Grade 1, 2 and 3: 11.00 – collect at the Scout Hall gate, Lea Road
Grade 4 and 5: 11.00 – collect at the main gate in Wood Road
Grade 6: 11.00 – collect at the Sandown Road gate
Grade 7: 11.00 – remain for tea with their parents
Term 1 2025
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.
Snack pack is done for the year. Be sure to order your snack pack for 2025 HERE
Grade 3 – 7
Sandi Blackbeard and Sue Walker will be running the annual Great Summer Holiday Club from Monday, 9 December to Thursday, 12 December. This holiday club will include outings to:
Grade 00 – 2
Rebecca Zizi and Andisa Hlanza will be running their annual Holiday Club from Monday, 9 December to Friday, 13 December at Micklefield.
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:
When planning extra-mural 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:
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.
Trials/challenge matches for the Open teams will be played on:
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 next 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.
Gala training for 2025 will start on Tuesday, 21 January as follows:
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 of the strokes or as many as possible.
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.
We were treated to the most impressive music at this week’s senior assembly: a beautiful piano solo by Dani O’Ryan and two most entertaining singing duet performances by Sophie Burchell, Ava Brotchie, Lise Muller and Leilah Joseph.
Christmas cooking with Mevrou
