Newsletter 4 23 February 2018 Dear Parents and Friends A warm welcome to Max du Plessis who has joined our Junior Playgroup and to Mikayla Styger who is in Grade 4. SIMOND SUCCESS For the sixth year in a row, we won the Simond Triangular Athletics event! Congratulations to all our athletes and a special word of thanks to our head of athletics, Andrea Visser, as well as Nikki Goosen for all their hard work training our athletes in the mornings to prepare them for this event. We have come to the end of another athletics season. We would like to congratulate all the athletes who participated in the various athletic meetings. Your conduct and participation was exemplary and as a school we are very proud of each and every one of you. On Friday 16th of February we enjoyed yet another afternoon of good athletics at Simond. Again our athletes conduct was outstanding and they all participated with good sportsmanship. It was lovely to see that some of our learners came to support event though they were not participating as athletes. We won this triangular athletics meeting and we would like to congratulate Charlotte Gandiwa and Jordan April for receiving the Victor and Victrix Ludorum medals. Thank you to all the parents who ferried learners to school so early in the morning for them to attend the morning practises. We appreciate your dedication to the school.
EXCELLENT BEHAVIOUR The reports I have received from Simond athletics as well as from the mini cricket festival is that our children were very well behaved! This, more than winning or losing, makes me very proud! Well done to all our children who were excellent ambassadors for our school. SWIMMING GALA S Drakenstein Gala s The Foundation Phase gala scheduled for 6 March has been cancelled. We are waiting for confirmation regarding the Senior Phase gala scheduled for 1 March and will notify parents as soon as we have clarity on this. The WPS&C Inter-Schools gala against La Rochelle, Drakenstein and Simond (College) on Thursday 8 March will go ahead. A programme will be sent home on or before Monday 5 March. Inter house swimming gala Congratulations to Johnson House (the White Team) for winning the inter house gala! It was one of the closest results we have had with only 6 points separating the two teams. SPORT REPLIES Thank you for the effort that many parents have put in to utilise the new way that we are communicating sport fixtures. It is crucial that we have the correct e-mail address in order to create our database. You will be prompted to include your email address when completing the form - please make use of the one that you check the most often. As sport fixtures are confirmed so reply forms are sent out - this can happen at the last minute and we would like to encourage you to check regularly and respond immediately. We have had some of our communication with Yahoo and Hotmail addresses going straight to the 'junk' folder. Should you have one of these addresses, please double check all your folders going forward. CHESS congratulations to Ameer Kadir and Anchen Smith who have both been included in the Cape Winelands chess team. Note a change in the chess times for seniors 14h00 to 14h30 for any Grade 4-7 learners and an extended session until 15h00 for selected players preparing for competitions.
CRICKET REPORTS Mini-Cricket Wellington Prep s mini-cricket players have had a busy two weeks with three friendly matches and a festival. Our U/7 team also had their first taste of a mini-cricket match. They have learnt a lot of new skills thus far. All our teams made WPS extremely proud by showing good behaviour on and off the field and showing enthusiasm at all times. The results were as follows: Wagenmakersvallei: 7 February 2018 U/8 s won Players of the match: Sebastian Korabie, Sange Telelo U/9 s won Players of the match: Simeon Corrigan, Jeno-van Solomons Slot van die Paarl: 14 February 2018 U/7 s drew Players of the match: Izellah Corrigan, Gino Sequeira, Sam Exner Mix U/8,9 won Players of the match: Scirocco Winter, Salmaan Tyer Hugo Rust Festival: 16 February 2018 U/7 s lost vs Boys Primary U/7 s won vs Eversdal Players of the day: Mattys Breed, Eesa Gaffoor, Caitlyn Kearley, Luke Pheko U/8 s won vs Worcester North U/8 s lost vs Drakenstein Players of the day: Mattéau Lategan, Matthew Waullenbach U/9 s won vs Eikestad U/9 s won vs Boys Primary Players of the day: Luka Breed, Amila Nkantsu Huguenot: 21 February 2018 U/8 s won Players of the match: Natalie Goosen, Quade Ramus U/9 s lost Players of the match: JZ Mullineux, Sabelo Ndlovu, Noah van Niekerk Unfortunately the Bridge House Festival scheduled for Saturday 3 March as well as the Windmeul Primary matches (7 March) have been cancelled by the respective schools.
Under 11 Cricket report: The under elevens have played 2 matches up to date. The first being against Hugo Rust Primary School (On the 12 th of February) and the second match was played against CPM in Malmesbury (On the 19 th of February). Thank you to the parents who were able to offer lifts, it is much appreciated. WPS: 87 FOR 6 WPS: 93 for 10 HUGO RUST: 107 FOR 7 CPM: 120 for 7 RESULTS: Hugo Rust won by 20 runs. CPM won by 27 runs. PLAYERS OF MATCH 1: John Chibanda made 29 runs and took 3 wickets for 18 runs. Jordan April made 22 runs. (not out) Kyle Soobramoney took 2 wickets for 16 runs. PLAYERS OF MATCH 2: Connor Wooding made 20 runs. (not out) Jamie van Niekerk made 12 runs. John, Kyle and Jordan each took 2 wickets. Under 13 cricket report: WPS vs Hugo Rust: On the 14th of February, the U/13 cricket team started their season with a match against Hugo Rust Primary. We lost the toss and were sent in to bat. Lood Goosen was our star batsman and he managed to score 19 runs. We ended off scoring 45 runs in our 15 overs. Hugo Rust batted very well and they were able to chase down the total that we set. Player of the match: Lood Goosen WPS vs CPM: On the 21st of February, the U/13 cricket team played their second match against CPM. We won the toss and batted first. We batted very well and managed to score 77 runs in our 15 overs with Storm being our star batsman. Our bowling started off very well and we were able to take two quick wickets. Unfortunately, we made a few too many errors in the field and CPM was able to score the winning runs with 2 overs to spare. Player of the match: Storm Durr-Behrens.
Grade 5 Outing On Valentine s day the Grade 5 class took cupcakes to the Druiwe-trossie crèche in Wellington. Each of the Grade 5 s had to bring a few cupcake toppings to school for decoration. The children had a lot of fun as they helped the little ones to decorate a card for their parents, held piggyback-races and lots more! To the parents a big thanks for your support and help to make this outing possible. FUN FOOD FRIDAY Many thanks to the Grade 0 class rep and parents for today s Monster Fun Food Friday.
Please send empty 5 litre water bottles to the Grade 8 class so that we can use them for collecting borehole water for our trees. Wat om aan te trek Skilpad in my huis Ek het ń skilpad in my huis! Hy loop rond in die kombuis hy eet kool, tomaties, appels en gras ek het hom al gesien in my kas hy slaap in my kamer op my bed ons het hom uit die pad gered ń motor het oor sy kop gery ek het hom rehabiliteer en nou hou hy baie van my Crush is sy naam en hy is my beste maat ons speel lekkersaam en hy is goed om meë te praat Deur: Ella Douglas Gr 7 Ek maak my reg om skool toe te gaan om te werk en werk. Ek kyk in my kas nadat ek my gesig was. Ek sien my rooi broek maar vir n top sal ek soek en soek. Ek gooi al my klere uit my kas uiteindelik kry ek die regte top. Toe sê mamma ek moet my kas reg pak Maar al wat sy kan doen is lag... Ek dra my rooi broek met my geel top... Toe kyk ek in die spiel en sien my klere is n flop! Thank you for your continued support, Geskryf deur :Zara Whitebooi Gr 7 Mike Aubin and the WPS team
Event tickets Time is running out to buy tickets that will qualify for the pre-event draw! The tickets are ready and you will receive your tickets as soon as you ve made your payment to the office (EFT into the school s bank account). Please order yours online through the website.http://www.wellingtonprepfundraisers.co.za As an added incentive to sell tickets before the pre-event draw, the ticket price will be R325 UNTIL 28 FEBRUARY 2018, whether you re joining a table of 10 or not. Tickets sold from 1 March will be sold at the original pricing structure, R325 pp per table of 10, R350 pp for two or more tickets and R375pp for individual tickets. Lucky draw win included in ticket price The ticket price* includes a chance to win one of the four pre-event draw prizes: a new dress exclusively made for you to wear to the event OR your hair OR nails OR make-up professionally done for the event *The pre-event lucky draw takes place on 1 March 2018. Regrettably, tickets bought after 28 February 2018 do not qualify for the pre-event draw, so get your tickets now! Ticket sales drive at school The Fundraising Committee s ticket sales drive takes place today (Friday 23 February 2018). Please support the ticket sales and order tickets for your family and friends too this fun event is open to all women. THANKS FOR THE CASH DONATIONS! The Fundraising Committee would like to give heartfelt thanks to each and every one who has so generously sent a cash donation to support the event. Some of the forms are still outstanding (the deadline to return them is only on 28 February) but we ve already raised more than R2 700, which is almost enough to pay for all the centrepiece cakes (which doubles up as dessert) on the tables. We ve secured many amazing sponsorships (http://wellingtonprepfundraisers.co.za/#sponsors), please support our generous sponsors in return. We can always do with more sponsorships and prizes, even if you can just volunteer some of your time and expertise we would certainly be able to find a job for you too! So if you would like to assist in any way, please contact taniandlovu@gmail.com.