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Spring Week

23 Sep 2021
Spring Week Our delayed start to the physical classroom in Term 3 got off to a happy one. The school was buzzing with the arrival of all the pupils including the Foundation Phase children, who literally skipped into school. On Tuesday, 7 September, the Std 2 children arrived in colourful spring...

Library News

03 Jun 2021
Library News In Library lessons we are providing children with a time in their school week to pursue reading as a pleasurable activity. In these worrying and stressful times, we are trying to make Library lessons not only worthwhile, but fun. Literacy activities in weekly Library lessons enrich our...

St Peter’s Winter Warmer Campaign

03 Jun 2021
St Peter’s Winter Warmer Campaign The St Peter’s Winter Warmer Campaign, run by the Std 6 year group, has been a remarkable success this year, despite all the difficulties that people are going through. We have received an outpouring of support from the Thornhill community, who never cease to amaze...

Prefects 2021

03 Jun 2021
Prefects 2021 Congratulations to the following children who have been selected as prefects for 2021: Chiche Mpoloka, Kagello Malumo, Amy Williams, Kathryn van Tonder, Joshua Steenkamp, Lorato Ramsden, Srivats Sivaramakrishnan, Esné Campher, Lefa Ziga, Joshua Bonna and Matthew Arthey. We will...

School Upgrades & Maintenance

25 Mar 2021
School Upgrades & Maintenance We were able to complete the following projects during the last holiday, as part of the classroom renovations as follows: - New aluminum doors in Std 4. - New doors and flooring along the Std 7 corridor, which includes the two learning support rooms. - New doors in...

Std 3 Recorder Workshop

25 Mar 2021
Std 3 Recorder Workshop The Std 3 children took part in a recorder workshop to give them a good grounding in recorder playing. The children learned many techniques, lots of music notation and also worked on rhythms using the drums. This year’s workshop was done differently. In the past, we invited...

Wacky "Hair" Wednesday

25 Mar 2021
Wacky "Hair" Wednesday A bad hair day! What a way to start a Wacky Wednesday! Our little children were excited to show off their crazy, cool hairstyles. Most of the hairstyles and colour managed to last the ‘wacky day.’ We look forward to the next Wacky Wednesday ‘Wardrobe Day.’ A few comments from...

Dr Seuss

25 Mar 2021
Std 3 & Dr Seuss On Friday, 5 March, the children in Std 3 celebrated Dr Seuss’s birthday. Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known by his pen name, Dr Seuss was a writer and cartoonist, who published over sixty books. He published his first children’s book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry...

Std 6 Spelling Bee

25 Mar 2021
Std 6 Spelling Bee Well done and congratulations to the following children who were placed in the top three in their year groups at the Spelling Bee this year: Std 3: 1st – Quentin Bechmann (3W) 2nd – Ivanka Puvimanasinghe (3O) 3rd – Adam Meyer (3P) Std 4: 1st – Goutham Suresh (4S) 2nd – Vihren...

Std 4T Fantasy Writing

15 Jul 2020
Std 4T Fantasy Writing In Std 4T, one of the themes we have covered in English, this term, is Fantasy writing. The children enjoy this topic and their Creative writing is wonderful. The Magical Journey Extract by Raeesa Hoosan 4T A long time ago, before the world was very old there was a rain...

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