FROM THE PREP DESK
Dear Parents, Boys and Girls
I strongly believe that schools are not just about academic education. This is not what makes the world go round; other qualities such as social and practical skills are essential for sane living and for getting ahead in today’s world. Values such as integrity, generosity, courtesy, compassion and understanding the place of spirituality are of primary importance to our children leading fulfilled and ultimately successful lives as human-beings. I believe in a curriculum that offers holistic development that is varied and exciting, and that creates learning opportunities for each and every individual within the school.
Having said this, I feel it is important, both as teachers and parents to encourage our children to become involved as fully as possible in the life of Felixton College. This includes both the academic, cultural, sporting and social spheres. By doing so and by using all the opportunities available to them, I believe our children will continue on the road to becoming happy, confident children able to handle all situations life may throw at them.
Robert Fulghum believes that all you need to know about how to live and what to do, you learn at Kindergarten. These are the things he learned:
• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don’t hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your mess.
• Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
• Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware or wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we.
It is in this vein that I reiterate the need for each child to become fully involved in all Felixton College has to offer.
And finally, congratulations to all who helped make the Rugby Festival such a success. It was wonderful to meet new people and see new faces.
CRAIG McILRATH
PREP SCHOOL BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Happy birthday to: Leesan Moodley – Grade 1 – 2/5/2010
ACHIEVEMENTS........JORDAN GRAVEN (Grade 6) wins a trophy for "Junior's biggest fish of the year 2009"at Meerensee Boat Club. He caught a 16.9 kg Giant Kingfish, off Richards Bay with a small flick stick using a Daiwa Excella 3500 reel.
TWINSTREAMS TOUR – GRADE 6 AND 7
We had great fun on our tour with many laughs. Some of our activities were an obstacle course where our teamwork and logic came to good use. On the second day we had a 12km walk. 6km to the lagoon where we had lunch, played a game to make a picture of the impact on the environment and then went canoeing and mudbaths where we learned about the mangrove trees and their differences and all the crabs living there. Then we walked back to camp. At night our teachers gave us interesting games to play like 30 seconds. Lots of fun was had and I think we all want to go back again soon!
Laura Hunt – Grade 7
Twinstreams was so much fun. The food was lovely and activities challenging. We had two guides and two groups. I was in the Tigers with Junior and the others were in the Monkeys with Sakie. Junior loved to give us motivational speeches and Sakie loved to blow his pink whistle. If I must say myself… the food was better than home! We walked 7km on the beach to get to the lagoon and the mangroves. We went canoeing and swam in the mud with crabs and snails. Then we walked 7km back again. When we got back we had a shower and played games until 21:00. The next morning was good-bye. We all shouted thank you. The previous night we made cards for them. It was so sad to say good-bye, but we had to, so we left.
Michelle Hammar – Grade 7
MEASLES ALERT
Please be advised that there are 2 cases of measles in the community. You need to consult your doctor/clinic if you have any concerns and remember that your child will be requested to stay away from school, as measles is highly contagious, only to return once the doctor has given his blessing.
PREP SPORTS RESULTS
Congratulations to the following learners who have been selected for the Northern Coastal Hockey Squads:
U12 Jade Dicks, Robyn Swift, Matthew Leslie, Euan Keeley (reserve)
U13 Micayla Prozesky, Ruben Kok, Damon Welsh, Jordan Graven, Michael Dalais, Sheldon Getkate
Well done, boys and girls!
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
LITTER BUGS
The Grade 11 Life Science and Geography groups picked up litter along the sides of the road for 1 km along the Western bypass of Empangeni, on Thursday 22 April. The rationale behind the exercise was to monitor the effect of litter thrown out of vehicles in a non-urban area. 75 black refuse bags were filled by the hard-working group. This amounted to 120 kgs of roadside litter, mainly in the form of tin cans and bottles. Hopefully we would have made an impact on some of the people using the road. It was worth it; even if one person learnt from it!
FELIXTON COLLEGE RUGBY FESTIVAL
Thank you to all who participated in and assisted with the 4th Felixton College Rugby Festival we hosted over the long weekend. 10 schools participated in this event and the organisation involved in feeding, laundering rugby jerseys, transporting, making up goodie bags, sleeping and chaperoning 250 players/coaches, is a massive undertaking. All this was executed with the usual Felixton College flair and “attention-to-detail”, which was reflected in the feedback forms we received from the other coaches: Martin Miller (Howick High School) “You have a great school – lovely to see such a wonderful TEAM effort!!!! Great to see a “Gelled” Staff. We were made to feel welcome from the moment we arrived”.
Mr Schutte (St Peters, Johannesburg) “Very worthwhile exercise and great organisation. Would love to come back next year!”.
Our Felixton boys played their hearts out and gained wonderful experience from the festival. Many times they play against schools with 4 or 5 times the number of boys in their schools and yet we continue to put up a fight. We would like to wish David Raphael, our 1st team 8th man, a speedy recovery from the shoulder surgery he underwent at The Bay last week.
RESULTS:
Friday, 23rd April
Felixton College 20 vs Dainfern College 27
RBCS 0 vs St. Peter’s College 48
Pongola Akademie 10 vs Howick High School 14
Grantleigh 3 vs Clifton College 25
RBHS 14 vs St. Patrick’s College 0
Saturday, 24th April
Grantleigh 21 vs Howick High School 16
RBCS 20 vs St. Patrick’s College 0
RBHS 15 vs Dainfern College 20
Felixton College 7 vs St. Peter’s College 36
Pongola Akademie 5 vs Clifton College 11
Monday, 26th April
Pongola Akademie 7 vs St. Peter’s College 7
RBCS 10 vs Dainfern College 13
RBHS 13 vs Howick High School 20
Grantleigh 43 vs St. Patrick’s College 0
Felixton College 6 vs Clifton College 47
KZN U16 HOCKEY
We are so proud of Xabiso Lupuwana, Grade 10, who has made the shortlist of 26 players for the KZN U16 Hockey Team.
WEEKLY DIARY : MONDAY 26 APRIL – TUESDAY 4 MAY 2010
Thursday 29 April
U16 and U18 Rugby Trials at Mick Kelly Park 13:30
Friday 30 April
U9, U11 and Junior Open Netball Festival at Veldenvlei Complex
GRADE 5 CAKE SALE – sends lots of money!
Grade 11 and 12 – visit from Standard Bank 09.30
Saturday 1 May
Pongola Winter Sports (H) – U11 – Senior Open Girls Hockey, Netball and Rugby
U9 Mini Sports day at Grantham Park (U9 Girls Hockey, Boys Rugby)
Sunday 2 May
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Monday 3 May
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Tuesday 4 May
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