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Last day of school for the Educators

In the final week of the year, as the esteemed educators of the Wynberg girls were marking, entering marks, completing reports, ed lab cards they received an invitation to a staff breakfast: it was the end of year function and would take the form of a breakfast at Westlake Golf Club. They were encouraged to dress in house colours for this occasion and it was said that there would be prizes: for the best dressed; for the house with the most spirit and for the house with the best costumes.

So began the secret meetings, communications and strategic plannings about dressing up amidst all of the very serious academic discussions! Little clusters of educators could be found in driveways, parking lots, foyers and even the cloakrooms as they planned and co-ordinated their costumes, props, arrivals, theme songs...

At last that final day dawned - 9 December: the last day of school for the educators. 

In fine spirits the esteemed educators of this centre of Academic Excellence arrived. Astonishingly, even there, the secrecy and, clearly, the competition were great. 

Little clusters of houses arrived, and gathered together. 

At one of the prestigious events during the year, the school had been reminded that there are several key lessons learnt at Nursery School. Some of these are

• Hold hands and stick together – people count 
• Share everything
• Play fair
• Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day

It is not certain that all of these maxims were applied on that morning, but certainly time time to "sing and dance and play some" not to mention "eat some" had arrived for the staff. 

There were golfers, and Mother Christmasses, Jackie O's and beans, there were farmers and buttercups and Water (men and women.) and there was a great deal of giggling. At one stage all of the educators in one of the houses disappeared into the cloakroom for their spectacular entrance and song and dance routine.

The principal and her deputies, reigning over the houses as Kings and Queens of the proceedings, wore technicoloured robes - to reveal demonstrably their impartiality. And then there were the awards: this year, educators earning house points for their houses were Cavenagh, Apsley and Wellesley. "Best dressed" awards went to Tony Lauff and Daphne Jaaback from Cavenagh, Wellesley was considered the house with the most durable of costumes, and Apsley the house with the most spirit. 

Sadly, there were a number of demerits given: that walk of shame we will not go down. Rather, the staff concerned should be encouraged to adopt the age-old maxim of "try and try and try again." 

Donna Miles and Liezel Opperman were marvellous distributors of the gifts. (They are about to learn that, at Wynberg, if you do a job really well, you get it for life!) It was an excellent end of the year party, and a fitting way to end the year!

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