Last year, our school did better than ever: out of the 28 children who wrote the Swaziland Primary Certificate exam, we achieved 15 merits, 12 first class passes and one second class pass.

Well done, Grade 7!

Today we split the Grade 6 and the Grade 5 classes into double streams and they moved into their new classrooms.

And we have started our own Grade 0 class. The teacher is Margaret Daglish. The class is being run according to the Montessori system and the 20 little ones are really enjoying the new approach.

This year we have added a sports/physical education teacher to our staff: Teacher Dale Mark.

We also have Sensei Wandile teaching Karate and Stephanie Pfeiffer teaching ballet

at the school in the afternoons.

Last week The Little School staff took Christmas boxes to a rural school in Hloloshini.
The pupils from The Little School had brought gifts to the school for children of the same age. Each “shoe box” contained: something to play with, something to eat, something to wear, something to read and something sweet.
The boxes were gift wrapped and labelled with a Christmas greeting for a boy or girl of the same age. We had enough boxes for every child at the school. There are 42 orphans at that school, cared for by the community and the headmistress, Mrs. Mkhwanazi.
So, a big thank you to the children of The Little School for making so many children happy.

News for the end of the term,

The End of School Concert and Prize Giving.

This will be held on Friday, the 28th November, at 10 a.m.
Everyone is welcome. Please do come.

Parents may collect their child’s school report after the concert.
And this will be the last day of the school year.

We wish you all a very happy and safe holiday with your children,
and all our very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

We are planning to have a Grade 0 class at the primary school from next term.
We will house the little ones in the existing staff room.
This is a lovely, airy, big room with its own toilets, for boys and girls, and a kitchen,
which will give us such scope. The children will be able to paint and cook and have a really
fun time during their first year at “Big School”.
Frances, who created the playroom at Never Never Land at Corner Plaza, will plan the layout
and do all the decorating.
The Teachers have kindly agreed to move into one of the new classrooms when they are completed.

The concrete slab for the new classrooms has been cast and hopefully the classrooms will be
completed by the beginning of next year.

On Friday the two senior classes held a cake sale. They sold hot dogs at break and cakes and sweets after school.

Thank you, Grade 7 and 6 for your wonderful generosity. You brought so much…enough to feed the whole school. Thank you, Frances, for setting up the stall so beautifully and thank you to all the teachers who did all the selling, and to the aunties for cleaning up afterwards. Thank you, thank you!!

And, thank you, the rest of the school, for spending so generously. Thank you, parents, for giving your children so much pocket money.

The cake sale realised E4310.00. This will go a long way to finishing the grass on the football field and the netball field and will bring us a little closer to having a marimba band.

Well, dear Parents,

So much for our effort to form a Parents’ Association!

We personally invited the 20 or so parents who expressed willingness to join and called a meeting last Thursday evening.

One parent attended – Mr Hwaire. Thank you very much for coming, Mr Hwaire.

Mr Hwaire came all the way from Matsapha and stayed until 7 p.m. Teacher Simolline and I really enjoyed chatting with you. (Tanaka Whaire is one of last year’s merit pupils and is now doing very well at Waterford.)

Apologies were received from two parents – thank you, Mr S’khumbuzo Tsabedze and Mrs Lomalungelo Dlamini.

Dear Parents and Teachers and Pupils

It looks as though this heavy rain is going to continue, so there will be no school tomorrow.

I am really sorry about that, but we will make up the time lost during the holidays.

Please keep looking at the website.

We now have a landline at the  school.

The number is: 00268 24111823

At the moment we are madly planting grass on our recently levelled football field. Every couple of days I go down to Vickerie’s to buy 3000 plugs of grass. We can only manage 3000 every two days.

We are going to get our PTA set up very soon.

We are going to have parents’ evenings for the parents to chat with their children’s teachers. We will stagger the evenings so that we don’t have problems with parking.

We are also planning morning tours of the school, where we will invite the principals of the various pre-schools and the parents of children who will be going to grade 1 next year.