Pictured here: Eyes on the prize, St Anne’s Lusanda Mtshali, Erin Armstrong and Sarah Church are focused on defending their team's title ahead of the Pietermaritzburg Northern Regional of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge that takes place on Saturday at St Anne’s College.

 

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Is your child a right brain thinker?

 

Right brain thinkers, referred to by researchers as visual-spatial learners, are very intelligent and creative thinkers whose learning ability is often misunderstood and undervalued in school because the skills that are required in order to do well, are mostly left brain sequential skills.

 

The right hemisphere doesn’t think or learn in the same way as the left hemisphere and, as a result, many visual spatial leaners struggle in one or more areas of the academic curriculum, usually with reading, written work and/or classroom maths and formal assessments. For many of them, the frustration and struggle of trying to think, learn and show what they know through left-brain skills, and the negative feedback they get when they don’t succeed, leads to anxiety and low self-esteem and results in them becoming withdrawn or, alternatively, being labelled “naughty” or “attention seeking” in the classroom.

 

The good news is that there are solutions. With your support and belief in them as learners, and your help and guidance, they can find out and understand who they are as learners. Then, working hard to embrace and use their right-brain skills when studying and doing their homework, they can develop the ability to succeed and become independent learners. To illustrate this, I share with you a testimony from the mother of a visual, spatial learner as well as some of the skills of a right brain dominant thinker. As a parent, your understanding of exactly how your child thinks and learns, and your advocacy for their way of learning, can make a huge difference in their daily lives. Let’s help them learn joyfully!

 

Whether left or right brain dominant, our passion at The Centre For Life-Long Learning is to profile and meet your child right at his/her best learning style!

 

INTERNATIONALLY TRAINED & ACCREDITED LEARNING STYLE SPECIALISTS
Scientific research shows that being a right-brain thinker is not a learning disability but a different thinking and learning.

 

OUR WONDERFUL BRAIN: Some of the ways we learn differently……..

 

LEFT BRAIN THINKER
* Logical thinker
* Thinks in words
* Learns auditorially
* Is a step-by-step, sequential learner
* Needs lots of details first
* Learns with phonics
* Learns through memorization, drill, rules, repetition.
* Good at Maths computation, + algebra
*Can show steps of work
* Learns well from instruction
* Learns in spite of emotional reactions
* Good short-term memory

 

RIGHT BRAIN THINKER
* Creative thinker
* Thinks in pictures +3D images
* Learns visually
* Is a whole-part learner: learnssimultaneously: all at once
* Needs to see the big picture first
* Learns with whole words in context
* Must understand whole concept through seeing, hands-on, experience. Meaning + relevance essential: Asks :Why
* Better at maths reasoning + geometry,than computation
* Gets to correct solutions intuitively – but can’t show steps.
* Develops own methods of problem solving
* Very sensitive to teacher’s attitudes

* Good long-term visual memory

 

For more information please contact Beryl at The Centre for Lifelong learning.

 

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On the edge of the Umgeni Valley a new venture has been hatched, at 'Where the Crows Nest.'

 

If you enjoy nature and would love a bespoke private picnic arranged to suit your needs, this one is for you. With a variety of options depending on the season and the size of your party, a gorgeous setting next to a river, waterfall or in a forest can be arranged, decorated with carpets and cushions. Here you will by catered for at the highest of standards.

 

In 2017 the Crows returned to Hilton in order to build their dream house in an idyllic setting. As a qualified chef with years of catering experience Maryna has dreamed of using this wonderful location to treat people to a plethora of wonderful delicacies. This joy is multiplied as the Crow’s Nest’s veggie garden improves with each passing year.

This is an outdoor experience; our ideal client should know uneven ground and insects at the very least are to be expected and celebrated. The closer you get to nature, the greater the return.

"Our lives generally have become so sterile that I’d like people to be pushed slightly out of their comfort zone in order to experience the wonder of nature. My motto in life is: ‘make memories,’ and in that endeavour, I’d like to assist." Maryna Crow.

 

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Calling all artists, crafters, food traders, performers, musicians, singers, comedians!!

 

The dates for the most anticipated arts event in KZN - The Hilton Arts Festival – for 2020 are 11 to 13 September. Applications are now open for those wishing to be a part of this great event.

 

Hilton has garnered a reputation of being the top spot for visual artists in KZN. All applications will be considered by a selection committee and successful artists will be housed in three exclusive marquees as well as in the Grindrod Bank Theatre foyer. Places are limited so as to avoid over trading and overcrowding in these exhibition areas.

 

The Festival hosts a quality bespoke craft market that prides itself in not being a flea market. Apply now for a stand if you sell homemade goods and foodstuffs, vintage goods, fun festival fare, plants or something original and exciting.

 

Food trader selling good food will be considered. The organisers are looking for the original and the unusual as well as a variety to satisfy all tastes.

 

The Festival gained its reputation for the quality theatre, music and comedy it hosts as well as for its arts-related lectures, workshops and movie screenings. Check out what you need to apply!

 

All application details are to be found on www.hiltonfestival.co.za

 

Don’t delay – today’s the day!!

 

Festival 11 – 13 September
Jongosi Youth Day Friday 11 September
Programme available Friday 14 August on www.hiltonfestival.co.za
Bookings open: Monday 17 August 2020
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The Festival takes place in the grounds of Hilton College, near Pietermaritzburg. It is a 3 day celebration of all things arty.

 

It is presented by Hilton College in association with Grindrod Bank, Absa, Black Coffee, Extreme Events, DWR, Bidvest Car Rental, KZN Dept of Art & Culture, Durban Youth Radio, BASA, Southern Sun PMB, Redlands Hotel, Martizburg Sun, Caxton, SA Artist, Loud Crowd Media, Sappi and Chilli Source.

 

Photo credit to Harry Lock.

 

 

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Laddsworth Grade 7 learners went on an excursion to Greystone Camp and Adventure Centre from Tuesday 18 February to Friday 21 February 2020.

 

They enjoyed a very busy programme, including a historical tour to Ford Durnford, team building and problem solving activities, leadership sessions, a hike to Giants Castle and a tour of the Wagondrift dam wall.

 

The Grade 7 pupils learnt a great deal and had lots of fun.

 

Pictured above: Milan Michaux (Grade 7) enjoying the obstacle course.

 

Pictured below: Mr Gavin Lambooy (Headmaster) with some of the Grade 7 learners at camp.

 

 

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Congratulations to the five St Anne’s girls and their paddling coach, Mr Chris Hornby, who completed the Dusi Canoe Marathon.

 

Pictured above: Georgia Frost, Kim van Rooyen, Mr Chris Hornby, Emily Vermaak, Emma Pennington and Ciaran Hornby.

 

Pictured below: Partners Georgia Frost and Emily Vermaak going strong on Day 2.

 

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Forty-five years ago Doc MacLean was playing Charlie Patton songs in Son House's living room. From back porch to big porch. The storyteller. An emotional remapping of contemporary delta blues. At one time Blues Revue Magazine called him the "Prince of Darkness." There's redemption here beyond the simple, acoustic medium– and an appeal that reaches well beyond the Crossroads.

 

Doc MacLean has performed and recorded with a who's who of first and second generation blues, roots and gospel artists such as Sam Chatmon, Peg Leg Sam, and Blind John Davis. Among many others, he has supported Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, and BB King. Now best known as a songwriter and storyteller, MacLean has more recently recorded with members of the Canned Heat and Mavis Staples bands.

 

This real deal, old school troubadour self drives to hundreds of shows every year— sometimes busking the places in between. But America is now seen more often in the rear view mirror...

Over the last few years MacLean has driven over 100 thousand km across South Africa, taking it for his own. Named as one of the top sets at the massive, 2017 OppiKoppi festival, he's now played most of the largest festivals, smallest juke joints, coolest theatres, and best regarded presentation stages in the country. The thing that has been carried is again returned. "No venue too large, too small, too grand or too humble." Even places lost in the folds of the map.

 

Writing from the dark side of the road, Doc MacLean remains a songster from the delta tradition. A traveler. Gifted by the grandchildren of slaves, MacLean now sings his own stories and tells his own songs in his own voice. His mostly resophonic, finger style slide guitar pays sonic homage to Patton, House, and Big Joe Williams, while moving forward in a roots based, yet contemporary context.

 

To MacLean, the Blues is not a genre: it is a condition of the human spirit, a healing music, a journey of the soul, a container of past, present, and future. N'ganga.

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Doc MacLean's fourth African tour, "N'ganga Blues," finds him returning to many of the places visited on previous adventures. The "World's Biggest Little Blues Tour" will touch most parts of South Africa, covering over 20 thousand km by land, and will include some 60 shows.

 

Telling songs and singing stories. This blues came from the Mississippi delta. But before that, it came from Africa. Passed down from mouth to mouth. More than music. A placement of the human spirit. Doc's early mentors were the grandchildren of slaves- and he keeps their gifts close to the heart, and close to the Bone. N'ganga Blues celebrates this relationship and explores this continuing journey.

 

MacLean now mentors a number of local blues, roots and traditional artists, actively seeking opportunities for them to tour North America and elsewhere. N'ganga Blues will feature occasional, pop-up collaborations with these artists. Around the edges of the tour, MacLean will co-write with Tim Parr and Albert Frost, and will record new album tracks with Frost in the producer's chair. N'ganga Blues: witness a unique and mature artist at the height of his powers.

 

N'ganga. The healer. This thing we call Blues. I've rolled the bones allover the map. Sixty throws. Sixty shows: they shadow South Africa.No place too large, too small, too grand or too humble. When you roll the bones you could come up snake eyes. Or you could score big.That's what the Old Man used to say.Dust in my blood, I can't escape. Solo, I'm pushing back out into the desert. The Great Karoo is calling: and then the rest of it.

 

This map shows places with names I can't pronounce. Yeah, yeah, if I can put my finger on it-I'm going there. It's in the sidebar. When we stop for drinks, I'll get it sorted.When I was young, I met them in the American south. Men like Son House, Sam Chatmon, Robert Pete Williams.

 

As an older man, it should of been no surprise to meet them again, those like them, herein Africa. A full circle. An unbroken chain. Tellers and healers. And now I’m back, surfing the summer heat: buying cheap red and diesel.Life leaking out around the edges. Death wandering aimlessly. At night: it's cool neon and electric wire, both humming in B flat. To Have and Have Not. To breathe in and out.It's healing music, these Blues

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But the Blues is also this journey:close to the wire. The hot wire. A journey through life. This place where all things are possible. Or should be. Where stories hang like dust in the air: drawn to the heart by the rattle of the Bones. N'ganga.

 

 

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Let us host your next function here at La Popote. Weather permitting it can be out under the tree or inside our cosy little restaurant.

 

We offer High tea, breakfast, brunch, lunch or supper.

 

Pop in and have a chat to see what we can do for you.

 

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South Africa’s patient zero has been diagnosed with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Hilton, KZN, South Africa by local GP, Dr Reed. According to neighbourhood WhatsApp groups, the patient returned from a skiing holiday in Italy on 1 March 2020 and visited Dr Reed on 3 March 2020 where swabs were taken. All reports indicate that the family's behaviour has been geared to contain the spread of the virus. We wish the patient a fast and full recovery.

 

The practice remains open but Dr Reed is still in isolation and doing well with no signs of the virus. Dr Stewart is away on leave and Dr Bruce is available for consultations.

Craig Millar, a local DA councillor cautioned the community to remain calm, ‘As many residents would have heard, there has been a case of COVID19 diagnosed in Hilton. I would like to appeal to residents to remain calm and take note of some very good information from the Western Cape Provincial Government website, particularly those pertaining to prevention. Any information I get from the relevant authorities will be passed on via the numerous social media channels we subscribe to locally.’

Laddsworth pupils Grade 7 pupils Jodi Moreno, Adam Tilbury, Patrick Lamb and Joshua Tilbury (non-travelling reserve) were selected for the Umgungundlovu Midlands Tennis Team.

 

They took part in the KwaZulu-Natal Tennis Tournament at Westridge Tennis Stadium, in Durban, from 28 February to 1 March 2020.

 

Pictured above: L-R: Patrick Lamb, Jodi Moreno, Joshua Tilbury, Adam Tilbury

 

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Thank you to MGF Attorneys for cleaning up the verge on the corner of Vlei and Cedara rd.

 

Take a look at the before and after photos, what a great result. Mike Forsyth will be fixing the potholes outside his own driveway too. Note his trusty gardener did the brush cutting job.

 

If we all take ownership of our own properties and streets, alot can be achieved in keeping our village beautiful.

 

Pictured above: The verge after.

Picured below: The verge before.

 

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Laddsworth Primary School turned 117 years old on Sunday 1 March 2020.

 

Miss Daisy Ladds started Laddsworth in 1903 and the values she instilled 117 years ago are still being upheld today.

 

The staff and learners enjoyed birthday cake on Monday 2 March 2020 to celebrate this wonderful milestone.

 

Pictured above from L-R: Justin Cook and Hayley Walters (Grade 6) collecting a cake for their class.

 

 

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March specials at Style De Vie.

 

1. Book 2x 30min back massages and get the 3rd one for FREE
    R700

2. Book 2x reflexology sessions and get the 3rd one for FREE
    R700

3. Book 2x 45min Sports massages and get a FREE half leg and foot massage

    R900

4. Facial and pedicure and get a FREE manicure
    R720

 

Please note that you can give your FREE session as a gift voucher to a friend or family member.

 

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