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NEWSLETTER 7
26 February 2014
CONTENT
Upcoming Events 2
Headmaster’s Desk 3
Old Boys Drinks 4
Pupil News 4
Menu 5
Sport’s Desk 6
Cycle Tests 7
International Book Day 8
Sports Results 9
St Vincent Charity 10
Pridwin’s Rugby 7s 11
Advertisements 12
CONTACT US
PRIDWIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Physical Address: Tel: 011 788 1116 St Andrew Street email: [email protected] Melrose, 2196 web: www.pridwin.co.za
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UPCOMING EVENTS
THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY 17h00 St Benedict’s Rugby Festival
FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 08h30 Cycle tests (Gr 5 Afrik; Gr 6 SOCS; Gr 7 Ex Eng/Zu/Fr) 14h00 St Benedict’s Rugby festival
SATURDAY 1 MARCH 07h00 Junior Primary cricket skills 08h30 Cricket vs KEPS 13h50 St Benedict’s Rugby festival 14h00 Hilton 6s depart
MONDAY 3 MARCH 18h00 Gr 0-2 Forum
TUESDAY 4 MARCH 08h00 St Andrew’s Scholarship exam 11h00 Gr 0 Grandparents tea 14h00 Peaconwood Presentation to Gr 7s
WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH 14h00 Cricket Fixtures
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FROM THE HEADMASTER’S DESK
Every now and again there is a home grown story to be told that is inspirational and uplifting. This time the story involves our First Team Cricketers. A story of failure, lessons well learned and applied successfully in a difficult situation. I pass on the story as told by their coach, Eswee Prinsloo: On Thursday morning last week the 1st cricket XI embarked on their annual Independent Schools’ cricket tour to Pietermaritzburg. Upon arrival on Thursday we played a tight match against WHPS and just managed to beat them on the very last ball thanks to a great team effort and some excellent bowling Adam Hawke. Friday saw us playing against Whitestone Preparatory, our opposition from Zimbabwe. The boys managed well in difficult batting and bowling conditions to outplay their weaker opposition. On Saturday we were up against our rivals from the previous year and tournament hosts, St Charles. An incredible fielding display and a record breaking bowling spell of 43 overs from the two leg spinners, Hlahla and Rogan, helped us to limit their very strong batting line up to only 163 runs in 60 overs. During the lunch break I could sense that our boys thought they had the game in the bag. To reach 163 in 52 overs with our batting line up should have been an easy task and I could see an atmosphere of complacency setting in. On 110 runs for the loss of 3 wickets and with Halstead-Cleak on 58, we were cruising to victory. And then it happened: We lost 7 wickets with a measly contribution of only 21 runs. This cataclysmic batting collapse meant that we came up short and lost the match by 31 runs. Never as a coach have I had to speak such stern words to a team after losing in such a manner. I challenged them on their lack of grit, determination and character. As a team, we should never be satisfied with being spectators on the field of play. This was a test to face up to the challenges that life sets us. I gave the boys 20 minutes alone to reflect and then to go to each of their team mates in turn and tell him what they appreciated most about him as a person. Speaking life into each other’s lives. In the meantime, the tournament favourites extended their winning streak with a 10 wicket victory over our previous opposition, WHPS. One of their batsman who previously made 160, three 90’s and two 80’s, scored 80 of their teams 92 runs. They were clearly the team to beat and they did not rate us as worthy opponents. We were scheduled to play them the next day. Continued on page 4 ….
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From the very first ball on Sunday I could see that our boys had taken the lessons of the previous day to heart. They were encouraging each other in a way I had never seen before. Speaking words like:” You are a great bowler! I know you can bowl it in the channel. Keep it up…” Continuously building each another up with words of affirmation. All of this resulted in one of the best bowling spells I have seen from Gillespie. Lengacher capitalized on the sustained pressure claiming the scalp of their star batsman. Suddenly I could see an inner belief rising to new levels in our Pridwin boys. Our opponents on the other hand seemed to be in unfamiliar territory, and reacted rather poorly. We managed to restrict them to only 140 runs in the allowed 40 overs. During the lunch break their coaches and players avoided having lunch with us and seemed determined to end the match quickly, but the Pridwin boys were on a roll, determined to exploit the lessons learned on the day before. Our openers, Irwin and Rogan gave us a solid start. We needed to score at a rate of 6 runs to the over for victory. Good contributions from Halstead and Essop gave Badenhorst and Gillespie the opportunity to finish the game. Badenhorst finished with a magnificent 4 and a 6 off the last two balls to hand Pridwin a 6 wicket victory! It was a wonderful team effort. Every single player contributed in a special way to achieve this result. Certainly a career highlight for us as coaches. Eswee Prinsloo First Team Coach
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OLD BOYS DRINKS
Please join us for our monthly get together on Thursday, 27 February at 17h30, for drinks at Venus Street. Back to the top
PUPIL NEWS
KNIGHT OF THE WEEK Michael Chiimba – Assisting a crying Grade 3 boy who forgot his blazer for chapel
Jacob Chadwick, James Hund, Gregory Jacobs and Jason Raman – Winners of the Johannesburg Semi-final Kids Lit Quiz Back to the top
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THIS WEEK’S MENU
THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY
Butter Chicken Thai Vegetable Curry
Rice Salad Platter Fruit/Juice
FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY
Cold Fillet/Chicken Breast Haloumi cheese
Greek Salad Potato/Beetroot Salad
Rolls/ Dessert/Juice
MONDAY 3 MARCH Chicken/Vegetarian Schnitzel
Cheese sauce Potatoes Wedges
Greek Salad Platter Fruit/Juice
TUESDAY 4 MARCH
Beef Lasagne Vegetarian Lasagne
Italian Salad Rolls/Dessert/Juice
WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH Boerewors & Prego rolls
(sold by PPA moms)
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FROM THE SPORT’S DESK
CRICKET FIXTURES Wednesday 5 March 2014
SUPER 8 FIXTURES: Monday, 3 March 2014
U10 Leopards vs Cheetahs Janion Open Crusaders vs Highlanders Venus 1 Open Chiefs vs Hurricanes Venus 2 The above fixtures will be played during sport time. The open team boys may be collected from Venus Street.
CRICKET VS THE RIDGE Saturday 8 March 2014
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TEAM OPPOSITION VENUE TIME
3RD Hirch Lyons Venus 1 14h15
4TH Bellavista Venus 2 14h15
TEAM VENUE TIME
U9A Melville 08h30
U10A Janion 08h30
U10B St Vincent 08h30
U11A Rose(Away) 08h30
U11B Janion 13h30
1ST Venus 08h30
2ND Cheales(Away) 08h30
3RD Cheales(Away) 13h30
4TH Rose(Away) 13h30
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CYCLE TESTS
Friday 7 March 2014
GRADE 5 – EXTRA ENGLISH Comprehension
Nouns
Adjectives
GRADE 5 – ZULU
Umsebenzi 1 (Sentences)
Umsebenzi 2 (Verbs and Pictures)
Izakhiwo Zolimi (Izihlanganiso)
Masifunde (Indatshana)
Amagama Amasha (ukudla) GRADE 5 – FRENCH
Greet someone and say goodbye
Talk about name and age
Ask how someone is, say how you are
Talk about classroom items
Numbers up to 20
Grammar - Gender of nouns (masculine and feminine)
GRADE 6 – EXTRA ENGLISH
Comprehension Parts of speech
GRADE 6 – ZULU
Siyakhuluma (Isichazimazwi Vocabulary)
Ondaweni (Izakhiwo Zolimi)
Uhlalaphi? (Boy and the Girl)
Ingxoxo (Tshepo and Bongani) for Comprehension
Amagama Amasha (Izakhiwo)
Names of places in Zulu
GRADE 6 - FRENCH
Talk about the family and home ( describe rooms and furniture )
Talk about other people's homes and families
Say where things are
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Grammar
Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, our, their )
The verb to be : ETRE
The verb to have : AVOIR
Numbers up to 69
Use prepositions on and under ( SUR and SOUS ) GRADE 7 – SOCS
What is History?
Queen Victoria
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INTERNATIONAL BOOK DAY
On 6 March 2014 is International Book Day! Last year we had an extremely successful ‘STOP – DROP – READ’ where everyone in the school stopped what they were doing and read for 15 minutes. Boys were seen, ‘nose-in-book’ up the stairs and under the trees enjoying reading! Pridwin would like to continue with this tradition and so will be surprising the boys and staff with a compulsory 15 minute “reading” period on the 6 March. The boys are also asked to donate a book for a charity. Thanks to the awesome generosity of the Pridwin boys last year, Akani School in Diepsloot was blessed with hundreds of beautiful books for their very sparse library. We also donated a large number of books to Queens High School for their library. Back to the top
The U 11B cricket teams charity drive for Skeen Primary
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SPORTS RESULTS
1ST TEAM AT ST CHARLES CRICKET FESTIVAL Thursday 20 February to Sunday 23 February 2014
OPPOSITION BATTED FIRST NOTEWORTHY
PERFORMANCES BATTED SECOND
NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCES
RESULT
Pridwin vs WHPS Pridwin 115 - 4 K Badenhorst 28 WHPS 113 - 6 A Groves 2-14 Won
Pridwin vs Whitestone
Whitestone 57 - 10
J Irwin 3-11 Pridwin 153 - 6 Z Essop 44 no N Halstead 32 no
Won
Pridwin vs St Charles
St Charles 163 - 10 N Rogan 4-58 in 21 overs
Pridwin 132 - 10
N Halstead 62 Lost
Pridwin vs Bishops
Bishops 140 - 9 N Halstead 3-17 Pridwin 142 - 4 N Rogan 41 K Badenhorst 32 no
Won
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1ST TEAM VS ST JOHN’S Monday 17 February 2014
TEAM BATTED 1ST PERFORMANCE BATTED 2ND PERFORMA
NCE RESULTS
1ST Pridwin 145/3 K. Badenhorst 47 J. Irwin 44
St John’s 146/7 Lost
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CRICKET FIXTURES Wednesday 19 February 2014
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TEAM BATTED 1ST PERFORMANCE BATTED 2ND PERFORMANCE RESULTS
U10B Pridwin 120/8 O. Sagar 32 Fairways 72 All out
Won
U11B King David 126/4 Pridwin 90/4 C. Houston 32 Lost
3RD King David 123/6 Pridwin 115/6 J. Flower 39 Lost
4TH Fairways 95/8 G. Banda 4/15 Pridwin 96/9 Won
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ST VINCENT'S MOTHER HUBBARD CUPBOARD
Thank you for all your support with the breads and spreads every Tuesday and for the offers of donations to St Vincent's. For those who have asked about the "wish list" we will be able to communicate this to you in the next couple of weeks. We would like to do a collection for St Vincent's Mother Hubbard cupboard. If you are able to help in any small way, they would really appreciate it.
No name brands are perfectly acceptable.
Please bring items in small sizes as the children have to carry these donations.
Please do not bring any expired items as we are not able to donate this.
Please bring your donations to Joseph in the office. If you have other items that you wish to donate please also bring them to Joseph in the office.
Please can you bring your donations by Friday, 7 March. Grade 7: Boxes of Knorrox powdered soup Grade 6: Bars of soap Grade 5: 1kg packets of sugar and/or packets of biscuits Grade 4: 250g ricoffee tins and/or boxes of Trinco/Glen teabags Grade 3: Packets of pasta Grade 2: Tins of jam, peanut butter and tubs margarine (they are desperate for margarine) Grade 1: Tins of anything (veggies /meatballs /corn /beans/etc) Grade 0: Sweets (NO CHOCOLATES as they melt) eg packets of small fizzers/ suckers/ sparkles/ fruit chews - any sweets with wrappers If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Many thanks Tracy Tel: 083 675 6031
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THE 2014 PRIDWIN RUGBY 7s
SUPPORTERS JERSEY &
MINI RUGBY BALL ARE HERE !
Stocks are limited, so please complete the order form below and hand it
to Joe or Simmy at the school office together with your cash or proof of
payment.
These high quality, slim line, Barbarians rugby jerseys, are made by the
same people who make our first team jerseys. If you would like a fitted
shirt, order your regular size, if you would like a more comfortable fit,
select one size bigger.
You can try on a sample jersey in the school shop or next to the
Hot Dog Sales gazebo.
I would like to order ____________ Pridwin 7s supporters jersey/s. Child’s Name: _________________ Class: ______________________
Parents Name: ________________ Signed:_____________________
Payment Option : School Account _______ Cash _______ EFT _______
Banking Details : Pridwin Parents Association, Nedbank, Branch Code 197 705, Acc. No. 1958 231 525, Ref : R7 + Surname + Grade
SHOW YOUR COLOURS! ORDER NOW!
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