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All parents must please make sure that the school has the correct email and telephone numbers. If your details have changed, you are to please notify Mrs Henwood on 013 741 1021

Dear Parents

I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Valentine’s Day for yesterday. I hope that your day was branded with love and happiness.

I also take this time to thank all the parents who came out in large numbers to support our PTA event. The Welcome Braai was an enjoyable occasion for everyone; young and old alike. A huge thank you must go to our PTA Committee who organised the event. I salute them all for their hard work and dedication.

We are in the process of putting together a magazine which will capture this year’s activities in the life of the school. In this regard, we are inviting sponsorships for the pages in the magazine, and more information will follow in next week’s newsletter.

The Official Opening of our new Aftercare Centre will take place on Saturday 14th April, and parents are invited to attend. Please RSVP to Mrs Elaine Tinkhof by Friday 15th March if you are going to attend the Opening. The time of the Official Opening will be 10:00.

Please note that the Homework Room is available from 13:45 until 15:15. This is normally for siblings whose brother or sister could be involved in afternoon sport. The Homework Room is located on the ground floor in the old boarding house. Parents must please fetch the children from the Homework Room and not ask the children to meet them in the carpark. The teacher on duty will not allow any child to leave the Homework Room unless he/she is being collected by the parent.

To mark the beginning of Lent, Fr Linda will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass at school next week. Mass will be in the hall on Wednesday 22nd Feb at 07:30, and all are invited to attend. 

If your child is celebrating a birthday and would like to bring something to share with other children in the class, please ensure that you only send cupcakes to school. Please also ensure that the correct number of cupcakes is sent to school. Parents are advised that any other items besides cupcakes will not be handed to the children. The class teacher will leave these at Reception for the parent to collect. Lesson time is of essence, and I trust that you will co-operate with the school on this matter. 

    Who is this mysterious figure and why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day?

St Valentine was a priest in Rome in the year 269 AD. He lived during the time when Claudius II was the Emperor of Rome. Claudius II was known to be cruel and wanted all young men to enlist in the army for the protection of Rome. Thus he prohibited all marriages and engagements in Rome. St Valentine, kind as he was, secretly continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When his actions were discovered, Claudius II had him sentenced to death. He was beheaded on February 14 and, in 496 AD, Pope Gelasius marked this date as a celebration in honour of St Valentine – the patron saint of love and happy marriages.

I wish you all a St Valentine’s week.  

Warm regards

Dumisani Kunene
Headmaster

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Termly payments should have been paid by now as they were due on Wednesday 25th January 2012.
Annual payments: Thank you to those parents who have paid their school fees in full for the year. Your February statement will reflect a credit discount of 5%.
Monthly payments: All monthly payments should be made at the beginning of every month, commencing 1st January, with last payment on 1st November 2012.  All cash payments should be banked into the school’s bank account which is as follows:
Account Name:  St Peter’s School
Banking Institution: First National Bank
Account No: 531 315 17626
Branch Code:   270 352.

All these details are also found at the bottom of your statement. Please fax a copy of the deposit slip to the school on Fax No. 013 741 2031. 

Thank you to Nobuntu Manzini (Grade 2G), Leshendra Munian (Grade 5H) and Mrs Klink who donated books to the library this week.

Please don’t forget to swipe your ‘My School Card”, and if you don’t have the card please contact Ahisha at Reception on 013 741 1021.