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Micklefield School Newsleer June-August 2018 Theme Week: 1928 What did the world look like in 1918, the year Micklefield was founded? In the Pre-Primary and Foundaon Phase, 6 different 1928 experiences were offered on a rotaonal basis. In the Grade 0 class the girls went on a Micklefield History jour- ney. They discovered how our beauful school buildings and our pink uniforms have changed so much. They had a look at old school reports and many photographs of past pupils and headmistresses over the years. We discovered that there used to be boys at Micklefield! As part of their exploraon the Foundaon Phase chil- dren learnt about some children's books that were pub- lished in 1928. AA Milne published his second book in the Winnie the Pooh series. Winnie the Pooh has many lessons to teach us and connues to capvate children to this day. Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten was also published in 1928, as well as the Milly Molly Mandy stories by Joyce Lankester. The girls discussed the stories, listened to excerpts and watched video clips of these popular 1928 books. The Grade 00 girls discovered some interesng facts about Mickey Mouse . They watched the very first ever black and white animated clip Steamboat Willieand then a more recent full colour one – New York Weenieand discussed the differ- ences. The Grade 5 girls researched the year 1928 and idenfied areas of interest. They worked in groups to gather informaon and pictures to produce PowerPoint vide- os on their topic. They then listened to a wide range of music from 1928 and chose an appropriate piece to include in their videos. The video topics included: Mickey Mouse, the Yo-Yo, Che Guevara, Pooh Bear, Winter Olympics 1928, Summer Olympics 1928, St Francis Dam Collapse and Fash- ion in 1928.

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Page 1: Micklefield School · Zara –Leigh Olifant, Rebecca Howie, Amy Gordon, Salma Moosa, Amelie ennett, Francesca Zagato Micklefield was delighted once again to welcome the actors from

Micklefield School

Newsletter June-August 2018

Theme Week: 1928

What did the world look like in 1918, the year Micklefield was founded?

In the Pre-Primary and Foundation Phase, 6 different 1928 experiences were offered on a rotational basis. In the Grade 0 class the girls went on a Micklefield History jour-ney. They discovered how our beautiful school buildings and our pink uniforms have changed so much. They had a look at old school reports and many photographs of past pupils and headmistresses over the years. We discovered that there used to be boys at Micklefield!

As part of their exploration the Foundation Phase chil-dren learnt about some children's books that were pub-lished in 1928.

AA Milne published his second book in the Winnie the Pooh series. Winnie the Pooh has many lessons to teach us and continues to captivate children to this day. Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten was also published in 1928, as well as the Milly Molly Mandy stories by Joyce Lankester. The girls discussed the stories, listened to excerpts and watched video clips of these popular 1928 books.

The Grade 00 girls discovered some interesting facts about Mickey Mouse . They watched the very first ever black and white animated clip “Steamboat Willie” and then a more recent full colour one – “New York Weenie” and discussed the differ-ences.

The Grade 5 girls researched the year 1928 and identified areas of interest. They worked in groups to gather information and pictures to produce PowerPoint vide-os on their topic. They then listened to a wide range of music from 1928 and chose an appropriate piece to include in their videos.

The video topics included: Mickey Mouse, the Yo-Yo, Che Guevara, Pooh Bear, Winter Olympics 1928, Summer Olympics 1928, St Francis Dam Collapse and Fash-ion in 1928.

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The Grade 4s learnt that a lot of inventions were created in 1928...... These are some of the inventions that they especially enjoyed:

The first yo yo factory

The iron lung to help polio victims breathe

Mickey and Minnie

Dubble bubble gum

Baby food in jars

Levi Jeans were patented

Finger lamps

Penicillin discovered

Freon

The House at Pooh House

The bread slicer

Amelia Earhart flew across the pacific

And also of course that Micklefield was born!

We learnt a lot!

The Grade 6s decided to focus on women and made a black and white movie on different aspects of women in 1928. The class voted on 7 people to be in charge of the movie: Editor, I.T, Script Writer, Direc-tor, Props and Costumes. They chose 3 main sections; Adverts, Stere-otyping and Women Rights. They were then divided into three groups and researched information and created plays on the sections. They then filmed the plays and presented their videos in the Theme Week assembly. They all really enjoyed this and now know the sacrifices women have made to create a future for many more generations to come.

The Grade 4-7s were treated to a fascinating talk by Vicky McDavid on “three lives” in South African history that helped shape our South Afri-ca of today. The remarkable story of three greats—Mangosuthu Bu-thelezi, Nelson Mandela and George Bizos—were brought to life.

The Grade 7s entertained the theme week assembly audience with their 1928 informative performances. Topics covered included:

“Music in 1928”; incorporating jazz and classical music and composers of the 1920s as well as beautifully demonstrated dances: the Charles-ton and Classical Ballet.

The successes and failures of the Winter Olympics held in 1928 with demonstrations of “bobsleighing” and the “skeleton”.

The invention of bubblegum by Walter Diemer in 1920.

Famous cartoon characters such as as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Bonzo the Dog, Felix the Cat, and Popeye the Sailor Man.

Famous fashion icons of the time: Coco Chanel, Shirley Temple and Jeanne Lanvin.

We all enjoyed dressing up and acting and had lots of fun travelling back in time to 1928! Written by Salma Moosa

Theme Week: 1928

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67 minutes for Madiba

Micklefield celebrated Madiba Day with an outing to a primary school in Langa to hand over some of the blankets knitted for the 90 Year Blanket Drive. The Grade R pupils were absolutely delighted with their beautiful hand-made gifts. Thank you to the Micklefield family for spreading the love and making a difference on the auspicious

occasion of Madiba’s 100th Birthday!

A huge thank you for the wonderful book donations for Mandela Day. Although it was short notice the Mick-lefield family once again captured the spirit of Madiba and managed to fill 8 bags of books which were taken to the offices of the Community Chest of Cape Town. These books will be sorted and then distributed to various li-braries and aftercare facilities in need. Thank you!

Gr 00 & 0 outing to beUp Park The Grade 00s and 0s enjoyed a fabulous outing to beUp Park. Zip-lining, climbing, trampolining is fun but even more so when you have all your friends with you.

This year the Grade 0s were encouraged to try the climbing walls. Everyone gave them a go and their confidence ballooned! What a great day!

Gr 4 outing to Babylonstoren We arrived at Babylonstoren and the first thing we saw were the adorable donkeys.

It was the first of many wonderful things:

Picking the kumquats and the waterblommetjies

The 3 Fish ponds

Healing garden and all the different uses for plants and it was in-teresting to see which plants can cure many diseases

Spekboom, wonderfully bitter!

Walking through the clivias

Picking herbs

Enjoying the story of Zeus and the bees

Relaxing on the camomile lawn

Seeing traps for the insects on the plants

Sitting in the bird’s nest

Collecting the eggs

The dating turkey with his fabulous tail, who tired himself out trying to impress 25 lovely girls.

And last of all, the plum blossom tea we got to sip and lemons to take home that made the whole car smell wonderful. It was our best outing this year....so far!

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In the last week of Term 2, the school was adorned with the most beautiful Art displays in the school hall and foyer

and audiences were treated to musical performances by the Grades 4, 5, 6 and 7 musicians. Some of the musical

highlights included the Grades 5, 6 and 7 Marimba Bands. They performed with such energy! We are very lucky to

have Toni-Rae Adams from Woodworx Marimbas as our Marimba teacher. We also welcomed our new Classical

Guitar teacher: Alexandros Vavatzanidis to the Micklefield Music department. Our guitarists all played so well. Oth-

er instruments featured included: Piano, Keyboard, Ukulele, Violin, Cello, Recorders, Fife, Flute, Clarinet and Sing-

ing. Our special guest this year was Cara Parkin who performed on her Harp. Well done, girls!

Music & Art Evenings 2018

Kaapse Afrikaanse Eisteddfod On Thursday 2nd of August a small group of recorder girls participated in the Kaapse Afrikaanse Eisteddfod at Rus-

tenburg Junior. Ella Gray, Rebecca Hewat, Jemima Kennedy-Smith and Jaime Thompson did two solos each: one

Baroque and one Modern piece. Amélie Bennett, Salma Moosa and Vicky van der Watt joined them a bit later to

play two contrasting pieces for the Junior Schools Recorder Ensemble Section.

The Ensemble received a Diploma (highest

award) for their performance. The adjudicator

commended Micklefield on the excellent

standard of playing and the ensemble will be

awarded a gold medal at the prize-giving

event. Jemima Kennedy-Smith and Ella Gray

also received a Silver Medal each for their Solo

performances. Well done girls for playing so

beautifully!

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On Wednesday 25th July, our Senior Choir, Traditional Choir and Shocking Pink Vocal Ensemble arrived early at the

beautiful and scenic Somerset House campus. We were very excited to rehearse our massed choir item: Skyfall (by

Adéle) before the actual concert started. We enjoyed listening to the Senior Choirs of Somerset House, Curro Sitari

and Bridge House. A firm favourite of the evening was “This is Me” from the Greatest Showman. Micklefield high-

lights included our Traditional Choir starting their performance with a specially adapted song of celebration for

Somerset House, the Senior Choir’s melodious “Why We Sing” (starring Ashlyn Stegmann on Flute) and Shocking

Pink’s rousing Adiemus. We concluded the programme on a very high note with our massed item: Skyfall. Our girls

sang beautifully and did us proud!

Somerset House Senior Choir Festival

Shocking Pink Camp Away from the world, in idyllic rural Noordhoek surrounded by mountains, trees and horses, Shocking Pink had the perfect opportunity to bond as a group. At a fascinating workshop, we heard how Bill Robson builds organs, spinets and clavichords and were even allowed to try out the instruments. Such a cacophony of experimental sounds! We enjoyed shopping at the Noordhoek Farm Village and, later that evening, the hilarity of improvised musical plays beside a cosy fire.

The purpose of the weekend was to prepare for our forthcoming concert at the Nassau Theatre. It was a pleasure to rehearse in a hall where the acoustics enhanced our vocal harmonies. By Sunday morning we had raised our lev-el from here to there! We were joined by Jax Douglas-Jones, one of our own parents whose passion and wisdom always energises our performance. To the girls, thank you for bringing your enthusiasm and good manners which helped make this camp a particularly happy memory.

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Micklefield once again excelled in the Cape Town English Creative Writing Eisteddfod. For the third year in a row we received the Keys to Heaven Tro-phy award for the school that achieved the most Diplomas.

Our top achievers were:

Cate Lea for her Diploma in the Essay section. She was the tied winner and received a special award.

Cara Parkin received a Diploma and won a special award in the Poetry section. Cara also won a medal for achieving the highest mark in the 12 and under section.

Well done to all the girls who entered and who achieved such excellent re-sults: Jenna Hutchinson, Leah Josi, Taybah Isaacs, Ami-Rose Damerell, Stella van Schalkwyk, Ana Vaughan-Scott, Zara –Leigh Olifant, Rebecca Howie, Amy Gordon, Salma Moosa, Amelie Bennett, Francesca Zagato

Micklefield was delighted once again to welcome the actors from Hooked on Books for an exciting performance.

Fun and laughter was the order of the day, especially when the Micklefield girls were part of the action. The books

featured in the show are all available in the school library so make sure you visit the library for a thrilling read.

Keys to Heaven Trophy for Creative Writing

Hooked on Books

Cape Town Art Eisteddfod Dominique Porter and Stella van Schalkwyk did very well in the 2018 Cape Town Art Eisteddfod.

Stella was awarded first place on the sculpture category for her age group. Dominique was awarded second place in the highly con-tended painting category for her age group. Well done to them both.

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Gr 5 Club Electron Workshops

Gr 7 outing to the Peter Clarke Art Centre

Grade 6s experiment with circuits

The grade 7s went on a wonderful outing to the Peter Clarke Art centre. The girls learnt about the background and tradition of masks. They then went on to make their own beautiful masks. The girls had a lot of fun.

Miss Paul taught the Grade 6 class a lesson about Energy and Circuits where a supervisor had to mark her lesson. Miss Paul started the lesson with information worksheets about building circuits. Then Miss Paul handed out some Little Bits Kits and a Electronic Blocks Kit. She gave us some in-struction booklets and some things for us to try building with these kits. We made a LED light glow and a shape with a wire. One group made a puls-ing heart using the Little Bits Kit. We then played around with the kits and had a lot of fun. We en-joyed having Mr Mbalabala in our classroom and we all found the lesson very enjoyable and Miss Paul explained everything clearly for us. This was a very exciting lesson in Natural Science!

Earlier this month, the Grade 5 class had the opportunity to participate in the Club Electron workshop. They learned about electricity and how circuits operate. By using the Club Electron kits, the girls were able to learn through playing and doing. Light bulbs were connected, motors activated, sound generated, and brains inspired!