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Die wind in die baai het gaan lê Die wind in die baai het gaan lê en rondom het dit oor Houtbaai, oor Kampsbaai en by Seepunt wit koppe bly waai. Maar, in die baai het die wind gaan lê: alles wil toegesluit lyk – byna veilig -; en ‘n seun het in ‘n blikskuitjie [...]

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T O Honiball  Thomas Ochse Honiball was born on 7 December 1905 in Cradock. He attended school in Stellenbosch and did drawings for the school magazine. He studied architecture at the University of Cape Town (until 1926). In 1927 he continued to study commercial art in Chicago, where he was introduced to American cartoons. On [...]

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Images: http://roseandchess.lib.uchicago.edu/chess.html “When you see a good move, look for a better one” (Emanuel Lasker) In real life…when you want to do something good…try something better instead!   Chess can be used, at least indirectly, as a component of character education. Michael Potts, “Chess and Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Chess and Education: Selected Essays from the [...]

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  image: artfiles.art.com Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years Memories What kind of memories flash through your mind if I  ask you about your childhood?… I think we all have some wonderful memories [...]

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I think enough has been said about our planet and what we should do…I think it’s just a case of everybody should do their bit and make sure you do it well. On the links in this post you can find different activities and I’m posting one activity only… this one is taking place in [...]

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This is quite interesting… I do sometimes watch the Simpsons…but overall I’ve always thought it’s not a good program for children. People have different views and values in life. What do you think? CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has forced U.S. cartoon “The Simpsons” off its airwaves, calling the show a potentially bad influence on children, [...]

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Man in the News: David Beckham I don’t have anything against football… I will watch it, only if it’s the world cup, only then and I won’t watch all the countries and if I miss a game, it’s not the end of the world…but,  I love rugby, won’t miss one single world cup game and when I’m [...]

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  Your mothertongue is part of your culture. Wherever you go, it will be part of you. You can’t just “drop” it and say….it’s not part of me anymore…Like a switch which you turn off…..and one….  culture is you…it’s not the type that you grow in a petri dish…but I think some people need to “grow” their [...]

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A Test for iron! http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Click on the image for a larger view! This is a fun website…Toondoo.com…..you can create your own cartoons..like mine! easy to drag pictures….try it out! It is fun…even more for kids!! http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Ok, this article dates back to 2004! But still, that shows you that SA was NEVER that behind with Maths as earlier reports said, I think it was in the middle 90′s! I mean, our Maths couldn’t pick up THAT fast!!! If you read the report of the 90′s, you will see which parts of [...]

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Click on images to read… By reading this article, I first thought, when I saw the link…”oh no, must be in South Africa”….and then….following the link….goodness gracious!!! America!!!!! THE country….of all that think they are well clear of “racism”…wow!! Read here the article of the first one further… Second article can be found here..… http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Follow this link to read more… Read this article on the BBC’s sitetoo…. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Chris from My kop op ‘n blok inspired me to write about Peer Gynt. I read his post about Peer Gynt and that took me back to my secondary school when I was 14. Our music teacher discussed the story about the music/play of Peer Gynt, composed by Edvard Grieg. I loved it, and “Anitra’s [...]

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“Two Frogs” is a fantastic book. I want to share this book today and by doing this, do my “good deed” for today! I love books, even more, children’s books! I’m slowly busy building up a library! I used this book with great success during Philosophy lessons… Firstly, the pictures in this book…just look how [...]

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This is the Lasker painting…and I’m trying to find more information about it! I do wonder what happened to this school! This article was written in 2004! Checkmate in sight for chess villagers By Michael Leidig and Oscar Kornyei in Stroebeck, Germany April 9, 2004A German village with a 1000-year-old tradition of playing chess is [...]

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DUH!!!

WE KNOW (click on link here)THIS for AGES!!!!Wake up Britain!!! You are a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY!!!!!!!! The evidence has always been cleared!! Read THISon Yahoo…. As a teacher…I’ve always asked parents NOT to give their children these sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks and other rubbish….when I know their children are a bit hyper….this is really NO [...]

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Scroll down for a bit of English… Y5 taster trip…for the Y6 trip in the new year. Hierdie was ‘n uitstappie met die twee Jaar 5-klasse – my klas was ‘n gemengde klas, dus was dit 1 1/2 klas en nie twee volledige klasse nie – om vir hulle ‘n voorsmakie te gee van die [...]

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This is the school which my grandpa started. The original school is actually about 2 km down on the road (and my mum only told me that afterwards!) What I knew was, that he started the school in his very own house! I will have to go back next time to the original place! It [...]

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I want to save this link to come back to it later! Best book if you’re a teacher in a Primary School. Readhere more about learning disabilitiesand the different types. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Boris Spassky, one of my favourite chess champions! Click for more World champions and a  chess poem Click here for Class Tools http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Update: Oct 2008…these images were much larger, but due to the dead link! they also disappeared from my blog, but I could still save them from Google images, although they are now smaller, but you can still make out at least what they looked like! Wow! I hope they are still having it! Well done! [...]

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This is Annette, Head of Department of the Junior Phase. She’s a very caring person, will stretch herself to lengths to have something to eat for everybody for any reason! Always busy organising food-stuff for any simple occasion! Here, I caught her red handed with the scones! I arrived a bit earlier than I said….she’s [...]

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Here are the children’s work….Rap and 2 songs, all done by them with some small changes done by me. I wish I could record their singing and post it here! Both songs were also written by the same children. Click on the image for a larger view. Tomorrow…last day!! One week and we’re going to [...]

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Schools

Interesting reading….follow the link at the bottom read more… The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, last week announced a raft of proposals for the country’s beleaguered schools.The spin was classic New Labour: for teachers, “greater flexibility” in the classroom; for parents, more focus on the basics; for the country, sickened by targets from the cradle to [...]

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http://library.thinkquest.org/C0119204/pandora.html   Prometheus was a Titan who really liked humans. He helped them in any way he could. When he saw them shivering at night and eating raw meat, he knew they needed fire. But the gods did not allow man to have fire. They knew that man would misuse it and destroy with it. [...]

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We got our SATS results! Well, must say we are very proud and the Headteacher is over the moon. Our children did great and we feel good! My class did some “recycling” all morning…..we used plastic bags to make pom poms to go on to a sculpture for the Thames Festival in middle September. That [...]

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Looking at this video, you can see what the spirits in our Schools are like, children and teachers alike. St Peters is a Secondary School in Johannesburg http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Athletics always takes place in the first term of the new school year…which is January-March. In Primary as well as Secondary schools, all children take part…even if they are not an athlete. We have teams and children who are less athletic, got to put in e.g. team C or D….as long as they get the [...]

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Paul Klee said..”A line is a dot that went for a walk”…and this was just me being silly! Paul Klee Art Enjoy the art of Y5/6 children in the style of Paul Klee. We looked at different pieces of Art completed by Paul Klee and discussed it,  then tried our own ideas in the style [...]

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I had a boy in my class in 2001 that had dyspraxia. If you are a parent and you want to know more….follow this link. http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/services/ad_symptoms.php http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Kent

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Our trip to the Arethusa Adventure Centre was really an enjoyable one! The children really enjoyed themselves. This was only a taster for what they can expect on their Y6-trip next year in January. They all are very excited and want to come back. Have a look at our activities and how they enjoyed the [...]

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Outstanding

Heard today that my “last minute informing of a lesson observation”, was OUTSTANDING! Coming from the Headteacher plus a Literacy Consultant….I really feel proud…not only of what I ‘ve achieved, but my kiddies were really fantastic with their drama. I acted out a character and they had to do the same/similar with their character…. heard [...]

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Today was quite relaxing, after yesterday at home with PPA. PPA is the 10% of “free” time British teachers get per week to do all kinds of admin/marking/planning…things you usually just don’t have time to do during other times. Sadly, most of our PPA-time gets used for “training”, which is most of the time a [...]

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The Piano http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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The Lion and the Snake The lion and the snake were fighting. The snake escaped the lion’s claws before the lion could kill it, and fled to the man’s house. The snake begged the man to hide it because the lion was pursuing it. The man hid the snake in his cupboard and the lion [...]

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Download Unanana’s story here and listen to it…. http://www.barrycarl.com/wr_unanana.htm http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears…. Fantastic book…. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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Learn Afrikaans

http://www.mieliestronk.com/phrase1.html They say it is in 10 minutes! http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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HMS Exeter

We were lucky….when we went for our BRASS-project to the HMS Belfast…the Exeter was there and we were allowed on it for about 20 minutes… This post is under construction, pics will be added again….July 08 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

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As part of Refugee Week, we were looking at refugees and had a great discussion about the difficulties they have in different parts of the world, how they feel and what their needs are. Some children in our school come from those countries in Africa where circumstances forced them to flee their countries. Read the [...]

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