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The Hudson Park Primary Choir shows off their impressive vocal skills at the East London Port Rex Lions Eisteddfod  Picture: SUPPLIED

Schools Continue To Shine At Eisteddfod

Local schools proudly showed off their musical talents as the East London Port Rex Lions Eisteddfod continued this week. By the close of the second day, four Special Mentions (reflecting a mark of 90% or above) were awarded to Bradley…

GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Merrifield College students pupils cheer on the swimmers comepting in the school’s interhouse gala that took place at the school’s Debbie Lacey Swimming Pool Complex on Friday .Picture: PETER KING

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX: iCreate (innovation, creativity, research, engineering, arts, technology and entrepreneurship) has been launched at Merrifield this year to equip Prep School students with key 21st Century skills Picture: TRACEY MANGOLD

Merrifield launches iCreate

IN AN effort to celebrate and encourage individuality, creativity and innovation, Merrifield Preparatory School have launched iCreate, a pioneering classroom experience. iCreate, which means innovation, creativity, research, engineering,…

OR THE ENVIRONMENT: Merrifield Primary School Eco Club members with head teacher Chaylene Bachar, front centrefront. The bottles, stuffed with compressed plastic waste, are the eco-bricks made by the club members which will be used for the environmental awareness sculpture to be built on the school grounds Picture: MADELEINE CHAPUT

Eco club does it brick by brick

THE Merrifield Primary School Eco Club have been hard at work perfecting and popularising the environmentally friendly art of eco bricking in East London. Eco-bricks are constructed out of recycled two-litre plastic bottles and all sorts…

Eco club does it brick by brick

THE Merrifield Primary School Eco Club have been hard at work perfecting and popularising the environmentally friendly art of eco bricking in East London. Pictured is Grade 7 Eco Club member Hannah Richardson working hard on her eco…

MEDIEVAL FAYRE

The Merrifield Grade 5s had fun last Tuesday recreating the medieval-era for the annual Medieval Banquet held on the school grounds Picture: TRACEY MANGOLD

SWEET DONATION

Clarendon Primary’s Gittins House hosted a cake sale last month and all proceeds raised were donated to the Rising Sun Daycare in Duncan Village. Above are Gittins House representatives with Clarendon teacher Zola Ntuli, left, volunteer…

BEING BODY CONFIDENT

Motivational speaker and model Marciel Hopkins spoke about confidence and loving the shape you are in at Merrifield last Wednesday. She is pictured here, in red, with some of the Merrifield College pupils who attended. Bottom left is…

CHILLING OUT

Merrifield Grade 5 students Kelly Perks, left, and Rachel Mangold enjoy the school’s Spring picnic held recently in gorgeous weather Picture: TRACEY MANGOLD

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE

The Merrifield College Grade 10s enjoyed team building and bonding activities at a recent excursion to Hobbiton-on-Hogsback. Ethan Springfield, centre, gets a helping hand from fellow pupils.

ENGINEERING MINDS

Two teams at Merrifield College participated in both the Bridge Building and Aqualibrium competitions held by SAICE on Saturday May 5. The Grade 12 team of Dietmar Edumisa Welz, Russell Schwedhelm and Jeffin Thomas, as well as the Grade…

BIG ACHIEVEMENT: Richard Gordon, right, presents the Selborne College Dux award to Michael Koning at the school’s prize-giving held at City Life Church recently. In the background is vice-principal Max Norman.

Schools on the GO! in December

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RIBBONS OF RESPECT: The girls at Clarendon Primary School acknowledged the women in their lives who live out the school’s core values. The pupils wrote the names of these special women onto coloured ribbons and tied them to the school’s fence during August. Grade 5 pupils, from left, are Luca-Lee Boucher, Kirstyn Fritz, Emily Nass and Ambesa Ngobo.

Schools on the GO! in October

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WONDERFUL GIFTS: Chintsa-based African Angels Trust programme manager Lou Billett extended her thanks to the Grade 1s at Stirling Primary School who collected a pack of toothpaste, brush, soap and washer for each ‘angel’ at the school.

Schools on the GO! in August

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DAILY BREAD: Grade 7s from Donne Cadle’s class at Stirling Primary School assisted in making ‘Love Sandwiches’ – a project run by the Nahoon Methodist Church. Children are encouraged to bring an extra sandwich to school on a Tuesday, which should be made by the pupils themselves. Each week, one class has a turn to be on sandwich duty. Pictured making sandwiches for the less fortunate are, from left, Gabriella August, Jolene Smit, Chelsea Gallacher, Inam Metuse and Jade Wilson.

Schools on the GO! in July

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