Southern Cross College
PO Box 116
Hoedspruit
1380
015 793 0590
[email protected]
W e e k l y
N e w s l e t t e r
o f
S C C
W e e k
2
o f
J u n e
2 0 1 6
PA Auction a Massive Success
Peek at last
week ...
• Our College learners completed
their first week of exams.
• The SCS PA held a wildly successful auction on Friday 10 June.
• A special word of thanks to
everyone who contributed to
the success of the SCS PA
Auction.
• Ten of our College learners took
to the skies thanks to the
Hoedspruit
Flying
Club
on
THANK YOU!!! Thank you to the incredibly driven and motivated SCS PA Fundraising Committee; thank you to all
the SCS parents and community members who donated lots generously to the auction; thank you to all the people
who attended the auction and supported the school by purchasing lots; thank you to Charl Auret for ensuring the
success of the evening by being a very funny and brilliant auctioneer. Just over R400 000.00 was raised. This money is
for a multi-purpose all-weather sports training surface and playground upgrade.
Saturday 11 June.
Hoedspruit Flying Club Offers Free Flights
Ten of our College learners who are interested in flying and possibly pursuing a career
in aviation were treated to a free flight from
the Hoedspruit Civil airfield on Saturday 11
June. Members of the Hoedspruit Flying Club
made their time and their aircrafts available
to take the excited youngsters into the sky
above Hoedspruit. Thanks you to the HFC
for making this opportunity available.
Dates to look
out for:
College mid-year exams continue.
13
Jun
Youth Day Public Holiday - no school.
16
Jun
Normal school day for
Southern Cross.
17
Jun
College learners write
their last exam.
21
Jun
Exam mark checking
and last day of Term 2.
22
Jun
College awards assembly - 07h30.
22
Jun
Mid-year reports ready
for collection - 13:00
24
Jun
Wildlife Around the School
Having a school in a wildlife reserve comes with
great benefits but it also provides us with the stark
reality of the conditions wild animals are faced with
when weather conditions impact negatively on the
bush. This beautiful giraffe attracted by the greenery
around the school buildings was photographed
alongside the Earth Circle earlier this week. The
bush is extremely dry with virtually all the grass
cover gone and trees dropping their leaves the
areas around the school buildings provide the last
remnants of greenery. Warthog, nyala, waterbuck,
impala, kudu, giraffe and zebra are seen around the
school buildings much more frequently now than
usual. The Raptor’s View Estate management team
has implemented a programme to reduce the number of animals on the estate and to feed those that
remain. The reality is that this is going to be a very
long, tough winter for our browsers and grazers on
the estate. We can only hope that the rains next
season are good and that they come reasonably
early. Fortunately our school dam still has water in
it and we will enjoy the resultant game viewing.