Dear Parents, Friends and Staff
With the Easter Weekend looming I must urge all our parents, students and staff to be safe if they are travelling at this time. The roads are becoming increasingly dangerous over holiday times so please take extra care.
Brian
FOUNDATION PHASE DROP OFF AND COLLECT
Please note that from Tuesday 23 April we will be introducing a change in the drop off and collection of learners from the Foundation Phase. This is being introduced to improve the safety and also the efficiency of the drop off and collection of learners. We really need your cooperation here. Please look at the diagram below for details.
- Drop off and collection is now one way and Parallel to the Foundation Phase wall and gates running northwards.
- VERY IMPORTANT Please make sure your child has all his/her school bags ready for drop off so as not to back up traffic.
PARENT MEETINGS
Many thanks to the many parents who made the effort to attend the recent parent meetings. Effective teaching and learning is a three-way partnership between the teachers, the parents and the Learners and its vitally important the interaction between all three is encouraged.
Sport
Food for Thought
Recently, I met up with some old chums and our chat reminded me of the story about how life can sometimes be like a cup of coffee…
The story goes something like this…a group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about the stresses in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups…and then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this: life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. So savor the coffee, not the cups!”
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
Have a good weekend
Brian