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Monthly Archives: May 2020
“Man Meets Dog”
Konnie is back
Today was not the first day back at school for Konnie, but he certainly celebrated his arrival at school this morning as if it had been his first. He welcomed staff and students and took his time before entering the building and going to his office.
In his book “Man Meets Dog” Nobel Prize winning ethnologist Konrad Lorenz, claims that dogs can smile and even laugh. I am pretty sure that I saw a huge smile on Konnie’s face today! A big thank you to Kate for looking after Konnie so well, he looks very healthy and happy!
Student: “I think we need to think about calling him Konrad from now on – he has grown so much!”
text & photos: AS
2nd Day Back for Grade 1
Sunshine and the playground almost to themselves – welcome back Grade 1! The students had fun at break time today.
photos: AS
Welcome back Grade 10
It so good to hear your voices in the school building! Grade 10 students returned to school after the temporary closure and seemed very glad to be back. The class was divided into two groups, with each group occupying a room. Like Grade 5 last week, the Grade 10 students had an open air PE lesson on the roof top terrace.
Grade 1 students returned back to school this week, too – check the blog for some photos of the class tomorrow!
photos: AS
Roof Top PE
Back at school, Grade 5 enjoyed the sunshine an their first “Roof Top PE lesson” last week. Thanks to the creative energy of their PE teacher, the work out at a distance was very effective – sore muscles anyone?!
photos: AS
Antigone – Online Dress Rehearsal
Who says you cannot do an online dress rehearsal? Here are Grade 6 Students, in full costume and improvised props, rehearsing Antigone in Performing Arts! Students used their creativity to come up with most the most fabulous costumes ideas, based on their research of Greek Costume traditions.
Habitat for Humanity – Chocolate
Support Grade 11 and #SaveTheSaviours
If you can recall, Grade 11 was meant to have an Easter Egg Hunt as a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser on the 2nd of April. Sadly, it had to be canceled due to the corona virus and the temporary school closure.
Because the hunt never happened, we were not able to distribute the chocolate to the kids. Aldi had sponsored us so this now leaves us with an abundance of chocolate.
Grade 11 has decided to use it to make small gift bags for any students that have returned back to school or any that will be returning soon.
Hopefully these gifts will inspire you to donate for our cause. Even though our trip to Romania was canceled, we have made the decision to continue to fundraise for a project called “save the saviors”.
Habitat for Humanity Romania, in partnership with the Moinesti Ambulance Center will build an Emergency Center, which will serve over 65.000 people from 11 communities in NE part of Romania. All the money that we raise will go towards making a new and better center for our saviors. You would be #savingthesavior. To make any donations, you can do it via this website link, which leads to the fundraising page of the H.I.S. Grade 11 students:
For the students and teachers already present in school there is also a donation box at the reception. Thank you for all the support.
Kira, Grade 11
Welcome back Grade 5
Grade 5 students had a great time exploring the playground at morning break.
They found it easy to think of games to play that would help them keep the required distance from each other. Thank you for being so mindful and caring – it’s lovely to have you back at school!
Too all those of you waiting patiently at home: We are thinking of you and we hope to welcome you back soon, too.
photos: AS
Woof (“Have a good weekend!”)
Konnie found a massive stick on our walk the other day. He insisted on carrying it the whole way home!
Here he is listening to birds on this morning’s walk.
Only Konnie could find a football by the river. He had great fun playing in the water and chasing the ball. He had a well-earned rest afterwards.
photos: KvG
“In the jungle, the mighty jungle….”
Luckily I did not come across any sleeping lions but a beautiful jungle full of wildlife and flowers. Take a peek:
…and find out what’s growing on the playground.
I’m sure you spotted where on the playground the photos were taken, right?!
As beautiful as the flowers are to look at – I cannot wait to hear the sound of you playing, meeting, chatting, climbing on the playground again!
photos: AS