{"id":142073,"date":"2017-01-11T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142073\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:13:56","slug":"exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting new year for Laerskool Die President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laerskool Die President was abuzz as pupils took their seats in anticipation of another academic year, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new Grade Ones were thrilled to be at \u2018big school\u2019 and to start learning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Though the first day of school was both exciting and scary for the little ones, they settled down quickly and started work<\/p>\n<p>Principal Sybrand van Dyk could hardly contain his excitement, as he welcomed old and new students to the school for another year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI wish all the students and teachers all of the best for the year ahead,\u201d van Dyk said.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OBqlipOxkN0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Overall, the school had a smooth start to the academic year.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-142073 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/attachment\/02gcnschoolspres_02840\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_02840-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-142075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_02840-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_02840-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_02840.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-142075'>\n\t\t\t\tRuan Halgryn (left) and Henric Jacobs smile happily on their first day of grade one, at Laerskool Die President.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/attachment\/02gcnschoolspres_34626\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_34626-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-142076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_34626-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_34626-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_34626.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-142076'>\n\t\t\t\tLaerskool Die President principal, Sybrand van Dyk, was excited to start the new school year on Wednesday. Here he welcomes grade ones Elri Ferreira (left), Tinique Nortman, Zanika Nel, Anushka Swanepoel and Jessica van Wyk (in van Dyk\u2019 arms) to the school.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/attachment\/02gcnschoolspres_54017\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_54017-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-142077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_54017-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_54017-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_54017.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-142077'>\n\t\t\t\tNew grade ones at Laerskool Die President, Logan Rathbone (left) and Logan Botha, were excited about their first day of \u2018big school\u2019 on Wednesday.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/attachment\/02gcnschoolspres_62980\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_62980-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-142078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_62980-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_62980-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_62980.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-142078'>\n\t\t\t\tGrade ones Chane van Antweep (left) and Teegan Meyer smile shyly on their first day at Laerskool Die President, on Wednesday.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/11\/exciting-new-year-for-laerskool-die-president\/attachment\/02gcnschoolspres_61338\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_61338-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-142074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_61338-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_61338-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2017\/01\/02GCNSCHOOLSPRES_61338.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-142074'>\n\t\t\t\tAyden Bridgeford (left), Reagan Lottering and Francois de Bruyn head to the school hall for their first assembly as grade ones, at Laerskool Die President on Wednesday.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f2dbe5e64679e4555979a6b5d3809054'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laerskool Die President welcomed old and new students back to school for another year of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":142076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[977,8297,1012,1003,1106,969,6282,2730,1050,1074],"class_list":["post-142073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-grade-ones","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-school","tag-schools"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["children","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston city news","grade ones","Leigh Hodgson","school","schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}