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Sports News: Sports stars.
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Christian Arts Festival |
 Pat Baloi (Glenridge Church), launched our Christian Arts Festival and
theme, “Shine, Jesus, Shine” in the Sports Hall on Monday morning, with the
entire school present. It was a joyous celebration and through God’s Word
and Spirit, Pat challenged us to ‘burn bright’ like shining sunflowers for
the Lord. More4 |
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Grade 10 Art |
 Portraits
in oils by the Grade 10 Art girls are displayed in the LRC
foyer. More4 |
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Scholarship
Winners |
 Principal
of St Mary’s DSG Kloof, Mrs Tyna Charter, welcomed and
congratulated the Scholarship winners for Grade 8, 2011 to the
St Mary’s family. This was at an introductory evening for both
pupils and their parents, last night.
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Khanyi is
seeing stars (and stripes) |
 Grade
11 pupil Khanyi Thusi will soon be jetting across the Atlantic
to take part in the Global Young Leaders Conference in
Washington and New York from the 11th to the 22nd of July 2010.
She was approached by one of her teachers who felt that she
would benefit tremendously from this experience and who gave her
more details about the conference.
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Gina Lofstrand wins Gold at
South African Duathlon Championships |
 Gena
Lofstrand, who is in Grade 9 M represented Kwa- Zulu Natal at
the South African Duathlon Championships on Saturday 29 May 2010
and won.
She competed in the junior race and was the first girl overall
to cross the finish line, winning her a gold medal and the S A
Duathlon champ title in the 14-15 category.
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Geography Excursion to Babanango |
 The
Geography Babanango Valley excursion took place from 20-22 May with 41 girls
and 2 staff members, Mrs Bashford and Mrs Dickinson. We were
privileged to have such dynamic, positive and enthusiastic young
ladies accompany us to a beautiful, tranquil Babanango. The
girls had wonderful guides who went over the practicalities of
key aspects of their Geography syllabus: Climatology (valley
climates), Geomorphology (river flow) and Mapwork (practical
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KZN Hockey |
 The
U18A reps are Jenna Shuker, Amy Gibbings, Sarah Bingham and
Colette Saunt.
The U16A reps are Lee Carvalho, Toni McCann and Kirsty Gibbings.
The U16B reps are Keren Kinsey, Danielle Kerdachi, Emma Pearse,
Jenna Robinson and Amy Rodgers. More4 |
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Grade 9 Science Expo |
 The
Grade 9s once again stepped up to the plate to produce some
innovative and inspiring Expo projects this year. It was
encouraging to see the diversity of the investigations -from the
environment to electricity, from MXIT to mould, from water to
the World Cup….we saw it all! More4 |
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Matric Dance: Carnival Time |
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 The
hall came alive with the sights and sounds of the carnival...
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Grade 10 English Creative Day |
 Who
we are is vitally important for how we relate to other people and to the
world around us. Our personal identity is the basis for all our physical
and emotional interactions. Using ourselves as a point of departure when
viewing the world is something that human beings cannot escape.
'Unearthing our creative self' was the theme for the day.
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Exchange students to Australia |
 Two grade 10 pupils, Emma Zoetmulder
and Belinda Schmidt are going to have the experience of a life-time.
They leave on a student exchange programme (arranged by our Learning
Resources Director, Mrs Anna Kuhn) for six weeks to Australia, where
they will be attending St Catherine's Anglican all-girls school in
Sydney and staying with two families.
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International Competition Winners |
 St
Mary's DSG are congratulated for their achievement on winning in the
Secondary School level category of the prestigious international Serif
Clear Creativity in the Classroom Competition! The entries were
completed during ICT lessons under the guidance of Sheryl Gordon.
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Confirmation Weekend |
 Our
first camp in the Exploring Your Faith/Confirmation Programme took place
at school over the past weekend. The theme for the camp was: “The Father
Heart of God”. Every candidate received a chocolate in the shape of a
heart, plus a book relating to Bible Promises at the commencement of the
course. More4 |
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Toy Story 2009 |
 For
the fifth year in a row, St Mary's DSG Primary School once
again successfully won the schools' Toy Story competition run by East
Coast Radio (ECR) to
raise the most number of toys to give to needy children (some of whom
have never owned their own toy). Mrs
Cheryl Reddy the Grade 6 class teacher and Toy Story Co-ordinator at St
Mary's said, "Our school motto of Service before Self, God before All"
is inculcated in the girls and is the very essence of St Mary's - we are
one big family and when the girls take on a task they really put their
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Learning Resources Centre Upgrade |
 The
library has a new "lounging" area where the girls may relax and read on
the top level of the library. We have also had our poles
beautifully decorated by the Grade 9 Art classes, which has certainly
added colour and an element of fun to the LRC. Although we
encourage a relaxed, informal atmosphere in the library the girls should
be mindful that it is also a place where homework, reading and research
is done and all users of the library must be considerate.
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Matric Results 2009 |
 St
Mary’s congratulates the Class of 2009 on your outstanding Matric
results. We are very proud of you all. All 94 girls who wrote, met the
requirements to study for a Bachelor’s degree. There were 301 Level 7
subject ratings and no subject failures. Many subjects obtained more
than 50% level 7s. More4 |
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S C A Picnic for Grade 8s of 2010 |
 The
Grade 8's of 2010 had a wonderful opportunity to meet and mingle with
their fellow classmates of next year at the S C A picnic. It was
certainly a fantastic fun filled, favourite food, fellowship afternoon.
Lots of fun games were played at different stations, lead by various
high school girls.
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Head Girls 2010 |
 The
High School has announced the head girls for 2010.
They are: Lucy Hobbs - Head Girl, Jenna Shuker - Head of Christian Affairs
and Hayley Minter-Brown -
Deputy Head Girl. More4 |
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St Mary's Eco School: Green Flag Status for 2010 |
 Bridget
Ringdahl from WESSA who assessed our portfolio as an Eco School came to
congratulate the girls and presented St Mary’s DSG, Kloof with the much
sought after GREEN FLAG STATUS for 2010. In 2008 we achieved a silver medal
for our Eco school programmes.
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Grade 7 Charity: St Mary's Hospital |
 The
St Mary's DSG, Kloof Grade 7 girls have worked long and hard this year
to raise a fantastic amount of money to give to their chosen charity
which is St Mary's hospital. PRO for St Mary's hospital Mrs Jade Wood
said "that the staff and children of the hospital were truly touched by
the generosity of the girls..".
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Matric Art |
 See
a selection of Matric Art:
Year Work, the Exhibition and their examination pieces.
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High School Speech Day |
 The
Speech Awards’ evening was held last Thursday and our guest speaker
Professor Catherine Burns was both entertaining and inspiring.
Congratulations to those girls who received recognition for their
achievements during the year, by being awarded a prize on the evening.
Well done! More4 |
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Environmental Education |
 The aim of
environmental
education at St Mary's is to make the learners more aware of their environment and
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The Further Education
Certificate (FETC) Grades 10 – 12 |
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The FETC replaced the Senior Certificate with effect from 2008. It
was phased in starting with Grade 10 in 2006.
Click here to find the subjects to be studied.
Pupils must now study 7 subjects altogether. More4
The approved subjects for the FETC are grouped into Group A and
Group B.
More
about the subjects
and FETC.
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