RELIGION
PRAYER FOR PREPARATION TO STUDY
Lord, I know you are with me and love me.
Give me peace of mind as I prepare for this time of study.
Help me to focus on my books and notes,
keep me from all distractions so that I will make the best use
of this time that is available to me.
Give me insight that I might understand what I am studying ,
and help me to remember it when the time comes.
Above all, I thank you for the ability to be able to study
and for the many gifts and talents you have given me.
Help me always to use them in such a way
that they honour you and do justice to myself. Amen
WHY DO WE PRAY?
Prayer is talking to God. When we pray, we open our hearts to our Father in Heaven. When we pray, we come to Him and tell Him everything in our hearts. God Himself asks us to pray. The Apostle Paul expressed this when he told the Christians at Ephesus, “ Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayer and requests…” (Ephesians 6:8)
Prayer is powerful and can change your life.
CONDOLENCES
Our thoughts and prayers are with Ms Franks who has lost her father.
2019 TERM DATES
OPEN DAY 16 FEBRUARY 2019
GRADE 000 OPENING IN 2019
We are excited to announce that Assumption Convent School will be opening a Grade 000 in January next year. Our theme is ‘Learn to play, play to learn.’ The programme has been carefully crafted to ensure that the children (girls and boys from the age of 3 years) learn through play in a safe, caring, Christian environment. The curriculum is innovative and world class and will give the children an excellent foundation. The fees are very competitive and include aftercare.
Places are limited and to avoid disappointment, please apply as soon as possible. Contact marketing@assumptionconvent.co.za or 011 616 5053 for more info.
GENERAL
CAROL SERVICE
Please join us for the Carol Service at 18h00 on Friday 30 November in the Convent Hall. The service will be a mixture of favourite Christmas readings and carols, with Christmas songs by our three choirs and soloists. The Carol Service is a lovely way to conclude another successful year at Assumption Convent, and to start the Christmas season with festive cheer!
The PTA be selling prego rolls for R30 and boerewors rolls for R25. The Canteen will be open selling crisps, chocolates and cool drinks. If you would like to enjoy the PTA’s delicious prego rolls and boerewors rolls, please email Mr Stewardson at rstewardson@assumptionconvent.co.za before Tuesday 27 November. With this being the last function of the year, the PTA would like to order stock as accurately as possible.
In lieu of an entrance fee, please bring a new toy, stationary, or similar, to put under our tree. These toys will be taken and given to a less fortunate child so they have something on Christmas morning. If you would like to donate something but are unable to attend the Carol Service, please drop off your gift at the office, or at Mr Stewardson’s classroom.
Mr Stewardson
LOCKERS
All pupils are urged to make use of their lockers to secure their belongings. Pupils should not leave their bags unattended during the course of the day. It should either be with them or locked away in their lockers.
Mrs Goosen
STOCK AVAILABLE
- ACS Blankets - R 280.00
- ACS Towels - R 280.00
- ACS Umbrellas - R 125.00
- House T-shirts - R80.00
- Recorders - R80.00
- Swim Caps - R80.00
- Team Costumes - R 310,00 each
- PE Costumes - R 120,00 – R 160,00 each
These items can be bought from Mrs Nienaber.
Mrs Nienaber
TRANSPORT SERVICE
ACS has formed a partnership with Beetle Shuttle Services, to provide school transport to girls from Edenvale, Greenstone, Bedfordview and Kensington.
This shuttle service that will transport your daughters’ from home to school and back. The dedicated team will work with you to establish a specific timeline for complete deployment and will support you throughout the transportation process. We are hoping to expand to other suburbs in the near future.
Please contact Michael Passos on 082 900 4871 or info@beetleshuttles.co.za for more information.
Mrs Sousa
SPORT
SPORTS AWARDS
On Monday the 5th of November we held our sports awards and matric farewell. It was lovely having the parents and girls sat together in the Convent Hall to celebrate the past sporting year and to show appreciation for our matrics for their service and contributions to the school. The idea is that everyone who played sport in the year, attends this function, whether receiving an award or not. To those girls who were there merely to support and celebrate, well done!! We appreciate all of our coaches for the time and effort that they have put in. Thank you to the parents for your sacrifices and to our sports girls for doing the hard yards and going out there to do your best for your school. It really is a celebration of the best Assumption has to offer. The talent and leadership quality is there and we do our best to nurture and guide it.
TENNIS
- Most Promising Player of the year – Genevieve Reid
- ACS Singles Champion – Kimberley Klette
- Best doubles team –Jodie Langdon and Savannah Sheerin
- Most improved player in the B team – Michelle da Silva
- Player of the year – Kimberley Klette
- Coaches award – Kimberley Klette
ROWING
- Most improved u14 rower: Hannah Abrosie
- Best u14 rower: Racquel de Oliveira
- Most Improved U15 rower: Gabriella Paolini
- Best U15 rower: Stephane Buchner
- Most Improved U16 rower: Gabriella Moreira
- Best u16 rower: Courtney Westley
- Most improved senior rower: Tyla de Freitas
- Debbie Peel Award for Best Senior Rower: Mikaela Simoes
- Nicole Van Wyk Trophy – Best Sculler: Courtney Westley
- The Assumption Award sponsored by the Harding Family - Thandeka Dube
- The Tamryn Peel Award for Excellence : Courtney Westely
HOCKEY
- Most Promising Junior Player: Ella Matthews and Thandeka Dube
- Top Junior Goal Scorer: Gabriella Monteiro and Katya-Andrea dos Reis
- Best Junior Player (The Wesley Simpson Trophy): Almari Klopper
- Most Promising 2nd team Player: Reneilwe Phahla
- Top 2nd team Goal Scorer: Raquel Nogueira and Unathi Khumalo
- Best 2nd team Player: Gabriella Moreira
- Most Promising 1st team Player: only tapping into their potential: Nina Mynheer
- Top 1st team goal scorer in the Leagues: Ashley Torres
- Best 1st Team Player (The Tamryn Lewis Trophy): Nicola Schulz
- Coaches award: Tyla de Freitas
NETBALL
u14s:
- Most Promising Player: Holly Bannister
- Best Player: Ameerah Ngwu
- Top Goal Scorer: Nolwazi Mabuza
u15s:
- Most Promising Player: Jordan McCormack
- Best Player: Reabetswe Modiga
- Top Goal Scorer: Tayla Mileder
u16s:
- Most Promising Player: Kholofelo Mashaba
- Best Player: Daniella Jesus
- Top Goal Scorer: Erin Lewis
2nds:
- Most Promising Player: Daniella Domingues
- Best Player: Teah Slabbert and Kristen Edwards
- Top Goal Scorer: Kendall Cox
1sts:
- Most Promising Player: Chinenye Ngwu
- Best Player: Jessica Kitching
- Top Goal Scorer: Savannah Sheerin
- Coaches Award: Carmen Mileder
- Overall Outstanding Junior: Jordan McCormack
- Overall Outstanding Senior: Jessica Kitching
SOCCER
- Top Junior Goal Scorer: Kylie Visser and Tayla Mileder
- Junior Player of the Season: Michelle da Silva Sousa
- Most Promising Junior player: Angela Sue
ATHLETICS
- Fastest Hurdler: Nicola Schulz
- Highest Jumper: Kyhara vd Bank
- Top Middle Distance Runner: Nadia Calore
- Furthest Long Jumper: Reabetswe Modiga
- Fastest Sprinter: Shaylee Bekker
- Fastest 400m runner: Nadia Calore and Courtney Westley
- Most Improved athlete: Zekeyo Mozagba
- Athlete of the year: Reabetswe Modiga
- Coaches Award: Jordan McCormack
Mr Lydall
GAUTENG SCHOOL ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS
www.assumptionconvent.co.za/gallery/photoalbums.aspx?Albumid=455
Please make a donation for our senior rowers who will be rowing in Port Alfred. We need to raise at least R50K to get the team there.
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/assumption-rowing-club
Last weekend saw the culmination of this half of the rowing season with the Gauteng Schools Rowing Championships. 35 girls represented Assumption Convent, the most in a championship event by the school. It was a tough weekend of racing and we achieved the following results on the water:
U14 scull - Ariana Patterson 4th in her heat
U15 scull - Hannah Abrosie 4th in her heat
U16 scull - Stephane Buchner 8th overall (35 entries)
1st scull - Courtney Westley 3rd (BRONZE) 28 entries
U15 Double - Hannah Abrosie & Nikita Da Silva 8th Overall
U16 Double - Stephane Buchner & Grace Keegan 5th Overall, Shiyaam Jaffar & Nadia Sousa 3rd in heat
1st Double - Courtney Oosterlaak & Courtney Westley 7th overall
U14 Quad - 5th in Heat
U15 Quad - 3rd in heat
U16 Quad - 5th Overall
1st Quad - 8th Overall
U14 Octapule - 5th overall
U15 Octapule - 4th Overall
U16 Pair - 4th Overall
1st pair - 8th overall
U16 four - 4th Overall
1st Four - 7th Overall
We finished the regatta in 5th place with 136 points, and improvement on our 115 last season.
The girls represented themselves and their school with pride and were commended on a number of occassions on their behaviour both on and off the water. Thank you to the parents who provided such great support for their children. It was a special weekend for ACS Rowing.
ROWING
Wemmer Sprints – Saturday 13 October – Junior Regatta - Juniors row 1km and Seniors row 2km’s.
KES regatta – Saturday 20 October – Junior & Senior Regatta
The weather over the last two weekends, has not been kind to the rowers. They have had to battle blustering winds, rain and hyacinth on the water, but our rowers never gave up, they pushed through (the hyacinth), determined to complete their races. At the Wemmer Junior regatta, our coaches withdrew the girls from the last races, in order to preserve their dignity (crews were tipping) and our boats. Due to lightening, the KES regatta was ‘called off’, at around 14:30, so some of the crews did not get to row.
Wemmer Sprints
Gu14 A 4x+ (Quad) 6th 4:38:93
Nicca Coetzee, Jessica Ewa, Ariana Patterson, Kezia Segurado, Cox – Nina Mynheer
Gu14 B 4x+ (Quad) 4th 4:08:99
Cheyanka Govender, Abigail Gomes, Tokelo Mamabolo, Tracey Moukouemi, Cox – Ncumisa Mthi
Gu15 A 1x (Scull)
Hannah Abrosie 8th 4:14:80
Gu15 B 1x (Scull)
Thandeka Dube 12th 3:38:47
Gu15 C 1x (Scull)
Reshni Sutherayer 4th 3:52:09
Gu15 B 2x (Double)
Thandeka Dube & Nolwazi Mabuza 4th 4:09:79
KES – JUNIOR & SENIOR REGATTA
Gu19 1st 1x (Scull)
Courtney Westley 2nd 9:08:73
Grace Keegan (u16) 15th 10:13:99
Stephane Buchner (u16) 18th 10:29:13
Gu19 2nd 1x (Scull)
Michela Barrechia 1st 9:45:81
Gu16 C 1x (Scull)
Hannah Abrosie (u15) 1st 11:26:24
Gu19 1st 2x (Double)
Courtney Oosterlaak & Courtney Westley 8th 8:58:17
Gu16 A 2x (Double)
Grace Keegan & Stephane Buchner 2nd 8:57:49
Gu16 C 2x (Double)
Kyra de Vos & Nadia Sousa 1st 10:45:45
Gu15 2x (Double)
Nikita da Silva & Thandeka Dube 1st 5:09:16
Reshni Sutherayer & Nolwazi Mabuza 2nd 5:42:13
Gu14 2x (Double)
Ariana Patterson & Jessica Ewa 4th 8:40:97
Gu16 A 4x+ (Quad) 1st 8:57:16
Teresa Park, Grace Keegan, Stephane Buchner, Shiyaam Jaffar, Kylie Visser (Cox)
Gu16 B 4x+ (Quad)
Reshni Sethurayer; Hannah Abrosie; Nikita da Silva; Nolwazi Mabuza; Thandeka Dube 2nd 10:27:62
Gu19 1st 2- (pair)
Gabriella Moreira & Nina Mynheer 5th 9:42:77
Gu19 1st 4+ (four) 3rd 9:35:11
Gabriella Moreira, Nina Mynheer, Eleni Glavovic, Marion Vetten, Demiana da Fonseca (Cox)
Gu16 A 4+ (four) 3rd 9:43:26
Kylie Visser, Teresa Park, Chantelle Immelman, Shiyaam Jaffar, Kyra de Vos (Cox)
FUNDRAISER 2019
Please check the App for more info.
Coach Kwaku Owusu
SWIM 4 GOLD TECHNIQUE CLINIC 2018 (December 11-14)
Registrations are officially open for our 2018 technique clinic, Swim 4 gold with Coach George Kennedy from the USA. I have to limit the numbers this year due to popularity so use the link to confirm your space!
Register using the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/VGXjZrxilRHnw4i43 or mail upmand@stbenedicts.co.za
CONGRATULATIONS
Kyhara van der Bank has been invited by The South African Body of Dance and Dance Sport South Africa on the 24 November 2018 to receive, for the first time in South Africa her PROTEA COLOURS for modern and Jazz dancing.
ALUMNI
Alumni, we want to hear from you..
We will be running a profile post and testimonial of a past pupil every week in our newsletter as well as Facebook and Twitter so please send us your info.
Our alumni serve a very important role within our community and our school.
We would like to know what our former pupils go on to do after they leave Assumption Convent School. Where our Alumni are, what they are doing, who they’ve become, and how Assumption Convent School helped prepare them for university, work and life. The Alumni community is a fantastic network group where memories are shared and where you can reconnect with old friends.
Please share a few memories of what Assumption Convent meant to you (200 words or less). Please also e-mail a recent photo of yourself.
This year we will have a section dedicated to our Alumni in our annual school magazine.
Please send photos and share your news with us via email. Please send us updated contact details, especially email addresses, name changes etc.
Please send all correspondence to: marketing@assumptionconvent.co.za
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Marketing Dept
Our Alumna this week is Kelly Byrne
KELLY BYRNE - MATRIC 2014
I have a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and I am currently in my penultimate year of my LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Assumption Convent School gave me the confidence and values I needed to pursue my dreams. Assumption was like a second home to me and I was surrounded by a great support system of teachers and friends. The teachers were always dedicated to us as students, by always providing us with the tools and help we needed for our academics. At Assumption Convent I learnt the value of faith, independence and hard work in all areas of life. At Assumption I enjoyed the diversity and participation in many extra-curricular activities that made me the individual I am today. I have many special memories at Assumption that I will treasure forever, and I hope to see my own daughter attend Assumption one day too.
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PTA
WHY JOIN THE PTA?
i-Collect - FUNDRAISING
We have now collected another 195 kg. Thank you for the ongoing support!
i-Collect - BIN
Please keep on supporting the i-Collect bag project and drop off your bag directly into the bin next to the Grade 8 & 9 lockers (as you enter the school premises).
PARTNERSHIP WITH MERCEDES-BENZ
Yours sincerely
Neville Workman - Principal
Our alumni serve a very important role within our community and our school.
We would like to know what our former pupils go on to do after they leave Assumption Convent School. Where our Alumni are, what they are doing, who they’ve become, and how Assumption Convent School helped prepare them for university, work and life.
The Alumni community is a fantastic network group where memories are shared and where you can reconnect with old friends.
Please share a few memories of what Assumption Convent meant to you (200 words or less). Please also e-mail a recent photo of yourself.
This year we will have a section dedicated to our Alumni in our annual school magazine.
Please send photos and share your news with us via email. Please send us updated contact details, especially email addresses, name changes etc.
Please send all correspondence to: marketing@assumptionconvent.co.za
Hoping to hear from you soon.
ACS Marketing Dept
Our Alumni this week are Caylen Soundiades and Carla Sousa
Caylen Soundiades – Matric 2014
Current Statistics Honours student at Stellenbosch university.
"Assumption Convent School will always hold a very special place in my heart. It is here that I began my spiritual journey and learnt to face the world with confidence and joy. The world is not always an easy place, but my solid grounding at Assumption Convent School taught me the value of hard work, and the gift of treating all I meet with dignity and respect."
Carla Sousa - Matric 2013
Optometrist
"Assumption Convent taught me to believe in myself and others. I was empowered with the skills to work diligently on my own or in a group. My Family has always believed in tenacity, compassion, empathy, kindness and loyalty, Assumption Convent reinforced all these values and provided role models throughout my schooling career. Armed with an unwavering belief in my ability to achieve my dreams, I have qualified from UJ with a B Optom degree and am currently working as an Optometrist".
ALUMNI
Alumni, we want to hear from you..
We will be running a profile post and testimonial of a past pupil every week in our newsletter as well as Facebook and Twitter so please send us your info.
Our alumni serve a very important role within our community and our school.
We would like to know what our former pupils go on to do after they leave Assumption Convent School. Where our Alumni are, what they are doing, who they’ve become, and how Assumption Convent School helped prepare them for university, work and life.
The Alumni community is a fantastic network group where memories are shared and where you can reconnect with old friends.
Please share a few memories of what Assumption Convent meant to you (200 words or less). Please also e-mail a recent photo of yourself.
This year we will have a section dedicated to our Alumni in our annual school magazine.
Please send photos and share your news with us via email. Please send us updated contact details, especially email addresses, name changes etc.
Please send all correspondence to: marketing@assumptionconvent.co.za
Hoping to hear from you soon.
ACS Marketing Dept
Our Alumni this week are Caylen Soundiades and Carla Sousa
Caylen Soundiades – Matric 2014
Current Statistics Honours student at Stellenbosch university.
"Assumption Convent School will always hold a very special place in my heart. It is here that I began my spiritual journey and learnt to face the world with confidence and joy. The world is not always an easy place, but my solid grounding at Assumption Convent School taught me the value of hard work, and the gift of treating all I meet with dignity and respect."
Carla Sousa - Matric 2013
Optometrist
"Assumption Convent taught me to believe in myself and others. I was empowered with the skills to work diligently on my own or in a group. My Family has always believed in tenacity, compassion, empathy, kindness and loyalty, Assumption Convent reinforced all these values and provided role models throughout my schooling career. Armed with an unwavering belief in my ability to achieve my dreams, I have qualified from UJ with a B Optom degree and am currently working as an Optometrist".
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UPCOMING EVENTS
- 10 Nov: Gr 10 & 11 Examinations Start
- 15 Nov: Gr 8 & 9 Examinations Start
- 26 Nov: Grade 12 Final Examinations End
- 30 Nov: Carol Service
- 30 Nov: Examinations End
- 30 Nov: School Closes for pupils
- 06 Dec: Reports Handed out
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