3 March 2023 Well done to Mrs Shoko and our Marimba ensembles,
they have received an Honours and a First Grade at the
Eisteddfod.
1 March 2023 Dear Parents,
Can you believe that it is March already? Firstly, I would like to thank parents for your flexibility around picking up your girls due to inclement weather. It certainly has been a great rainy season and our grounds are looking particularly lush. Thank you ...
23 February 2023 We have received instructions from the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to close all schools tomorrow Friday 24 February 2023 due to tropical storm Freddy. Please see the attached letter.
The parent teacher Target days tomorrow and Saturday as well as all sporting events have ...
16 February 2023 Thank you to everyone who baked, bought and sold goodies on Tuesday. It was a huge success. Well done to the Fountain Five!
13 February 2023 The hall looked beautiful on Tuesday evening for the new parent s cocktail party. Thank you to Mrs Wheeler for the decor, Mr Mberengwa (our chef) for the delicious eats and Mrs Ferreira and girls for the artwork. Thank you parents for attending and thank ...
6 February 2023 Another 4 SMART TVs have been installed this term.
These replace the projector and SMART white board
combinations that we had previously. The SMART
TVs do not need a projector and are completely
interactive. Replacements will continue gradually
throughout the school.
2 February 2023 Dear Parents, Wow! It s already February. Thank you all for your contribution to this year so far. It has been very a positive start to 2023. Our home/school partnership grows stronger, and our pupils are happy. I feel that home/school communication has greatly improved, thank you for learning to use Class Dojo so effectively. I would like to mention the Information Sharing Evening and say thank you to both staff and parents for their engagement in the process and for the wonderful buzz around the school that evening. I ...
30 January 2023 What a rainy wet week! Thank you all for your co-operation this week with the wet weather. At least Anderson House had their House Athletics session.
23 January 2023 Morning cross country has started; those that have taken part have enjoyed it. Well done to the parents who have run alongside their daughter s and thank you to the sports staff for being there in the early mornings.
16 January 2023 Thank you for coming to our Information Sharing Evening. There
was such a wonderfully exciting buzz around the school.
Thank you for your attendance and participation in the event
I hope that it was helpful to everyone.
6 January 2023 Dear Parents, Happy New Year! I wish all of you a happy and prosperous 2023. I am looking forward to the start of school and to seeing all of you and your children on Tuesday 10th January. Staff have an Inset Day on Monday, which ...
2 December 2022 The End of Year events have been such fun and entertaining! I would like to thank all our talented staff and pupils for all their hard work on the stage and behind the scenes. Thank-you parents for your attendance and your help with the ...
28 November 2022 Our 2023 Head Girls are announced. Congratulations to Deputy Head Girl, Wandipa Marimo and Head Girl, Mwakawashe Mafunga . They stand next to the out going Head Girls, Kaityn Reilly and Alexis Johnsen. The girls in the audience went wild! I think that our staff ...
21 November 2022 What an incredible week for swimming! Our A Team did us proud in the EPSA 1st Division Gala last Saturday by winning the Girls section. Support for all the schools was fantastic and our Chisi parents were outstanding supporters. Thank you all! ...
14 November 2022 What a week! Things are getting so busy, and it seems as
though the weekends are as busy as the weeks! It s been a
week of growth for me, I have grappled with some tough
stuff.
7 November 2022 The best thing about this week, apart from the rain, was when
the girls spontaneously erupted into a whole school conga line! I was wondering around the playground with the girls and
suddenly they started rushing to join some of the Grade 7 s who
had started a ...
31 October 2022 It has been another busy week at ChisiJ! This week has brought me closer to the inner workings of the school. It was lovely to meet the new 2023 Grade 1 parents yesterday at their Welcome Tea. I am sure that the staff changes ...
24 October 2022 Mr Greener did get some fumigation done...well in a manner of speaking - the field was treated for pesky crickets on the Friday of the long weekend. The installation of the solar panels has been completed and it is ready to run. We have ...
18 October 2022 Hooray! Exams are over These Grade 7s have a lot to overcome before the end of the year, including their internal assessments. However, they have a lot to look forward to as well. Let’s work together to keep them enlightened and engaged until the end ...
7 October 2022 Dear Parents,
What a wonderful month it has been! I have enjoyed getting to know the girls, the teachers and some of you. It s been a busy start to the term, and I have really enjoyed getting stuck into ChisiJ life. This is a very ...
7 October 2022 This week has been very positive, not only have I finally
managed to meet with all the staff, but I have also started
planning for next year. I have met several wonderful people and
hope to have an announcement about staffing ready for you
quite soon. However, I need ...
3 October 2022 This week has been punctuated by daily trips to the ZIMSEC
Head Offices, more specifically to a warehouse on the ZIMSEC
grounds. Alongside my fellow Headteachers, I have delivered
exams papers every day and will continue to do so until exams
finish. I have become fond of my daily ...
26 September 2022 This week has been busy, I feel more relaxed, as I get a little more settled. Today marks my 1 month anniversary in Zimbabwe. It s been a steep learning curve in all areas of life! I continue to feel that ChisiJ is a safe ...
16 September 2022 This has been a very busy, productive week! I have met with
many of the staff, including with Mrs Milner, our Sports
Director, Mrs Wall, our ICT teacher and Mrs Fowlds, our Music
Director. Also, I met Mr Greener, our Estate Manager, and Mrs
De Bruijn, who runs ...
12 September 2022 It s been a wonderful week! Thank-you for making me feel so
welcome. It was lovely seeing and meeting so many of you on
the roadside in the mornings and at pick up time. The staff have
been fabulous, we have had a few very positive strategic
meetings this ...
2 September 2022 Dear Parents,
Hello! I have relocated successfully and am very happy to be writing to you for the first time as the Headteacher of Chisi J. I m delighted to be here at last. I am filled with gratitude, excitement and a fair
amount of trepidation.
29 July 2022 A good place to start this circular is to thank our Grade six parents, who as last year s Grade fives, were not able to run the traditional Fountain Fives Fundraiser . They have collected money between themselves and added a most welcome amount ...
22 July 2022 We always know that the end of term is approaching when the usual afternoon activities programme starts changing. This week has seen the final inter-school matches, except for hockey against Springvale, and we have been most impressed by some very good sport played by our ...
29 April 2022 Dear Parents
I hope that you have all enjoyed the holiday break, and that those travelling did so successfully. Although my usual start of term circular will follow with the afternoon activities timetable next week, here are a few notes which should clarify some points.
4 March 2022 Dear Parents
Included in this circular is the calendar of events to the end of this term, which is naturally subject to change according to the progress of Covid and other exigencies. At the moment we are enjoying school life which is as close to normal ...
25 February 2022 Dear Grades 3 - 7 Parents
The new afternoon activities list closely follows our usual, pre-Covid programme. The interceding few years with widely variant teaching and limited non-academic activities leaves us in a position where it is difficult to simply pick up where we left off. ...
17 February 2022 Dear Parents
You should have received the new afternoon activities timetable yesterday by email. Your daughter is being given a hard copy today, with a few minor changes. The programme is essentially our normal one from Term 1 2020, modified to accommodate visiting coaches. This ...
11 February 2022 Dear Parents
We recently received our ZIMSEC Grade 7 results for 2021, these having been a particularly demanding set of exams. Firstly, we were dealing with the potential effect of pupils having spent much less than their usual time in class for the last two years, ...
1 February 2022 Circular letter to Parents, ECDA to Grade 7
I am sure that most of you are pretty ecstatic that schools re-open on Monday 7 February.
Here is a reminder that ALL GRADES 1 - 7 children should be on grounds by 7.30am latest (teachers will be in ...
18 January 2022 Dear Parents
Yesterday we started the academic year online, which following the extremely difficult but similar start in 2021, has been an entirely different kettle of fish. Helped by their experience and a very much more efficient internet system, the teachers are finding this to be ...
7 January 2022 Dear Parents
Following a letter of confirmation which we have just received, I am now able to give you more detailed timings of the plans for our opening of school on-line. The teaching and administrative staff have been busy with preparations, and will continue to do ...
6 January 2022 Dear Parents
I am sure that you and your families have enjoyed the year end break, and hope that the festivities went well. I can scarcely remember a more deserved holiday period. We were anticipating the opening of school on Monday 10 January 2022, but are ...
1 January 2022 After twenty-eight happy years at Chisipite Junior School, the incumbent Head has decided to retire during 2022. The Board of Governors is accordingly searching for an exceptional person to become the sixth Head in the school’s ninety-two-year history. Chisipite Junior is a Girls’ Day School ...
16 December 2021 Dear Parents
In the closing of 2022 amidst a rising fourth wave of Covid-19, I am pleased that we managed to have galas for all of the grades, and some form of final assembly and Prizegiving for each as well. The Grades 7 ss ...
2 December 2021 Dear Parents
You may be aware that some schools have closed because of Covid-19. We do not plan to do so at present, because there are no grounds to cause us to request such approval from the Ministries of Education and Health - these being part ...
10 November 2021 Dear Parents
2022 Term Dates
Following is the 2022 term calendar holiday dates as set by the Secretary for Education, and which ATS schools have undertaken to follow.
17 September 2021 Dear Parents
Here are a few notes to keep things running smoothly.
Portrait Photographs by Savannah Studios
Savannah Studios, Gregg Robinson, usually takes Portrait Photographs during the second term but on this occasion, they will be done on Monday 27 September for all children from Grades 1 to ...
15 September 2021 Dear Parents
Some of my previous circulars have commented on our frustrations at the curriculum and examination demands made on junior school children in general and our Grade 7 s in particular. During the time that we are trying to recover the deficit from our second ...
9 September 2021 Dear Parents
You may notice today, and tomorrow (Friday), that the Chisipite flag is flying at half-mast. This is a sign of respect for a past teacher Lynn Fuller who sadly passed away yesterday. She ran the ECD B department for some years, and ...
27 August 2021 Dear Parents
Celebratory circular letter to Parents.
We are pleased that the Ministry of Primary Secondary Education has now confirmed that pupils may return to school, so this letter will clarify many points in this regard. Also, we need to remind ourselves of the safety ...
20 August 2021 Dear Parents
At a Board meeting this week, the Parent Liaison members expressed the various concerns of many families. Perhaps the leading one relates to anticipated term dates and consequent dates of possible holiday periods. As before I can shed little light on these, other than ...
23 July 2021 Dear Parents and Staff
It is not usual to send the same circular letter to both teachers and parents, but I think that it is equally relevant on this occasion. Firstly, with the forthcoming public holidays of Heroes and Defence Forces days coming up on the ...
7 July 2021 Following our online lessons at the start of this year, we were able to give our pupils the absolute maximum of in-class teaching time which could have been managed under those conditions. We saw a surge in children s responses and catching up, so far ...
24 June 2021 Dear Parents
I am sure that you are by now aware that Cabinet has deferred the opening of schools by two weeks, with the possibility of this being extended according to developments with the Covid-19 third surge. In deciding our response to this development, the Chairman ...