Welcome back to school

24 August 2015

Dear Parents

I am delighted to welcome parents old and new to our Baobab Community. This year promises to be better than ever and I am very excited to share lots of good news with you. Please take a few moments to read our newsletter and make a note of the important dates for your diary.

Welcome new staff
We have been very fortunate in recruiting some excellent teachers to join us this year and I hope you all come along to our meet and greet to help make them feel very welcome.

Secondary School Staff:

• Mr. Anderson: Deputy Head 
• Mrs. Odendaal: Head of Science
• Miss Vlaar: Biology
• Mr. Mukamba: Physics and Maths
• Mrs. Jones: PE
• Miss Cumming: History, Geography, English

Primary School Staff: 
Miss Ismail: ELC
Miss Joyce: G3
Miss Zulu: G4
Mrs Stander: G5
Mr Nkhata: IT
Miss Moir: Learning Support

Examination Results
Once again the efforts of our staff and students were rewarded with an outstanding set of examination results. As and A* grades were in abundance with top students earning top grades across all subjects. Equally satisfying were the passes earned by some of our less academically gifted students who generally performed above expectation. We will be discussing these in more detail in the parents’ information evening but I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our Head Boy, Simong Song, and our Head Girl, Parisha Patel, on their straight As at A level. Simong also managed to achieve a prestigious A* in his A level maths with an exceptional paper. He is now off to Vancouver to study engineering at the University of British Columbia and Parisha is off to Cardiff University, UK to study architecture. We are very proud to have two such exceptional ambassadors for our school.

Top students AS Level:
Julian Francis                          AAAA
Shakeela Ismail                        AAAB
                                                Sestina Kumwenda                         AABB
Top Students IGCSE: 
Abhinav Balasubramaniam    A*A*A*A*A*A*A A A
                  Daniel Golson                         A*A*A*A*A*A*A A A
                  Gideon Wakelin                       A*A*A*A*A*A A A C
                  Ronnie D’Souza                       A*A*A*A*A*A*A B B
Ellen van der Heide                 A*A A A A A A A C

Congratulations to all of our examination candidates and teachers on an outstanding set of results.

Parents Information Evening Thursday 27^th August 17.30

There will be a meeting for all parents in the School Hall on Thursday 27^th August and this will be followed by an informal meet and greet where refreshments will be served. The programme for the evening will be:

17.30: Secondary School presentation for Grade 7 parents and any parents who are new to Secondary School.

18.00: Principal’s presentation for all parents from both Primary and Secondary Schools.

18.20: Meet our teachers, an opportunity to chat informally with staff of Baobab College.

Parents of children in Primary School will also have an opportunity to meet their class teachers and the Heads of Department for information specific to their classes on Thursday 27^th August at the following times:

-           Early Learning Centre (Bush Babies, Mulberry Bush and Musekese)–12:00 in Mulberry Bush Classroom

-           Early Years (Reception G and H)– 12:30 in RH Classroom

-           Key Stage One (Year 1 and 2) – 13:00 School Hall

-           Lower Key Stage Two (Year 3 and 4) – 13:30 School Hall

-           Upper Key Stage Two (Year 5 and 6) – 14:00 School Hall

-           Children will be supervised by our teaching assistants and the aftercare team when you attend these meetings but not for the evening meeting.
We look forward to meeting you all next week.

New Administration Building
Our new building is almost complete and plans are now underway for an official opening. We are hoping to have an opening ceremony sometime during the week 7^thto 11^th September so watch this space for confirmation of the exact time and date.

Baobab Golf Day Sunday 6^th September
I am happy to report that our field for Golf Day is almost full and many holes have already been sponsored. This is one of our most popular fundraising events, which is open to golfers of all ages and abilities. If you would like to enter a team please contact Idah Longmore on 096 3016444/0965 713886 and email:idahlongmore@yahoo.co.uk

School Calendar

Attached is the school calendar for the whole school, please keep it safe. It is also posted on our website for future reference.

Sincerely

Jan Lamb (Mrs)
Principal, Baobab College

The post Welcome back to school appeared first on .