New faces light up Charterhouse
RADIOKOP – Charterhouse challenges its schoolchildren to have colourful conversations.
Charterhouse School welcomed 115 new Grade 1s with the challenge of having colourful conversations.
Principal Natalie Thwaits addressed parents and children on the school field on 10 January and challenged parents to ask their children colourful questions and the children to have colourful answers to the normal question of ‘how was your day at school?’
After the short assembly, attention was taken away from the Grade 1s for a moment for the Grade 4s to go through the rite of passage of the ‘short walk’. The whole school formed a human tunnel from the field to the Grade 4 classrooms.
Thwaits explained that the walk of the Grade 4s through the tunnel while their peers applauded, symbolised their transition from junior to senior primary. The tradition of the walk, led by a bagpiper, is 20 years old.
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“Excitement builds up to this day and the children look forward to it,” Thwaits added.
“If you have a happy child, that child will be willing to try and to venture. This is why we invest in our children as the Charterhouse community and believe that every child matters.”
The Grade 1s parents were invited to enjoy a champagne breakfast after the assembly, while the children went to class.
Grade 1 twins, Sharia and Dasaria Naidu said they woke up at 6am to get ready for school. They were nervous but they had already made new friends in their class.
