May/ June10: South Africa visit
It was great to see our friends from Dihlabeng Christian School, Free State, South Africa:
Scroll down for photos and vidoes from the week
Welcome Assembly, Why South Africa is great and the Diski Dance across the school Click to view the photos and videos - additions 13 June under Diski Dance 2
Dihlabeng Diski Dance with Year 4
Our friends from South Africa taught us how to do the Diski Dance (the South African World Cup dance). We almost got there in the end! Click to view all the photos
Intra-house Rounders Tournament with Year 5
After a busy morning year five took advantage of the lovely weather and played an intra-house rounders tournament. Miss Wilson and Mrs Feline were impressed by the team spitit and enjoyment from everyone.
A hugh thank you to our guest players, our visitors from South Africa who between them scored 5 rounders! Well done to Brunel who won the tounament!
Click here to view all the photos
What a Treat with Years 5 and 6
We have some visitors in school from our link school Dumelang in South Africa at the moment. This afternoon they taught our years five and six children (and adults) a very tricky world cup dance.
Thank you so much from 5MW and 5KF March 10 See the Fabulous photos of our Friends in South Africa Click here or the images Nov 09: 1989 - 2009 - Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The International Day of the Child
- 20 November 2009
A message from Dihlabeng School in South Africa Click here or on the images
09/10: The new Dumelang Club
June 09: Enterprise Event
We have been raising funds for our school by organising an Enterprise Event.
Take a look at our stalls! Click here
The Red Oaks Dumalang Team: Summer 09
March 09: Children's Rights and Responsibilities
In Year 6 we have been carrying out surveys to find out about the rights and responsibilities of children in different countries.
We surveyed 60 children in Red Oaks, 60 children from Dihlabeng Christian School (A township school in South Africa) and 60 children from Cairo Modern English School (MES Cairo - a Private school just outside the centre of Cairo in Egypt.
Feb 09: Miss Menzies and Miss Llewellyn in South Africa
As you know a small team of Red Oaks teachers visited a school in South Africa over half term. Miss Menzies and Miss Llewellyn had a fantastic time teaching the children some of your favourite lessons from our healthy eating topic and we came back with lots of ideas for next term’s topic – can anyone guess what it might be? The children were really pleased with their toothbrushes and sent a big thank you to you all for your donations. Here are some photographs for you to enjoy!
Feb 09: Miss Menzies and Miss Llewellyn leave for Africa!
Jan 09: A short gardening report from Anyway
Over the December summer holidays the weather here was fortunately very rainy so there was no need to water the vegetables. However, weeds competed with our vegetables and we had to come several times to weed. I did this with a few of the club members namely Phokela and Sebatane. Of all the crops the covu is the one that is struggling the most. Some of the bean plants were eaten by cows over the holidays (well that's what we think because they have just disappeared!). The spinach (Swiss Chard) is doing very well as you will have seen from the photos. We are ready to stake the tomato plants now as they have also grown very well. In the second week of school we will be able to harvest some of the vegetables such as the carrots and the beetroot.
Aut 08: It's Spring in South Africa Dihlabeng Gardening Club are getting busy.
Spring in October is time for planting in their vegetable garden.
Mokone, Sebontane, and Lefu and their teacher who is called Anyway,
are preparing the vegetable garden soil ready for planting.
The vegetable plot is quite stony but the soil is good.
They will be planting spinach, carrots, beets and tomatoes.
There are chickens roaming near the school they must build a fence
to keep them out and stop them pecking the seeds.
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