Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson

Educational PowerPoint

Teaching Practice: A Challenging Time for Student Teachers

A challenge is described as a “new or difficult task that test someone’s ability and skill”.

The challenge that the school that I did my practical at faced, was discipline.  Discipline is the core challenge that this school and every other school faces these days.  The children do not have any respect for the elderly anymore, especially their teachers. They expect that the teachers must give in to their demands. They do not do homework anymore, because they expect that the teachers should just succumb to spoon-feeding. Teachers complain that they struggle to finish the syllabus, because majority of the time they spend on behavioral management and assessing individual learners instead of the class as a whole.

Therefore, discipline has become one of the biggest challenge in our schools and it just gets worse by the day!

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Miss and Mr New Orleans

The annual Miss New Orleans pageant was a sight to behold. From the Spanish theme, the eclectic music, nervous contestants in sequenced frocks and spiky heels, to various artists who kept the noisy crowds on the edge of their seats, it was one hell of a night.  The ladies looked mesmerizing in their ball gowns, each walking with the confidence of a goddess. Cheers, screams and whistling howls from friends and family among the crowd were deafening to say the least. As they crowned the winner, the tension in the auditorium could be cut with a knife. Reality struck, only one could win, lucky number 7. The epitome of an angel sent down by the gods- she was dressed all in white, her olive skin accentuated by her auburn hair and dazzling white smile.  She most definitely deserved the crown.

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High School Derby: New Orleans vs Klein Nederburg

INTERSCHOOL SEASON IN PAARL

To start us off I just need to say: NOSS OF NIKS! Well, that phrase got a whole new meaning since New Orleans Secondary School won Klein Nederburg Secondary School with an end score: 18 to naught.

As soon as the Virgo and Leo stars align, the Interschool season starts. Or as in a generalized coloured statement would go: “Derby Season”. The event kicked off on the 26^th July 2019 with Miss and Mister New Orleans, a beauty pageant for learners attending the school. The week following the crowning of Miss and Mister New Orleans, the school organizing the year’s derby arranges a function for all the sportsmen, sportswomen, first aid learners, and other participating staff and learners to declare the derby open and declare the learners and staff temporary enemies.

The main event was a huge success. The day’s events start with the school’s dance groups entertaining the crowds, then all the A-teams, except the u/18A team, plays. After a round of singing the National Anthem, and both schools’ songs and a message from both principals, the u/18A team starts playing.

The game between New Orleans Secondary School and Klein Nederburg Secondary School is televised yearly on SuperSport.

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