Hatfield Online School

WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION IN YOUR OWN HOME!🏡
For the can't-get-to-a-school student!📍

For students who live in the far-flung, out-of-reach areas of our beautiful country 🇿🇦, there is an alternative to boarding school. Turn your home into a classroom with only a laptop 💻, printer🖨️ and Wi-Fi 🛜 connection!

Past students have used the flexibility that Hatfield Online School provides to take part in bucketlist travelling ✈️ whilst continuing their education 📖 without interruption.

WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION TO IMPROVE YOUR MARKS✍🏻🎓
For the MATRIC REWRITE!👨🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓

Hatfield Online School is recommended by the IEB to matric students
wishing to improve their NSC marks.

✍🏻Sign up for an exam rewrite or a full portfolio upgrade.

INTERNATIONAL PRESERVE THE OZONE DAY

The ozone layer acts as an invisible shield around Earth and protects us from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun 🌞. It protects all life on earth 🌳👫🐕 from UV radiation and we need to make an effort to preserve the ozone layer, and in turn protect ourselves.

This day highlights the collective efforts and commitment of nations around the world over the past 35 years to protect the ozone layer.

Here are some ways we can all make an effort to protect the ozone layer:
• Organise lift clubs or use public transport – or ride a bike 🚲 or walk – to reduce the number of vehicles 🚗 on the road.
• Use eco-friendly household cleaning products 🧼, and in fact when buying any product, look for a “toxin-free” or “ozone friendly” label.
• Shop locally for food that hasn’t travelled long distances to your kitchen 🫛.
• Use air-conditioners responsibly 🪭.
• Avoid using pesticides 😷.

Remember – by making even _one_ small change in your daily life, you can impact the ozone layer for the better! 💪

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DEMOCRACY
On the 15th of September each year the world celebrates democracy in all its forms. All governments across the globe are encouraged to promote and uphold the principles of a healthy democracy.

Some fun facts about democracy:
- Bhutan is the world’s youngest democracy, holding its first democratic elections in 2007.
- There are two types of democracy: a direct democracy (where every citizen is directly involved in making laws and decisions); and a representative democracy (where citizens elect representatives to make decisions and laws on their behalf).
- South Africa is a representative democracy.

Why don’t you be an active citizen and see what your democracy is doing for you today, by logging onto South Africa’s parliamentary channel? You might witness history and see something signed into law! https://www.parliament.gov.za/parliament-tv

"Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honour everyone. Love brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the emperor." - 1 Peter 2:13-17

🌍 WORLD FIRST AID DAY ⛑️

Today is dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness about first aid and how YOU can help someone — or even save a life!

First aid should be accessible to everyone and should be an essential part of societal development. Take the time to familiarise yourself with basic first aid treatment, and you might be able to help someone one day.

Join the world in celebrating this day to raise awareness about how first aid can save lives.

“He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.” - Luke 10:34
The Samaritan had the hands to care and the heart to act. He tended to the victim’s wounds using the available treatment, transported him, and oversaw and financed his recovery.

Let us prepare ourselves to help others in need, just like the Samaritan did for the man who was attacked and left for dead.

GOOD LUCK Gr 12's
for your FINAL Life Sciences PAT tomorrow!



Your teacher, Mrs Tammy Wallace, wishes you all the best, and reminds you to do YOUR best in the practical exam!

GOOD LUCK Gr 12's
for your FINAL LO Paper, tomorrow!



A message from Mrs. Candice Fawkes:
"Remember that matter!"

INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY📚📖 aims to highlight the significant role literacy plays in the lives of individuals and societies.

✈ You can travel to far and distant lands through the pages of a book.
🫂You can discover friendships in the pages of a book.
🪄Some books can even teleport you to another time.
🧠 Research shows that just 20 minutes of reading a day develops analytical thinking skills.

"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." - Jeanette Winterson

How to celebrate :
- 🤝 Exchange books with your friends.
- 🖋️ Write a book review.
- 👩‍⚖️ Dress up as your favourite character from your favourite book.
- 📜 Read or write a poem.

Literacy empowers our minds and can change our lives. Unlock your potential through literacy and help promote this day across the world.

📚 Drop a comment below with the title of your favourite book and tag your friends as you do so!

EDUCATION TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS!🫵
For the Uniquely Individual Student!👨🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓

Online schooling can be the answer for students who do not thrive in a traditional classroom environment.

Many of the modern-day pressures that children face can be alleviated by allowing them to grow and thrive in the safety of their own homes. Neurodiverse students can complete their educational journey without the social anxieties that a conventional school may amplify.

💻🏡Hatfield Online School provides a safe learning environment for all our students.

EDUCATION ON THE GO!💻
For the Teenage Sports Star🤾🏻‍🏄🏽🏊🏻🚴🏼‍🏇🏻

Hatfield Online School’s approach provides the flexibility that an
intensive training and travelling schedule requires. Not only can the
budding junior athlete pursue their sporting dreams, but they can
walk away with a world-class IEB matric certificate while they do so!

🏆Our alumni include swimmers, gymnasts, surfers, cyclists, shooting
champs, dancers, soccer, rugby, equestrian and hockey stars, to name
a few.

Sign up for our Virtual Open Day on 15 October 2024, by sending an email to: [email protected].

We look forward to helping all you teenage athletes achieve your sporting dreams! 🥇

#2025

2025 APPLICATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN!👩🏻‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓

Hatfield Online School has successfully educated students across South Africa for more than 15 YEARS. We are backed by our campus school - Hatfield Christian School - which has been in operation since 1985.

Hatfield Online School provides world-class online education, culminating in an IEB-accredited NSC matric qualification. Our model is ideal for students who require the support and flexibility that the confines of a traditional classroom cannot offer them.

Sign up for our Virtual Open Day on 15 October 2024, by sending an email to: [email protected].

We are looking forward to meeting our new students!

#2025

In an age where we communicate almost exclusively in some kind of digital form, the written letter has become somewhat old-fashioned. A written letter is almost unheard of these days. Sending or receiving such a beautiful piece of communication can really pack a punch.

celebrates the written word – the handwritten word 😉. On this day, we encourage you to pick up a pen or a pencil ✍🏻 and write a letter to someone special to you✉💌

Here are some letter ideas to celebrate this day:
👵🏻👴🏻A letter to a grandparent or a relative you haven't spoken to in a while.
🙏🏻A thank you letter to someone who made a difference in your life.
🙋‍♀️A letter of encouragement to a friend who is going through a difficult time.
🥳 A letter to a friend on their birthday.

BRAG POST

We would like to congratulate Chloe Human (Grade 10) on her outstanding performance at the Limpopo Gymnastics Competition held on the 17th of September 2024.

Chloe earned 4 gold medals and secured first place overall in the 14+ years age group.
She has now qualified to represent the Limpopo team at the South African Gymnastics Games on the 27th of September 2024, at the Western Cape Sport School.

We are incredibly proud to be part of Chloe’s educational journey, providing world-class education with a flexible schedule to support such an exceptional athlete.

Well done, Chloe!

WORLD ROCK PAPER SCISSORS DAY

This day celebrates the iconic hand game - considered one of the oldest hand games in the world.

Here are the exact statistics for how often each “move” is played:
🪨Rock – 35.4 per cent
📰Paper – 35.0 per cent
✂Scissors – 29.6 per cent

Why not take a moment and challenge someone to a game of Rock Paper Scissors. You can also use the game to settle a difference of opinion with someone: fighting over who sits in the front seat of the car? Rock Paper Scissors can settle it for you!

Just remember, Rock smashes Scissors, Scissors cut Paper, and Paper covers Rock 😎 💪

WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY

Humanitarians dedicate their lives to helping the less fortunate in our society. Today, we recognise their efforts and the work they do for all needy causes.

We also pay tribute to the ones who have been injured or lost their lives while providing life-saving support and protection to people most in need. Today we highlight the importance, effectiveness and positive impact of humanitarian work.

"In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.” - Luke 12:33

Let us join the efforts of these amazing people and the work they do. Let us help those in need, remembering that we are blessed when we give, rather than receive. Has God placed a cause on your heart? Is there someone in your community or greater society whom you know you can bless today?

Hatfield Online School is incredibly proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our grade 10 student, , at the British Junior International Air Rifle Championships in Bisley.

Gretchen earned an impressive set of results:
🥇 Mixed Team for 3 Positions
🥈 Target Sprint | Mixed Team 10M Olympic | Women’s Individual 3P Precision
🥉 Mixed Team Target Sprint | Women’s Individual 10M Olympic

We’re proud to be a part of Gretchen's journey to success, providing top-quality education with the flexibility to support her dreams.

BRAG POST

We are proud to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our grade 9 student, Michaela Venter.

Michaela earned 🥇gold in kata and 🥈silver in kumite at the NKZN JKA Regional Championships held in Newcastle on 9 March 2024.

Her outstanding performance earned her KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) colours, and she proudly represented KZN at the SA JKA National Karate Championships in Johannesburg on 17 & 18 May 2024.

Michaela secured 🥉bronze in both kata and kumite at this prestigious event, earning her National Colours in SA JKA Karate.

We congratulate Michaela on her outstanding performance and dedication!

BRAG POST

We are proud to share some outstanding results for one of our teachers - Mrs Ingrid Trusler, your CAT and IT teacher 😊

Mrs Trusler has set 8 Masters Swimming Records in just 6 months!
She outperformed in the 200, 400, 800 & 1 500m Freestyle Swimming categories (Short- and Long-Course).

We are so proud to have such an amazing individual as part of our team - working hard and chasing her dreams!

International Left-hander's Day

Are you unique?
Are you different?
Are you left-handed?

Today we celebrate you. For being unique and for being different.

Here are some cool facts about “lefties”:
• Roughly 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
• If you are left-handed, there’s likely someone in your family who is too - left-handedness is genetically passed on from parents to children by up to 40 different genes.
• Some studies suggest left-handers are better at multi-tasking!
• Left-handers are less likely to develop arthritis and ulcers.
• A large number of leaders are left-handed, including Winston Churchill, Prince William, Barack Obama and seven other American presidents.
• Left-handers have a better sense of direction that “righties”.

All you right-handers - try and do everything with your left hand today!
All the left-handers - post some photos of your daily tasks with your left-handed awesomeness.

When the Bible refers to left-handed people, it speaks of left-handedness as an advantage, not a weakness.

YOU HAVE AN ADVANTAGE. YOU ARE DIFFERENT.
Today we celebrate YOU!

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

This day places focus on tweens and teens and their place in society. This day does not only focus on the protection of our youth, but on including them in the development of communities around the world.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." - Jeremiah 29:11

Today we at Hatfield Online School honour our amazing youth and the plans that God has for their futures. We are so excited to see where each of our students is headed in life!

National Women's Day
Today is a day of celebration, education and awareness surrounding women's rights and upliftment.

On this day we commemorate women from different walks of life, ethnicities and backgrounds. We highlight the plights and triumphs of women in South Africa, and we promote gender equality for a sustainable future.

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Honour her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate." - Proverbs 31:30-31

Today we honour the women of God in South Africa, who have contributed to the development and upliftment of our nation.

Let’s celebrate the important role our parents play in our lives, no matter who or where they are. In May we celebrated Moms, and in June we celebrated Dads – now in July, let’s bring them together and show our appreciation to our parents. They may be your biological parents, your adoptive parents, your step-parents, your spiritual parents – let’s honour them all for their efforts, and for everything they do to love and protect us.

From our very first breath, we learn from them, we look at them for guidance and mirror their behaviour to learn to be part of a community. They play a vital role in the lives of their children. They teach us, they protect us and lead us to be independent adults.

"Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” – Exodus 20:12

We all have dreams, but some of us tend to hold back on them, leaving decisions for later or leaving plans incomplete. All of us have at least one thing we have dreamt about achieving, overcoming or experiencing.

Today you are encouraged to have an all or nothing attitude towards your dreams. Go ahead - throw caution to the wind! Seize the day!
Do not hesitate, do not be fearful.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” - 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV

FOLLOW YOU DREAMS AND GO FOR IT! Some of the biggest changes in our lives start with taking small steps. You have to start somewhere!

Make an announcement.
Apply for that position you have always dreamed of.
Mend a fence.
Buy the boots.

Today, we celebrate all women of a certain age, grandmothers or not!

Not every woman will become a grandmother, and those who do might not fit the traditional mould. This day is about embracing and flaunting your unique granny attitude with purpose and style.

Share your Gorgeous Grandma in the comments – whether she's the classic cookie-baking, home-making, hug-giving, child-spoiling grandma, or the one who plays the latest games, wears the trendiest styles, and finds the best tech deals. They all hold a special place in our hearts.

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BRAG POST!

Hatfield Online School wishes to congratulate two of our students for their commendable achievements in the recent HOZA Senior History Olympiad.

Uyanda Nzimakwe (Gr 12) achieved a gold certificate, placing in the top 5%, and Kaedon van den Berg (Gr 11) secured a bronze certificate, placing in the top 15% out of 721 participants from 54 schools. We are immensely proud of their hard work and enthusiasm for History - congratulations, gentlemen!

“Honour your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” - Exodus 20:12, NLT

Today, we honour and celebrate fathers, stepfathers, social fathers, and all those stepping up to be father figures in our lives. We are grateful for their hard work and sacrifices, which provide us with everything we need and more.
Thank you for being role models and giving us someone to look up to. We are proud to be your children.