LIVING VALUE:HUMILITY AND SIMPLICITY

Dear Parents / Caregivers

"Every day should be made as simple as possible but not simpler" (Albert Einstein).

This is the challenge for Parents and Educators, how do we keep the lives of our children simple yet enriched? I read today, with great sadness, that a 15 year old boy died of a heart attack while sniffing "toilet air freshener" in order to get "high".This is called "huffing".For me, opening the lines of communication in the home is the most important tool we have.Talk to your children with love and support.

The term is quickly drawing to a close, but it has been a busy and successful term.Our learners all wrote the ANA's and we are fairly satisfied with the results, although we did experience some problems with the quality of the questions in some papers.

ANA RESULTS -2010 GRADES

These are the grade averages and cannot be compared to "Matric Statistics".The Management and Educators are very pleased with these results, there has been a steady improvement over the last couple of years.Once I receive the National and Provincial averages, I will circulate them to you.Thank you for the support you gave your children during this testing.A report on your child's performance in the ANA's will be given out with the 1^st cycle report next week.

SCHOOL FEES:

All outstanding fees need to be paid by the 22^nd of March 2011.Please ensure that you quote your child's full name and surname on the deposit slip or as reference on your EFT payments.Often money has been in our suspense account as we do not know which school fees account we should allocate it to.

IMPORTANT DATES:

18^th MARCH-PHOTO DAY - ALL LEARNERS TO WEAR CORRECT SUMMER UNIFORM

21^st MARCH-Human Rights Day - Public Holiday.

22^nd MARCH-The Wold - braai and reports.

24^th MARCH-Parents' Evening Reports can be collected from 15H30 - 17H00, this

will be followed by the by-election for the SGB.We ask all parents to

stay and support the elections.

VERY IMPORTANT

I will be travelling to San Francisco on 20^th March to attend the "Leaders in Educators" Conference.I am looking forward to reporting back to you about the International Trends in Education.Mrs Kotwal will be Acting-Principal during my time away.

SUPPORT SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS TEAMS - T-SHIRT:

It has become very expensive to keep buying the different sports code T-shirts to wear on special days.At Saxonwold we would like to show our support for our country, so the Sports Committee has designed a T-shirt which can be worn for all special days!The T-shirt is on display in Mrs Varie's office.

Cost:Kiddies: R85.00Adults: R100.00