NEC ASPERA TERRENT . EMBRACING NEW FRONTIERS
Second Term Gallery 2009
Date : 6th May 2009



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Tickie Aand
St Andrew's Prep School ended the 2nd term with the traditional school 'Tickie Aand'.  It's an evening of fun and games which the children love! Parents, teachers and St Andrew's College volunteers work hard to provide entertainment, games and may delicious treats to eat for all the children whom attend.
    

Art & Music evening and Farewell to Bruce White
Mr Bruce White has taught at St Andrew's Prep School for 18 years as a much loved, Grade 5 teacher, rugby coach and housemaster. As he and his wife Grace leave to go and teach abroad, the school honoured him at a recent Art and Music evening, where the theme was 'Sing for Africa'.  The boys sang various songs wonderful to him and Mr White himself wowed the appreciative audience school with his own singing prowess.  We will miss you Mr White!
     

Children's Art Festival July 2009:
     

Grandparents Day 19 June:
     

K Day 20 June 2009:
     
     
      

Ali-Baba and the Pizza Eaters
St Andrew's Prep Grade 7 boys put on a colourful and hilarious musical pantomime recently called Ali Baba and the Pizza Eaters. They had to taken on the roles of woman, robbers, belly dancers and the good the bad and the ugly, a camel with 2 humps even made an appearance. The boys sang, they danced and they had ball, all under the musical direction of Mrs Carmen O'Donoghue, HOD of the Prep Music Department. 
       

 Achievers:
These boys all achieved distinctions in external exams set by the IEB for Maths, Science and English.

Youth Day June 16th:
St Andrew’s College, the Diocesan School for Girls and St Andrew’s Prep, the family of three schools, celebrated Youth Day in style on Tuesday 16 June. The theme this year was “Know the past, pursue the Future”.  The pupils of the three schools put together a fun-filled and entertaining programme and the Guest Speaker was Mr Athol Trollip of the DA. The Heads of all the schools were presented with gifts. Youth Day celebrations formed part of the Open Day held at the schools. Many local people, as well as visitors from far and wide, visited the schools’ campuses and the day culminated with a lunch at The Highlander.

       

Democratic Elections at Prep
The Grade 6 class from St Andrew's Prep School took their lessons on democracy to a new level this year, with the boys splitting into groups to form the own parties. The parties had to launch their own campaigns, register to vote (with their own ID books being produced and stamped) dand o campaign speeches on the official voting day.  Grade 6's and 7's had the privilege of voting. Here the 'elected party candidates' are seen with their posters before Voting Day!

       

Happy 60th Birthday Oatlands Prep School! 
4 ex-Oatlands boys from St Andrew's Prep School, together with Mr Gooden, visited Oatlands School on Monday to wish them Happy 60th Birthday. They handed over a gift of shrubs and plants for their newly established garden.  Seen here are Grade 3 boys from Oatlands together with Mrs De La Mare from Oatlands.   Oatlands and St Andrew's Prep have enjoyed a long standing relationship over many years.
  

Rugby vs Grey 30 May:
      
  

2010 Scholarship Winners:
Jonathan Avis and Leith Hobson have been both awarded  Blackburn Scholarships to attend St Andrew's College in 2010.  Congratulations boys!

Albany Hockey:
Seven St Andrew's Prep Boys have been chosen for the U13A Albany Hockey side for 2009. Hugo de la Fargue, Steven Briscoe, Chris McCarthy, Rex Blaine, Alex Chungu, Xolile Mdlokovana and Angus Charter. Congratulations boys!
 
EP U13 Hockey: 
Congratulations to these 3 St Andrew's Prep boys who have been chosen to represent EP in U13A Hockey. Hugo delaFargue, Alex Chungu and Steven Briscoe.

Well done to Rex Blaine, Chris McCarthy and Xolile Mdlokovana for being chosen for the U13B EP Hockey team for 2009.

Eisteddfod May 2009:
Congratulations to the Gold certificate winners:
Jack Brunette, Jayden Pienaar, Rahul Gopal, Dylan Kathoke and Henk Viljoen
 
Double Gold! Mrs van Rensburg and her Grade 3 class from were thrilled to receive a double gold award at the recent Eastern Cape Eisteddfod held here in Grahamstown.  They entered into the choral verse section and their poem was called 'Aliens on vacation'. Well done Preppies!
 

Rugby vs Gill:
      
     

Rugby vs Muir:

Go Yellow Day for Hospice 22 May 2009:
                 

Rugby vs Cambridge 16 May 2009:
          

The 2 Grade 6 classes visited Esigeni near Grahamstown for a 2 day outdoor education trip, the second trip away for them this year.  They had a wonderful time, while being challenged on a 6 hour hike, learning about nature in all its forms, cutting down alien trees and not to forget the fun times spent having mud fights, canoeing and sleeping in tents.  It was boy heaven indeed!  They were accompanied by teachers Karen Hobson and Graham Gooden
      

U11B vs Graeme College 9 May 2009 (Photos Marion Holmes):
    

Bathurst Show Art Competition April 2009:
Congratulations to the following Junior and Senior Preppies who did so well in the Bathurst Show Art Competition.  We were thrilled at the number of Gold (10) and Silver certificates (13) awarded as well as the many Highly Commended (16) stickers placed on our pupils art and pottery entries.  Well done to all the boys and girls.
 

TENNIS WINNERS:
St Andrew's Prep School and DSG Junior School took part in the Knysna Primary Schools Festival hosted by the Knysna Sports School recently.  The U13 A team from DSG and Prep won the tournament over all, a fine achievement as they played against 8 other strong sporting schools from the Western and Eastern Cape. Congratulations go to: Ashley Farrington, Jessica White, Keiran Witthuhn and Christopher McCarthy.