Today was Grandparents’ Day at our school. There was a selection of books for the grandma’s and grandpa’s to donate for R50 to our school library in their lucky grandchild’s name. These children will get first dibs on taking the book out once they are ready to be put on the shelves…. watch this space 🙂 THANK YOU to everybody who[Read More…]

FUNscapes has hit us, and has created quite a storm of excitement! For once the Library actually was quite a calm and peaceful place. We had such fun creating props for our photoshoots and video clips and “bunting” to use as decorations for bedrooms, parties etc. It was SUCH a FUN day! We were all exhausted by the end of[Read More…]

Funscapes is just around the corner! I know every big and little body is very excited! Next week is going to be a fun filled week for everyone! The following week will bring our lovely Grandma’s and Grandpa’s to school! I’m sure they’re losing sleep at the excitement of seeing their wee ones on stage and in their classrooms, hard at work.[Read More…]

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation. Nelson Mandela Today we celebrated Mandela Day by coming together as a school and taking a photograph surrounding a painting of Madiba. It took great organisation to get everybody from Sunbird’s Grade Rs to Silvermine Academy’s Matric students to form a circle around this painting. Most[Read More…]

  “It’s that time of term, where crazy is the new normal” Matthew Phillips We’ve come to the end of a crazy, busy term. After a big build up to the play, to spending long and late hours with very excitable and extremely talented characters, I think we’re all a bit frazzled and in our own way, showing a bit of[Read More…]

We’ve had some scary, stormy weather recently and I am so grateful that we all came back to school, safe and sound. I loved hearing the rolls of thunder and watching the lightening light up the sky. A good book and a cup of tea go very well with a storm. As we head into our last weeks of term,[Read More…]

What a week it has been! By Tuesday we all thought it was time for the weekend… This week the Grade 3s showed me just how much they love the Library. They’re so eager to lend a helping hand, always ready to settle down and use their listening ears.       Thank you Grade 3s for being SO special.  These boisterous[Read More…]

It has been over a week since Justin Bieber came to Cape Town to cause some chaos among the besotted girls, and I still had a grade 1 learner screech with excitement when she found a picture of him in a magazine! I’m very impressed at how many parents braved the cold, and noise, to take their little darlings to[Read More…]

Last week was a mini disaster week for us in the Library. The system that holds our library together crashed! This meant that the books could not be taken off each learner’s name and we had to keep a written record of which books our learners were taking out. It was very time consuming and I ended up with a[Read More…]

On Tuesday 23 April, Sun Valley Primary School celebrated World Book Day. Each grade celebrated in their own unique way. Grade 1 and grade 7 linked up. The grade 7 learner read a book of their choice to the grade 1 learner and then the grade 1 read their box book to their grade 7 Hoofie leader.   Both grades[Read More…]