Junior School

Dear Parents

We are at that time of year when we are counting days (16 to be exact)! We break up and parents break down……... What a tough year it’s been and yet again we find ourselves returning your precious cargo back into your hands. Book them into as many holiday camps and activities as you can to help you survive the 7-week holiday and share parenting with other parents. When my children were little and the holidays were endless, a group of 5 of us moms rotated mornings of having all of our children - that meant 4 mornings to ourselves and one where we have 5 children to entertain - certainly worth it!

I have included a few good reads in this newsletter - one on technology addiction and the other on Generation Z - both worthwhile taking the time to read and think about.

The Talent Show is looming - exact dates are the 23rd November (Grade 1,2,3) and 24th November (Grade 4,5,6, and 7). I will be doing rehearsals for all the Grade next week - please don’t get involved or allow your daughter to stress about this - it is PURE FUN and they certainly aren’t expected to do their acts perfectly - it’s just an opportunity for the girls to dance and sing and be silly and have lots of fun together - at the end of a pretty dreadful year.

With warm regards to you all and strength for the last month

Gabby Cloete

The following article written by our Librarian and Life Orientation teacher Brigid van der Westhuizen gives us some serious food for thought about technology addiction - a very real issue that parents all over the world find themselves fighting and the new pandemic that we will most probably be faced with in the future.