Micklefield School News

Weekly Update

December 5, 2024

13-17 January

WEEKLY UPDATES

WEEK AHEAD:

Term 1 2025

  • Monday 13 January
    • School Holiday
  • Tuesday 14 January
    • School Holiday
  • Wednesday 15 January
    • School starts
      • Grade 00: 08:15-12:30
      • Grade 0: 08:10-12:45
      • Grades 1&2: 07:50-13:15
      • Grades 3 – 7: 07:50-14:20
  • Thursday 16 January
  • Friday 17 January
  • Saturday 18 January
    • You are invited to join some staff at the Rondebosch Common Park Run
      • 8am

Coming up

  • Monday 20 January
    • Grade 4-7 Meet the teacher
  • Tuesday 21 January
    • Grade 00-3 Meet the teacher
  • Wednesday 29-31 January
    • Grade 7 Leadership Camp
  • Friday 31 January
    • Grade 1&2 Camp Out
  • Saturday 1 February
    • Grade 3&4 Camp Out

SCHOOL CAPS

Please note that for 2025 all pupils from Grade 1-7 will need to have 2 clearly marked Micklefield school caps.  One cap will be handed in to the class teacher at the beginning of the year to be kept at school as a spare so that all our pupils always have a cap available.

Pencil Bag orders

If you would still like to order pencil bags please contact Honey Boo directly.

Sports & Extra-Murals

The updated 2025 sport and extra-mural programme is available on the Ed-Admin Multi Portal App, under Documentation.  Please check both the Term 1 and 4 (Summer) and the Term 2 and 3 (Winter) schedules when doing your planning for the new year. All information with regards to the private extra-murals on offer is available on the Ed-Admin Multi Portal App under Documentation, Sport/Extra-Murals.  Please liaise directly with the extra-mural providers.

Please note that the extra Art has moved from a Tuesday afternoon to a Monday afternoon:

  • Junior Art: (Grade 1 and Grade 2) 13.30 – 14.30
  • Senior Art: (Grade 3 – 6) 14.30 – 15.30

When planning extra-murals for 2025, please note that during terms 1 and 4, all classes from Grade 4 – 7 have a compulsory Sports Hour which takes place after school from 14.30 – 15.30 as follows:

  • Monday: Grade 5
  • Tuesday: Grade 7
  • Wednesday: Grade 6
  • Thursday: Grade 4

This falls away during terms 2 and 3 and is replaced with netball and hockey practices and matches.  Please see the sport programme for details.

TENNIS

Trials/challenge matches for the Open teams will be played on:

  • Wednesday, 15 January
  • Thursday, 16 January
  • Friday, 17 January
  • Possibly some matches on Saturday, 18 January

All at Micklefield. 

This is a process and depends on results as to who needs to come on which days.  Parents will be emailed this term with the list of girls for the Wednesday and Thursday. 

At the start of the term, the next round of players will be notified. If your daughter wants to play in a team, she needs to be available to play on all the listed days.

The current Grade 6s and Grade 5s will play in the Open League and players are placed by strength, not grade.

The current Grade 4s going into Grade 5 in 2025 will also be placed in teams, playing in the U11 League.  Their trials/challenge matches will be on Saturday, 18 January at Micklefield.  Parents will be notified.

Matches are played on Thursday afternoons. The Open A, B and C teams have their early morning practice on Mondays at WPCC, the Open D, E and F teams have their early morning practice on Wednesdays at WPCC as well as the U11 teams.

Please see under Documents on the Ed-Admin Portal App for BVTS clinics during the holidays.

SWIMMING

Gala training for 2025 will start on Tuesday, 21 January as follows:

  • 06.45 – 07.30: Rondebosch Boys High School pool: U11, U12 and U13
  • 16.30 – 17.30: Rustenburg Girls High School pool: U8, U9 and U10

Information letters will be given to the present gala swimmers at the start of first term.

Any girls wanting to try out for the gala squad, must attend these first practices.

All new U8s (Grade2s) must attend the afternoon session on Tuesday, 21 January at the RGHS pool.  Girls must be able to complete one length of a 25m pool in any all the strokes or as many as possible.

HOCKEY TOUR 2025

The annual hockey tour to Knysna is from Thursday, 20 March to Sunday, 23 March 2025.  Trials will be held on Saturday morning, 15 February, details will follow.  The squad will consist of 14 players comprising of Grade 6 and Grade 7 girls

Judo

Please see un deocuments on the Ed-Admin App for anyone who would like to take private Judo lessons.

Weekly Snapshot

2024 Final Assembly

Lion inside award: Alexa Burns (Grade 6)
House trophy goes to the Kingfishers
Farewell Mevrou from Grades 2 - 7

A lot of fun was had in the last week of school 2024

Big girl/little girl PE lesson

Grade 6 Art in the Sun

Grade 4 Market

The Grade 4’s had an extremely successful Market. They had a great time planning, selling and interacting with each other. Thank you for the marvellous support from the rest of the school.

Smiths and Twycross’ at the Robben Island 10 KM!
The Grade 3s reading to the Grade 00s
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