Senior Preparatory Weekly Memo

Last day of school

A reminder that school will close on Wednesday, 4 December at 11:00, and there will be no Aftercare. Please make arrangements to collect your child by 11:00.

2025 Requirements

Please refer to the 2025 requirements tab for important information. 2025 Grade 7 learners will find information about their camp in the first quarter.  

Class Placements

It is impossible for the school to accommodate all class requests, approximately 50 different requests in each grade, and it would be unfair to allow some parents to make requests and not others. An example of these requests would be:

Johnny's mom has asked for him to be with his best friend Mark, however, Mark's mom has asked that they are not placed together. Mark's mom would like him with Peter and Paul, however, Paul's mom would like him to be with Johnny and not Mark. Peter wrote on his friendship slip he would like to be with Johnny, however, Peter's mother does not want him with Johnny or Mark. All with an added request that we don’t tell the other parents.

Should a parent make a request for placement as shown in the above example, we will need to share the request with the other parent in order to avoid unfair parent conflict with the teacher. Unfortunately, parents can sometimes be aggressive and rude to teachers when their requests are not met even though this could be due to many conflicting requests.

With this in mind, we ask that you trust the teachers’ ability to place your child in the most suitable class. Class placements are a mammoth task and many hours are spent deliberating over the most suitable combinations for the learners.

We trust that you will support our decision, as it is based on our professional evaluation of each learner within their learning environment. We promise to do our very best to ensure each child is placed in a class in which they will thrive.

Extra Mural News

SP Individual Music sign up 

We invite parents of all current individual music learners as well as those wishing to commence individual lessons in 2025 to please complete the following enrollment form: SP Individual Music 

We require a new form to be completed annually. A form for Ensembles, including Marimba, Choir, and Orchestra, will be shared at the start of 2025.

We will endeavour to ensure that your child is placed with the same teacher as in 2024, but we can only finalise a time slot at the start of 2025.

Sports News

Sports Announcements

We invite all our parents to attend the Sport Meeting on Thursday 28 November in the Senior Preparatory Hall.  We look forward to seeing you there and engaging with you directly about our sports programme!

Notes and Reminders:

Sport Fixtures

Please look at the Calendar and Events tab for the Sports Calendar.

Cricket Sport Results

Parklands College beat Elkanah by 20 runs.  Corbyn Beekamans (Player of the match). A massive shout out to Matthew Taylor and Ewan Eichbauer for stepping up and assisting the U12s. 

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