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Dear Parents
Our annual Go-Kart Races and the International Food Fair last Friday was a
huge success, primarily because of the wonderful support from everyone,
thank you! The Food Fair and the Go-Kart races far exceeded my expectations
this year. While I was overwhelmed last year by the magnitude of the event, I
made sure that I enjoyed the evening this year interacting with as many of our
parents as possible.
We refined the Go-Kart Races this year and the event ran very smoothly.
Thank you to all the parents who made sure that there was a go-kart available
for their class. We once again had a wonderful selection of go-karts ranging
from traditional to a six wheeled ‘BIS Tank’.
The racing was electrifying and every scholar from the youngest to the oldest gave it their all in an attempt
to win the prize for their Key Stage. While this is a fun activity, there certainly was a lot of competition and
it was great to see the classes rallying together in an attempt to win. Herewith the results from the Go-Kart
races:
KEY SYAGE 1
Year 1KC
Year 1JdW
Year 1 AC
Year 2J
Year 2C
Year 2dP
LAPS
3
4
5
6
7
7
KEY STAGE 2
Year 3P
Year 3F
Year 3H
Year 4S
Year 4W
Year 4N
Year 5A
Year 6C
Year 6M
LAPS
6
7
8
7
9
9
4
7
8
HIGH SCHOOL
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
LAPS
10
14
13
12
11
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The winners of the Key Stage 1 and 2 groups received their prizes on the day of the races, thanks to our
Parents Association. The winners of the High School group will receive their prize from the Parents
Association on Tuesday this coming week.
With the increase in our scholar numbers, the Parents Association had to prepare a lot more food to ensure
that we did not run out of food on the evening. I would like to thank the Class Representatives and parents
for their help in ensuring that this food was prepared and ready to be served on the day. I was very
impressed with the decorations, it certainly set the tone for the food that was being sold but more
importantly I was amazed with the standard and taste of the food on sale. We also welcomed our local
Spar to this year’s Fair and I have to thank them for the generous donations. We look forward to working
closely in future years as well as eating more of the scrumptious food they prepared.
A big thank you to the Parents Association, under the leadership of Mrs Vanessa Dreyer for all the hard
work leading up to the Food Fair. The success of the Food Fair is a reflection of the time and dedication
that our Parents Association give to Blouberg International School. Thank you for everything that you do
for us!
COMPILED AND CREATED BY:
Marcelle Curry
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MR ANDREW NORRIS
PRINCIPAL
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Pre-Reception Pet Week
During week 10, the Pre-Reception classes have been learning about Pets. They have
done numerous art activities and even made a cat mask which they used during
fantasy play. They had a wonderful time climbing and chasing one another –
pretending to be cats and kittens. The students were also very brave and presented a
‘Show and Tell’ to their peers about their own pet that they have at home. All the
students were confident shared some very interesting information. You can be very
proud of yourselves, well done!
By Kim Hahn
Pre-Reception Teacher
KEY STAGE 1 ARTS and CRAFTS
Every Thursday afternoon a small group of Year 1 and 2 students enjoy an hour of creativity
at the Arts and Crafts Club. During this time the students relax and use their creative skills
and talents to complete a variety of projects. Their first project was to make a mask. The
students were given free reign with glitter, sequins and feathers and they made masks that
would have been the highlight of a masked ball.
Other projects the students have enjoyed are foil art, paper mosaic, making an aquarium
and a felt picture. Next term we are looking forward to new and exciting projects.
Ann Cordner
Year 1 Teacher
Chloe Smit 8 years, Maia Davies 7 years, Layla
Noble 7 years
Back row: Maia Davies 7
years, Layla Noble 7 years,
Aiden Brandt 6 years
Front row : Hannah
Petersen 6 years, Ava
Vermeulen 6 years, Traigan
Bristow 7 years
Hannah Petersen and Gabriella Davids
both 6 years
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Key stage 1 care about other children in need
As part of our social responsibility this term our Key Stage 1 students partnered up with
Paarl School, a special needs school in Durbanville, by collecting food to feed those in
need during the holidays.
Paarl School is a special school for children with neurological or brain disorders and specific
learning problems. It is a small school of just under 400 students. Approximately half the
students have exemptions from school fees due to their families financial situations. Of
these, 30 families live well below the breadline of less than R20 a day for their whole
family. These students receive sandwiches from the school every day during term time, but
during the weekends and holidays the parents need to provide meals and unfortunately
are not able to. These students go through a 10 day school holiday period with very few
meals.
Some of the groceries donated by our students
Our Year 1 and Year 2 students collected an enormous amount of non-perishable food
items such as mealie meal, sugar, pasta, long life milk, canned food, flour, jam, peanut
butter, powdered soup, rice, 2 minute noodles, biscuits, oil and samp
We are overwhelmed by the generosity and kindness shown by our students and their parents, we are very proud of all your efforts
and want to say a big “Thank You” for your incredible generosity.
Well done Year 1’s and Year 2’s you have shown the important values of caring, sharing and helping others who are in need.
Miss Joynt
Year 2 Teacher
Our Year Two Island Home Models
On Friday, 27th March our Year Twos were bursting with excitement when they
came to school with their materials to create and build their own island home
model, as we are learning about “Life on an Island”, specifically Madagascar, in
Geography at the moment. In class we have been looking at the differences
between living in Cape Town and living on an island and we have been looking at
how children’s lives in Madagascar are different to ours in South Africa. We have
been looking at the way of life there, which includes food, clothes, games, houses,
etc.
Our Year twos had to design and make their own island home in the classroom!
Here is some of their beautiful designs.
By Mrs L Du Preez
Year 2 Teacher
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Foundation Stage Steering Wheel Race
This year it was decided that the Foundation Stage would run races holding a steering wheel on Founders Day, 20th March
2015. Starting with Pre-Reception and moving onto Reception, each class ran a boy’s and girl’s race as a heat. The excitement
was palpable as each group waited for Mr Matthee to start the race. The winning children from each race were entered into
a mixed final. Vrithi Maharaj from Miss Hahn’s class came first in the Pre-Reception final and Willow Duvenage from Mrs
Hartung’s class won the Reception Year final. The winning classes were presented with ice lollies from the PA and each child
received a fizzer for participating.
By Bronwen Hartung
Reception Year Teacher
Pre-Reception with their steering wheel’s, ready to race
Mrs Menton's boy's race
Miss Crawley's girl's race
Mrs Hartung's girls, waiting to race
Reception Year final race
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Pre-Reception final race
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HABITATS & FOOD CHAINS
The students in Year 4 DW have been enthusiastic about digging for
organisms in their natural habitats. The students were required to create a
‘Food Web’ display and were very successful and presented various Food
Webs. I was impressed with their effort and creativity. Well done, super
stars!
Megan Williams & Rylee Howes both 9 years
By Mrs Dani Wood
Year 4 Teacher
Tyler Hanning 9 years
Rylee Howes 9 years
Megan Williams 9 years
Liam Gardner 9 years
Ryan Barker 9 years
Protea
Spirit
It has been lovely to share the spirit for our Protea’s.
We have loved wearing green and gold in support of
our cricketers and my students appreciated the regular
score updates. It has been fun and exciting!
By Mrs Wood
Tia du
Plessis
9 years
Jasmin Mc Gahey, Tia du Plessis,
Mbali Bani all 9 years
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The Tennis teams enjoyed a productive season during the first term. For the
first time Blouberg International entered two teams into the Primary
Schools Tennis League. The tennis players were enthusiastic and tried their
best in every match.
They displayed good sportsmanship qualities as they encouraged each
other through the season. Our tennis players showed much progression and
we look forward to the forth term as they will compete in further matches.
Well done team and best of luck in term four’s fixtures.
By Mrs Kate Sissons
Tennis Coordinator
The start of the 2015 cricket season was a very positive one.
The players have shown great improvement over a short period of time. Our
fielding was excellent majority of the time and our bowling is going from
strength to strength! When it came to batting we showed great courage and
mostly made very good score.
I feel positive about U/9 cricket and I'm sure we will have an even better end
of the year.
By Mr Richard Wood
U/9 Cricket Coach
BIS U/11 CRICKET TEAM ENDS SEASON UNBEATEN
The U/11 cricket team of BIS ended the first half of the season unbeaten.
Although we had some easy wins there were also some tough games and
good schools we played against. Some of these schools include Van
Riebeeckstrand Primary, Elkanah, Parklands College and CBC.
Congratulations to these players for showing great team spirit and
sportsmanship.
By Mr J Harrison
U/11 Cricket Coach
Our U/13 cricket team played 6 matches during Term 1 and won 4 of them.
We are very proud of our team, especially with so many of them still U/11.
Our boys have grown in confidence and played very competitive cricket at all
times. We are gradually gaining strength in all aspects of the game and it has
shown in all the matches.
A big thank you and well done to all the U/13 boys for a very good season.
Thank you for all your hard work and enthusiasm. I am looking forward to
Term 4 for more good cricket. Thank you to our parents for always supporting
us in numbers.
By Mr M Matthee
U/13 Cricket Coach
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BLOUBERG INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL VS
WESTERFORD HIGH
19/03/2015
SINGLES
BIS SETS
WESTERFORD
RESULTS: POINTS TO
THE SCHOOL
1. Ryan Murphy
6
1
BIS 2 - WEST 0
2. Ludidi Gogotya
4
6
BIS 0 - WEST 2
3. Aidan Vermeulen
6
0
BIS 2 - WEST 0
4. Maurice Theart
2
6
BIS 0 - WEST 2
DOUBLES
BIS SETS
WESTERFORD
RESULTS: POINTS TO
THE SCHOOL
1. Ryan Murphy
2. Ludidi Gogotya
6
0
BIS 2 - WEST 0
3. Aidan Vermeulen
4. Maurice Theart
7
6
BIS 2 - WEST 0
BLOUBERG INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL WINS 8 - 4
We are proud to announce the following
students have been selected to
participate in the U/11 District fixtures
programme on Sunday 29 March 2015 at
Victoria Cricket Club.
 Matthew Petersen
 James Hart
 Daniel Schlacher
Please remember to bring along a
certified copy of your birth certificate on
the day.
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Weekly Diary
Monday 30
March
BIS
KS1
Spelling Bee
Tuesday 31
March
BIS
KS2
Spelling Bee
Foundation Stage 11:00
Wednesday
1 April
KS1
11:30
KS2
12:00
High School
12:30
Students
leave early
ASSEMBLY TIMES
Monday
8am
High School
Senior
Hall
Tuesday
8.30
PR - Y2
Junior
Hall
Thursday
8am
Y3 – Y6
Senior
Hall
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
Mgcotyelwa, Lakheni
Bam, Ulilo
Bowley, Cameron
Nabe, Umi-Nathi
Lott, Katherine
Barrow, Skye
Hart, Isabella
Stoyanova, Mimchaela
Gangat, Nadhir
Lafember, Reneilwe (Rene)
Melapi, Qhayiya
Mpofu, Treasure
Mata, Munashe
Lukusa, Jeremiah
Maharaj, Adithya
Brandt, Aiden
Kingswell, Jared
Parker, Adam
Ferns, Isabella
Velev, Ando
Robinson, Leah
Abbott, Grace Bella
Chivaka, Faith
Naidoo, Darshan
Munro, Jessica
Munro, Holly
Chetty, Tesia
Barber, Sally
Finotti, Alessandro
Cocca, Chiara
McQueen, Anna
Qokela, Wonke
Onochie, Mmesoma
Thomas, Declan
Ferns, Jack
Bezuidenhout, Mia
Matthee, Mia
Camara, Madison
McKay, Caleb
Bani, Mbali
Cordner, Ann
Carolissen, Edna
Calhau, Donna
Fourie, Yvette
Coller, Neil
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