Dear Parents

This is a new year, please take 5 minutes to sit with your child and explain that being very tall, short, chubby, skinny, is no joke. That there is nothing wrong with wearing the same shoes every day. Explain to them that a used school bag carries the same dreams as a new one.

Teach them not to exclude someone because they are "different" or don’t have the same opportunities as others. Explain that teasing someone hurts ... and that they go to school to LEARN, NOT to compete.

YOU AND I HAVE THE SAME VALUE! EDUCATION BEGINS AT HOME ...

It is AT HOME that children must learn to say:
01 - Good morning
02 - Good afternoon
03 - Good evening
04 - Please
05 - With mom/dad's permission
06 - Sorry
07 - Forgive me
08 - Thank you very much
09 - Thank you
10 - I was wrong

It is AT HOME that we also learn to:
01 - Be honest
02 - Be on time
03 - Not to insult others

04 - Be polite
05 - Respect everyone: friends, colleagues, elders, teachers, authorities

Still AT HOME, we learn to:
01 - Eat everything
02 - Don’t talk with your mouth full
03 - Personal hygiene
04 - Don’t throw litter on the ground
05 - Help parents with their daily tasks
06 - Don’t take what isn’t yours
07 - Be content with what you have
08 - Work honestly to earn a living
09 - Dress modestly

AT HOME, we still learn to:
01 - Be organised
02 - Take care of your belongings
03 - Don’t take other people's belongings
04 - Respect the rules
05 - Speak your mother tongue(s), master your culture and spirituality

Because AT SCHOOL teachers need to teach in:
■ Afrikaans
■ English
■ Mathematics
■ Life Skills
■ Creative Arts
■ Physical Education
■ Sports and Cultural Activities

We simply reinforce what the learner has already learned AT HOME! Because it is from what we learned AT HOME that the individual will be respected and will respect life.

Welcome to the Academic Year 2025

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Flashback Friday: Atletiek 2023

Urgent: Siyanda Resources Bursaries For 2025 Academic Year

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UNISA courses without maths now open for 2025 late applications

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Good luck on your first day back at school

Thank you, Lord, for your new beginnings and unwavering provision. I trust that your peace will watch over me as I step into a new beginning. This year, I will rely on the riches of your love and grace to provide for my physical, emotional and spiritual needs. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Tekkie Tonic e-lesers, dankie vir julle besoeke!

3 + 2 New Year’s Study Tips for Learners

Get on the road to exam success from the start with these 3 + 2 study tips:

Study Tip #4
Understand What Motivates You: Understanding what motivates you to study may be the deciding factor for maintaining your energy and sticking to your study plans. The New Year can instill people with that intense fire to change aspects of their lives but after a few weeks this can peter away and you can fall back into old routines. If you take the time to understand what motivates you then you can use this throughout the year.

What motivates you will be different for everyone. For some lucky people the desire to achieve good results is enough but others may be motivated by the fact they want to go to a particular University or study a particular course and need to achieve certain results in order to do so. Others may be motivated by more abstract ideas such as ‘studying what interests them’ or mastering a particular skill. Whatever it is that motivates you doesn’t really matter, what is important is understanding what does and harnessing this whenever you feel your energy wane.

Study Tip #5
Don’t Burnout: Even if you adopt the study tips above, it’s still possible to burnout. That is why it is important to always make time for your family and friends. It’s also vital that you make time for yourself, time to just relax and to partake in your hobbies.

For your study plan to be realistic it must facilitate your ability to live a full life. Getting the balance right is important. Having a plan in place will also allow you to enjoy your free time more. You’ll no longer suddenly panic and break out in a cold sweat because you will know what you have covered and what you still have to cover (and importantly when you will be covering it!).

The most important tip we can give you is to have the right attitude. If you remain positive and believe that you can conquer your fears you can do it!

Take these study tips with you into the New Year and prepare for your exams in the right way. Take them on board and this time next year you’ll be celebrating your exam success!

Visit this website.

[https://www.goconqr.com/en/examtime/blog/new-year-study-tips/] 

The wait is almost over for Class of 2024

More information HERE!

Visit the school or exam centre:

Your official statement of results will be available at the school or center where you wrote your exams. This is the most reliable source for confirmed details.

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

Indien jy vir 'n nuwe werk aansoek doen, moet jy onthou die werksjargon word by elke maatskappy anders geïntrepreteer. Hier volg 'n lysie van die definisies wat die meeste aan die woorde gekoppel word. 

MOET ONDER DRUK KAN WERK: Teen die tyd dat jy begin werk, sal die werk reeds ses maande agterstalling wees.

'N OOG VIR DETAIL: Jy mag nooit 'n fout maak nie.

WERKSEKURITEIT: Daar is orals kameras wat jou dophou.

TOEGEWY AAN JOU WERK: Al is jou vrou in kraam of jou pa lê op sterwe, sal jy sonder enige huiwering kantoor toe kom wanneer die werkgewer dit van jou verwag.

TALLE BYVOORDELE: Dit sal jy kry ... mits j langer as twee jaar die werk behou.

BA-, HONNEURS-, MA-, OF MBA-GRAAD VERLANG: Dit beteken nie dat jy noodwendig gekwalifiseerd is vir die werk nie, maar dat jy daarvoor opgelei kan word.

Good Luck for Matric Results 2024

Tekkie Tonic e-lesers, dankie vir julle belangstelling

Skoollied/School anthem

Waar die goud uit donker dieptes

soos 'n vonk uit aarde slaan,

en die vrag van toringwiele -

op teen hoë steiltes staan.

Dáár staan ons skool, trotse gebou!

HTS Welkom! Ons dien jou getrou.

 Where the gold like spark of flinstone

comes from out the bowls of earth.
And where the weight of towring wheels groan,
as they strain to yield their worth.
There is our school - one of the best! 

THS Welkom, we serve you with zest!

Matriekuitslae om die draai

Die lang wag, die slapelose nagte en die spanning behoort aan die verlede na hierdie naweek. Jy gaan Dinsdag met jou akademiese bankbalans in jou hand staan en weet dat alles waarvoor jy die afgelope 12 jaar so hard gewerk het, het dividente opgelewer.

Sterkte!!!

Hou gerus die skool se Facebook  dop vir die nuutste inligting oor die matriekuitslae.

Tekkie Tonic e-lesers, julle is ons goud!

The wait for matriculants for their 2024 exams results is almost over!

REMINDER

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has announced that the 2024 matric result release date is Monday, 13 January 2025.

This decision aligns with the start of the 2025 academic year, scheduled for Wednesday, 15 January 2025.

Here’s a detailed timeline:

Tuesday, 14 January 2025: Individual matric results will be available at schools and online via official DBE platforms

Monday, 13 January 2025: The Department of Basic Education will announce the results nationally

Click  HERE  for more info!

Dankie, liewe 2025 e-besoekers!

3 + 2 New Year’s Study Tips for Learners

Santa Claus has come and gone for another year! Hopefully you’ve had a nice and relaxing Christmas break and are ready to jump back in to studying for 2025. The start of a new school term is a great opportunity to plan a strategy to make sure your study goals last all year.

Get on the road to exam success from the start with these 3 + 2 study tips:

Study Tip #1
Create A Study Plan: The most important thing you can do to improve your study this year is to create a study plan. Having a study plan is the single most important aspect of a good study routine as it boosts your study motivation on a regular basis. Nothing else you do will have such positive results on your studying ability as the act of creating a study plan. Having a good study plan in place magnifies the benefits of all the work you do thereafter.

Need motivation to study? Prepare, plan and manage your study with our free Study Planner tool.

Study Tip #2
Be Realistic: Having a good study plan in place is all well and good but if it isn’t realistic then there is little point. If your study plan only allocates 4 hours for sleep and two minutes and twenty-three seconds to get to class, then you should reassess how you are approaching things. The study goals you set need to be realistic in terms of how much you can study plus what you can achieve.

You should plan to improve your exam results but you must realise that increasing your results by even one grade is a massive achievement. So if you got a C last year, aim for a B this year. It’s a complex juggling act between what you want to achieve, what you can achieve, the time you have and the amount of work you are willing to put in.

Study Tip #3
Mark Key Dates: Class tests, assignment due dates, presentations, exams, holidays – these are all important dates you should keep track off. You should plan your study and set your goals in relation to these dates. If you have an end of term exam in June then you should work backwards from that date and mark what you need to have covered and by what date.

Once you have your presentations, assignments and essays mapped out on your study planner, this will make it easier for you to foresee any busy periods that are on the horizon which you can plan your study time around.

Study Tip #4 & Study Tip #5 continues next week.

Visit this website.
[https://www.goconqr.com/en/examtime/blog/new-year-study-tips/]

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

Indien jy vir 'n nuwe werk aansoek doen, moet jy onthou die werksjargon word by elke maatskappy anders geïntrepreteer. Hier volg 'n lysie van die definisies wat die meeste aan die woorde gekoppel word. 

GOEIE KOMMUNIKASIEVAARDIGHEDE: Die bestuur kommunikeer, jy luister, jy ontsyfer wat hulle bedoel en jy doen dit dan.

FLEXITYD: Jy werk die ure wat die werkgewer van jou verwag.

SOMS SAL OORTYD GEWERK MOET WORD: Elke aand en soms naweke ook.

MEDEDINGENDE SALARIS: Ons betaal altyd minder as al die ander.

POS VERG LEIERSEIENSKAPPE: Jy sal die verantwoordelikheid van 'n bestuurder hê, sonder die goeie salaris of die respek.

LOOPBAANGERIGTE PERSOON: Vroulike aansoekers moet geen afhanklikes hê nie en dié toestand moet verkieslik onveranderd bly.

HTS Welkom struck by tornado today

Several homes, a school and businesses were struck by a tornado on Sunday, 5 January.

According to local radio station GoldFM, there was serious damage due to severe weather conditions. “Please also note that the Welkom fire station also sustained serious damage and all communication is currently offline.”

Numerous residents posted pictures on social media of damage caused by the severe weather.

The South African Weather Service on Sunday issued a weather alert for disruptive rains in several municipalities across the Free State.

Flashback Friday: Klasonderwysers 2022

 

	Klasonderwysers 2022
	Graad 8
8A	V Alexander
8B	L Rode
8C	H Vermaak
8D	B Kruger
8E	G Gani
8F	TM Louw
	Graad 9
9A	J Herbst
9B	F Pretorius
9C	M Togo
9D	I Dajee
9E	M Motsapi
9F	M Makgitla
	Graad 10
10A	K Herbst
10B	H Mohau
10C	T Radebe
10D	L Sauer
10E	G van Vollenhoven
10F	A Botes
	Graad 11
11A	B Minne
11B	C Peterson
11C	J Matthysen
11D	S Nieuwenhuis
11E	E Litjamela
	Graad 12
12A	J van den Berg
12B	S Khoza
12C	J van den Berg
12D	D Balios

Dankie, liewe e-besoekers!

From Tekkie Tonic: Happy New Year

We hope you have a fantastic year ahead of you and enjoy all the opportunisties along the road. May this year bring everyone joy and happiness!

Happy New Year

On this New Year, may you change your direction and not dates, change your commitments and not the calendar, change your attitude and not the actions, and bring about a change in your faith, your force, and your focus and not the fruit. May you live up to the promises you have made and may you create for you and your loved ones the happiest New Year ever.

We wish you courage, hope and faith to overcome all of the hurdles you may face. May you have a great happy, healthy, prosperous year and a wonderful time ahead.

It's the year that's ending, not opportunities ...

God has some new victories ...

He’s taking you from glory to glory ...

What’s in your future is going to supersede anything you’ve seen in the past!!

2024 had losses, gains 

Wins and lessons

Tears of joy and of sadness 

Falling and rising 

Betrayals and loyalties 

In the end of it all, God never left our side thought at times we felt all alone ... 

He has always been there!!!

Psalm 124:1-3

It's the year that's ending, not opportunities and favour!!

Have a blessed 2025!!!!

[Thank you, Pastor Joshua Monyake] 

Poem: The Old Year

The Old Year’s gone away

  To nothingness and night: 

We cannot find him all the day 

  Nor hear him in the night: 

He left no footstep, mark or place 

  In either shade or sun: 

The last year he’d a neighbour’s face, 

  In this he’s known by none. 

All nothing everywhere: 

  Mists we on mornings see 

Have more of substance when they’re here 

  And more of form than he. 

He was a friend by every fire, 

  In every cot and hall— 

A guest to every heart’s desire, 

  And now he’s nought at all. 

Old papers thrown away, 

  Old garments cast aside, 

The talk of yesterday, 

  Are things identified; 

But time once torn away 

  No voices can recall: 

The eve of New Year’s Day
  Left the Old Year lost to all.

-John Clare 1793–1864-

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LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

Afrikaanse onderwyser: "Jean, in Italië bly Italianers. Wat noem ons die mense wat in Parys woon?"

Jean: "Parasiete, Juffrou."

ooOOoo

Jannie kom met 'n meneer van 'n blou oog by die huis aan. Sy ma is sommer dadelik vies.

"Het jy alweer baklei?" 

"Ja, Ma, maar Kobus het eerste teruggeslaan."

ooOOoo

Juffrou: "Jaco, kom ons kyk of jy mooi opgelet het. Wat is die funksie van jou kiestande?" 

Jaco: "Hulle maal 'n mens se kos fyn."

"Mooi, Jaco. En wat doen jou oogtande?"

"Hulle kyk dat die kiestande goed maal!"

Statistiek: 'n Tekkie-kerspresent is 233 000 e-besoeke!

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

* Hoekom is 'n onderwyser so spesiaal?

Omdat hy in 'n klas van sy eie is.

* "Hoe op dees aarde, Jannie, kon jy wors met twee erre skryf?" raas die onderwyser.

"Met 'n pen," antwoord Jannie.

* Juffrou is besig om vir die klas te leer van eerlikheid, etiek en oplettenheid. Elkeen word aan die hand van voorbeelde verduidelik.

Juffrou: "Peter, wat sal jy doen as iemand langs jou in die winkel staan en 'n pakkie gemengde groente steel?"

Peter: "Ek sal vir hom sê om eerder lekkers te steel, want dis baie lekkerder."

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

In die wiskundeklas:

Juffrou: "Michael, 'n lemoen word gehalveer. Daarna word elke deel weer gehalveer. Wat noem ons die dele?"

Michael: "Skyfies, Juffrou."

ooOOoo

Willie-hulle behandel breuke in die wiskundeklas.

Juffrou: "Willie, jou pa verdien R20 000 per maand. Elke maand gee hy vir jou ma net R100. Wat kry sy dan?"

Willie: "'n Beroerte, Juffrou."

ooOOoo

Die LO-juffrou vra vir Peter: "Wat gaan jy doen as jy eendag uit die skool is?"

Peter: "Gelukkig wees, Juffrou."  

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

'n Onderwyser wil die babbelende klompie na die Desembervakansie bietjie tot bedaring bring en vrae algemene vrae sodat die klasmaats na mekaar se antwoorde wil luister.

Onderwyser: "En wat het jy gedurende die somervakansie geleer?"

Dina: "Ek het geleer dat ses weke nie genoeg tyd is om my kamer skoon te maak nie."

ooOOoo

Geografie-onderwyser: Watter deel van die wêreld het die mees oningeligte mense?"

Hannetjie: "Hongkong."

Onderwyser: "Hoekom sê jy so?"

Hannetjie: "Dis waar die atlas sê die bevolking is die digste."

ooOOoo

Geskiedenisonderwyser: Wanneer is Rome gebou?"

Kato: "In die nag."

Onderwyser: "Hoekom sê jy so?"

Kato: "Want my pa sê altyd Rome is nie in 'n dag gebou nie."

Statistiek: 229 000 welkome e-besoeke

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

"Soos ons geleer het," sê die geskiedenisonderwyser, "het die voormalige heerser van Rusland as die tsaar bekend gestaan en sy vrou was die tsarina. Nou wie van julle kan vir my sê wat die tsaar se kinders genoem is?"

Slim Sarel: "Tsaardientjies."

ooOOoo

Eric is 'n gebore stedeling. Tydens die Desembervakansie het hy vir die eerste keer vuurvliegies gesien. Hy het nie geweet wat dit is nie. Hy het gedink dis muskiete wat hom met flitsligte jaag!

ooOOoo

'n Opgewonde groep skoolkinders gaan vir die dag Robbeneiland toe saam met hulle geskiedenisonderwyser. Die groep is 'n energieke entoesiastiese klomp wat moeilik stilbly en stilsit. Die onderwyser het hulle die moets en moenies gegee van hulle gedrag op die veerboot. Hy besluit om hulle luistervaardighede te toets.

Onderwyser: Wat sê ons as een van die kinders in die see val?"

Sam steek dadelik sy hand op: "Kind oorboord, Meneer."

Onderwyser: "Dis reg! En wat sê ons as een van die onderwysers oorboord val?"

Sam: "Dit hang af van watter onderwyser dit is, Meneer!"

LGSETA bursary

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Flashback Friday: Dux-leerders 1991-2000