Culture

Art

Art enhances children’s physical, social, and cognitive development. It improves motor skills, promotes social interaction, teaches responsibility, and fosters observational skills and creativity. Using art, children experiment with materials and develop imagination and problem-solving abilities.

Objectives:

Physical Development
Children’s large and small muscle development, as well as their eye-hand coordination can be developed in art. Using crayons, markers, and paintbrushes helps children practice the fine motor control.

Social Development
When children work together in the art area, they learn to share, to interact with others, to be responsible for cleanup, and to put materials away. These are positive and important changes for social learning.

Cognitive Development
They find out what happens when they mix two primary colors together and get a secondary color. Sending older children outside to carefully examine a tree, feel its bark, and study the shape and color of its leaves, and then asking them to draw or paint trees helps them develop observational skills needed for science.

Imagination and Experimentation
Children’s active imaginations can take form through art, as well as experimenting with different materials.

Classes

All learners from Grade 1 to Grade 6 attend art classes as part of the Caps Curriculum which we follow in Sunridge Primary School.  In Grade 7 the learners have a choice to choose two of the four disciplines of Creative Arts as stipulated in the Caps document.

Extra Art Classes

Thursdays :  14:15 to 15:15 (grade 4 – 7)

Wednesday afternoon:  14:30 to 15:30 Fine arts

NUMBERS of these classes

We have about 28to 30 learners per class per afternoon.

Choir

The junior choir consists of Grade 2 and 3 learners.

The senior choir consists of learners from Grade 4 to 7. At the beginning of the year, learners are invited to audition for the choir. The best singers are invited to be part of the choir as there are only a limited number of positions available.

Details:

The choirs takes part in several festivals, workshops, competitions and concerts throughout the year. Some of the highlights include our annual Headlines concert where the choir has been privileged to perform with Elvis Blue, Emo Adams, Apple, Snotkop  and André Venter. We also enjoy visiting our local Sunridge Village shopping center for an outdoor concert once a year. The choirs also take part in the Hoogland choir festival as well as the Bamba festival.

Learners must attend 75% of practices to receive participation certificates. Learners may also be awarded a choir pin if they attend 90% of rehearsals, attend all concerts and display diligent behaviour in terms of punctuality and their conduct during rehearsals.

Pin colours are as follows:
1 year – Blue pin
2 years – Red pin
3 years – Silver pin
4 years – Gold pin
Pins will be rewarded at the end of term 3, but will be revoked if learners do not comply with the requirements.

Rehearsals are on:

Junior choir: Monday + Wednesday 7:00 – 7:45

Senior choir: Tuesday + Friday 7:00 – 7:45

Dancing

Learners from grade 1 – 7 take part in the CAPS dance syllabus during school time. Dance creates a safe environment for learners to express themselves creativly but also to improve self confidence and more importantly to have fun.

Details:

Above and beyond that, there is also extra mural dancing that takes place in the afternoons at Sunridge Primary from Monday – Thursday. Mrs Lauren McCarthy teaches the dancing in the newly build state of the art dance studio, one of the very few in South Africa on a school premisis.

Here are just some of the things that the dancers work towards:

  • Dance exams
  • Festivals
  • Shows
  • International competitions

For more info, contact Lauren McCarthy on laurens@sunridge.co.za

Drama

Learners from grade 1 – 7 take part in the CAPS drama syllabus during school time. Drama helps develop the learners into more confident and expressive learners.  This helps the learners build up self-esteem and the courage to talk in front of large amounts of people.

Details:

Extra Mural drama takes place on a Friday in the Dance Studio with Mrs McCarthy . Here the learners work on both solo and group drama pieces that get entered into different competitions each year.

For more information contact Lauren McCarthy on laurens@sunridge.co.za

Entrepreneurs Club

Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the economic development of a country. At a time of job losses and job uncertainties for working adults and school leavers, people are relying more on their own skills for employment opportunities and income. Thus, here at Sunridge, we would like to train up learners in the skills they will need to be successful entrepreneurs.

Details:

Each term we will give club members the opportunity to develop their Entrepreneurial skills by selling items to the rest of the school. These items are to be prepared / made at home and brought to school to be sold. In order to ensure a variety of stalls and skills, each term will have a different type of sale with a theme and club members will prepare and sell their goods according to this. 

Parents are not allowed to do any selling on the day.  It is entirely in the hands of the learner to handle the money and promote the sale of their goods on their own, with the help of a friend if they would like.

Currently the membership fee is R50.00 for the year, which includes the hiring of their stall for each sale. Four meetings and four sales per year. One sale per term at end of term after exams. The funcky purple badge is available at an additional cost of R35.00 from the office.

Club Vision:

The teacher coordinating the Club is Mrs Vrey. They co-ordinate short Skills Development sessions after school to equip the learners with the knowledge it takes to become successful entrepreneurs. We will convey the concepts of Entrepreneurial skills such as Profit and Loss, Capital, Budgeting, Expenses, Marketing, Market Research, show video clips and research opportunities via the Internet.

Music

Our school offers music lessons for various instruments Such as: Piano, recorder, trumpet, French horn, trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, Flute, Clarinet, Alto saxophone, Marimba, Djembe, Steel pan and percussion. Learners take part in internal and external examinations witch develops learners abilities and music knowledge. For more info contact our head of music Mrs Susan Pretorius on susan@sunridge.co.za.

Spelling Bee

Every year, Sunridge Primary receives the exciting opportunity to participate in the Department of Education Spelling Bee competition.
The Department of Education Spelling Bee is a district as well as provincial competition and the Intermediate phase (Grade 3 – 7) .

Details:

The Spelling Bee has three distinct segments:

1. Preliminaries (School clusters, Districts)
2. Semi Finals (Provincial)
3. Championship finals (National)
Each of the segments consists of four Rounds of spelling and an Elimination round.

The strength of the Spelling Bee lies in the learners’ being given a chance to participate from classroom level to the highest possible level in the
competition, according to his/her capability. The Spelling Bee is aimed at improving learners’ performance and confidence in
English language and we motivate our learners to be a part of this opportunity.

Steel Band + Marimba's (Beatwaves)

The Sunridge Steel band has enjoyed growing success since its inception in 2013. The steel band has participated in local and international festivals.

Details:

In 2017, they won first place for best performing steelband at the International Marimba and Steel Pan Festival, held in Johannesburg.

 

Our Marimba Band works together with the steel band to form the “Beatwaves” Steelband and Marimbas are also offered seperately. They are both conducted by Mr X Mtanase.

 

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