21 June 2019

Term 2, Issue 6

Japari Newsletter

1 & 3 Dundalk Avenue, Parkview, Johannesburg, 2193

Tel: + 27 11 646-2132 Email: info@japari.co.za

Website: www.japari.co.za

Dear Parents

Parent Support Group

Thank you to all those parents who attended the meeting on Wednesday evening. Parents expressed

their appreciation for Dana Labe's presentation on Self-Regulation and the resultant conversation that

took place. Parents who attended also received a Self-Regulation Toolkit, posters and a list of helpful

reading. Parents expressed their desire to have more meetings covering relevant topics. We will

definitely look into doing this and will communicate details in due course. Some possible topics are

resilience, self-esteem and helping children with social skills.

Paper Folding On Thursday Mr Kumar, from New Delhi in India, visited Japari and demonstrated how to fold paper

into a variety of very attractive designs such as flowers, garlands etc. Our children and our teachers

were amazed at these designs and how speedily and expertly, Mr Kumar could fold the paper and

make very attractive items. Booklets giving instructions on how to make at least 20 designs is

available.

Coding and Robotics

Following the recent visit by the Robot Pepper, the children's interest in coding and robotics has been

heightened. Japari would like to introduce coding and robotics initially as an Extra Mural Club.

Children who take part in the Kiddiengineer programme will receive eight week lessons each term in

coding, robotics and Stream subjects which concludes with the children making their own radio

controlled and programmed models. The brochure, which can be found in the newsletter, gives a lot

of information, but we can arrange a meeting with the teachers of the programme where parents can

ask questions and find out more information.

If parents click the link below, more relevant information is available. If parents would like to have an

information meeting with the teachers of the Kiddiengineer Programme, please let Val know, and we

will arrange this.

https://bit.ly/2IWt8oi

The Pilgrims Poet

Big Jon, Raphael's Granddad, is making steady progress on his marathon 5000 km walk across Europe.

He has walked through Lithuania and Poland, and now is approaching the Pyrenees. We congratulate

Big Jon and wish him every success as he continues on his incredible journey.

Kind regards

Steve Rees

Headmaster

Paper Folding

The Pilgrim’s Poet

The Grade 7 Donation Project

PLEASE HELP US TO HELP OTHERS

By bringing any:

OLD/NEW CLOTHES, TOYS, BOOKS, LINEN,

TOILETRIES

Please hand your items to Mikele Ferreira,

Warren Burgess or Amber van Wyk, before the

delivery dates listed.

Your help will be greatly appreciated. We are trying

to develop a relationship with an orphanage in

Hillbrow that we visited. We took them Easter Eggs,

but we promised them we would be back with more!

They were very excited!

Delivery date 1:

17 July (Mandela Day)

Delivery date 2:

22 November

Media Release 18 June 2019 RAND WATER MAJOR SHUTDOWN “Johannesburg Water advises all residents of the City

of Johannesburg that Rand Water which is our main

bulk water supplier is planning a major shutdown that

will affect all our reservoirs and towers in terms of

water supply for 54 hours from 24 June 2019.

Please note that this does not necessarily mean that

there will be no water during the 54 hours shutdown

period, however, due to the extremely long hours,

some of the areas may experience a shortage of water

or low pressure.”

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILD

BRINGS EXTRA WATER TO SCHOOL

ON THESE DAYS.

Reminder: School closes at 11:00 for

the mid-term break on Friday 28 June

and will re-open on Monday 08 July

Reading Week

24 – 28 June

The Reading Department

is ready for Reading Week!

This year, reading games and activities will be based around our theme ‘African Wildlife’.

The Travelling Bookshop will be here on the 24th and 25th with a wonderful display of books at

reasonable prices.

The highlight of the week will be a visit on Friday 28th, from a young 12-year old award winning

author, Stacey Fru - pictured above. She has written a number of books which sell at R170.

Anybody wishing to order her books can send their money to the librarian, Mrs Taylor.

At 10.30 on the Friday, parents are invited to celebrate Japari’s birthday with us. Afterwards tea

will be served in the Lapa and school will close for half-term.

AWESOME BOOK SALE

Monday 24 June from 10:00 to 15:00

Tuesday 25 June from 07:15 to 14:00

Venue: Sonia Machanick Hall

Price range between R25.00 and R250.00

Credit/Debit card facilities are available

Mon 24 June Grade R-3 Soccer Practice 13:10 – 14:10 Zoo Lake

Grade 4-7 Soccer Practice 14:10 – 15:30 Zoo Lake

Grade R-3 Netball Practice 13:10 – 14:00 School

Grade 4-7 Netball Practice 14:00 – 15:15 School

Tues 25 June Grade R-3 Soccer Practice 13:10 – 14:10 Zoo Lake

Grade 4-7 Soccer Practice 14:10 – 15:30 Zoo Lake

Grade R-3 Netball Practice 13:10 – 14:00 Zoo Lake

Grade 4-7 Netball Practice 14:00 – 15:15 Zoo Lake

Grade R-3 Tennis Practice 13:10 – 14:00 Zoo Lake

Weds 26 June Soccer Matches (for selected boys only)

U9/10/12/Open vs Japari Zoo Lake back at school 15:30

Cultural Activities

Grade R-3 Crafts 13:15 – 13:45

There will be no choir or marimbas due to concert practice

Thurs 27 June No Netball Matches

Grade 1-3 Chess 13:15 – 13:45

Grade 5-7 Computers 13:45 – 14:15

Fri 28 June School finishes at 11:00 for the mid-term break

WE WILL BE CHANGING OVER TO ATHLETICS PRACTICE AS OF

08 JULY 2019. NOTIFICATION WILL BE SENT.

SHIN PADS ARE COMPULSORY FOR SOCCER PRACTICE AND MATCHES

CHILDREN HAVE TO HAVE THEIR OWN RACKETS FOR TENNIS

WEEKLY PROGRAMME

WEEK ENDING 28 JUNE 2019

From the Sports Desk

On Wednesday the boys played friendly soccer matches against Cedarwood at Zoo Lake.

A lovely afternoon of soccer and great team spirit and encouragement from all the boys, parents

and coaches. The U9s had their winning ways back and played a fabulous game with goals coming

from Ephrem Gabore – 2, Ona Masondo -1, Matthew Letsoalo - 3 (player of the week), Tine

Tswatswa – 1 and Kananelo Hlpane 1 - eight beautiful goals. A lovely game boys. The U10s drew

2 all with the goals coming from Kananelo Makoanyane and Vuyani Mabindisa. Declan Rossol gets

player of the week. A hard fought game with some lovely saves from our goalies. I got to watch

the U12s and Opens and some awesome soccer was played. The goals came from Molemi

Mxongo -1, Vuyo Sithole – 2 (he gets player of the week), Regan Van Der Walt – 1 and an own

goal. The boys had a lot of opportunities to score and took all the chances they could. A huge

improvement from the week before – team work!!!! The Open boys also won with goals coming

from Lebone Molewa – 2 and a penalty – (missed the first kick but got the rebound) and Thando

Khumalo – 1. Player of the week goes to Tisetso Lenkoe. The boys worked hard and also took a

lot of shots at the goals. The coaches were very proud of you all and thank you so much for all

your hard work.

The netball girls played a friendly against Christchurch Preparatory. They worked hard with some

lovely passing as well as some, not so good catching, but great fun was had by all. The U11s lost

by one goal – unlucky ladies. Beautiful goals by Giorgia Lockhart-Barker and Khensani Shiluvane

again. Player of the week goes to Batya Levin. Beautiful long goals were also taken by Tumelo

Matseba and Lara Botes for the Opens and Tegan Milner for the U12s. Player of the week goes to

Sakeena Umar and Betel Beyin for their much improved defending and hard work getting the ball

from the shooters. Coach Lisa and I are very proud of the hard work that you all have put in and

we appreciate the effort given by all of you.

Please note that next week will be the last of the soccer and netball practices as we will move

over to athletics after the mid-term break. If players who borrowed kit and shin pads could please return it back to me as soon as

possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

Mandy Wheeler

Head of Sport

Soccer teams ready for their friendly matches against Cedarwood