Dates to diarise

CAFÉ THEMES EVENTS

24 Aug - Abolition of Slavery

31 Aug– Maria Montessori’s

birthday Night Cafe

7 Sept - Springtime Book

Launch Café

14 Sept - Great Debates Cafe

21 Sept - Riddles

*These themes are subject to change

24 Aug– Family Quiz

Night

29 Aug– All of primary

visit to castle in Cape

Town

31 Aug– Maria’s Birthday

circle 12:00

21 Sep– Our “Snow white

and the seven dwarves”

performance

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Letters to the newspaper

We are starting an AGONY AUNT, where you can send in your

worries and problems ANONYMOUSLY, and advice will be given in

the next issue of our newspaper.

Articles, poems, reviews, and photo’s are also hugely appreciated.

We are also have room for advertising, so please send in your

adverts.

Our letter box will be located in the

Middle school Breeze classroom

and our email address is:

ecobreezecafe@gmail.com

Maria Montessori Quotes

“The child is both a hope

and a promise for man-

kind.”

“Education is a natural

process carried out by the

child and is not acquired by

listening to words but by

experiences in the

environment.”

“To aid life, leaving it

free, however, to

unfold itself, that is

the basic task of the

educator.” “The hands are the

instruments of

man’s intelligence.” “Imitation is the

first instinct of the

awakening mind.”

“The child should

live in an

environment of

beauty.”

Name:

Email address or Phone number:

(If you attend Newberry House) Class:

The 2 images you can see:

What can you see?

Come on and puzzle your brain for the chance to double your

money! Fill in your mini form, complete your puzzle then hand

it into me with your R5; at the end of the café we will draw the

names from a hat and reveal the winner!

Issue 3, Week 5, Term 3 24 August 2012

August 23 is observed as the International

Day for the Remembrance of the Slave

Trade and its Abolition.

Slavery and Forced Labour came to South

Africa with the arrival of the colonist. Most

notably was the Dutch who brought slaves

to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822.

“The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in San-

to Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican

Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising

that would play a crucial role in the aboli-

tion of the transatlantic slave trade.

International Day for the Remembrance of

the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intend-

ed to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade

in the memory of all people.

“In accordance with the goals of the inter-

cultural project "The Slave Route", it should

offer an opportunity for collective consider-

ation of the historic causes, the methods

and the consequences of this tragedy, and

for an analysis of the interactions to which

it has given rise between Africa, Europe,

the Americas and the Caribbean. ” UNESCO

Believe it or not there is still slavery today.

For example there are sex slaves. Sex slaves

are young girls of 16 or younger who are

kidnapped and used for sex and sold for

money.

We the students of NHMMS know that

slavery and forced labour is wrong.

The Abolition of Slavery

Kate Muller from The Landmark Foundation

came to visit us on the 17th of Aug. The

Landmark Foundation is a NGO organisa-

tion that tries to preserve South Africa’s

ecosystem.

She came to talk to us about the dying sta-

tus of leopards in South Africa. She showed

us a gin trap that farmers us to catch leop-

ards or predators that come and eat their

sheep. Kate also showed us cameras that

they put up in leopard habitats to capture

images of them and to get a brief estimate

of the amount of leopards in the habitat. K

ate told us of the Fair Game project that

The Landmark Foundation is working on,

They are wanting to produce a range of

meat ,wool and mohair that are grown on

farms were no lethal predators are used .

At the end of the talk Kate introduced us to

two dogs used to protect the sheep from.

The whole class found the talk very in-

sightful and exciting.

www.landmarkfoundation.org.za

Save our leopards

Kate showing us a gin trap. The leopard photo's from

the cameras

Letter from the Editor

This week sees the launch of our first gardening column

from Graysen, which will become a regular feature, with

what plants to grow, according to the time of year.

I have also added a brain puzzle competition, so go puzzle

your brain for the chance to double your money! Fill in your

mini form, complete your puzzle then hand it into me with

you R5; at the end of the café we will draw the names from

a hat and reveal the winner! Thank you Geoff for this amaz-

ing new idea!

NHMMS are really getting excited about our new birthday

party enterprise, with new ideas every day. The party sched-

ules are ready, so please ask for them. Your child will never

forget the year they had two fun packed hours at NHMMS

with all their friends!

As always I really want to receive your comments, please

encourage your children to write a poem, story or letter to

me, so it can appear in The Weekly Breeze. Send it all to (as

well as your party bookings!)

ecobreezecafe@gmail.com

Saskia Grundmann, Editor

Gardening Column By Graysen Shearer

On Wednesday this week the

gardening team decided to put pine

needles over the ground coming up

to NHMMS. Because its winter it’s

raining quite a lot and it makes the

path all muddy and sludgy so we

took pine needles from the forest

next to the path and spread it out

over the ground so people won’t slip

or get their shoes very muddy.

What should you think of planting

for summer?

You can get all sorts of plants from

Graysen’s nursery stand.

Here are a few: you could plant

some plectra this which like the

shade and some star and normal

jasmine and maybe some daisy

bushes, their daisies are very nice.

You can also get some ‘giants castle’

and ‘ferns’.

Recently Darryl and Zane went to

England, here’s what Darryl had to say:

“We took off for England on the 13th of

August, to go to compete in the Gil-

bert and Solomon festival in Buxton

(it’s so safe, clean and filled with

flowers there), in the play The Yeoman

of the Guard. 24 different plays

where competing in the festival

and The Yeoman of the

Guard came 2nd and we

won the prize of best

costumes. We stayed at a

youth hostel at university

of derby. Once we had

finished the competition

we went in to London for

two, London is filled with

The London eye at night!

Zane in front of

the London eye!

Darryl, the star

himself! The cast in front of the

theater!

Snow white and the seven dwarves

This term we are presenting a production of

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”. It will

be performed on the last day of term in the

quad, at R10 per ticket. This is the casting list:

Snow White Hannah

The Queen Malaika

Grumpy Graysen

Dopey Keenan

Sleepy Miles

Happy Gary

Bashful Ryan

Doc Easton

Sneezey Mieke-Marie

Prince Grant

Blue Bird (Narrator) Saskia

Huntsman Liddon

Vulture Yusuf

Vulture Sebastian

Magic Mirror Kyle

This week’s adventures at NHMMS

Blueberry muffins

Ingredients

6tbsp sunflower oil

280g Plain flour

1tbsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

115g soft light brown sugar

150g frozen blueberries

2 eggs

250ml milk

1tsp vanilla extract

Finely grated rind of 1 lemon

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°

C /400°F/ Gas Mark 6. Grease

a 12-hole muffin tin. Sift

together the flour, baking

powder and salt into a large

bowl. Stir in the sugar and

blueberries.

Place the eggs in a large jug or

bowl and beat lightly, then

beat in the milk, oil, vanilla

extract and lemon rind. Make

a well in the centre of the dry

ingredients and pour in the

beaten liquid ingredients. Stir

until just combined; do not

overmix. Spoon the mixture

into the muffin tin.

Bake in the preheated oven for

20 minutes, or until well risen,

golden brown and firm to the

touch. Leave to cool in the tin

for 5 minutes, then serve

warm or transfer to a wire rack

“Be the change that you wish to see in

the world” - Gandhi

Follow your heart...

Darryl and Zane’s trip to England!

Our daily quiet reading

time.

Writing our NanoWriMo Sorting out our finances.

The discovery of the

toaster.

people from different cultures it’s

like a big welding pot and every-

one had the Olympic fever. We

departed for south Africa from

Heathrow airport on the 19th of

August”