Saint Andrew's School, Bloemfontein

Spelling Bee

A celebration of confidence, commitment and the power of words!

Thank you to each and every one of you for your bravery, dedication and commitment. We are extremely proud of every participant for standing in front of an audience, showing confidence and giving your very best.

Our Spelling Bee was a wonderful showcase of hard work, courage and a love for learning. We hope you all enjoyed this special event and that you continue working hard on your beautiful spelling.

Keep learning, growing and believing in yourselves!

Congratulations to our Top 3 spellers in each grade and a special well done to every single participant. Your effort, enthusiasm and determination made this event a great success. Keep spelling, keep shining, and keep growing!

Top 3!

Grade 1
1st Karabo Semoli
2nd Hluma Ntombela
3rd Tlholo Ramathibe

Grade 2
1st Isago Moreothata
2nd Rene Thobane
3rd Rorisang Mofubelu

Grade 3
1st Oboitshepo Ramantsi
2nd Daniel Turner
3rd Max Su

Grade 4
1st Tlotliso Sekoboto
2nd Lunje Vuthela
3rd Lethabo Mokoena

Grade 5
1st Benji Stanley
2nd Dylan Fourie
3rd Lemohang Motake

Grade 6
1st Eli Ngowi
2nd Letlotlo Ramosarwa
3rd Ewan Deutschmann

Grade 7
1st Ryan Auths
2nd Oliver Maree
3rd Liam Crisp

Well done gents!

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Grade 7 Games Social

We all know its tough being in Grade 7 - meeting girls when you are in an all-boys school can be tricky! Luckily there is Grade 7 Social Night!

Our Grade 7s enjoyed a games social with the lovely Eunice girls last night, getting to know each other over milkshakes and brownies and some 'competative' Uno and Rummikub in the Champion Diningroom. There were lots of smiles!

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Term 1 Top 10 Junior Academic Tour

The Top 10 academic boys visited the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State today and had an interesting experience, they got an interactive infectuous disease clinical cases with microscopy slide demonstration, an anatomy demonstration on plastic models and visited the Pathology museum.

Thank you to our wonderful parents, Prof. Samantha Potgieter and Dr. Caroline Steyn for all your arrangements and efforts.

Thank you to their colleagues, Dr. B. van der Westhuizen and Dr. Ezra Anirudh from the Department of Human Anatomy and for Dr. C. Esterhuysen and team from the Department of Anatomical Pathology.

We think there maybe some aspiring doctors in our classrooms!

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Italian Rugby Exchange

After the first week in South Africa, our Italian exchange students are loving every minute of their stay at St Andrew's.

They have been busy - beside lots of rugby training they have been out and about - spending the weekend on a farm in Douglas, star gazing in the Karoo Night, sighting rhinos, Orange River boat cruising, walking with giraffes and zebras, watching Romania vs Cheetahs, tasting biltong, watching sunrises, exploring Kimberley and the Big Hole, braais and potjies, living hostel life, rugby training, brushing up on their golf skills, visiting a horse stud farm and generally loving life!

It is a pleasure hosting these Patavium Rugby Players and we look forward to the next three weeks, seeing our home through their eyes is a treat.

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Youth Day - 16 June

In a moving message to the boys in Chapel this week - Mrs Kerry Gower recounted how she was a young teacher during the 1976 Soweto Uprising, when people stood for what was right, at great cost to themselves.

Her message was that we are now in a privileged position because of those who did the right thing.

Mrs Gower then went onto say that the hungry people in our city where more than lightly those that 50 years ago took a stand so we may have what we have today.

In light of this the school collected sandwiches to distribute last Friday in honour of Youth Day today.

20 blankets were donated by the African Muslim Association too and 5 large boxes of food parcels were packed. Thanks must go to the boys and parents for their generosity and to Mr Zuki April who drove us to where we could distribute our collection.

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