Mandela Day and Birthday - all in one week!

On Thursday 18 July we celebrated Mandela's Birthday with an assembly where we sang Happy Birthday, prayed for him , sang the National Anthem and read a short version of his life. The children all brought coins and arranged them around a sketch of him that I made. The money was for charity and we raised R518 for a local soup kitchen which provides meals for the hungry people of our town.My children also wrote a simple message to him wishing him well and happiness for his Birthday - these were so sweet!

On Friday 19 July Stepping Stones School turned 37 years old and again we celebrated with songs and a beautiful Birthday Cake!

The Elephant is our school's logo hence the cake had to have an elephant's head on it!

A wonderful week of celebrations - Well done Stepping Stones!

MIA - Highlights of the last few months.

I cannot believe it was February when I last blogged - where has the time gone?
Highlight for March was definitely a cruise on the Opera to Namibia - what a beautiful country!

This was followed by our school's annual Ellie Fair - a fun day of food, games and lots of work for staff and parents but most enjoyable!

We then had a "What I want to be when I grow up" day. It was heartening to see how many kids want to be teachers!

Term 2's highlights included our music day with Sue Fawset who taught us so much about musical instruments in 1 hour that the kids were spellbound.

We also had our annual South African Braai for South Africa Day. Hard work but lots of fun!

The childre made and presented their first project - a weather measuring device which had to be made from recycled materials and they did themselves proud!

Well I certainly hope that quick catch up will get me motivated to keep more up to date!

I'm off to do some scrapbook work now!