To all Parents, Old Boys and Members of the Prep Community

FROM THE HEADMASTER

Dear Parents, Old Boys, Staff Members, former Staff, Friends and Boys,

Cricket Festival
Durban Preparatory High School takes great pleasure in extending a very friendly welcome to our visitors and the participants in our National U13 Centenary Cricket Festival.

We thank our guests for accepting our invitation and sharing the excitement and enjoyment of our Centenary with us. We acknowledge with special appreciation our visitors from other provinces: Grey from Bloemfontein, KEPS and Trinity from Johannesburg, Selbourne from East London and Pelham from Pietermaritzburg. We extend a special welcome to the Durban Development team and their Officials. We thank our Durban friends, Clifton, Northlands and Virginia for their very generous support and participation by co-hosting our visitors and providing match venues.

May our very generous sponsors BoE Private Clients feel well rewarded and take great pride and pleasure in the quality of cricket played and the sportsmanship and friendships shared by the boys, parents, coaches, umpires and headmasters.
Richard Neave

Centenary Celebrations
It has been an exciting start to Prep’s Centenary year with the boys enjoying a special Centenary assembly. The birthday cake with 100 burning candles will be remembered for a long time. The boys were treated to birthday cake and each boy has been given a Centenary year badge to wear throughout the year.

To make the boys feel special and part of our Centenary year we will be having various Centenary Days throughout the year whereby the boys will be able to wear the “Centenary Celebration Uniform”. The Centenary Celebration uniform for Grade 1- Grade 7 will be the Centenary cap, Centenary shirt, white boxer shorts, school tennis socks and running shoes (sports takkies). Grade 0: Centenary shirt, Centenary cap, denim shorts and sandals.

The boys will be allowed to wear their Centenary caps at all their cricket matches in Terms 1 and 4. If boys are at school supporting other teams as spectators they may wear the Centenary Celebration Uniform.

The compulsory DPHS Centenary Dress days are as follows:

26 February 2010, 26 March 2010, 30 April 2010, 21 May 2010, 9 June 2010, 23 July 2010, 20 August 2010, 23 September 2010, 22 October 2010, 12 November 2010 and 3 December 2010. These dates will appear on the school calendar and boys will be reminded by their class teachers.

We look forward to a memorable and fun-filled year. Thank you for your continued support.

CENTENARY DINNER PROGRAMME
We would like to invite you to book your table for our Old Boys and Friends of Prep Dinner which will take place on 12 March

17h30 Arrival
School tour and viewing of displays in the Maurice Wilkinson Hall
Memorabilia available on Sale

18h45 Welcome drink – Marquee

19h00 Welcome
Toast to the School
Centurion Voices
Gumboot Dancers

19h30 Starter

20h00 Headmaster’s Address
2010 Soccer world cup preview – by Mike Makaab
Main Course
Entertainment – by Aaron McIlroy
Thank You
Dessert

Tables of 10 available

Bank Details for Internet transfers:
DPHS Educational Trust
First National Bank
62021723566
220526
Ref: 2010 Dinner and Name

Contact Person: Leonie van der Westhuizen: leonie@dphs.co.za

RICHARD NEAVE
Headmaster

CONGRATULATIONS

Ethan Bush participated in the KZN Nipper Championship and came 1st in Beach Sprint

CALENDAR

RECEPTION UNIT NEWS

We welcome back Val Cotterell who has been on leave for two weeks, for her daughter’s wedding. The boys in Green Group have really missed her and are delighted to have her back in the classroom.

On Tuesday, the Reception Unit pupils visited the Central Fire Station. This was not only an educational excursion but also great fun as they got to play in the foam! For some of our boys, it was also their first bus trip which added to the excitement.

Dear Grade 0 2009 Boys
We are really missing you and would love you and mom to come down to the Reception Unit to visit us on Monday 1 March from 12h35 to 13h15 and show us all how smart you look in your new uniform.
With love from:
Mrs Phipson, Mrs Cotterell, Mrs Bruorton, Miss Smit, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Bland, Mrs Lushaba, Nicholas and Sakhile.

JUNIOR PRIMARY NEWS

The Prep Pal family meetings on Friday were a great success. The Grade 7 boys showed very promising leadership skills as each one guided his appointed “family” through an interactive task which allowed them to get to know each other. The JP boys always gain particular benefit as they are nurtured by the older boys in their group.

The Grade Ones spent an extremely enjoyable, albeit very hot, day at Mitchell Park yesterday! They walked to the park armed with their lunch and clipboard. There was great excitement as they attempted to identify and count the various animals and birds and they thoroughly enjoyed the workbook activities which required them to record their observations in various formats. This outing was organized in order to provide the boys with a fun, interactive opportunity to apply many of the Literacy and Numeracy skills they have learnt to date.

MERIT AWARDS

Congratulations to this week’s recipients!

Junior Primary Paper Recycling Challenge – Recyclers of the Week

• 1st Grade 2 Marklew (3m 05cm)
  
• 2nd Grade 3 Knatten (2m 53cm)
  

SPORT

CRICKET RESULTS

CRICKET FIXTURES TERM 1

Headmaster’s 2010 List of Top Batting Scores and Bowling Performances as at 22 February

DPHS CRICKET FESTIVAL – 2010

Proposed programme:

Wednesday 24 February
15h00 – 17h00 Teams arrive, billeting from Walshaw Field.
(Specific times to follow)

Thursday 25 February
07h15 Official welcome breakfast for sponsors, officials, and mangers (Functions Rooms)
Brief meeting to follow with team managers.
09h30 Matches commence
12h30 Lunch
17h30 Play ends
18h00 Refreshments and snacks for officials in Functions room.
Free evening

Friday 26 February
09h00 Matches commence (50 overs)
12h30 Lunch
17h00 Play ends
18h00 Evening out for Officials

Saturday 27 February
12h00 Teams to arrive at DPHS
13h00 – 20h00 DPHS Pro 8 overs competition. (Under lights)
18h00 – 19h00 Rolling supper for players and officials

Sunday 28 February
08h00 Boys to be at school for departure

GENERAL

SCHOOL FEES REMINDER 2010

5% SCHOOL FEES DISCOUNT : GRADES 1 – 7

A reminder that a 5% discount will be allowed for school fees paid in full on or before 28 February 2010.

Acceptable payment methods are cheque, credit card, debit card, direct bank transfers. Cash payments must be deposited directly to the school’s bank account as follows:

FIRST NATIONAL BANK :
Florida Road : Branch Code: 220526
Account number: 50741310036
Account name DPHS
Reference Your son’s name and surname

NEWS FROM DHS

My thanks to the Prep parents and their sons who came tour Open Evening for Prep boys last week. It was great to see some old faces and have a chance to chat with parents and boys. I trust that you all enjoyed your visit. We are currently interviewing large numbers of boys, so please make sure applications are submitted timeously. The Cricket season ends for us this week, with the 1 st XI hosting Grey College from Bloemfontein. The rest of the school has fixtures against Northwood. Next week sees the start of the silly season, as Rugby gets into full swing! We are playing our first matches against College on the weekend of the 13 March. We have a few pre-season matches, but College is the big one.

Dave Magner
Class of 1968