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Issue: 13/2018 Page 1
“School Readiness” can be defined as follows:
This progression is imperative and we need to ensure it is a positive experience which will not adversely affect a child’s attitude to learning. While researching trends for the world our children will be facing and in line with the essential skill of team work, it becomes apparent that the ability to work in a global environment will be critical for success in all aspects of life. On Saturday, 4th August, I had the pleasure of attending our College Dance show - ”Out on the Edge”. Many of the dancers started dancing in our Pre-Primary and under the instruction of Ms Lamb, our College Dance teacher, have developed into outstanding dancers within their own genres. The College now has 90 dance students from Grade 8 to Matric and as from 2018, Dance as a subject, will be included in the calculation of University APS. CONGRATULATIONS to all the dancers and Megan Lamb!
Crawford Pre-Primary School La Lucia
Ligh house
Dear Parents,
We would like to thank Mr Angel and the Foundation Phase teachers for inviting our Grade 0’s to participate in the Foundation Phase Cross Country. Our children thoroughly enjoyed the race and the chance to interact with Preparatory coaches and teachers.
All the photos are up on the D6
PARENT INTERVIEWS
I hope all our parents have had the opportunity to meet with their teachers or have planned to do so this week. Time with the teacher is most valuable as you have the opportunity to discuss any concerns or questions you may have in reference to the report. In the Interview the teacher will capture how the school will support your child further in their learning and also offer ideas as how you, the parent can support the child at home. This partnership is critical in ensuring your child develops the required skills and achieves their age-appropriate developmental milestones. The in depth evaluation of each child allows us to focus on the area of support needed to build the unique potential of each child. I urge all parents to really listen and apply the suggestions and recommendations you receive from your child’s Teacher. Currently we are doing our Grade 0 School Readiness Profiles to evaluate the readiness of our children to progress to Grade 1. Each child partakes in certain activities in a non-threatening manner during the school morning. This profile is just one of the tools used to evaluate a child’s development. Grade 0 parent feedback meetings will commence on completion of these Profiles.
Many of you may ask:
…. WHAT DOES SCHOOL READINESS REALLY MEAN?
Readiness is a stage in a child’s development when he/she can learn easily, effectively and without emotional disturbance. It is not a definite point in development, due to the fact that a child’s growth is ongoing, i.e. steady and continuous. Rather, it is a condition, or state, that indicates a child’s readiness to learn. School maturity is an aspect of school readiness. It is a process in which a certain physical condition is reached and maturity is established. Maturity cannot be forced and the expression that ‘one cannot ripen fruit by squeezing it’, holds true in respect of the maturational process.
Cindy Tribe
PRINCIPAL
ISSUE: 13/2018
MESSAGE FROM THE
PRINCIPAL
IN THIS ISSUE
1. Message from the Principal
2. ARTICLE: Why kids should go barefoot more
3. GLOBAL COMPETENCIES: See Think Wonder by
Grade 000A
4. GLOBAL COMPETENCIES: De Bono’s White Hat by
Grade 000R
5. Events Calendar
6. Kids and Traffic
7. Grade 0 Cross Country photos
8. Making houses for Owls
9. Important dates to diarise
8 AUGUST 2018
“The ability to move from the informal structure of Pre-Primary to
the more formal structure of the Preparation”
Issue: 13/2018 Page 2
WHY KIDS SHOULD GO BAREFOOT MORE (AND PROBABLY ADULTS, TOO)
During an unseasonably warm day this past winter, my husband
and I walked with our three boys to the playground down the street
from our house. As soon as we arrived, all three of our little boys
immediately shed the light jackets they had been wearing, along
with their shoes and socks, and took off, small bare feet pounding
and bouncing on the playground’s rubberized soft surface. It wasn’t
long before a few other children at the playground caught on and
attempted to remove their shoes and socks.
“NO!”, one mother shouted, “Do not remove your shoes and socks,”
she told her son. When he whined and asked her why not, she
simply stated, “We always keep our shoes on outside”. This was
nothing new; we have, for years, been the odd family out at the
playground, the ones who play chase, balance on a slackline
nearby, and practice handstands shoeless, sometimes all five of us
at the same time.
Two common reasons parents give for not allowing their children to
go barefoot outside include fear of injury to the foot, and fear of
picking up some unsavoury disease or illness through their feet.
Unless you are in a city where there is broken glass everything, the
likelihood of injuring one’s foot is minimal. As far as picking up an
illness or disease from going barefoot, our skin is designed to keep
pathogens out, and you are more likely to spread or contract an
illness through your hands (think public doorknobs, sinks,
keyboards and hand rails) where germs are most plentiful. Also,
children are much more likely to put their hands, not their feet, in
their mouths and touch their faces and eyes, where disease or
illness most commonly enters the body.
Kevin Geary, parenting guru, teacher and author of Revolutionary
Parent, a site dedicated to raising physically and psychologically
healthy kids, argues that shoes are actually quite bad for children.
Shoes destroy feet, preventing proper toe spread, which interferes
with the foot’s ability to function properly, and prevent proper
movement development, which can make children more susceptible
to foot and lower leg injury. The benefits of going barefoot,
however, are plentiful. One major benefit of allowing a child to go
barefoot is that it strengthens the feet and lower legs, making the
body more agile and less prone to injury.
By Lauren Knight
IN OTHER WORDS, GOING BAREFOOT HELPS A CHILD
DEVELOP BODY AWARENESS.
It also enhances proprioception, the sense of the relative
position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of
effort being employed in movement.
Geary explains that the nerves in our feet are sensitive (the
sole of your foot has over 200,000 nerve endings - one of the
highest concentrations in the entire body) for this very
reason; they make us safer, more careful and better able to
adapt to the ground beneath us, as it does when we walk on
uneven terrain, or anything besides concrete and pavement.
And finally, going barefoot is a job to the senses, especially to
young children who experience all the newness of the tactile
world around them. Think of the relaxing feeling of walking
on soft warm sand at the beach, the refreshing feeling of cool
dewy grass in the early morning of a summer day, the feeling
of slippery wet mud squishing between toes in the garden,
the feeling of rough bark of a climbing tree, the surprise at
the splash of a puddle underfoot. All of these sensations are
available when we allow our children to experience a bit of
shoe-free time.
Perhaps you should join us and kick off those shoes at the
playground and in the back yard.
ENJOY YOUR FEET AND WHAT THEY WERE MADE FOR!
Issue: 13/2018 Page 3
GLOBAL COMPETENCIES
What do you
SEE?A house Shivank
Leaves Jordan
A rollerskate Mia
Scooter Shiyi
Red Shoes Meha
A granny Yara
A Skater Zanda
Two buildings Meiko
Black bag Ryotaro
A dress Josiah
another bush of trees Humaira
A Jacket Allysia
A hat Layla
Going for a ride to the shops Shivank
She’s going to get dinner to put in
her bag Jordan
The scooter is going for a drive Mia
It is hot because it is sunny Shiyi
I think she is catching the ginger-
bread man Meha
She is scootering Yara
She is going shopping Zanda
She’s driving on a road Josiah
I think she is going to a restaurant Humaira
Going for a walk on a scooter Layla
What do you
THINK?
Where is she going? Shivank
Does she live in the house? Jordan
Where is she going? Mia
If she is getting food for her kitty? Shiyi
If there is stripes under her shoes? Meha
I wonder if she is smiling? Yara
I wonder if it is cold outside? Zanda
If she can buy something? Josiah
She’s on the scooter? Humaira
Is she going to a shop? Layla
What do you
WONDER?
By Grade 000A (Mrs Law)
Issue: 13/2018 Page 4
GLOBAL COMPETENCIES
They drive and have seats Sophia
They stop! Emir
They go up and down hills, racing cars are fast. Jeremy
They have seat belts on the seats Aarna
They have steering wheels. Meha
You sit in them Diyara
They have wheels and windows to see Reef
I have one at my house Andrew
They have steering wheels and wheels Amal
We go in the same car together all of us - don’t forget your
seat belts Sebastian
You get white ones, red ones, speakers, radio, good music … Luke
They have windows in the front and back Zac
They are different colours, you go places in them Maria
Cars drive, can open doors Madiha
FACTS
ABOUT CARS
By Grade 000R (Mrs Wadsworth)
WHITE HAT
Information & Facts
Issue: 13/2018 Page 5
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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2 3 4
Michelle de Croes
(Grade 00W)
5 Lighthouse News 13/2018
6 7 8
9 10 11 000 & PG
GRANDPARENTS
DAY
12 GR 00
GRANDPARENTS
DAY
13 GR 0
GRANDPARENTS
DAY
14 GR 0 Inter-house
ATHLETICS
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2
3 College Dance
Show @
18h30
4 College Dance
Show @
18h30
5 6 7 8
Lighthouse News 13/2018
9 PUBLIC HOLIDAY
10 SCHOOL
HOLIDAY
11
12 13 14 09h30-10h30
Grade 0 Fun Activity
Morning @ Astro
15
16 17 18
19 20 21 22 Lighthouse
News 13/2018
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GRADE 000 & 00 PARENT INTERVIEWS
GRADE 000 & 00 PARENT INTERVIEWS
NORTH DURBAN ART EXHIBITION @ VIRGIINIA PREP
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
Issue: 13/2018 Page 6
With our current theme being TRAVEL/ROAD SAFETY, we would like to remind parents about their OWN safety and especially THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN.
Child restraints / Seat belts are designed to support the child’s body and reduce the impact to the child. It also prevents the child from being thrown out of the vehicle. Parents and caregivers are urged to do the necessary research and make sure that their children are buckled up in the appropriate child car restraints for their age, height and weight at all times. Furthermore, AS ADULTS WE NEED TO SET THE EXAMPLE BY ENSURING THAT THE DRIVER AND ALL
PASSENGERS ARE WEARING SEATBELTS.
AGES 2-4 / UP TO 20 KGS
Forward-facing child safety seat. When children outgrow their rear-facing seats they should be buckled up in forward-facing child safety seats, in the back seat, buckled with the seat’s harness, until they reach the upper weight or height limit of their particular seat (usually around four years of age and 20 kgs).
AGES 4-8 / UP TO 1.5M TALL
Booster seat. Once children outgrow their forward-facing seats (by reaching the upper height & weight limits of the seat) they should travel in belt-positioning booster seats. Remember to keep children in the rear seat for the best possible protection (until they are at least 13 years of age).
REMEMBER AT ALL TIMES THAT YOU ARE THE PARENT AND YOUR RULES APPLY IN THE CAR FOR THE SAKE OF
YOUR CHILD’S LIFE!
Issue: 13/2018 Page 8
MAKING HOUSES FOR OWLS Help the Owl Rescue Centre collect bottles and plastic containers to
make houses for owls, bats and bees. Who knew that one could use recycled plastic bottles and
containers to build houses for owls, bats and bees!
It is important to recycle as waste has a hugely negative im-
pact on the natural environment. Recycling helps to reduce
the pollution caused by waste. You also can help save the
environment simply by doing your bit.
The Owl Rescue Centre is collecting bottles and plastic containers (and caps
too), to make houses for owls, bats and bees. Only two per cent of all plastics
used in South Africa are currently recycled, but the centre aims to change that
with the help of the community.
The Centre is a Non-profit Organisation based in Hartbeespoort. It is dedicated to protecting owls, rescuing owls that are in
danger, and rehabilitating and caring for owls that have been injured, are sick, poisoned or orphaned and releasing them
back into their natural environment using specifically researched release methods. The Centre is involved in several conserva-
tion projects to decrease the high mortality rate of owl species.
The Owl Rescue Centre was founded by Brendan Murray following a lifelong interest & passion
for birds of prey. Brendan spent most of his young life observing and studying birds. He came to
the realisation a few years ago that owls in particular need help to protect them from
becoming endangered, and so the Owl Rescue Centre was born.
Owls are very scarce in South Africa, so we should save the few we still have.
Here are some interesting facts about owls:
Did you know that owls are farsighted and are unable to clearly see anything that is within
a few centimeters of their eyes?.
The smallest owl weighs as little as 31 grams. The largest females are 71cm long, have a
wingspan of 54cm, and weigh up to 4,2 kg.
WE WILL BE COLLECTING THE
FOLLOWING AT SCHOOL : All plastic bottles, bottle tops & containers.
Rinse and squash them first please.
Plastic bags of any shape or form
You will find the Collection
Bag to your right at the
front of the school by the
Playgroup boundary fence
Issue: 13/2018 Page 9
NEWSLETTER ARTICLES: Has your child done something special, funny, cute or done something fun or different during the holidays … got a new baby brother/sister, new pet, etc. … please send us a photo with a short written note telling us about it and we will publish it in our newsletter!
Email to Karen on:
ktrennery@crawfordschools.co.za
CRAWFORD PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL La Lucia
79 ARMSTRONG AVENUE LA LUCIA
4320
(031)562-0057 www.crawfordschools.co.za ktrennery@crawfordschools.co.za
Formal invitations to follow, but please diarise the
following dates for our
11 SEPTEMBER
GRADE 000 & PG
12 SEPTEMBER
GRADE 00
13 SEPTEMBER
GRADE 0
WOMEN’S DAY 9TH AUGUST The holiday commemorates the national march of women on this day in 1956 to petition against legislation that required African persons to carry the 'pass'. On August 9, 1956, 20,000 women staged a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against proposed amendments to the act. They left petitions containing more than 100,000 signatures at prime minister J.G. Strijdom's office door. They stood silently outside his door for 30 minutes. The women then sang a protest song that was com-posed in honour of the occasion: Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo! (Now you have
touched the women, you have struck a rock). In the 60 years since, the phrase has come to represent women's courage and strength in South Africa.
The month of August is
now dedicated to women
2018
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