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by leighbensch19th August 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk – 19 August 2021

Dear Parents Do you throw that old cereal box, margarine tub or jam jar into the rubbish bin? Don’t let one of our Eco-warriors see you! Our precious Year 3s take their chosen responsibility of protecting Mother Earth very seriously indeed. Not only have they worked tirelessly on the...

by leighbensch13th August 2021 News0 comments

Year 6 – Nature’s Art

Our Year 6 class spent time learning about the British artist, Andy Goldsworth. He is a British artist known for his installations involving natural materials and the passage of time. Andy owes his love towards nature to his family, who introduced him to agriculture at a very tender age....

by leighbensch13th August 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk – 13 August 2021

Dear Parents We are thrilled to announce that our latest exam series has been one of our most successful to date after receiving our students’ results this week. Our IGCSE students achieved the following:An astounding 20 A* symbols,14 A symbols,7 B symbols, and14 C symbols. Equally pleasing are...

by leighbensch30th July 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk – 30 July 2021

Dear ParentsWhat a wonderful week it has been having some of our students back on campus! It has been a week filled with the simple pleasures of eager, curious eyes, happy chatter, spontaneous laughter and active teaching. Despite the third wave, Helderberg International has not skipped a...

by leighbensch24th June 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk – 24 June 2021

Dear Parents In my last newsletter for the term I would like to refer to the photo above. The sun rises on a new day despite an intimidating bank of clouds that crowd over the school’s roof threatening to swamp it with their burgeoning mass. Above the mounting muscle, to the right, a vortex...

by leighbensch23rd June 2021 News0 comments

“Excellence” is the most important school value, and also the most ubiquitous

Please have a read this wonderful Argumentative / Discursive Essay essay written by one of our Year 11 students, Vincent Arnaud. It is on the School's core values, notably Excellence, and especially at exam time this may be very appropriate. “Excellence” is the most important school value,...

by leighbensch18th June 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk – 18 June 2021

Dear ParentsWhen I think about our school, I invariably feel a warm glow inside and a smile appears involuntarily. In my head, the soundtrack begins... "In my little red schoolhouse, with my book and slate." Warm memories of Aunty Greta teaching the song to three eager ten-year-olds flood back....

by leighbensch10th June 2021 News0 comments

From the Principal’s Desk

Dear ParentsAh, to be on top of a hill…To feel your heart pulsing like the wondrous machine that it is. To fill your lungs with the sweetest, fresh air… To be able to remove your mask!Last Thursday, the High School students and staff took a much-needed day away from the classroom to recharge in...

by leighbensch4th June 2021 News0 comments

Waterproof Materials

Poor Melissa the Mermaid lost some of the scales from her tail! The Early Childhood 2 class were tasked with the job to find out which materials she could use to cover her tail until new scales grew back! They tested a range of different materials to see which was the most waterproof!

by leighbensch3rd June 2021 News0 comments

Year 7 Writing

The Year 7 class were asked pretend that Anne survived the concentration camps and to write an account of what she did when she grew up. Levi wrote the following fantastic piece.Anne Frank WHAT-IFRough Draft:The 15th of April 1945 is a day that has been engraved into my memory. It was at dawn...

by leighbensch25th May 2021 News0 comments

Primary Colours

Our Early Childhood 2 students had great time experimenting and mixing primary colours to see what colours they created. Mixing primary colors creates secondary colors. If you combine two primary colors with each other, you get a so-called secondary color. If you mix red and blue, you get...

by leighbensch25th May 2021 News0 comments

❤️-vir-lees / ❤️2read

Our Year 9 class came up with the idea of a buddy reading system after an Afrikaans unit on literacy. Every Friday the Year 9's listen to the Year 4 class and 5 class reading from their reader and then continue reading to the younger ones. The students were asked what did...

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