2020 Magazine

St. John’s Educational Trust 2020 MAGAZINE St. John’s Preparatory School 2019 Magazine 1 world class facilities St John’s Educational Trust is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Care and concern for the individual – St John’s believes passionately that when pedagogy fits learning needs, students can and do thrive at school. Compassion – compassion is a core part of leading and successful leaders maintain a ‘servant’s heart’. Breadth and balance – we endeavour to build breadth and balance with the aim of forming men and women of ‘conscience’. We are committed to ensuring a caring environment in our schools where good manners, values and ethics are upheld and where individual expression is encouraged and all students strive to reach their full potential. “Be the best that I can be” ST JOHN’S EARLY CHILDHOOD ST JOHN’S PREPARATORY SCHOOL ST JOHN’S COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE P. O. 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Box BW300 Borrowdale, Harare, Zimbabwe Borrowdale, Harare, Zimbabwe Borrowdale, Harare, Zimbabwe Tel: (024) 2 885 128 / 885 121 Tel: (024) 2 870 942 / 850 388 Tel: 0779 451 521 Email: [email protected] Fax: (024) 870 941 Email: [email protected] Website: www.stjohnszim.co.zw Email: [email protected] Website: www.stjohnszim.co.zw Website: www.stjohnszim.co.zw Welcome 2 St. John’s Preparatory School 2019 Magazine world class facilities St. John’s Preparatory School 2019 Magazine 3 2020 MAGAZINE | CONTENTS 6 | Gr 7 Speech for Awards & Carol Service 8 | Awards & Certificates 10 | NIAA Awards 12 | Subjects & Special Prizes 14 | Trophies 16 | Class Prizes 18 | Staff & School Leavers Welcome PRODUCTION TEAM EDITOR: Cheryl Kristiansen PHOTOGRAPHY: Lucy Boderick 12 DESIGN & LAYOUT: OUT OF AFRICA Media 113 Enterprise Road, Highlands, Harare www.outofafricamedia.co.zw (024) 2 480 960/ (024) 2 494 349 © St Johns Educational Trust, 2020 4 St. John’s Preparatory School 2020 Magazine St. John’s Preparatory School 2020 Magazine 5 GRADE 7 SPEECH FOR AWARDS & CAROL SERVICE Mr Chairman and Mrs Martin, Board of Governors, patrons, old It seems an age ago when I sat down on my veranda for our first boys, Mrs Davies, Cavalier Trinci, invited guests, staff, Grade 7 virtual MS Team Staff meeting and began preparing for what parents and Grade 7’s, good evening and thank you for coming to was supposed to be a brief interlude before we got back to our Leavers’ Awards and Carols’ evening. being normal. The staff and I kissed the April holidays goodbye, knowing that we needed to be ready for the worst-case scenario. I thought to get into the spirit of things we’d start with a little The insoluble problems were listed, and we used them as brilliant rhyme of mine. opportunities to shine. Our staff have been remarkable given the challenges they have faced and produced a professional online Therefore, in a poem, to sum up 2020, program of an international standard. Please can you join me in Of which there is certainly a plenty, applauding their efforts. We learnt from our family Kahoots, A lot about our history and roots, Sadly, we say goodbye to two outstanding teachers this year. The Year 1956, our first day, lovely Mrs Claire Townsend who has taught Grade 1N for 6 years Were 13 boys wearing green and grey, and the effervescent Mrs Joan Kay the dame of Harley Davidson No road, no ZESA, no phone, no trees, also leaves Grade 3E. They both will take a break from teaching They ate egg sambos off lettuce leaves, to spend more time with their husbands. I must also mention that They planted grass and bought sheep to mow, Mrs Nicola Seager returns after her maternity leave and so we say I suppose they could not keep up… So, goodbye to Mrs Liz Velempini who stepped in to rescue Grade 6N They searched Rolfe Valley and all the streets, from my teaching of English and allow Mrs Geraldine De Beer a They bought a Wolsley with bucket seats, break from her extra workload. Pleasingly Mrs Velempini stays And a gang mower they did attach, amongst family and goes to teach at our sister school Chisi Jnr in So a field replaced the mealie patch, 2021. Whilst we are sad to say goodbye, we are also delighted to You think that’s crazy, just wait you’ll see… be welcoming Mrs Nicola Blignaut from Clifton, South Africa and Enter COVID in 2020. a newly married teacher who trained with us, Miss Rachel Carter Injections or long swabs up the snout, who will be putting Mrs Rachel Smith on her classroom door. Teach not ‘til the all clear tests come out, Masks, sanitise bottles, and foot trays, In the sports department, Mr Bobby Chauhan has been promoted Temperature guns and Bactogent sprays, into the position of Assistant Director of Sport and Mr Taffy Online, the headmaster forced to go, Kwatengera has assumed the role of Jerome Housemaster. But both Bleat and Aardvark stole the show, Housemasters run minute to win it, We are also excited to be welcoming Miss Sinead Murray into our But blue Jerome took all the credit, remedial department, who will help run Leonardo’s Centre. The Mrs Quinche mastered the ping pong peanut butter trick, Leonardo’s Centre is an exciting initiative that we undertook at Mrs Gillam balanced dice on a lolly pop stick, the beginning of the year and my thanks go to the PLC for their Mr Carter made the ping pong zoom, support. In particular, I would like to thank the chairman, Mr John Rademeyer marbled round the room, Manning who steps down after his two-year term. Thanks, must The Cav crawled with spaghetti between his teeth, also go to Mrs Nicky Dawson who was chairlady for our Frog 5 Mrs Davies’ pasta just rolled underneath. this year. Her efforts to fundraise with her team were heroic and A Youtube channel for our PE listening to 21 Kahoot Family Quizzes in the evening with me as Jerusalema with Mr T, quizmaster in my office with raucous members of staff can’t have Facebook, Instagram, the Friday blog been easy. Mr Kurt Heyns must also be acknowledged for the The MS ecosystem - whole hog, time he put into the new look front of school. Mrs Nicola Johnson Next year we turn 65 years old, has been working hard with our Growing Minds project, putting And dare I say, and the truth be told, in rain gardens and a Hugelkultur. My thanks to the mums of the After 2020 come what may, house captains and heads of school for always stepping in and Bring 2021 on I say! assisting with teas and dinners. Mr Hendrik Olivier, the St John’s Educational Trust’s Estate Manager, has been absolutely essential How sad it is that we cannot invite the whole St John’s green in everything looking the way it is and it would be remiss of me not blooded community to this celebration of not just getting to make mention of him on this stage. Again, I say that without the through this year, but flourishing in adversity. As they say, we are support of our community it would have been impossible to get continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as through this year, so give yourselves a round of applause. insoluble problems. 6 St. John’s Preparatory School 2020 Magazine Academically we managed to fully implement Cambridge Primary To finish I would like to leave the Grade 7’s with the following Checkpoint by aligning ourselves with the prescribed curriculum message: this year and so our Grade 6’s and 7’s both wrote their Cambridge Checkpoint Examinations to facilitate this. Last year our Grade If you take this golf ball and you put it in the hands of Mr Rademeyer 7’s managed an overall average 4.3 out of 6 for their Cambridge it’s worth about 10c. In fact if he has his 3 wood in his other hand English and an average of 4.7 out of 6 for Maths. For our ZIMSEC it’s worth even less than that. But if you put this same golf ball in the we got a 100% pass rate for English, 95% for Maths, 26% for hands of Tiger Woods and this 3 wood it’s worth millions. Shona, 94% for Agriculture and 99% for General Paper. It all depends on whose hands it’s in. The boys were thrown in the deep end, online this year. However, it is phenomenal how quickly they adapted and how proficient they If you take this cricket ball and you put it in my hands and ask me became using the Microsoft Ecosystem. When considering all the to bowl an over of my leg spinners, it’s worth about 30 runs and 1 boys have been through, I don’t think there will be a more tech wicket, because whilst I’m expensive, I always get my man. However, savvy and tech competent bunch of Grade 7s. if you put this same ball in the hands of Ray Price, who has fingers like bananas, he managed to become the best bowler in the world Indeed, there is a positive spirit flowing through the St John’s according to the ICC rankings at one time. Let the record state that Educational Trust at present, with a new ECD on its way and the he never bowled at me. College having to add an extra Form 1 stream.

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