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YEAR END JAM: Stirling Primary School’s music pupils performing to a full house at the Guild Theatre on Tuesday, November 8. Picture: FAITH MTWANA

Music pupils give sterling performance

Stirling Primary School’s music department presented a spectacular end-of-year show at the Guild Theatre on Tuesday, November 8. Performing to a full house, the pupils, accompanied by the school’s six music teachers, presented many crowd…

CONGRATULATIONS: From left, PNA Stationers store manager Elmarie Krouse, GO! & Express representative Wendy Kretschmann, overall winner Catherine Schroeder, PNA mascot Penny, marketing manager Maryke Fuls and PNA Stationers sales representative Matthew Krouse Picture: CAMERON KRETSCHMANN

Winner’s ways benefit children

PNA’s Back-to-School colouring-in competition WITH school holidays having been extended, a challenge for many parents and guardians remains how to keep young children happily occupied. Thankfully Penny, the monkey mascot from PNA…

TURNING AROUND: Motivational speaker Jarryd Smith speaks at George Randell Primary during the ‘My2nd Chance School Tour’ Picture: SUPPLIED

‘How I turned my life around’

“I looked at the world through the eyes of of fear. I was looking for a purpose, but I was looking for it at the wrong places. I was investing myself into my problems, but not into my purpose.” Those are the words of Eastern Cape-born,…

Join Stirling Primary for fun theatre production

Audiences are invited to join Stirling Primary School at the Guild Theatre from Thursday November 1 to Saturday November 3 for their production of Miranda and the Magic Sponge by Pieter Scholtz. Tickets will be R70 per person. The cast…

Stirling Primary School does well this week

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Stirling Primary to celebrate first reunion

STIRLING Primary School will host their first-ever reunion on August 17 where the Class of 1973 will indulge in memories of yesteryear. Organiser Cheryl Botha (formerly Moll) said such an event had always been on her wish list. “After…

CHECK MATE, BROTHER: From left, Stirling Primary School brothers Sebastian and Samuel Chang show off their wonderful achievements at the recent South African Junior Chess Championships. Picture: SUPPLIED

Chess brothers have the moves

STIRLING Primary School chess champions, Samuel and Sebastian Chang, recently took part in the South African Junior Chess Championships in Johannesburg where they both excelled. Competing against 14 players from all over the country,…

STIRLING ACT

Stirling Primary School drama pupils did extremely well at the Buffalo City Drama Eisteddfod. The school congratulated the top award winners in Grades 4 and 5, above Picture: SUPPLIED

BRIGHT SPARKS

At the Grade 2 District Mental Maths Competition recently, Eden Stead from Stirling came first, Shanae Rensburg, right, from AW Barnes Primary came second and Tatiana Human from Grens came third. Well done Grade 2 girls Picture: SUPPLIED

Stirling Primary choir scoops national awards

By Qaqamba Magadla The Stirling Primary School choir took third place and its song, Emlanjeni Yelele, was voted the best African song at the annual ATKV Applous choir competition in Pretoria last week. The competition is one of the…

GOLD AWARD

The Stirling Primary School choir received a gold award, came third in their section and received the top award for their traditional African song at the ATKV Applous Choir Festival, national finals in Pretoria recently Picture: SUPPLIED

ITSI talk on improving teaching methods

ITSI’s chief executive, Lieb Liebenberg gave an informative and critical presentation on effective teaching methods for the 21st century at the East London Golf Club recently. Starting out five years ago, the digital teaching technologies…

WINNING SMILES

The winners of the PnA/GO! & Express ‘Colour Penny’ competition were chosen last week from over 40 great entries from children. The winner of the competition is nine-year-old Holly de Bruin from Stirling Primary School (in green shirt)…

WORDLY ACCLAIM: Congratulations to Clarendon Prep School pupils Sisipho Silwana (Grade 2) and Ogi Mbude (Grade 3) who had their artwork selected for the 47th World Children’s Art Exhibition in Taiwan. Their art was selected as part of 50 entries from South Africa.

Schools on the GO! in November

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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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