Dear Parents

Helping Little Ones Build Resilience

(Inspired by Twinkl)

At preschool, we celebrate every small step children take as they learn, explore, and grow. One of the most valuable skills we can nurture in these early years is resilience — helping children bounce back from challenges, adapt to change, and keep trying when things don’t go as planned.

Resilience doesn’t mean children won’t face difficulties. It means they’ll have the tools and support to handle them with confidence. When we model calm, celebrate effort, and encourage problem-solving, we’re helping our little ones discover that they can do hard things.

🌿 Here are a few simple ways to build resilience at home:

• Give your child time to try solving small problems on their own — a little struggle builds confidence.

• Talk openly about mistakes and show that it’s okay to start again.

• Let your child see you handle stress calmly — they learn most from what we do.

• Praise effort, not just results.

• Keep those warm, loving connections strong. A secure relationship gives children the courage to try again.
  
  

💬 Gentle phrases that help:

“It’s okay to feel upset.”
“You can do hard things.”
“Mistakes help our brains grow.”
“Let’s figure this out together.”
“Every time you try, you’re getting stronger.”

Resilience grows slowly — through play, encouragement, and love. Each time we help our children try again, take a breath, or believe in themselves, we’re building something beautiful for their future.

Cake Sales – A Monthly Treat!

Each grade has the opportunity to contribute to a cake sale, and the children eagerly look forward to their special treat. We ask that cupcakes, popcorn, crisps, muffins, etc., be sent to the class on the allocated cake sale date. Please ensure all items are nut-free and do not include sweets.

To keep appetites in check, we recommend that children spend no more than R2 at the cake sale. You may send R2 on the day in a sealed envelope/packet or prepay for the term (R6 per term, R24 for the year).

31 October:   Grade 00 Cake Sale 

We appreciate your support in making our Cake Sale a success! If you would like to contribute by sending in baked/bought goods or snacks, please complete this form.

Cake Sale Contributions 

We have space for 8 parents to help sell treats on the day. If you would like to volunteer, please complete the form below.

Cake Sale Parent Volunteer Sign Up 

Thank you for your support!

Zoo to the Sea Concert Tickets (Grade 000, 00 and R) 

There is much excitement at school as we prepare for our concerts on Wednesday, 5 November, and Thursday, 6 November. Tickets are R60 and will be debited to your account. 

- Wednesday, 5 November from 09h00 - 10h00 in the Junior Preparatory Amphitheatre 

- Thursday, 6 November from 09h00 - 10h00 in the Junior Preparatory Amphitheatre 

Please complete the following form to book your unreserved tickets: 

Zoo to the Sea Concert Tickets Order Form 

Grade R Graduation

The parents of the Grade R learners are cordially invited to attend the Graduation Ceremony in person on Friday, 21 November, at 08:45. There is no limit on the number of attendees; all parents, grandparents, and special people are welcome to attend this special event and morning.

The children are involved in the entire ceremony going up and down. 

Updated 2025 Shows 

INTERACTIVE CIRCUS SHOW: 28 November (ALL GRADES)

Learners will be treated to a 30-minute ground-based interactive circus show - a high-energy performance including juggling, slapstick comedy, a circus spinning pole act, acrobatics, rolling ball and balancing acts, and ending with a spectacular group human pyramid finale.

The amount of R45 will be billed to your account.

WONDERDAL EDUTAINMENT CENTRE OUTING - Tuesday, 25 November (GRADE R ONLY)

Wonderdal offers a unique and engaging experience for learners, featuring six interactive indoor stations—Story Caves, Health Kitchen, Wonder Garden, Play Time, Kora, and Tinker Workshop - where each station is guided by a facilitator known as "The Wonderpal." These stations cover topics such as different forms of energy, the five food groups, photosynthesis, and listening skills. 

The learners will be transported in Springbok Atlas busses to and from the outing. Each class teacher and their classroom assistant will accompany the children for this outing.

Departure time from school: 08h15 - Arrival at Wonderdal: 09h00

Departure time from Wonderdal: 11h15 - Arrival at school: 12h00 - 12h15

The amount of R240 will be billed to your account. 

Peek Into Our Week

Tiny Tots

What a cheerful week we’ve had! Our tiny tots enlightened the garden with their bright smiles for Class Photo Day and they looked absolutely beautiful all together in their group photo. Such a special moment to capture!

On Monday the Tiny Tots got to decorate a biscuit in celebration of International Chefs day. 

We also explored our creativity through painting to continue our Spring theme with expressing big ideas with colourful strokes, stamping and pasting along  with the sunshine on our side, water play was wonderful and further added to the spring theme it was a week full of laughter, splashing, and joyful memories.

We’re already looking forward to more adventures next week!

Tots 1

This week in our classroom, we continued our exciting journey learning all about Spring! The children explored the beauty of the season through a creative and colourful art activity, making their very own butterflies.

We began by mixing different colours of paint onto one side of a piece of paper. Then came the fun part, folding the paper in half and pressing down to see the beautiful patterns appear when it was opened again! The children were delighted to see how the colours blended and created their own unique butterfly wings.

Once our butterflies were dry, we made a special background using bubble wrap as a stamp. The children loved dipping the bubble wrap in paint and pressing it onto their paper to make interesting textures and prints. This activity was a wonderful way to strengthen their fine motor skills and creativity while exploring colours, patterns, and the joy of springtime art.

Our classroom is now filled with beautiful, bright butterflies, a perfect way to celebrate the season of growth and new beginnings!

Tots 2

The Tots 2 thoroughly enjoyed celebrating International Chefs Day by decorating yummy Marie biscuits! 🍪 A big thank you to Chef Kerry for all the delicious and nutritious meals you prepare for us each day — our little tummies say thank you! ❤️

The Tots 2 also ventured out to the 100 Acre Wood Garden, where they had a wonderful time playing in the pirate ship and chasing their friends. The air was filled with love, laughter and joyful giggles, a perfect way to end a fun filled week! 🌿⚓

Grade 000

The Grade 000 have had a very exciting week!

We loved celebrating Chef Kerry on Chef's Day by making chef hats and icing our own biscuits. Thank you, Chef Kerry, for all you do for us!  

We have been enthusiastically practising our concert songs and are super excited to perform for everyone at the year-end concert.

We have loved the warm spring weather and took the opportunity to cool down by running through the sprinklers on the grassy banks in the driveway!

Our magical theme on books continues. We’ve been learning new words like title, author, illustrator, and many more. Some of our little ones have even decided that they would like to be authors and illustrators when they grow up! At the art table, we are busy creating our very own “Very Hungry Caterpillar” books. We continue to enjoy reading our favourite books from home during story time, and we’ve even had some spontaneous puppet shows with the class puppets! There’s something truly timeless and special about books — they hold endless learning opportunities and are wonderful for sharing quality, joy-filled moments. As Dr Seuss so beautifully said, “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book!”

Honey Bee's House

This week, we celebrated International Chefs Day with our amazing Chef Kerry! She planned such wonderful activities for our little ones, from colouring and creating their own chef hats to icing and decorating biscuits. It was a day filled with fun, laughter, and delicious treats! A big thank you to Chef Kerry and Assistant Chef Rita for all that they do to make our days so special. 

In class, we explored opposites and created an exciting Agamograph showing day vs. night. The children were absolutely delighted by the “magic” of their creations coming to life!

We’ve also been practising writing skills and shape recognition, supporting important areas such as fine motor development, phonemic awareness, and letter and shape formation. These foundational skills help our curious Honey Bees grow in confidence as they continue learning through fun and play! 

Pooh Bear's House

Celebrating Our Wonderful Chefs! This week we celebrated Chef’s Day, a special time to say a big thank you to our amazing Chef Kerry and Chef Rita for the endless hard work they do for us in the kitchen each and every day. We are so grateful for the love, care, and effort they put into preparing our delicious meals.

To mark the occasion, we had great fun decorating yummy Marie biscuits with 100s and 1000s, marshmallows, Smarties, and colourful icing—and then enjoyed our creations as a sweet treat! Thank you, Chef Kerry and Chef Rita, for all that you do to keep our tummies happy and our

hearts full! 💛‍🍪

Kanga's House

This week in Kanga’s House has been roaringly exciting as we travelled back in time to the world of dinosaurs! We became little palaeontologists (that’s a big word for dinosaur scientists!) and learned about some amazing dinosaurs like the Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brachiosaurus, and Velociraptor. We discovered that some dinosaurs ate plants while others ate meat, and that fossils help us learn what they looked like millions of years ago. During Show and Tell, everyone shared their favourite dinosaur toys, pictures, and facts. It was wonderful to see how much we’ve all learned and how excited everyone was to talk about their favourite dinosaurs!

We also had lots of fun getting a little messy while making our very own clay fossils. We used small dinosaur toys to press into the clay and make amazing footprints and fossil shapes, just like real palaeontologists might find in the ground! Our classroom looked like a mini fossil dig site. To finish off our prehistoric week, we danced to some fun dinosaur songs, stomping, roaring, and swishing our tails like real dinosaurs. It’s been a week full of big roars, big smiles,and big learning in Kanga’s House! 🦕🦖

Outreach

Join us in our October/November Outreach Drive!  All donations will be shared with the Grace Foundation to bring hope and support to those in need in our community.

Please drop off all items at Reception.

International Chef's Day 

Spring Quarter 2025 

Spring Quarter Important Dates 

SPRING QUARTER:

31 October: Grade 00 Cake Sale

6 November: Happy Birthday Cassandra Mönnig

7 November: Happy Birthday Erin Liggett 

5 November: Grade 000 - R Concert 09h00 – 10h00 (Inclement weather, 7 Nov)

6 November: Grade 000 - R Concert 09h00 – 10h00 (Inclement weather, 7 Nov)

6 November: Happy Birthday Cassandra Mönning

7 November: Provisional Grade 000, 00 and R Concert 09h00 - 10h00 

12 November: Happy Birthday Khanyo Rafisa-Tabo

16 November: Happy Birthday Tali Maltz

19 November: Grade R Graduation Rehearsal 

20 November: Grade R Graduation Rehearsal 

21 November: Happy Birthday Brenda Dingile 

21 November: Grade R Graduation 08:45 - 11:00

25 November: Grade R Outing: Wonderdal Edutainment Centre (All Grade Rs)

28 November: Interactive Circus Show in the JP Amphitheatre @09:30

28 November: Grade 000 and Crackerjacks Cake Sale 

1 December: Class lists released 

2 December: Disney Dress-up and Class Parties 

3 December: Reports sent to parents 

5 December: Last day of the quarter - School closes at 11:00 

Spring Quarter Theme Discussions

2026 Information 

2026 Grade R Information (Current Honey Bee's, Pooh Bear's and Roo's House) 

The Grade R stationery kit for 2026 as detailed below is payable via Credit Card, Direct Deposit or EFT to Waltons, before Friday, 12 December 2025.  The kit will be used daily to promote handwriting, literacy and numeracy in an informal and fun manner within the classroom. The paid stationery will be delivered to the school and issued to your child’s class teacher before the Summer Quarter 2026. 

Grade R Stationery Letter 

Grade 1 2026 Information 

On these days as well as PE days the learners may come to school dressed in their PE Kit. Please note that the learners all swim in their classes during PE. If your child is unable to swim, please enrol them in a reputable swim school. Class specific timetables will be shared by the teacher and the sporting and extramural programme on offer will be sent to parents in our Weekly Memo. 

Please refer to the Welcome Letter, Frequently Asked Questions, Stationery and Textbook (Caxtons) letter and list as well as Uniform (sport clothes are worn at least twice a week) and iPad Requirements and Discount Voucher. Books DO NOT need to be covered as the children will make the covers in class and the teachers will cover the books with the slip-on plastic covers. In addition to this please ensure your child has a combination lock, an old T-shirt to use for art and a set of headphones compatible with their iPad. Books DO NOT need to be covered as the children will make the covers in class and the teachers will cover the books with the slip-on plastic covers. In addition to this please ensure your child has a combination lock, an old T-shirt to use for art and a set of headphones compatible with their iPad.

Welcome Letter 

Frequently Asked Questions 

Grade 1 - 6 Device Requirements 

Device discount voucher

Uniform Requirements 

Grade 1 Waltons List 

Grade 1 Stationery Letter

We look forward to meeting you at the Orientation/Parent Meeting on Friday 16 January and welcoming our Grade One learners to the Junior Preparatory on Tuesday 20 January 2026. 

Second-Hand Uniform Requirements

Please contact Tania Fourie if you would like to buy or sell good quality second-hand uniforms.  She is also the supplier of Froggy School shoes. 

 
Contact details:  +27 83 631 7683 or tania@sportstudio.co.za

First Additional Language

Our Grade 1 - 3 learners have a choice between Afrikaans FAL and isiXhosa FAL. Please click on the link to complete the form: First Additional Language Choice 2026. If a selection has not been made, it will be assumed that the learner will attend Afrikaans as their First Additional Language.

CONGRATULATIONS 

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with you, Nurse Dolley (Amy) and Josh are expecting a new addition to their family! 💛

Big brother Zac must be feeling extra proud as he prepares to welcome a little sibling into the family. We know that Amy and Josh’s home will soon be filled with even more laughter, love, and precious moments.

Please join us in congratulating Amy, Josh, and little Zac on this joyful news, we can’t wait to celebrate this special blessing with you. 

Conclusion

A Friendly Reminder About Drop-Off and Pick-Up

We’d like to thank all our parents for helping keep our drop-off and pick-up times smooth and safe. A little patience and consideration go a long way!

• Please remember to wait for your turn and be mindful of other cars at the entrance.

• Give each other space and time, especially in the mornings when traffic can be heavier.

• Our children are always watching us — how we behave teaches them how to be patient, kind, and respectful.

Thank you for helping us keep the school environment safe, happy, and welcoming for everyone!