Prep Patter 6

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Parents, Old Boys and Members of the Prep Community

FROM THE HEADMASTER

On Friday morning this week the school will take pleasure welcoming all our guests to a special assembly to be held on the Wally Walshaw field to celebrate the completion and official opening of the new school cricket nets and to give thanks for these new nets and the improvements to the cricket and sporting opportunities the school will enjoy. We will welcome special guest, Fa-eez Jaffar, President of KZN Cricket who has kindly agreed to do the school the honour of officially opening the nets. I am hoping one of our most generous donors towards this project, Old Boy, Shane Thomson, class of ‘82 who now lives in Cape Town is able to attend! I remember Shane batting for the DPHS 1stteam chasing a big total against Penzance and scoring a match winning 80 runs on the top field in 1982, which included four or five glorious cover drives. I was umpiring at square leg when we lost our fifth wicket and the Penzance captain came up to me and said, “Sir, we are running through you like a hot knife through butter!” DPHS won the match without losing another wicket. In 1982, if I remember correctly, there were two very old cricket nets situated where the uniform shop is today and two more in this corner of the school grounds facing Gordon Road. Thinking back on those small beginnings how fortunate we are today! I thank Shane for his kindness to the school and most generous contribution towards the completion of these new nets!

We are grateful to all our other donors and thank them together with the school governors, trustees and members of the mothers’ committee, including Janine Bamber, chairperson in 2011, for their special interest and generous contributions towards the building of the new nets and extension of the field.

The lay-out and innovative design of the new nets are the brain child of our Director of Sport, Michael Dick and our Director of Physical Education, Gavin Goodwin. As project managers they were often on site after hours, weekends and during the school holidays. I thank them for their hard work, dedication and the quality of our new cricket nets. We also thank DPHS parent, Manuel Gouveia for his special interest in the project and the expertise and generous assistance he provided.

A current Dolphins player Cody Chetty, class of 2003, has kindly agreed to face Sean Gilson, our school cricket captain who will bowl the first official ball to be bowled in the new nets after Mr Jaffar has cut the ribbon to open the nets. Sean will be followed by a bowler from each grade in the school and selected guests and staff members.

You are invited to join this special assembly which takes place at 07h45 on Friday 17 February.

St Stithians Tour

The St Stithians tour this past weekend was a most successful and enjoyable sporting event for all.

As always, events such as these are only made possible by the generous hospitality of our DPHS parents. Thank you to all those parents who hosted visiting sportsmen for the weekend.

CONGRATULATIONS

Christian Deare was chosen as Water Polo Captain.

Tristan Losch was awarded the ‘Triers Trophy’ for the most consistent Karter of 2011 at the awards ceremony held at Idube Kart Club on 5 February 2012.

The following boys were selected for the KZN Baseball Teams to play in Johannesburg:

Keaton Geary U10B, Matt von Blerk U12B, Marco Gouveia U12A

Congratulations to our school swim coach Heather Campbell who successfully met the challenge of the 8 Mile Club by successfully completing all eight events of the Midmar Mile. Well done also to Prep teacher, Shaun Ferreira who completed the swim and to the following boys who also received medals in the 2012 Midmar Mile :Nabeel Kara, Bradley Dunwoody, Christopher Coleman, Cole Poovan, William Dowsett, James Turner, Eric Hochstadter, Taine Buys, Joshua Bennett, Simon Taylor, Josh Hook, Reece Wilken, Nicholas Hatton, Luke Hitchings, Yahshiv Moodley and Matthew Gore

CALENDAR

Wednesday

15 February

Opening of Nets – Assembly rehearsal

Prep Parents info evening at DHS – postponed to 28/2/2012

07:30am

05:00pm

Thursday

16 February

Friday

17 February

Cricket vs Merchiston

Official opening of the new cricket nets

U11 Durban Central Cricket Trials

07:30am

01:00pm

Saturday

18 February

Grade 1 and 2 Mini Cricket

Cricket vs Merchiston

07:20am

Sunday

19 February

Monday

20 February

Staff Meeting

09:30am

Tuesday

21 February

Grade 5 GSAT

Wednesday

22 February

Cricket vs Northlands

Grade 5 GSAT

Grade 3 Treasure Beach excursion

07:30am

RECEPTION UNIT NEWS

The Reception Unit boys are very excited about joining all the pupils at Main Campus for the official opening of the school cricket nets, as well as the extension to the Wally Walshaw field, on Friday. It is events such as this, as well as our weekly music, drama and computer lesson with specialist Junior Primary teachers, which make them feel very much a part of the bigger Prep family.

Max Laggar, one of our little Blue Group boys, underwent major surgery last week. Mr Bo, the class mascot, was with him together with a special card made for him by his class mates. Please keep him as well as his mom, dad and two brothers, Sharon, Robbie, Jared and Ryan in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

JUNIOR PRIMARY NEWS

Congratulations to all the boys who participated in the Midmar Mile swim last weekend. We are especially proud of the 4 JP boys who took on this challenge and completed it successfully.

We are looking forward to the special assembly which will be held later this week to commemorate the opening of the cricket nets. The JP cricketers will certainly enjoy and benefit from this new facility.

MERIT AWARDS %

Congratulations to this week’s recipients.

WEEKLY MERIT AWARD “WELL DONE” J
CLASS		NAME	REASON
GRADE 1	Langley	Connor Gabriel	For his delightful work presentation and excellent behaviour
	Langley	Matthew van Dongen	For his commitment to always giving of his best and his excellent results.
	Everitt	Rhys Jackson	For his very good reading skills
	Everitt	Ryan Montocchio	For his positive attitude and improved work skills
	Greensill	Christian Everitt	For his enthusiasm in reading and his improved work skills
	Greensill	Armaan Manilall	For his excellent behaviour
	McGregor	Cody Downham	For his cheerful smile and excellent work
	McGregor	Joshua Chetty	For his improved work skills
GRADE 2	May	Shaun Matthysen	For his enthusiasm and beautifully presented work
	May	Samuel Berchowitz	For being a helpful and cheerful member of the class
	Buchholtz	Travis Arro	For his beautifully presented work and good behaviour
	Buchholtz	Abdullah Essack	For his positive attitude and well presented work
	Bush	Matthew Coetzer	For his diligent approach to all his work tasks
	Bush	Dillan Valjee	For his positive and diligent approach to all work tasks
	Marklew	Max Chapman	For settling down well to tasks and giving of his best
	Marklew	Abdullah Peer	For trying hard in the Zulu lessons
GRADE 3	Knatten	Nicholas Kidd	For his enthusiastic response to all his lessons
	Knatten	Luc Nazar	For his excellent work presentation and good behaviour
	Oosthuis	Hamza Arbee	For his wonderful behaviour in class
	Oosthuis	Bradley Henderson	For an improvement in his handwriting
	Vawda	Faizaan Joosab	For his good maths work and his excellent behaviour
	Vawda	Nicholas Cook	For his good reading skills
	Veerasamy	Waseem Simjee	For his smile and very good maths skills
	Veerasamy	Luke du Toit	For his sense of fun and pleasing maths skills

Junior Primary Paper Recycling Challenge – Recyclers of the Week

1st Grade 1 Greensill (3m 00cm)

2nd Grade 1 Everitt (1m 60cm)

SPORTS

CRICKET RESULTS

DPHS 1st vs St Stithians

DPHS 244 for 9

Sean Gilson 78

Robert Koenig 47

St Stithians 161 all out

Jonathan Bennett 2/19

Bradley Hope 2/28

Carl Heunis 2/30

Calvin Stephens 2/47

DPHS won by 83 runs

DPHS 2nd vs St Stithians

DPHS 191 for 5

Daniel Cherry 70*

Darren Aucamp 37

Matthew Gerrish 27

Max Teversham 23

St Stithians 22 for 5

Cameron Goodwin 2/30

Match drawn due to rain

DPHS 3rd vs St Stithians	DPHS 71 all out	Simon Ten-Bokkel Huinink 45
	St Stithians 71 for 7	Simon Ten-Bokkel Huinink 3/3
Match drawn due to rain

DPHS 4th vs St Stithians

DPHS 140 for 9

Bradley Robertson 32

Maswazi Shabalala 21

Kieran Pather 21

St Stithians 62 all out

Zaid Jhavary 2/6

Cameron Moodley 2/8

DPHS won by 78 runs

DPHS 5th vs Northlands 2nd

Northlands 151 all out

DPHS 152 for 4

Ahmed Deedat 46 n.o

Calvin Henry 37 n.o

DPHS won by 6 wickets

DPHS 6th vs Chelsea 5th

DPHS 123 for 7

Daniel Freitag 41

Brayden Knoop 24

Chelsea 51 for 10

Jack Koch 4/2

Thomas Lunde 3/17

DPHS won by 72 runs

DPHS 7th vs Northlands 3rds	Northlands 54 all out	Connor Veitch 3/1
	DPHS 55 for 3
DPHS won by 7 wickets

DPHS 8th vs Chelsea 6th	DPHS 83 for 9	Connor Osborne 20
	Chelsea 84 for 8	Naeem Pandor 2/14
DPHS lost by 2 wickets

DPHS U11A vs St Stithians	St Stithians 100 all out	Gareth Beavan 4/11
	DPHS 104 for 1	Tristan Elam 52 n.o
DPHS won by 9 wickets

DPHS U11A vs St Stithians (15 overs)	DPHS 90 for 2	Tristan Elam 52 n.o
	St Stithians 91 for 6	Matt du Toiot 3/9
DPHS lost by 4 wickets

DPHS U11B vs St Stithians

St Stithians 47 for 7

Jamie Deeble 3/11

DPHS 48 for 9

Umar Lockhat 13

DPHS won by 1 wicket

DPHS U11D vs Northlands U11B	Northlands 66 for 7	Taine Owen 32 n.o
	DPHS 67 for 1
DPHS won by 9 wickets

DPHS U10A vs St Stithians	DPHS 94 all out	Kent Goedeke 16
	St Stithians 49 for 3
Match drawn due to rain

DPHS U10A vs St Stithians (15 overs)

St Stithians 57 for 3

DPHS 61 for 0

Oliver Bamber 25 n.o

Kent Goedeke 22 n.o

DPHS won by 10 wickets

DPHS U10B vs Northlands U10A

Northlands 95 for 7

Yusuf Randeree 5/6

DPHS 95 for 7

Payton Elliot 27

Callum Hayes 16

Match tied

DPHS U10D vs Northlands U10B

Northlands 69 for 5

DPHS 70 for 2

Gabriel Sjouerman 30 n.o

Keagan Bolton 10

Reece Wilken 9 n.o

DPHS won by 8 wickets

DPHS U10E vs Chelsea U10D	DPHS 82 for 0
	Chelsea 83 for 4
DPHS lost by 6 wickets

DPHS Headmaster’s 2012 List of Top Batting Scores and Bowling Performances as at 13 February 2012

BATTING
Score	Name	Team	Opposition
135 n.o	Nicholas Pio	1st	Westville
117	Bradley Hope	1st	Highbury
101 n.o	Bradley Hope	1st	Westville
88	Sam Hudson	3rd	Westville
88	Luke Dodds	7th	Westville
86	Raees Amla	7th	Westville
83	Jordan Mills	U11D	Highbury
78	Sean Gilson	1st	St Stithians
76	Robert Koenig	1st	Highbury
75	Thomas Rorich	5th	Clifton
75	Tyler Grant	U11B	Highbury
74	Bradley Hope	1st	Clifton

BOWLING
5 – 0 (Hattrick)	Reece Price	U10B	Clifton
5 – 6	Yusuf Randeree	U10B	Northlands U10A
5 – 8	Ross Bedford (staff)	UKZN 1st XI	Railways
5 – 9	Darshan Moodley	5th	Westville
5 – 9	Calvin Henry	5th	Clifton
4 – 3	Azhar Bana	U11C	Westville
4 – 7	Grant Pio	U11B	Clifton
4 – 11	Gareth Beavan	U11A	St Stithians
4 - 12	Jamie Deeble	U11B	Highbury
4 - 16	Joshua Thornton	6th	Westville

CRICKET FIXTURES

WEEK 6
Day	Date	Team	Opponents	Venue	Time
Wednesday	11-Feb-12	1st	Merchiston	Merchiston	15h00
Friday	17-Feb-12	6th	Merchiston	DPHS (Smith)	14h00
		7th	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
		11C	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
		11D	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
		10B	Merchiston	Collegians	14h00
		10C	Merchiston	DHSOB	14h00
		10D	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
		9A	Merchiston	DPHS (Walshaw)	14h00
		9B	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
		9C	Merchiston	Merchiston	14h00
Saturday	18-Feb-12	2nd	Merchiston	DPHS (Smith)	09h00
		3rd	Merchiston	Merchiston	08h30
		4th	Merchiston	DPHS (Walshaw)	09h00
		5th	Merchiston	Merchiston	08h30
		11A	Merchiston	Merchiston	08h30
		11B	Merchiston	Merchiston	08h30
		10A	Merchiston	Merchiston	08h30

Water Polo: DPHS vs St Stithians

School	Won
St Stithians U11A	6 - 3
St Stithians 2nd	5 – 3
St Stithians 1st	7 - 2

DPHS won all 3 games

GENERAL

2013 TERM DATES

(Dates for learners are as listed below. Staff return to school on 14 January 2013 and finish the year on 06 December 2013)

TERM 1: 16 January – 28 March

TERM 2: 08 April – 21 June

TERM 3: 15 July – 20 September

TERM 4: 01 October – 04 December

The Communicator

Website to download the communicator.

http://www.school-communicator.com/downloads

Click on the link
Go to the drop down menu
Select “DPHS” from the menu
Choose either the “Mac” or “Windows” option
Run programme

BOUNDARY BUDDY

DPHS have recently launched the exciting & innovative new program into the school called "BOUNDARY BUDDY''!

Boundary Buddy is a multi-functional product used to demarcate and divide school fields and sports areas on a daily basis. These advert prisms allow parents, local and national business the opportunity to advertise their business and brands at a very affordable cost of R5000 + VAT for a 12 month period from date of installation.

This product’s true innovation however, is that the substantial portion generated from the sale of these advertisements is given back to the school on the day of installation.

We are delighted with this product, not only for us as a school, but also for businesses to be given the opportunity to brand themselves into their target market, as well as gain recognition in the community.

Boundary Buddy is now in full swing & gaining much interest & momentum, so we hope that you will be signing up for your space on the main "Smith" field before it’s all sold out.

All enquiries can be dealt with on the website or by contacting your Relationship Manager:

Maryanne Deeblemaryanned@boundarybuddy.co.za083 445 2848 or Juanita Steen juanitas@boundarybuddy.co.za079 519 9700

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CONGRATULATIONS

CALENDAR

DPHS Headmaster’s 2012 List of Top Batting Scores and Bowling Performances as at 13 February 2012

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