24 July 2020Dear Parents and LearnersWe continue to find that parents and learners display frustration with teachers or the school when, in fact, the problem is that they have not read the letters sent out weekly.  Please take the time to carefully read the information sent out.   I a...

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Letter from the Principal10 July 2020Dear Parents and LearnersWe welcomed back our Grade 6 and 11 learners this week. The girls quickly adapted to the new normal and we welcomed them warmly and with great care to reassure them. The learners will need to spend time this weekend reading the protocols ...

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Dear Parents and LearnersWe have come to the end of the first week of having the Grade 12 and 7 learners back at school. While this has been exhausting for the staff, the week proceeded remarkably well. The behaviour of the girls, in both Grade 7 and 12 has been truly commendable. They conducted the...

Dear Parents and LearnersToday we started a long-anticipated, nerve-wracking, history-making week with the return to school of the Grades 7 and 12! I would like to congratulate the girls on following the procedures we have put into place for the start of school. They were so co-operative and well ma...

4 June 2020Dear Parents and LearnersSchool will reopen for Grade 7 and 12 on Monday (8 June) and the staff at Riebeek is ready and excited to accept our learners back. I ask you to please reread the letters I put out on the 28 May and 1 June, as well as the correspondence entitled Covid-19: A Guide ...

Letter from the Principal:1 June 2020Dear Parents / GuardiansToday would have been the restart of school for Grade 7s and 12s and the school seems especially quiet and sullen today as it seems to yearn to be filled with the sounds of learning and teaching. Now that schools have partially re-opened f...

LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL: 28 May 2020Dear Grade 7s and 12s and other Riebeek Learners and ParentsYou may be feeling many emotional responses about returning to school. You may be experiencing fear and anxiety or excitement and joy, and these emotions may jump from positive to negative repeatedly. T...

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LETTER FROM RIEBEEK’S CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST: How do we get through Covid 19? We adapt. We acknowledge that we are all grieving for the life we have had nearly two months ago that we took for granted.We are grieving for the fact that we never got to finish our school life in the traditional way; ...

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Dear Learners and Parents I hope my message finds you all resilient and safe at this strange and difficult time. I am sure we are all navigating challenges of some or other form.  Educationally, we are facing the same hurdles in terms of moving into the distance learning (and teaching) spa...

Letter from the Principal: 17 April 2020Dear Learners and ParentsWe now have entered the fourth week of lockdown. ONE of the proposed dates for schools to reopen is 4th May for teachers and 6th May for learners, although there is much speculation about this and the situation is fluid. The Minister o...

Zaara Rockman 6cThere have been different advantages and disadvantages that I have faced while trying adjust to the “Lockdown Experience”. Although I have had the privilege of going to bed and waking up at any time I please, I am often faced with a ton of work once I decide to dedicate my time t...

10 April 2020Dear Parents and LearnersI am sure that you are aware that President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the lockdown to the end of April. This means that school may possibly reopen on the 4th May. A new chapter in education has begun for not only South Africa, but for the world. This is a lea...

Dear Riebeek Learners and ParentsWe are now one week into the enforced nationwide lockdown.  In the pre-coronavirus outbreak timeframe, the schools would have started this week for the beginning of the second term.  The reality is that South Africa is in a total shut down and our schools a...