PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER, VOL. 1 No. 13, 8th December 2006

Dear Parents and Guardians,

The Students of the Week ending 1st December 2006 were: Joy Mugo (Play Group), Anna Maina (Nursery), Alex Garath (Reception), Tamara Casanova (Y1), Alice Mikuhi (Y2), Oceane Cellier (Y3), Alex Canobbio (Y4), Zahur Baekholm (Y5) and Sangita Sharma (Y6). Well done everyone!

Last Friday Y4 had a very memorable and enjoyable day organised by Ms. Andrews. They visited the Turtle Watch Information Centre in Watamu and also the Turtle Hospital culminating in taking an adult turtle back to the beach to be released. The children were so interested and bursting with 'turtle facts' from their own research which they had done in their Geography topic "Looking after the Environment". They also had a swim and a beach picnic and were treated by Mrs. Rosafio to two Italian ice creams on the journey. It was a brilliant day! (Mrs. Dale). Attached to this newsletter is a report from Sean McGovern (Y4) and some photographs.

The Inter-House Rounders was played on Monday and the winner was Chui followed by Kifaru and then Simba. In the Inter-House Cricket which was played on Monday and Tuesday the winning house was Simba followed by Kifaru and then Chui. I would like to thank Ms. Andrews and Mrs. Jennings for organising the Rounders and Mr. Daniels, Mr. Dale and Mr. Gitau for organising the Cricket.

The House Points shield goes to Simba which kept a commanding lead all term. Chui came second and Kifaru third.

I would like to thank Mrs. Sassoon, Mrs. Jiwaji, Mrs. Miranda and the girls of Year 6 for the beautiful decorations in the long during the concert. I would also like to thank the children for their efforts to learn words and for singing so nicely. Particular thanks must go to Mr. Jeremiah Ndune for teaching the younger children all their songs and for being with us on the night. Others to thank are Mr. Gannon for his great introductions, all the teachers who came and sat with their classes, Mr. Kuria and the kitchen for the beautifully presented mince pies, the PTA for providing the bar and all the parents for coming and bringing their children in time for a prompt start.

Sports Day was full of team spirit with some very exciting events. Everyone deserved to win but it was actually won by Kifaru with Simba a close second and then Chui. Big thanks must go to the Sports Department, particularly Mrs. Jennings who did all the coordinating, and all the teachers who worked hard on the day.

Father Christmas popped in this morning to say "Hi" which was very kind of him considering his busy schedule at this time of year. He arrived yesterday night from the North Pole and Mrs. Sassoon kindly put him up at her house.

LAMDA classes will resume on Thursday 11th January. Mrs. Hughes wanted to come this week to wish her students a happy Christmas but, because of Sports Day this was not possible. I am, therefore, passing on her good wishes.

We say farewell to Sasha Darrell who left school in June after being Head Girl. She then came back in September on attachment to the Primary School where she has been helping out many of our teachers. All the staff and children she has worked with would agree that Sasha would make a great teacher herself. We will miss her and we wish her every success in the future.

All Primary children have been given their After School Activities forms for next term. These should be completed and returned by Wednesday 10th January. Please consider the choices carefully as we are going to be very strict about not changing. It can be an administrative nightmare!

We have come to the end of a long but eventful term and everyone is ready for a holiday. We start again on Tuesday 9th January 2007 and I wish everyone the compliments of the season and a really good rest.

Yours sincerely

Allen Corbet
Head of Primary

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 SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER, VOL. 1 No. 13, 8th December 2006

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Welcome to the last issue of our newsletter for 2006.

This week we held our Christmas concert. Students from the early years unit up to and including year 9 performed (and one year 11). Our year 7 and 8 students performed a beautiful rendition of 'Sing!' Whilst the speed the students delivered the final verse of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' stunned all but the thoroughly prepared. Thank you to the PTA for organising the bar, the kitchen for the mince pies and to all the staff and students involved for their efforts.

We also held Secondary Inter-house Cricket and Rounders. In Cricket, Chui gained first place and Kifaru were runners up. Rounders, Simba first, Kifaru second.

The Inter-house Art Competition was won by Chui, Simba were runners up. This competition requires the secondary school students to organise themselves as a house and produce a piece in their own time. The standard and quality of this year's pieces was particularly impressive.

Sports day was held yesterday. I would like to thank staff, the sports department and the PTA for organising and helping with the event. The standards set were very high and a number of school records were broken. The final scores were Chui 123, Kifaru 169 and Simba 165.

Secondary house points for this term, Chui 193, Kifaru 186 and Simba 272.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. See you all in January.

Andy Hill,
Headteacher

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