COMARADES MARATHON

GOOD LUCK TO OUR COMRADES MARATHON RUNNERS

Our very best wishers go with all those who will be running the ‘uphill on Sunday.’  We do hope your run goes well and that it is a memorable occasion. Our thoughts and special wishes go to Assumption mom Hazel Moller.  Hazel is again attempting to run from Johannesburg to Durban over 9 consecutive days, arriving in time to then complete the Comrades on Sunday! Each year, Hazel dedicates this gruelling run to animals in distress.  Her fundraising efforts have raised hundreds of thousands of Rands for this excellent cause. 

Hazel Möller (left) and Dina do Couto (part of the Ten10 team and a fellow Bedfordview Athletics Club runner) have some fun out on a run.

Mr Workman

PRIMARY SCHOOL

BIBLE QUIZ

Our Grade 7 girls have spent some time over the past term preparing for the annual St Jerome’s Bible Quiz.  This year the focus of the quiz was Genesis. Two teams of 4 girls each, accompanied by Mrs Bondonno and Ms Faulha, travelled to St Catherine’s in Germiston on Friday, 26 May 2017 to represent our school. Thank you to the Knights of Da Gama of Benoni and Boksburg, for their continued support by providing prizes again this year. 
Congratulations to our ACS team who won the quiz this year!  Our team tied for First Place with St Catherine’s.

The top 10 teams positions

1. Assumption  A & St Catherine’s  B                           

 2. St Thomas  A                                                             

3. St Catherine’s  A                                                        

4. St Dominic’s  B                                                         

5. Veritas  A                                                                  

6. Assumption  B                                                          

7. St Benedict’s  B                                                        

8. St Dominic’s  A                                                        

9. Veritas  B                                                                  

10. CBC  A & St Thomas  B                                        

Mrs Zambon

CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL AFRIKAANS EISTEDDFOD

On Wednesday, 31 May a number of our Grade 5 – 7 girls participated in the Afrikaans Eisteddfod (Creative Arts Festival) at Crawford Preparatory School Lonehill.
This was a very exciting time for the girls and rehearsing of poems and preparation of the reading passages started early in May. All the participants were confident about themselves and their presentations. The adjudicator was particularly impressed by the girls’ enthusiasm, neat appearance and high standard of work.  

The results are as follows:
Prestige:

• Lisa Klopper – Own Choice Poetry
• Ana Cordeiro – Dramatised Duo Poetry
• Atu Phahla – Dramatised Duo Poetry
• Harmony Mdebuka – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Paris Griffin – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Joy Prince – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Daniella Dunn – Prepared Own Choice Reading

Honours:

• Julia Enslin – Own Choice Poetry
• Rutendo Amoda – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Hadyn Waskis – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Kelsey Kearns – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Racquel de Oliveira – Own Choice Poetry
• Catarina Regal – Own Choice Poetry

Gold:

• Lerato Ditlopo – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Joy Prince – Own Choice Poetry
• Jordan Thomas – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Morgan Rothmann – Prepared Own Choice Reading
• Meghan Vetten – Own Choice Poetry

A very big thank you to this dedicated team of girls and the wonderful support from their parents.

Mrs Swanepoel

CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL ENGLISH & DRAMA EISTEDDFOD 

On Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th of May, several of our Primary School girls took part in the Creative Arts Festival Eisteddfod, held at Crawford Preparatory, Lonehill. Our girls did us proud and were awarded the following certificates:
Descriptors:
Bronze:    60 – 69% 
Silver:      70 - 79%
Gold:        80 – 89%
Honours:  90 – 94%
Prestige:   95 – 100%

CATEGORY:
Monologue:

• Nicole Beato - Gold
• Emily Gers - Honours
• Harmony Mdebuka - Honours
• Sarah-Paige Greenwood - Honours 

Duo Verse:

• Mariza Pires- Prestige
• Jenna Young - Prestige

Dramatized Poetry:

• Jenna Young - Gold
• Mariza Pires - Prestige
• Nicole Beato - Honours
• Hadyn Waskis - Gold
• Catarina Regal - Gold 
• Morgan Rothmann - Gold
• Sarah-Paige Greenwood - Gold 

Well done girls!

Mrs Gers

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CHESS TOURNAMENT

The Grade 4-7 chess girls participated in their first CSO chess tournament at De La Salle Junior School.  It was a fantastic experience and the girls learnt how to improve their game. Well done! 

Mrs Archary and Ms Faulha

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION - IMPORTANT EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

HIGH SCHOOL

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK 

   
The High School celebrated Catholic Schools Week last week. Our pupils wore their school uniforms to Mass over the weekend and representatives read a letter to the parish about what being in a Catholic School means. Then on Wednesday a number of the pupils and staff from the Primary and High school joined St Benedict’s for a prayer pilgrimage to Schoenstatt Shrine. We prayed the Rosary as we walked to and from the Shrine and had an opportunity to pray in the chapel at the shrine and sing some beautiful Praise and Worship songs together. We prayed for our schools, for our country and for our own intentions. It was a beautiful event and so special to be united to our brother and sister schools in prayer on the perfectly fitting feast day of Our Lady Help of Christians! 

Mrs Braum

ST MARY'S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT

Our girls participated at the St Mary's Chess Championship. The tournament was a Chess SA rated event managed and adjudicated by officials from Chess Excellence who will also be running the Catholic Schools Chess Tournament which will be hosted by Assumption Convent School in Term 3.
Results: ACS beat Edenvale A & B, lost to St Mary's, drew with St Stithians, drew with Jeppe Girls and drew with Athlone girls.
In the individual category, Pragna Singh played exceptionally well on board 1, winning 5 out of  6 gruelling matches. 
Well done to all the girls.

Mr Lauf

MUSIC EVENING

Photo Link: www.assumptionconvent.co.za/gallery/photoalbums.aspx?Albumid=361

 On Wednesday 31 May, musicians from Grade 2 through to Matric gathered for a concert of all their wonderful. The concert featured the Junior Primary, Senior Primary, and High School Choirs, Grade 6, Grade 7, and High School Marimba Bands, School Orchestra, and three of Assumption Convent’s first ever Matric Music students, Donique Mitchell, Chloe Wittstock, and Marilyn Cilengi. The concert was concluded by all three choirs singing together. Our special guest for the evening was Mrs Jeanette Wessels, who, as Miss Jeanette Cleever, attended Assumption Convent between 1948 and 1950. Mrs Wessels enjoyed the concert thoroughly and was delighted to return to her old school. The standard of performances was extremely high from all the girls and my thanks go to Miss Saunders, Mrs Szymczak, Mr Sheehan, and Mrs Smythe for preparing the performances. Thanks also to Mrs Moore, Mrs Sheerin, Mrs McCormack, Miss Faulha, Mrs Elliot, and Mrs van Wyk for assisting with the Primary School girls while they were off-stage, Mrs Knipe and Mrs Sousa for the photographs and videos, and to the PTA for their ever-amazing prego rolls! 

Mr Stewardson

GRADE 12 PUBLIC SPEAKING AWARDS

The Public Speaking Season has officially ended and we would like to congratulate this group of matrics who have been loyal participants of the cultural activity since grade 8. Every year they have been the victors of many public speaking festivals and we will miss them dearly at our inter-school evenings and inter-house afternoons. On Monday, 29 May, the following grade 12 girls received awards for public speaking:

• Dedication certificate: Shannon O’Connor.
• Participation certificate: Jacinta de Gouveia
• Scroll award: Chloe Wittstock, Kimberley Bezuidenhout and Fallon Santowski
• Half-Colours award: Sphesihle Mtwa, Sarah Buckland, Kemiso Wessie and Megan Miller
• Full-Colours award: Brittany Dennison, Julia Pita Olival and Brodie Stevenson.

Congratulations Grade 12 speakers! The remaining Grade 8-11 public speaking awards will be awarded at the end of term 2. 

Ms Rivera 

ST JEROME CATHOLIC SCHOOLS' BIBLE QUIZ 

On Saturday the 28th of May, two High School teams participated in the St Jerome Catholic Schools' Bible Quiz, hosted by St Catherine's. Our A-team came 4th and our B-team came 3rd, behind St Benedict's in 2nd place, and Veritas College in 1st place. The girls in the B-team, namely Katie-Meg Weinerlein, Micaela de Gouveia, Tiziana di Santolo and Zekeyo Mozagba, made the joint-decision to use their prize-money to buy soup-packets for the poor. The soup was handed to Sharon da Silva of the St Vincent de Paul Society, for its soup kitchen. Well done, girls! 

HIGH SCHOOL SPORT

NETBALL - FEEDBACK FROM FIJI                                                                                                     

      Team: Fiji 

       SASN vs Aukland Samoa 

From the 15-23 May, Marilyn Cilengi and her team flew to Fiji, Suva via Hong to represent the country at the Digicel Punjas International Secondary School Netball Challenge 2017. At the Vodafone Arena, they competed against teams from New Zealand, Australia, Samoa and Fiji. “Besides the sight-seeing done every morning: to the deep under water, the Museum, and the Raiwanga Village, we played against two teams each day to hopefully be ranked amongst the top 4. After our 4 days of competing South African had won 4 games and lost 4 games. This led to us to compete for 5th or 6th position on the final day of the competition against Auckland Tonga. South Africa lost that game leaving us in 6th place out of 9 teams.
1st- Aotearoa Maori (New Zealand)
2nd- School Sports Australia 
3rd-Auckland Samoa
4th- Fiji
5th-Auckland Tonga
6th-South African School Netball
7th- Fijiana FANZ (New Zealand)
8th-Indigenous Australia
9th- Fiji Secondary School
Marilyn Cilengi played Goal Keeper for her team. She described her opponents as much taller and bigger than herself. She made many Fijian new friends and strengthened her relationship with her team mates during the tour. 

CATHOLICS SCHOOLS NETBALL

On Saturday the Assumption Convent Open and U16A Netball teams took part in the Catholic Schools Netball hosted by Holy Rosary.  The Open team were the defending champions and this was the first edition of the U16A festival.  Both teams performed excellently by topping their pools and then winning their semi-finals to reach  the finals. 
The U16As did us proud by finishing 2nd overall out of 12 teams whilst the Opens continued a great tradition of winning the festival, for the 3rd straight time in a row.
Congratulations to both teams and coaches and thank you to all the parents and staff who supported the girls. 

NETBALL - 31 MAY

On Wednesday we hosted Holy Rosary, our second last fixture.  Next week we will be playing our last  fixture at home against Dainfern. 

Herewith the results: 

• 14 a      6 - 18  Holy Rosary
• 14 b      6 - 13  Holy Rosary
• 15 a      9 - 22  Holy Rosary
• 15 b      3 - 23  Holy Rosary
• 16 a      25-16  ACS 
• 16 b      12 - 24 Holy Rosary
• 2nd       24 - 3  ACS 
• 1st         22 - 5  ACS 

SOCCER

       

On Saturday the 27th of May Assumption Convent played a friendly soccer match against a touring team from KZN. We put an open team together which had 2 juniors and an old girl playing for us. St Benedicts, Bedfordview asked us if we could play against the touring girls side whilst their boys played against the touring boys. The touring side is also a St Benedicts, from KZN but a co-ed school.
Our girls played an excellent game and won 3-0. Well done and thank you to the parents, players and coach Thuli.

Mr Lydall

HOCKEY

On Wednesday the 31st the 1st hockey team played a friendly against Saheti and won 6-0. On Thursday the 1sts payed a friendly against Jeppe Girls on the Jeppe Boys Astro and won 1-0.
The 2nds played against Southern Gauteng U13 A on the Astro and lost 3-0. These matches were played because our confirmed fixtures for all teams on Thursday were cancelled on Tuesday morning. The juniors had a training session.

HOCKEY TRAINING ON MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY -  NORMAL TIMES

Next match away at Springs High School on Thursday 8 June. The Grade 8s and 9s are on study break and so either need to come to school for the day to study or get dropped off at school to get on the bus at 13h15. We will return quite late at 17h30. The girls can bring revision with them. Thank you for your co-operation.

PTA 

ANNUAL DINNER DANCE

i-Collect - FUND RAISING

40 bags have been collected and thank you to those parents who have donated clothes etc. on behalf of the PTA.

DEBUTANTES' FUNDRAISING 

A NIGHT WITH THE STARS - DINNER & DANCE

Jasmine Caetano

Georgia Keogh - Debutante

ACS FAMILY RECIPE BOOK

This year as a Debs fundraiser, which supports local charities, we are wanting to compile an Assumption Convent family recipe book.
The idea is to put together favourite recipes contributed by Assumption families to create a recipe book unique to our school. The recipe book will be printed on high quality paper and will be beautifully bound and decorated with photographs of our school. Anyone who contributes will have their daughters name acknowledged with their recipe.
We would like to ask for your assistance with this project. If you have a favourite recipe (soup, bread, salad, dessert, meat, chicken, vegetarian, fish etc.) that you are willing to contribute please complete the attached form and return to the class teacher.
Your assistance is highly appreciated.

TRENDY ACCESSORIES

Alexandra Marques - Debutante

Yours sincerely  

Neville Workman - Principal