked what number X is. How about if you start from a<br />
different place. Do you know what X is NOT? Or you’ve<br />
gone blank and you don’t even know what a poetic<br />
device is right now. Forget about it. Restate the problem.<br />
Have you ever felt lonely? Write down some words<br />
to describe the feeling. Lonely is a feeling that feels,<br />
perhaps, like quiet, small, soft, inward, down and alone.<br />
Look at the poem again – oh boy! The lines are really<br />
short. And there’s no dialogue. Guess what? Those are<br />
two “poetic devices” the poet may have used to illustrate<br />
his loneliness.<br />
If you are ever left at the end of a Maths exam, with half<br />
an hour to spare, why not try this: tackle the question you<br />
left out, the one you had absolutely no idea about. Take a<br />
scrap piece of paper. Now doodle the problem. Draw the<br />
story sum. In the geometry question, fill in all the angles<br />
you DO know instead of worrying about the one you’re<br />
supposed to find.<br />
The technique for solving problems in subjects as vastly<br />
different as Maths, English and History was actually the<br />
same: in each case, you used creative thinking.<br />
Here are some more strategies that can help you oil those<br />
creative thinking muscles:<br />
Daydream<br />
Dreaming, mind-walking, playing with or imagining<br />
scenarios can shake loose a random flash of brilliance.<br />
Learn to listen to your little voice<br />
Everyone has one, but learning to prick up your ears<br />
when your instinct speaks up is a skill.<br />
Impose an artificial limit<br />
Stumped for ideas? Limit your time, or your word count.<br />
Challenge yourself to answer a question without using<br />
adjectives, or only using five-letter words, for instance.<br />
Your brain may surprise you with its creative workarounds.<br />
Brainstorm or doodle<br />
Write down everything you know or can associate with<br />
a problem, without expecting a solution, and without fear<br />
or embarrassment. Draw while you are mulling a problem<br />
over. Allow yourself to make wild and crazy suggestions<br />
as well as those that seem sensible. Treat all ideas as if<br />
they may contain the seeds of something potentially useful.<br />
Look for many possible answers rather than one<br />
Be aware that these approaches involve making lots of<br />
suggestions that are unworkable and may sound silly. This<br />
means you will make mistakes – but it doesn’t matter. You<br />
learn from what has not worked as well as what did.<br />
Take a break and/or a nap and come back to<br />
the problem<br />
It’s the brain equivalent of restarting your computer to see<br />
if the error message goes away.<br />
Exercise<br />
It engages a completely different part of you, but<br />
the thinking part will still be simmering away in the<br />
background.<br />
Take risks<br />
Learning how to cope with uncertainty is a sign of a<br />
mature thinker. You can manage the frustration and even<br />
embarrassment of not knowing because you are enduring<br />
it as you grapple through towards knowing. Many people<br />
cannot grapple, cannot manage failure, do not have the<br />
staying power and give up too early. This does not have<br />
to be you.<br />
Creative thinking can be applied to all aspects of life<br />
and living. One of the strategies we use to include<br />
creative thinking in our lives is TAP Thinking (Think<br />
All Possibilities), no matter the scenario!<br />
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Thinking challenges for the family<br />
In less than one minute, think of ten or more<br />
uses for<br />
A calendar<br />
A team building challenge<br />
A wig<br />
You need: 40 pieces of spaghetti, thick sellotape and a<br />
marshmallow.<br />
What to do: Divide into teams and in 10 minutes see which<br />
team can build the tallest, self-standing structure with the<br />
marshmallow placed at the top. The winning structure is the<br />
one that stands the tallest, unaided.<br />
A fly-swatter<br />
A saucepan lid<br />
A sponge<br />
In 90 seconds give 10 reasons why<br />
1<br />
There are children<br />
with green faces<br />
on television.<br />
4<br />
3<br />
2<br />
The teachers are<br />
all dressed as<br />
pineapples.<br />
There is a pet<br />
gorilla in my class.<br />
Everyone is eating<br />
ice-cream.<br />
5<br />
School is closed<br />
for two days.<br />
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BURN OUT!<br />
You may be suffering from ‘Adrenal Fatigue’ – or is that even a real thing?<br />
Adrenal Fatigue is real alright! You only have to put<br />
yourself to bed everyday at 3pm, exhausted, to realise<br />
something is just not right with your body.<br />
Here are other signs:<br />
• Struggling to wake up<br />
in the morning<br />
• Trouble falling asleep<br />
• A mid-afternoon slump<br />
• Anxiety, or feeling on<br />
edge<br />
• Chronic mood swings<br />
• Depression<br />
• Weight gain –<br />
especially in the belly<br />
area<br />
• Autoimmune issues<br />
• Brain fog<br />
• Body aches<br />
• Hair loss<br />
• Light-headedness<br />
When does chronic fatigue happen?<br />
When you’re overwhelmed by chronic stress, your<br />
adrenals can get burnt out from constantly producing<br />
cortisol. The result is adrenal fatigue. Your natural<br />
cortisol rhythm becomes irregular – sometimes you<br />
produce too much cortisol, sometimes not enough.<br />
What can you do about it?<br />
Meet Dr. Hester Visagie, a functional medicine<br />
practitioner, who looks for the cause of the symptoms a<br />
patient presents.<br />
“It’s about spending time with the patients; I sit with<br />
one patient for an hour, sometimes an hour and a half,<br />
because it’s impossible to get to the root of a problem in<br />
a five or ten-minute meeting,” says Dr. Visagie. “But as a<br />
practitioner, or doctor, you can get to the bottom of the<br />
problem if you take the time to dig deep enough!”<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Dr. Visagie likes to confirm a diagnosis through tests –<br />
blood, skin, urine and saliva. She says she is a scientist<br />
and the information is always in the results.<br />
“If someone comes to my practice complaining of fatigue,<br />
there are many possibilities to consider. Such as, is there<br />
emotional, physical or mental stress? Is there an iron<br />
deficiency, thyroid issues or possibly adrenal fatigue?”<br />
“One of the things I do to get clarity is to send a patient<br />
to the laboratory to measure all the hormones, including<br />
cortisol, an adrenal hormone produced in reaction to<br />
stress.<br />
To measure cortisol we use a saliva test over 24 hours as<br />
there is a rhythm to consider. Cortisol levels are usually<br />
high in the morning, then drops during the day and<br />
finally reaches its lowest point at about midnight. Then,<br />
while we sleep, it builds up again. So I do two to four<br />
samples over a 24-hour period, then plot the results on a<br />
graph to see if the adrenal hormones are unusually high<br />
or low.<br />
I test the whole thyroid (TSH, T4, T3), the sex hormones,<br />
DHEA, which is also an adrenal hormone and precursor<br />
to the sex hormones – the whole lot.<br />
Your hormonal system is a series of glands that ‘talk’ to<br />
one another all the time – they are linked. So, you can<br />
link the thyroid with oestrogen and progesterone, the<br />
female hormones (if you are female), and you can link<br />
it to the brain hormones like prolactin, which is just one<br />
of the six hormones secreted by your pituitary gland<br />
in the brain. This allows me to see what one metabolic<br />
pathway is stealing from another. If your cortisol is<br />
so low, something else is pulling too hard, causing<br />
imbalance.<br />
I’d like to make one thing clear: it’s important to use a<br />
saliva test to measure cortisol, because it’s in its free form<br />
in the saliva. GPs often make the mistake of requesting<br />
the blood (or serum) cortisol rather than the saliva. In<br />
almost all cases, the cortisol levels in the blood will show<br />
as normal because the cortisol in the blood is bound to<br />
a protein and when it’s bound to a protein, it’s locked<br />
up – an inactive form of cortisol. The free-form cortisol is<br />
the active form, so it’s the one that does the job in your<br />
body.<br />
There are different stages of adrenal insufficiency. At<br />
the very low end of the scale, cortisol levels can be<br />
non-existant. The normal range for cortisol is between 6<br />
and 29. So someone with advanced stages of adrenal<br />
insufficiency might start the day at 0.5, which is very<br />
low. Then they’ll go through the day like that at 0.5, 0.3<br />
and ending up at 0.2 by bedtime.<br />
I hope that helps to dispel the thought that Adrenal<br />
Fatigue is just in a patient’s head.<br />
A patient can be helped with this. There is no quick fix!<br />
It’s not a case of swallow a pill and be all better. The<br />
treatment is holistic, that means looking at lifestyle as well<br />
as specific supplementation. You have to understand the<br />
root cause of the imbalance or insufficiency of cortisol.<br />
If it’s an emotional or mental stressor, the patient should<br />
also be referred to a psychologist or perhaps a life<br />
coach, or whichever practitioner is appropriate.<br />
How to address Adrenal Fatigue<br />
1. Sleep: Make sure you sleep soundly for at least<br />
seven hours a night – with no interruptions. Also<br />
don’t over-sleep; nine hours is too much.<br />
2. Food: Look at what you’re eating. If there’s<br />
inflammation we try to bring it down through diet.<br />
Usually we start cutting out sugar, gluten, egg white<br />
and dairy. The patient must not eat these things for<br />
about three months. It usually takes between three to<br />
six months to get rid of inflammation.<br />
3. Eat regularly: ...and at specific times of day. Eat<br />
something within 30 minutes of waking up in the<br />
morning, because it’s a hormonal signal to the<br />
adrenal hormones. Then eat regularly, every two<br />
and a half to three hours, even if it’s something<br />
small, like slices of cucumber.<br />
4. Avoid stimulants: ...such as coffee and<br />
sugar-heavy foods.<br />
5. Stop eating: ...two or three hours before<br />
bedtime! You can only have water or camomile<br />
tea before bed.<br />
6. Exercise: Don’t over-exercise as that can be a<br />
stressor, but find the balance. Under-exercising is<br />
also a major problem.<br />
Dr. Visagie has a practice in<br />
Johannesburg and is certified by the<br />
Institute of Functional Medicine in the USA.<br />
Contact number: 011 679 5924<br />
Email: receptiondebbie@gmail.com<br />
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FEATURE ARTICLE<br />
DREAM BIG BABY!<br />
VISION BOARDS FOR YOUR KIDS<br />
By Donna Verrydt<br />
Over the years (even if it’s just been one or two),<br />
you’ve assisted your children with their education, their<br />
motivation, their inspiration and even consolation – and<br />
that’s what good parents do! But it’s time to kick it up a<br />
gear because the greatest gift you can give your children<br />
is the ability to discover who they are, what they want,<br />
and how to plan to achieve those things.<br />
It’s the start of 2019 and the perfect time to introduce<br />
your kids (no matter their age) to the power of Dream or<br />
Vision Board creation – a fun way to visualise goals and<br />
to plan to achieve those goals.<br />
Step 1: Ask questions!<br />
What do you know about your children?<br />
What are they passionate about? What are their hopes<br />
and dreams? What are their fears and stumbling blocks?<br />
Do you, as a parent, have all these answers? Do your<br />
kids know these answers themselves?<br />
It’s time to ask them the questions. You may find that<br />
they know themselves better than you think they do and<br />
that they simply need some goal planning guidance.<br />
Or, you may discover that they know diddly-squat about<br />
themselves and need inspiration to discover who they are<br />
and what they actually want.<br />
A good place to start is with a ‘Life Wheel’, which<br />
segments one’s life into different areas, making it easier<br />
to contemplate. As adults we all know that contemplating<br />
life as a whole can be overwhelming, so looking at life<br />
bit by bit is easier to chew.<br />
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Your child should segment his or her Life Wheel<br />
into any categories they want. These categories<br />
shouldn’t restrict their dreams but should rather<br />
be used as a thought guide. A simple, eightsegment<br />
wheel that works well for kids is:<br />
• Family (examples: Would you like to spend<br />
more time with your family? What would you<br />
like to do more with them? Would you like to<br />
establish a better relationship with a sibling?)<br />
• Friends (examples: Would you like to have<br />
more socials at your house? Do you need to<br />
move away from problem friends and find that<br />
one special friend? Do you want to extend<br />
your friend circle and meet more people?<br />
• Schoolwork (examples: What is the next<br />
step of your academic achievement? What<br />
subjects would you like to do better in? What<br />
would you like to learn more about? What<br />
extra work can you do to push you ahead of<br />
the rest?)<br />
STEP 2: Gather the goods<br />
What you will need:<br />
A large piece of cardboard. You can even use an old cork or<br />
felt memo board if you like.<br />
Old magazines or printed Internet pictures. There are<br />
magazines, pamphlets, flyers everywhere, or you can Google<br />
search some images and print them out. Failing that, coloured<br />
pencils or kokis will help you draw your dreams and goals.<br />
Glue or board pins.<br />
• Extramurals / Sport (examples: Would you<br />
like to try a new sport? Would you like to beat<br />
your personal best record? Which sports team<br />
would you like to make?)<br />
• Health (examples: Would you like to be fitter?<br />
Would you like to change your eating habits?<br />
If so, how? Would you like to work out more?)<br />
• Things I love (examples: What do you want to<br />
in the next holidays? Where would you like to<br />
travel to? What books would you like to read?<br />
Would you like to learn to paint?)<br />
• Future me (examples: What do you want to<br />
be when you grow up? What type of person<br />
do you see yourself becoming? What would<br />
make you happy in your future?)<br />
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Step 3: Make dreams come true<br />
Let your child think about their dreams and goals in the<br />
context of the Life Wheel segments. They may come up<br />
with their “answers” all on their own and will then just<br />
need to source the pictures to match their dreams and<br />
stick them on their boards.<br />
Or, if your child needs some inspiration, let him or her<br />
go through the magazines or look on the Internet and<br />
choose pictures that motivate them or that makes them<br />
feel ambitious.<br />
Step 4: Place and look<br />
Place their Dream Board in their room where it can serve as a<br />
daily reminder of their goals.<br />
The big no-no!<br />
It’s really important that your children don’t fill their Vision<br />
Boards with toys and material possessions. Obviously, most<br />
boys dream of having a Ferrari and girls, a big house (and<br />
that’s okay), but it shouldn’t be the focus of their Dream Boards.<br />
Children are so bombarded by marketing, labels and material<br />
“worth” and parents are put under a lot of pressure to deliver<br />
these goods of “value”. You and your children need to focus on<br />
what is real, what is meaningful and what it is to be in touch<br />
with one’s self.<br />
EDITOR’S PERSONAL STORY<br />
Explaining materialism to kids<br />
With the build-up to Christmas, I was feeling under<br />
pressure. I wanted to get the kids what they wanted<br />
but the requests were ridiculous! I’m talking iPhones, a<br />
Playstation 4, 2 x Fitbits… and a donkey (not kidding!). I<br />
was dreaming about money values (fourteen million, sixty<br />
hundred thousand and seven), of epic Zuma proportions!<br />
Eventually, I had enough. I took the bull by horns and<br />
shared this little story with the kids – one you may want to<br />
share with your kids too!<br />
Once upon a time, there was a person called The Clever<br />
One who thought: “How can I make all the Followers in<br />
the world pay me all their money so I can spend my days<br />
travelling the world on a yacht?”<br />
The Clever One came up with a cunning plan to make a<br />
sneaker – just a simple shoe, but he put a red tick on it.<br />
The Clever One then told the whole world that this ‘Red<br />
Tick Sneaker’ could change everyone’s life; it could make<br />
the unpopular popular, the poor look rich, the unhappy<br />
seem happy... Nobody would be able to live without this<br />
sneaker! And then The Clever One sat back with a grin on<br />
his face and waited.<br />
All the Followers believed that the Red Tick Sneaker would<br />
change their lives and went out and spent truckloads of<br />
money to buy the shoe. The Clever One got richer and<br />
richer and spent his days travelling around the world on<br />
his yacht while the Followers got poorer and poorer and<br />
had to work long, hard hours to fund the Red Tick Sneaker<br />
that they believed would change their lives.<br />
At the end of the story Olivia (12) said, “Wow mom,<br />
people are really silly!” To which I said, “What takkies<br />
have you got on your feet?” She looked down and saw<br />
the tick on her takkie and looked up in horror. I smiled and<br />
finished off with, “Yes, Olivia, people really are stupid!”<br />
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EVERY DETAIL MAKES<br />
AN MSC CRUISE<br />
NOT JUST ANY CRUISE.<br />
Every detail on an MSC Cruise makes<br />
you live a unique experience.<br />
Like each of the strawberries dipped in 30g of<br />
sumptuous dark chocolate and 5g of white chocolate that<br />
we offer to welcome the most loyal guests, which is just<br />
one example of many delicacies handmade on board<br />
by our select chefs using only the freshest ingredients.<br />
Another meticulously crafted touch of class.<br />
Developed with you in mind.<br />
NOT JUST ANY CRUISE<br />
msccruises.co.za<br />
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THE<br />
HANGOUT<br />
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CAREER FILES<br />
DESTINED FOR<br />
A creative career!<br />
There is design in everything! The clothes you<br />
wear, the way restaurant food appears on your<br />
plate, every advert that pops onto your phone or<br />
logos you see on billboards, every game you play,<br />
every photograph you take… even every road you<br />
drive in our city, has all been designed!<br />
What is design?<br />
There are two main ways to consider design. One<br />
is that design is a plan, a map, a blueprint, a<br />
drawing or a model showing a big idea and how<br />
the idea can be achieved. This relates to things<br />
like interior design, fashion design and even<br />
architecture! The other way to consider design<br />
is how something looks. In this crazy marketingdriven<br />
world, you need your brands and products<br />
to catch the eye of the consumer. And at the heart<br />
of every design, of everything, lies the idea of a<br />
creative person!<br />
10 signs you’re a creative!<br />
People always compliment you on your art, or your talent<br />
with an instrument or your “interesting” dress sense… but<br />
are you truly creative? If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the<br />
below questions, you are most likely a “creative”.<br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
Do you see beauty in the ordinary?<br />
Some people see the plastic bag littering the street. You see<br />
a white dancer, twirling in the breeze.<br />
Do you understand the power of atmosphere?<br />
Some people need an office, you understand that a coffee<br />
shop or secluded cabin, can boost your creative juices.<br />
Do you like to people watch?<br />
Some people like to get into the mall and do what they<br />
have to in record time, you like to linger at a coffee shop<br />
watching people go by.<br />
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4<br />
5<br />
6<br />
7<br />
8<br />
9<br />
10<br />
Would you choose passion and happiness over<br />
money?<br />
Some people only work towards the bottom line,<br />
you work towards creating something unique or<br />
making a difference.<br />
Are you an emotional person?<br />
Some people remove emotion from the task, you<br />
feel art and music and beauty in surroundings.<br />
Are you inspired by colours, nature, patterns,<br />
performances?<br />
Some people speed by focusing on their next<br />
appointment, you take the road less travelled<br />
“brainstagramming” all the beauty you come across.<br />
Do you enjoy off-colour jokes?<br />
The OTT jokes that make other people go ‘yoh!’<br />
are the jokes that you kill yourself laughing at.<br />
Are you against being managed?<br />
While most people conform to corporate rules and<br />
regulations, you like to do things differently and<br />
don’t need a babysitter.<br />
Do you look for new and alternative ways to<br />
do things?<br />
When people do it how it has always been done,<br />
do you look to change it up for the better.<br />
Do you like to solve problems?<br />
While others roll their eyes at challenges that<br />
disrupt the norm, you see it as an opportunity to<br />
create something different.<br />
If you are creative, you could consider tertiary studies in<br />
one of the following fields…<br />
Graphic Design: The art or skill of combining text and<br />
pictures in advertisements, magazines, presentations,<br />
brands, books, invitations, logos, etc.<br />
Digital Design: This is a growing specialty in the field<br />
of graphic design. Digital designers use creativity<br />
and computer skills to design visuals associated with<br />
electronic technology.<br />
Interior Design: The art or process of designing the<br />
interior decoration of a room or building.<br />
Game Design: Video game designers often work as<br />
part of a team to create video games. They come up<br />
with the games’ concepts, characters, setting, story,<br />
and game play. Designers must work with artists and<br />
programmers to create the scripting language and<br />
artistic vision for a game.<br />
Fashion Design: Fashion design is the art of applying<br />
design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and<br />
its accessories.<br />
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CAREER FILES<br />
Digital Marketing: The promotion of products or brands<br />
via one or more forms of electronic media. It differs<br />
from traditional marketing in that it uses channels and<br />
methods that enable an organisation to analyse marketing<br />
campaigns and understand what is working and what<br />
isn’t.<br />
Copywriting: Rearranging words to make things sell<br />
better or a text form of salesmanship. Copywriters are<br />
responsible for the text on brochures, billboards, websites,<br />
emails, advertisements, catalogues and more. This text is<br />
known as “copy”.<br />
Brand Communication: An important part and tool of<br />
brand management by which the companies inform,<br />
persuade, enlighten, teach, remind and enrich the<br />
knowledge of their stakeholders about the brand, its<br />
strengths, values, fundamentals, and its offerings of<br />
products and services.<br />
Brand Management: The activity of supervising the<br />
promotion of a particular brand of goods.<br />
Photography: The art or practice of taking and processing<br />
photographs – these days, mostly digitally.<br />
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HIGHLIGHT<br />
Game designers imagine stories happening in<br />
video game worlds and bring them to life. A true<br />
example of passion into pounds and pence (or in<br />
our case rands and cents).<br />
Gaming is a thriving industry worldwide and<br />
the number of careers in this field has grown<br />
exponentially. The work is enjoyable, the work<br />
environment is fun and there are high starting<br />
salaries. However, not everyone who enjoys<br />
playing video games will enjoy creating them! In<br />
fact, creating a video game is a long and tedious<br />
process with many tasks and people needed to<br />
complete a workable product.<br />
So, what is game design?<br />
Game design is a field that draws on skills<br />
from computer science, programming, creative<br />
writing and graphic design. Game designers<br />
take the creative lead and imagine stories,<br />
characters, gameplay, rules, interfaces, dialogue<br />
and environments. This being the case, a game<br />
designer is a cross between a writer, artist and<br />
programmer (in simpler terms).<br />
Skills needed to be a Game Developer<br />
• Communication skills<br />
• Critical skills (accepting and giving constructive<br />
feedback)<br />
• Presentation skills<br />
• Storytelling skills<br />
• Basic visual design skills<br />
• Basic drawing skills<br />
• Basic scripting or programming skills<br />
• User interface designing skills<br />
How long does it take to study Game<br />
Design?<br />
Video game designers typically have a<br />
bachelor’s degree in game design, computer<br />
engineering, or computer science which takes<br />
four to five years to complete.<br />
Living The Dream<br />
For parents who think gaming is<br />
something their kids do for fun,<br />
before they get a real job, here<br />
is an interesting story:<br />
Alex Balfanz is an 18-yearold<br />
student at Duke University<br />
who doesn’t just play games,<br />
he makes them! He created<br />
Jailbreak, which took off in a<br />
big way.<br />
“In the first 10 months after<br />
Jailbreak released, the game<br />
yielded a seven figure profit,”<br />
Alex says of his cops-androbbers<br />
adventure game<br />
released last year. A few weeks<br />
ago, it was played for the billionth time.<br />
Alex is just one of thousands of young gaming entrepreneurs in<br />
their teens or twenties making money in an industry that made<br />
$36 billion last year (thats R517 billion in our world).<br />
Gaming is offering new ways to make a living that didn’t exist<br />
10 or even five years ago!<br />
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ALUMNUS<br />
Ty’s Styling!<br />
Tyla Gormley<br />
Alumnus year: 2010<br />
Crawford school:<br />
Crawford College La Lucia<br />
Current career:<br />
Fashion stylist and co-owner<br />
of a fashion supply company<br />
In a few words, please explain to us exactly what you do.<br />
I own I’m Styling, specialising in fashion, editorial and personal<br />
styling. Fashion and editorial styling is co-ordinating, styling and<br />
sometimes directing fashion photo shoots for companies and brands.<br />
I work with a lot of Durban-based chain stores as well as smaller<br />
brands and sometimes overseas brands too. I also co-own another<br />
company with my aunt Clare Jones, called T and C Clothing. We<br />
supply chain stores with fashion-forward ladieswear that is produced<br />
and manufactured locally.<br />
When did you discover your love of fashion?<br />
I have always enjoyed designing and sewing my own clothes<br />
from a very young age, even during my high school years and<br />
fortunately, Crawford College allowed us to specialise in that<br />
discipline for Art exams.<br />
Did you ever start your own fashion line as a kid?<br />
During Matric I started a brand called Tarche. It didn’t last very long<br />
but I did one open day at my house and realised I couldn’t cope<br />
with juggling Matric exams and sewing at the same time. After<br />
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school, I also started a little girls brand called<br />
TAH clothing. That also was a short and sweet<br />
venture but I loved every minute!<br />
What made you follow Fashion Styling, as<br />
opposed to Design?<br />
I believe “styling” is a gift you are born with<br />
and isn’t something one can learn easily. My<br />
mom was the one who said she thought I’d<br />
become a stylist. There were no courses for<br />
Fashion Styling at the time in South Africa, so I<br />
went to London to study Editorial Styling at the<br />
University of Arts, London (UAL). It was here<br />
that I gained confidence in myself and enjoyed<br />
every minute of my studies. I returned knowing<br />
that styling was definitely something I was going<br />
to pursue.<br />
And then you became an entrepreneur and<br />
started your own business – go you!<br />
Growing up in a successful family, in every<br />
sense of the word, I was determined and<br />
inspired from a very young age to make<br />
a success of my career and to work to my<br />
maximum capability. There’s no better feeling<br />
than making something you have created<br />
yourself, succeed. That feeling becomes<br />
addictive, and hence I started T and C Clothing.<br />
What is the worst thing about your job?<br />
Most probably the long hours. Luckily, I am a<br />
morning person so the early morning call times<br />
don’t get to me too much.<br />
What is the best thing about your job?<br />
Being able to meet new people every day,<br />
being on different locations and working with<br />
extremely talented individuals. I also love the<br />
challenge it provides and dealing with other<br />
owners of successful companies. Then there’s<br />
the travelling and, most of all, feeling like a<br />
‘Boss Lady’!<br />
What has been the most exciting project you<br />
have worked on?<br />
My career is my project and I love it all. Any<br />
shoot that involves set design and building<br />
is extra exciting and I basically have to<br />
source and make up sets such as bathrooms,<br />
bedrooms, lounges, all within a blank studio.<br />
What makes you good at what you do?<br />
Organisation! And being able to read a<br />
situation well. Also, being able to adapt my<br />
styling to suit the client’s needs and not just my<br />
own preference.<br />
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ALUMNUS<br />
What is a typical day like for you?<br />
There is no such thing as a “typical” day in the life of a stylist. A<br />
shoot day involves getting to a studio or other location early to<br />
style the models with the specific garments, which have all been<br />
pre-sourced and planned beforehand in the pre-production days<br />
leading up to a shoot.<br />
A day in the life of working in my T and C Clothing company<br />
consists of liaising with fabric suppliers, buyers and clients.<br />
Keeping up with trends. Going to factories, organising orders... to<br />
name a few tasks. We often do buying trips overseas to keep up<br />
with the styling trends.<br />
What were you like at school?<br />
I loved being involved in everything. I very rarely sit still so my<br />
school days involved dancing (a lot of it), playing hockey, tennis,<br />
running and helping organise whatever event was on. I wasn’t the<br />
loudest kid but I was a hard worker. I am still close friends with a<br />
lot of my school friends. My grade at school has gone on to be a<br />
very successful bunch. A few of us girls gather monthly for dinner<br />
and we have all started our own companies, so we chat and catch<br />
up and help one another out with challenges and advice.<br />
What has been the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?<br />
I made up a saying when I was younger: If you do good, be good,<br />
good things will follow! I stick by that still today. Although it is not a<br />
lesson as such, it’s something I carry with me and feel it has led me<br />
to the path I am on now.<br />
Who is your greatest inspiration?<br />
My parents. I adore them and who they are. They have also<br />
brought me and my brother Wesley up to be the closest of friends<br />
and I am so grateful I get to have that relationship with my sibling.<br />
What makes Crawford such an amazing school?<br />
I don’t think I would have been in the career I’m in now if it weren’t<br />
for Crawford La Lucia. They encouraged me to pursue styling and<br />
design in Art, especially my Art teacher Mrs Hutch. I would design,<br />
sew and then style a photo shoot for my Art practicals. Crawford<br />
is a very special place that accepts and encourages individuals to<br />
truly be themselves. I am forever grateful for that!<br />
What was a highlight of school for you?<br />
I would say getting the Principal’s Award at the end of Matric. I felt<br />
extremely honoured to be chosen.<br />
What life advice would you give the current Grade 12s?<br />
It is a great step to set your goals for the future, however, there<br />
are always many obstacles that get in the way. If you accept those<br />
obstacles as challenges and overcome them, there’s no better<br />
feeling!<br />
I wake up everyday and look forward to what life has to offer. I<br />
love working and facing challenges. Our opportunities are endless<br />
and nothing is stopping us from accomplishing our goals. My faith<br />
has proven to me on many occasions that when you do good and<br />
be good, good things will follow!<br />
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KIDS’<br />
PAGES
GET OUT THERE<br />
DO IT! Crafts by and for kids<br />
Credit Donna Verrydt<br />
like the idea of doing arts and crafts with my kids, but<br />
I I really don’t have a crafter’s eye or a final product<br />
vision – at all! To some moms, a button is a potential<br />
eye or part of a button bracelet; to me, a button is an<br />
indication that someone’s shirt is flapping open. So I<br />
take inspiration from what I read and see, and sometimes I<br />
see some cool things... like this “Fort-in-a-bag!<br />
Fort-in-a-Bag<br />
Other cool things<br />
you could add:<br />
• Marshmallows<br />
• A favourite book<br />
• A torch<br />
• Fairy lights<br />
For whom? Here’s a craft gift for a “little person” who<br />
loves adventure.<br />
What is it? A home-made bag filled with everything<br />
needed to make a tent fort, including:<br />
How?<br />
A flat sheet Clothesline Pegs<br />
• Trim several inches from the open end of a pillowcase<br />
to form a pouch, 50cm tall.<br />
• For a drawstring, turn the pouch inside out, then fold<br />
down the cut edge 1cm, iron it, then fold down the<br />
new edge by 4cm, and iron that.<br />
• Using a wide-eye needle and embroidery thread, sew<br />
all around the fold to create a channel. Turn the pouch<br />
right-side out.<br />
• Let your child paint a fort on the bag with fabric paint.<br />
• Paint a rectangle with fabric paint then snip an<br />
opening in the channel, to help prevent the fabric<br />
around the drawstring hole from fraying.<br />
• Knot the ends of a 1.5-metre length of cotton cord.<br />
Attach a large safety pin to one end and use it to feed<br />
the cord through the channel.<br />
• Fill the bag with fort-building supplies.<br />
TIP:<br />
Life is busy, there’s never time! But put this craft in your<br />
diary – get it done! Then put your phone down, close<br />
your laptop and climb inside your home-made fort with<br />
your little one!<br />
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KID’S PAGES<br />
Be Free<br />
Free to be you!<br />
How many different people can you count?<br />
Free the tangled flamingos<br />
These flamingoes are up to their necks in<br />
trouble! Help them free themselves.<br />
ANSWER: 36<br />
Free time<br />
Spot the 10<br />
differences<br />
between the<br />
two ‘Free time’<br />
pictures.<br />
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PROPER PARTIES<br />
GET OUT THERE<br />
In the last issue of Crawford Times, we introduced Proper Parties featuring cool ideas for<br />
your child’s big day. So far we’ve covered cave parties, thrill-ride parties and water obstacle<br />
parties. In this issue, we feature underwater, quad biking and tree top fun!<br />
Splash fest<br />
Urban Dive, Northcliff<br />
Urban Dive specialises in kids’ scuba<br />
parties and here is all you need to know<br />
before you take the plunge. It all begins with<br />
a short instructor briefing and a 10-minute<br />
video to get the kids acquainted with the<br />
equipment, procedures and safety aspects.<br />
And then the real fun starts... Divemasters<br />
will then take over and get the kids kitted up<br />
before they hit the pool.<br />
Depending on the number of attendees,<br />
kids will be taken down in groups of two or<br />
three where they will spend some orientation<br />
time in the shallow end with a divemaster.<br />
The kids who are not diving can swim<br />
and snorkel, and play on the grass deck<br />
overlooking the Dive Pool which boasts a<br />
Timberland jungle gym, trampoline, soccer<br />
net and basketball hoop!<br />
When the “diving kids” are comfortable<br />
enough, they can then venture into the<br />
deeper water (all under the supervision of<br />
the divemaster) to discover the Shipwreck<br />
and Treasure Chest filled with sea jewels<br />
and pirate treasure. The birthday boy or girl<br />
gets to open the chest on the first dive, and<br />
then can play underwater games like frisbee<br />
and missiles.<br />
Half an hour before the party ends, the kids<br />
climb out, get dressed and then it’s cake time.<br />
Contact details<br />
Website www.urbandive.co.za<br />
Call: 011 476 5172<br />
Email enquiries:<br />
cresta@urbandive.co.za<br />
Address: 353 Beyers Naude Drive,<br />
Northcliff, Gauteng<br />
Go and view the venue and their friendly<br />
staff will gladly show you around and<br />
chat about the scuba parties.<br />
Activities offered:<br />
• Minimum six kids and maximum 20 kids.<br />
• Kids 8 years or older do full scuba (descend underwater).<br />
• Kids 7-8 years old do surface scuba (around the surface).<br />
• Kids under 7 years are welcome (non-scuba) but they get to<br />
snorkel, swim and enjoy the party just as much.<br />
• There’s no charge for kids under 3 years old unless party packs<br />
are required.<br />
• Party duration is three hours and the time slots are: 10am to<br />
1pm or 2pm to 5pm.<br />
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Quad fun<br />
Saddle Creek Adventures<br />
Quad adventures are an exciting way to celebrate a<br />
birthday but often the kids are required to be older than<br />
16. However, with Saddle Creek Adventures, which is<br />
situated in Gauteng’s “adventure-ville” aka Hekpoort,<br />
there’s a thrill ride for all ages.<br />
There are quads suitable for small kiddies, tweens, teens<br />
and adults with Saddle Creek’s offering of mini quads<br />
(kept on a kiddie track) and fully automatic 150cc quads<br />
(for out rides).<br />
The adventure will start with a briefing from the<br />
experienced, friendly and safety-conscious guides who will<br />
familiarise your party guests with the quads, safety aspects<br />
and the bushveld that you will soon venture into.<br />
Saddle Creek Adventures has unique packages including<br />
a 30, 45 or 60-minute Bushveld Ride or you can look into<br />
their Combo Deals, as they also offer other adventures<br />
like archery, clay pigeon shooting, go-karting and horse<br />
riding.<br />
Information<br />
Prices of quads:<br />
R385 per person (R125 for children under 12 going as a<br />
passenger) – 30 minutes<br />
R515 per person (R170 for children under 12 going as a<br />
passenger) – 45 minutes<br />
R765 per person (R210 for children under 12 going as a<br />
passenger) – 60 minutes<br />
R90 per child (5 to 9 years old, supervised by a guide) for a<br />
mini quad ride on the kiddies’ track only – 10 minutes<br />
*prices may differ due to print times.<br />
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Hospitality<br />
Food and drink are available at Saddle Creek Adventures.<br />
What to wear<br />
Hats and sun cream are essential in summer.<br />
A spare change of clothes is suggested if going out after the<br />
adventure activities.<br />
Riding helmets and hairnets are provided for each activity<br />
and are compulsory.<br />
Contact details<br />
Website: www.saddlecreekadventures.co.za<br />
Call: 079 467 9906<br />
Email enquiries: info@saddlecreekadventures.co.za<br />
Address: Farm HH24, Hartebeesfontein Road, Hekpoort
GET OUT THERE<br />
Swing city!<br />
Acrobranch<br />
There are two things that kids love: adventure and their<br />
birthdays. Acrobranch combines these two loves with<br />
hosted birthday parties for kids of all ages. From pirates<br />
to Tarzan or Spiderman, there’s just something about zip<br />
lines and swinging from tree to tree that appeals to the<br />
imagination of all children.<br />
Acrobranch has eight parks around the country: Cape<br />
Town, Centurion (The Big Red Barn), Pretoria North,<br />
Pretoria East (Rosemary Hill), Linksfield (Huddle Park),<br />
Melrose, Stellenbosch (Klein Joostenberg) and Garden<br />
Route, each with their own unique offerings, party facilities<br />
and catering options.<br />
Courses and price info<br />
• Acrotwigs Course: 3-6 years old – R140 per person<br />
• Monkey Moves Course: 7+ years – R180 per person<br />
• Swinging Tarzan: 9+ years – R220 per person<br />
• High Flying: 12+ years – R280 per person<br />
*Please note that additional height restrictions that vary<br />
from park to park may apply.<br />
How to book<br />
Book a birthday party through their bookings office on<br />
086 999 0369 or send an email to<br />
bookings@acrobranch.co.za with your requirements.<br />
Booking notes:<br />
Each park has a different caterer that works on the<br />
premises of the specific park. The bookings office will<br />
provide additional info for catering at the park, or it can<br />
be accessed via the website on the park’s page or catering<br />
and restaurant section under quick links.<br />
1. At Melrose they allow self-catering, however, a table<br />
needs to be reserved for a fee of R200 through the<br />
bookings office or park manager.<br />
2. Please note that each course has specific restrictions<br />
and they vary from park to park. These can be found at<br />
www.acrobranch.co.za.<br />
3. Final numbers need to be confirmed five days prior to<br />
the party.<br />
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• Please note that this prize is subject to availability<br />
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TRAVEL<br />
Road Tripping<br />
By Donna Verrydt & Angie Snyman<br />
In the immortal words of Douglas Adams: “I may not have<br />
gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up<br />
where I intended to be.” He knew there should always be<br />
an element of ‘getting lost’ if you want to claim your road<br />
tripping credentials!<br />
“I’m a big fan of local road trips like South Africa’s Route<br />
62 and let’s not forget the Vaalie trek every December<br />
to Durbs. But road trip plans don’t have to be confined<br />
to South Africa! The world is a much smaller place than<br />
it used to be, so South Africans can now tackle beautiful<br />
highways and byways all over the planet,” says Nicky<br />
Potgieter, Flight Centre Leisure Marketing Leader. Nicky<br />
offers her tried-and-tested tips for two of the world’s most<br />
epic road trips... and we’ve thrown in a local goodie too!<br />
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Pacific Highway<br />
CALIFORNIA 1<br />
United States<br />
Monteray<br />
Ah… the open road, the sun-kissed Californian coast and<br />
the glittering Pacific – this one’s for all you movie lovers<br />
out there, and promises road trippers an opportunity to<br />
channel their inner Thelma and Louise.<br />
One of the world’s most celebrated road trips, California 1<br />
begins in San Francisco, travelling along the coast and<br />
clinging to mountains and cliffs through Big Sur and the<br />
charming towns of Santa Barbara, Carmel and Monterey,<br />
recently depicted in the series Big Little Lies, then ends in<br />
San Diego.<br />
Highlights along the journey<br />
Santa Barbara<br />
You’ll think you’re in Spain when you visit picture-perfect<br />
Santa Barbara with its characteristic palm trees and red<br />
tile roofs. It’s definitely worth stopping overnight so you<br />
can spend some time strolling along Stearns Wharf for a<br />
bite to eat.<br />
Big Sur<br />
One of the most beautiful and undeveloped stretches of<br />
coastline in the world features on this section of<br />
Highway 1 between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon.<br />
Here the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the<br />
Pacific Ocean providing stunning coastal views.<br />
San Francisco<br />
No visit to California would be complete without a few<br />
days in the “City on the Bay”. Spend a day strolling<br />
around Fisherman’s Wharf, take a ferry to Sausalito for<br />
a unique perspective on the city skyline or hop on a tram<br />
and admire the coloured Victorian façades.<br />
Need to know before you go<br />
1. The Big Sur section of Highway 1 has been closed<br />
until recently due to mudslides caused by heavy rains.<br />
Make sure you check your route daily.<br />
2. Take care where you stop along the way to take<br />
photos as there are sections of hairpin bends and<br />
narrow shoulders which would compromise your<br />
safety.<br />
3. Download Google Maps or buy a map for the area<br />
because cellphone reception can be intermittent along<br />
Highway 1.<br />
4. Hire a fuel-efficient vehicle as fuel along this route is<br />
very expensive.<br />
Flight Centre travel advice<br />
• For the best views along Highway 1, we recommend<br />
driving north to south – not only is San Francisco<br />
a convenient place to start the drive due to flight<br />
access, you’ll also be on the ‘right’ side of the road<br />
to stop if it’s safe to take photos.<br />
• South African passport holders need a tourist visa<br />
which can be applied for at the US Consulates in<br />
Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.<br />
• The quickest way to get to San Francisco is to fly<br />
via Atlanta with Delta Air Lines, or New York or<br />
Washington with South African Airways.<br />
• If you’re flying via the Big Apple to San Francisco,<br />
consider breaking up your journey with a couple<br />
of nights in this vibrant city, says Potgieter. “In fact,<br />
it’s always a good idea to see if you can top or<br />
tail your road trip with a couple of days to relax<br />
in a destination. Make the most of your time while<br />
you’re there.”<br />
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Torres del Paine<br />
TRAVEL<br />
RUTA DEL FIN DEL MUNDO<br />
Chile and Argentina<br />
Bariloche<br />
You’ll feel like a pioneer when you travel to “the end of<br />
the world”. Epitomising the mantra of “not for sissies”, the<br />
combination of Chile’s Carretera Austral and Argentina’s<br />
Ruta 40 promises road trippers some of the most<br />
extraordinary landscapes on earth.<br />
From magnificent fjords and glaciers to ancient forests<br />
and snow-capped peaks, nature takes centre stage<br />
on this 5 500km route which winds from Santiago,<br />
Chile’s energetic capital, to Punta Arenas in the remote<br />
wilderness of Patagonia.<br />
Highlights along the journey<br />
Bariloche<br />
A little Switzerland in South America, the ski resort of<br />
San Carlos de Bariloche is located on the foothills of the<br />
Andes and surrounded by lakes and mountains. It’s a<br />
great stop for outdoors enthusiasts, offering water sports,<br />
climbing and trekking opportunities.<br />
Pumalín Park<br />
This 715 000-acre conservation area stretches from<br />
the heart of the Andes to the fjords of Chile’s Pacific<br />
Coast. The park was founded to protect the Valdivian<br />
rainforest and offers sea kayaking, hiking and climbing<br />
opportunities.<br />
Torres del Paine<br />
A national park showcasing some of the most sensational<br />
scenery in the southern Chilean Patagonia, Torres del<br />
Paine is perhaps best known for its distinctive three<br />
granite peaks of the Paine Massif, which rise up 2 500<br />
metres above sea level.<br />
Need to know before you go<br />
1. Be prepared to pay a fairly hefty one-way car rental<br />
return fee – you’re dropping your rental vehicle<br />
thousands of kilometres from where you picked it up.<br />
2. Much of the route is gravel, but you can get away<br />
without renting a 4X4 provided the vehicle you select<br />
has high clearance.<br />
3. You’ll also need to carry extra fuel and fill up<br />
whenever you can because petrol stations are few<br />
and far between.<br />
4. The weather can be very harsh with considerable<br />
variations in temperature, and parts of the route can<br />
even be closed during winter, so it’s best to tackle it in<br />
summer.<br />
5. It’s not easy to stock up on essentials like gear in<br />
remote little villages so you’ll have to bring everything<br />
you need with you.<br />
Pumalín Park<br />
Flight Centre travel advice<br />
• South Africans don’t need a visa to travel to either<br />
Chile or Argentina.<br />
• The quickest way to get to South America: South<br />
African Airways or LATAM Airlines to São Paulo in<br />
Brazil, then connect to Santiago on LATAM’s extensive<br />
network.<br />
• Carry some cash with you because ATMs are not<br />
freely available in remote areas.<br />
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ROUTE 62<br />
South Africa<br />
South Africa<br />
Did you know? The scenic Route 62, between Cape<br />
Town and Oudtshoorn in South Africa, was named by<br />
CNN Travel as the world’s best road trip destination<br />
in 2017. Route 62 primarily connects Cape Town to<br />
Oudtshoorn, and ultimately the Garden Route further<br />
east. It’s been called “a journey of the unexpected”,<br />
with something for everyone, highlighting the natural<br />
beauty of our fauna, flora, rivers, valleys and plains.<br />
The diversity of activities available turn the seemingly<br />
mundane commute into an adventure!<br />
Robertson<br />
Cango Caves<br />
Highlights along the journey<br />
Ronnie’s Sex Shop:<br />
Before you get all hot under the collar, Ronnie’s Sex<br />
Shop is a roadside bar – nothing more! It’s quirky and<br />
fun, and very popular with tourists and road warriors.<br />
Legend has it that in the late 1970s, local farmer Ronald<br />
Price opened his roadside farm stall, complete with<br />
a proudly handpainted sign. Friends of Ronnie, as a<br />
joke, amended the sign to its now famous title, and the<br />
rest, as they say, is history. Inside, the bar is covered<br />
with travellers’ graffiti, neckties, bras and other things<br />
from ceiling to floor. There’s a full restaurant, overnight<br />
accommodation and communal pool with gorgeous<br />
views of the Karoo.<br />
Robertson<br />
Roberstson is the land of the up-and-coming winemakers<br />
and the heart of Route 62’s wine route. But wine is not<br />
all that’s on offer! Robertson also offers tours of the<br />
Klipdrift brandy plant which is resident here too. Just<br />
beyond Robertson, is the mountain town of Montagu<br />
– home of South Africa’s dried fruit and nut industry.<br />
Activities in the area include Robertsons Wacky Wine<br />
Festival (between April and June) and Montagu’s famous<br />
rock climbing spots!<br />
Ronnies Sex Shop<br />
Cango Caves<br />
Just outside Oudtshoorn, hidden beneath the Swartberg<br />
Mountains, lies an extensive limestone system of tunnels<br />
and chambers dating back millions of years and<br />
reaching almost 300 metres underground! Here you<br />
can choose to walk, or do the more adventurous cave<br />
climbing into the caves’ darkest, narrowest and deepest<br />
chambers!<br />
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TRAVEL<br />
ROADHOUSE<br />
Campervan vacation<br />
Camping seems to be one of the only ways in which<br />
modern humans can connect with nature and the<br />
outdoors. South Africa has some of the best areas<br />
on earth to camp, naturally setting up tents day-in<br />
and day-out for the duration of a few weeks doesn’t<br />
really seem like much of a holiday. A form of travel/<br />
accommodation which is experiencing renewed<br />
popularity is campervan vacations.<br />
Around the area<br />
Some noteworthy SA destinations with great<br />
camping include the Kruger National Park, Entabeni<br />
Game Reserve, Kapama Game reserve, Balule<br />
Nature Reserve, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park and the<br />
Cederberg area, which has many well-established<br />
camping areas, and the Golden Gate Highlands<br />
National Park. These are only a few of the great<br />
places to enjoy camping in South Africa.<br />
Five reasons to hire a camper:<br />
1. It’s easy! No hard work looking for a flat spot, putting up<br />
tents, blowing up mattresses, washing dishes in dubious<br />
communal wash-up areas, using the even more dubious<br />
communal bathrooms, setting up cooking paraphernalia,<br />
etc. With a camper, you drive in, link to the power, get the<br />
mountain bikes off the back and go and have fun!<br />
2. It gives you flexibility! You have the ability to make the<br />
snap decision to just move on if you wake up on a drizzly<br />
morning. Even out on excursions, if the weather turns, you<br />
have your whole wardrobe with you. Afternoon naps for the<br />
kids are easy too!<br />
3. Kids love it! Kids lie and read their books and play<br />
Monopoly while the camper chews the miles. They even like<br />
organising their stuff in a camper, and tidying it up too. The<br />
fact that it has a place to charge an iPad is also a win!<br />
4. Meet people: Camping and caravaning bonds people. So<br />
many friends are made this way because the majority are<br />
relaxed, happy-go-lucky people. Kids ride off and make<br />
friends and you don’t see them for hours!<br />
5. It’s not cheap: There is a rental per day, plus your fuel and<br />
camping fees! But what it does buy you is flexibility and<br />
independence.<br />
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THE FINAL WORD<br />
Advice from a Legend<br />
The older legends of SA reach out to the youth of South Africa<br />
with some tidbits of advice.<br />
By Angie Snyman<br />
Derek Watts has presented Carte<br />
Blanche for 30 years – the longestrunning<br />
investigative journalism show<br />
in South Africa. In his business, he’s<br />
seen lots of things, met loads of people<br />
and learned some important lessons.<br />
Here he shares some of his stories and<br />
advice for Crawford students.<br />
If Derek Watts wants to talk to you,<br />
you may have reason to panic! Do<br />
people avoid contact with you, Derek?<br />
Ha, ha, only if they have something to<br />
hide. But I have had lots of requests to<br />
prank someone’s mate or colleague!<br />
Many of your stories are actually<br />
“good news” stories. Which positive<br />
story did you enjoy the most?<br />
Probably meeting Jane Fonda on her<br />
ranch outside Albuquerque. Just so<br />
un-Hollywood. She made us tea then<br />
we drove with her around the ranch<br />
on quad bikes looking for places to<br />
film. We did a sequence by a stream<br />
to pretend we were fishing and<br />
miraculously caught a huge salmon on<br />
the first cast. Jane laughed so much<br />
she almost fell in!<br />
Who that you’ve interviewed made<br />
you most angry?<br />
Well many a South African<br />
government official made me angry…<br />
but the award for the rudest fellow<br />
and copyright owner of the fakest<br />
smile (apart from mine) is Arnold<br />
Schwarzenegger.<br />
What’s your biggest travel disaster?<br />
... being pushed onto a rat-infested<br />
dhow at Bagamoyo in Tanzania at<br />
midnight by the ebullient longbeard<br />
Kingsley Holgate and drifting into<br />
Zanzibar at first light with a massive<br />
headache and empty wallet.<br />
Kingsley Holgate, what a legend! Who<br />
is your fantasy travel companion?<br />
My fantasy travel companion for a<br />
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long road trip would be South Africanborn<br />
Falcon rocket man and Tesla<br />
legend Elon Musk who can tell me all<br />
about his modest plans to get to Mars!<br />
You once said, “I TRULY BELIEVE that<br />
I could be one of the world’s greatest<br />
adventurers...”<br />
I think I did qualify that by saying,<br />
well… if it was a nine-to-five escapade<br />
with regular cappuccino breaks and<br />
an electric blanket and feather pillow<br />
along with DStv in the evenings, ha,<br />
ha. But I do enjoy bonding with the<br />
great outdoors.<br />
If you didn’t live in South Africa,<br />
where else in the world would you<br />
choose to stay?<br />
Anse Lazio beach on Praslin Island in<br />
the Seychelles. Because I’m a beach<br />
bum and diving and snorkelling<br />
addict.<br />
Life is a series of ups and downs,<br />
tell us about your lowest and<br />
highest points?<br />
The lowest point was moving animals<br />
from the Luanda Zoo when a tiger<br />
escaped and killed my producer and<br />
close friend Rick Lomba.<br />
The highest point was ironically<br />
standing on the ice of base camp<br />
Mount Everest with Cathy O’Dowd<br />
after her epic and controversial<br />
ascent. The climbing season was<br />
closed and there was not a tent or<br />
person in sight. Just that majestic<br />
mountain. Yes, we did get there by<br />
helicopter… Kilimanjaro is my only<br />
claim to dubious fame.<br />
What advice do you have for<br />
Crawford kids embarking on life...<br />
The life road has many potholes,<br />
but the road continues. Never let the<br />
potholes slow you down. Navigate<br />
them well and continue to your<br />
destination ahead.<br />
@DerekWatts<br />
Carte Blanche is South Africa’s<br />
longest-running investigative<br />
journalism programme. Catch<br />
Derek and the team at 7pm on<br />
Sundays on M-Net.
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