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PAST PUPIL NEWS

Mudiwa Llobell - Letter from Hilton college

TERM 3 – 2010

PINSSA ACHIEVERS

Congratulations to the following pupils who represented Epworth at PINSSA recently:
Hannah Munro, Bradley Bell, Joshua Miranda, Kiashen Brimiah, Francis Makkink, James Patrick, Simon Krone, Emily Germishuizen, Hannah Acutt, Caitlin Crawford, Liam Meyer, Martin Gill, Bethany Damonse and Jessica Mc Donald.
All the pupils received many positive comments from the mentors present at the event.

MUSIC EISTEDDFOD

Congratulations to all the individual instrumentalists that took part in the 2010 Pietermaritzburg Music Eisteddfod. All the pupils did exceptionally well, especially:
Alani Ferreira, who was invited to play at the Tatham Art Gallery; and Shaniae Maharaj, Sayug and Shraya Moodley, Kevin Hendriks and Ana Chemaly who were invited to play at the “Best of the Eisteddfod concert” at GHS.

CROSS COUNTRY ACHIEVEMENTS

Congratulations to all the pupils that took part in the recent Pietermaritzburg ward cross country trials.  The following pupils made it through the first round:  Cana Peek and Opal Goldring.

MUSIC EXAMINATIONS

Congratulations to the following pupils for passing their recent Music Theory Examinations:

Alani Ferreira (with distinction) , Kevin Hendriks (with distinction), Noël Lee (with merit), Shaniae Maharaj  and Martin Gill (with distinction).

SA CANOE MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to James Horner (Grade 5) who was placed 2nd in the SA Canoe Marathon Championships held in Plettenberg Bay during the holidays.

SA SCHOOLS SQUASH TOURNAMENT

Congratulations to the following pupils who represented KwaZulu-Natal at the recent SA Schools Squash tournament:
U13 Girls A placed 6th (Noël Lee, Ellen Harrison, Genna Bennetts)
U13 Girls B placed 3rd (Jessica McDonald, Ana Chemaly and Cana Peek)
U13 Boys B placed 8th (Stephen Southway)

BALLET ACHIEVEMENTS

Many Epworth Co-educational Primary pupils (through Brenda Hunter’s Ballet School) took part in the recent Cecchetti Ballet Society examinations  where they all did very well.
Helen Kroukam, Jessica Anderson and Dené Dickson, all in Grade 3, together with their Ballet teacher Brenda Hunter, were awarded the Cecchetti Ballet Society Trophy for the most outstanding Test Group in KwaZulu-Natal. These girls have therefore been invited to dance at a Gala Performance later this year at the Playhouse in Durban.

TERM 2 – 2010

 KWAZULU-NATAL SQUASH

Congratulations to the following pupils for being selected for the following KwaZulu-Natal Squash teams:
A team: Noël Lee, Ellen Harrison, Genna Bennetts
B team: Jessica Mc Donald, Ana Chemaly and Cana Peek
B team: Stephen Southway

SA CANOEING SPRINTS

Congratulations for the following achievements at the recent South African Canoe Sprints:
U8 Chloe Dundas-Starr (500m -  Silver, 200m – Silver and Silver Victrix Ludorum)
U10 Riley van Rooyen (2000m – Bronze, 1000m – Bronze, 200m – Bronze and Bronze Victrix Ludorum)
       Amy Peckett  (500m – Bronze)
U12 Cana Peek  (2000m – Bronze and 200m – Bronze)

MIDLANDS HOCKEY

Congratulations to Cana Peek for being selected for the U12 Umgungundlovu Hockey team and Noël Lee for being selected as the non-travelling reserve.

KZN DUATHLON

Cana Peek has also been selected for the KZN Duathlon team and was placed second at the event – Well done, Cana.

BALLET AWARDS

Congratulations to Daniella Sucks (Level 6) and Jennifer Brock (Level 4) on their wonderful  American Academy of Ballet Performance Awards.

ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC ACHIEVEMENTS

The following pupils all received Distinctions for their Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music piano examinations: Noël Lee, Sayug Moodley and Jemma van Blerk who played Grade 1, and Ana Chemaly and Kevin Hendriks who played Grade 2. This is a wonderful achievement – Well done!

KZN GYMNASTICS

Helen Kroukam came first in Level 2 gymnastics at the KZN Qualifying competition and has been selected for the KZN team to participate in the Central Zone Challenge in June. This is the third competition she has won this year. Jaime-Lee Forster and Jennifer Brock were also selected into the KZN team for Level 1. Congratulations to all of them!

MIDLANDS NETBALL ACHIEVERS

Well done to the following pupils on being selected for the Midlands Netball Teams:
Bethany Damonse U12  and Siyanda Ngcobo  U13.

KWAZULU-NATAL SQUASH

Congratulations to the following pupils on being selected for the following KwaZulu-Natal Squash Teams:
A team: Noel Lee, Ellen Harrison, Genna Bennetts
B team: Jessica Mc Donald, Ana Chemaly, Cana Peek and Stephen Southway

SA CANOEING SPRINTS

Congratulations for the following achievements at the recent South African Canoe Sprints:
U8 Chloe Starr  (500m -  Silver, 200m – Silver and Silver Victrix Ludorum)
U10 Riley van Rooyen (2000m – Bronze, 1000m – Bronze, 200m – Bronze and Bronze Victrix Ludorum)
Amy Peckett  (500m – Bronze)
U12 Cana Peek  (2000m – Bronze and 200m – Bronze)

KZN CANOEING SPRINTS

Several Epworth Co-educational Primary pupils participated in the KZN sprints held at Nagle Dam recently. All the pupils did exceptionally well especially the following achievers:

Gold Victrix ludorum – Girls:
U\8  Chloe Dundas-Starr
U\10  tie Amy Peckett and Riley Van Rooyen
U\12  Rebecca Van Rooyen

Gold Victrix Ludorum – Boys:
U\10  Joseph Clacey

Silver Victrix Ludorum:
U\12  Cana Peek
U\14  Rebecca Martin
Bronze Victrix Ludorum:
 U\14  Emily Latt

CORDWALLES MUDMAN STAR

Congratulations to Epworth Mudman star Cana Peek. She was the overall female winner in the U11 half distance category at the Cordwalles Mudman. She was also the 2nd female home overall (half distance).

TERM 1 – 2010

KID’S LIT QUIZ

This is the third year we have participated and each year there are more teams. This year there were 24 teams and Epworth entered 2, the maximum allowed. Epworth came a very close second to Athlone’s first place on the Friday and moved through to the S.A. Finals, which, to our great excitement, were held in Pietermaritzburg this year. Epworth’s team acquitted themselves very well against stiff competition from schools around South Africa. Several of last year’s team members came to wish us good luck and we were pleased to see some Epworth parents and children who came to support us. The competition was won by The Ridge School from Johannesburg. We were all delighted that a Pietermaritzburg school, Athlone, came second. The winners will go to the Edinburgh Book Festival in August for the world finals. The website for the Kid’s Lit Quiz is www.kidslitquiz.com if you would like to follow the progress of this exciting quiz which rewards life-long readers. Well done to both of the Epworth teams that participated!

KZN MIDLANDS SWIMMERS

Congratulations to Noel Lee and Luca van Greunen who were selected for the KZN Midlands team that competed in the KZN swimming trials.

HERMANNSBURG MUDMAN STAR

Cana Peek was the overall female winner in her category at the first Mudman held at Hermannsburg School. Well done, Cana.

CANOEING ACHIEVER

Well done to James Horner who came first in his age group in the interschool’s Canoe Sprints held at Nagel dam.

MIDMAR MILE

Epworth Primary had 15 pupils who participated in the Midmar Mile. Well done, swimmers!

KZN SCHOOLS’ AQUATICS

Congratulations to the following Epworth pupils for being selected to represent KZN at the National Schools’ Aquatics Championships in Cape Town.
Swimming : Luca van Greunen
Synchronised Swimming : Lina Kobayashi and Rachel Kroukam

EPWORTH MUDMAN STAR

Amy Peckett was placed 1st in her age category at the Epworth Mudman in the half distance canoe race. Well done, Amy!

SQUASH ACHIEVERS

In the Squash KZN Open Noel Lee came first and Ana Chemaly was placed third in the U13 section.  Epworth had 8 pupils taking part in this tournament – all did exceptionally well!

SPEED STACKING

19 Epworth pupils took part in their first Speed Stacking Tournament recently at MCS. All did exceptionally well – especially Chad Atterbury, Lina Kobayashi and Heshalan Moodley for all making it to the top 3 in their categories.

TERM 2 – 2010

Monday 30th August

MUSIC EISTEDDFOD

Congratulations to all the individual instrumentalists that participated in the 2010 Music Eisteddfod – all did exceptionally well.

The Epworth Senior and Intermediate Marimba Bands and the Dance Band also did exceptionally well – they all received an A+ (Gold). Congratulations to these musicians!

Nonji Ndwandwe and the Dance Band were honoured to be asked to participate in the “Best of the Eisteddfod” Concert.

DEBATING CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to the Epworth Grade 8 Debating Team who won the KZN Schools Debating Finals, beating teams from Durban and Phoenix in a provincial tournament recently.
They debated banning Facebook, and the right to search pupils in the school. Well done to the team – Lauren Beghin, Hayley Martin and Christine Colenbrander.  Christine was awarded the Best Grade 8 Speaker of the day!
 
KZN BASKETBALL

Congratulations to Naledi Rantai and Lysandra Shabalala who have been selected to represent the KZN U16 Basketball Team – well done!
 
KZN EQUESTRIAN

Congratulations to Kelly Martin who has been chosen to represent KZN in the SANEF Schools 1.20m class. She will be competing against other provinces later in September.

MIDLANDS SQUASH

The Midlands Ladies Squash Team (consisting of Julie Lee, Tarryn Harborth and Epworthians Maxine Windelberg, Stacey Bone and Courtney Bone) won the B section of the Senior Inter-Provincial Tournament. They beat Eastern Province 4 – 1. 

Monday 2nd August

MARIMBA COMPETITION

Congratulations to the Marimba girls that travelled to Boksburg recently to take part in the National Marimba Festival. The Epworth team did exceptionally well to win the Best Newcomer Trophy and the Best High School Marimba Band Trophy. Well done! 

EISTEDDFOD

Well done to all the Choir girls for receiving an A at the Pietermaritzburg Eisteddfod.

MIDLANDS BASKETBALL

Congratulations to the following girls who have been selected for the Midlands Basketball Team:
Lysandra Shabalala, Sibulele Tom and Naledi Rantai. Well done girls!

DEBATING

On Wednesday evening, Epworth 1 and Epworth 2 debated against each other (after defeating 22 other Grade 8 teams in the Pietermaritzburg league). Epworth 2 won the debate, with Hayley Martin being awarded Best Speaker. Hayley, together with team mates Christine Colenbrander and Lauren Beghin, will now compete for the KZN title against the other Grade 8 leagues on 14th August, in an all-day round-robin tournament.
At the prizegiving, the following Epworth debaters were awarded amongst the best speakers in the Pietermaritzburg Leagues:
Chenise Govender –  3rd in the Senior League
Emilie du Trevou – 1st in the Junior League
Maeve Fourie – 2nd in the Junior League
Caroline Dickson – 3rd in the Grade 8 League.
Well done to all the debaters – this is a wonderful achievement.

ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Congratulations to the following girls on their achievements in the recent Royal Schools of Music examinations: Aileen Thompson (Grade 5 Theory) and Monica Beghin (Grade 3 Harp) – Well done.

Tuesday 13th July

SA SCHOOLS HOCKEY

Congratulations to Heather McEwan (U16) and Amy Greaves (U17) for being selected for the SA Schools Hockey Squads. Well Done!

SA SQUASH RANKINGS

Congratulations to the following pupils for being ranked in South African Top 10 squash in their respective age groups:
Tarryn Harborth
Julie Lee
Bronni Smithers
Cayleigh Conradie
Kimberley McDonald
Kristi Conradie
Well done – this is a wonderful achievement!

Monday 7th June

BURSARY WINNER

Congratulations to Chenise Govender who has been awarded a 100% Bursary to study Chemical Engineering at UCT from next year. This is an outstanding achievement awarded through Sasol SA. Well done Chenise, we are very proud of you!

U14 UMGUNGUNDLOVU HOCKEY SELECTIONS

Congratulations to the following girls who will represent the District in the Inter-district Tournament in August:
Rebecca Hallé
Kimberley McDonald
Nompilo Mtunzi
Nonjabulo Ndwandwe
Jenna Rattray
Erin Roseveare
Robyn Bonsma (reserve)

CANOEING

Congratulations to Brittany Petersen and Jenna Starr who have been selected for the KZN marathon team to compete at the SA Championships in Plettenberg Bay.

Monday 17th May

BALLET ACHIEVERS

Congratulations to the following American Performance Awards achievers:
Christine Colenbrander (level 6) – Gold
Sarah-Jane Armstrong (level 7) – Silver with distinction
Jessica Thibaud (level 7) – Silver with distinction
Nosimo Madlala (level 8) – Gold with distinction
Brittany Petersen (level 9) – Gold

KZN SCHOOLS SQUASH

Congratulations to the following players who have been selected to represent KZN squash at an Interprovincial tournament to be held during the holidays:
U19A Julie Lee
         Tarryn Harborth
U19B Kate Smith
         Lauren Spencer
         Tessa Hart
U16A Bronwen Smithers
          Cayleigh Conradie
          Nadia Ramchandra
          Lisa Truter
U16B  Tyler Potgieter
          Rachael Barnard
          Jordan Peek
U14A Kristi Conradie
          Kimberley McDonald

Monday 3rd May 2010   

EPWORTH WINS SA CANOE SPRINTS – AGAIN!

Our Epworth Canoeing team has won the South African Canoeing Sprint Championships for a record 5th year in a row! What an outstanding achievement!

Pctured is the team of:
Back row from left:  Camilla Pennefather, Courtney Kennedy, Megan Morkel, Teagan Hendrie,  Jamie Roseveare,  Bianca Haw, Shaylyn Smith
Front Row from left:  Lieschen Badenhorst, Mr Les Willows, Jenna Starr, Hazel Little, Brittany Petersen and Jordan Peek

SA NATIONAL SQUASH TOURNAMENT

Well done to our girls who played in the SA National Squash tournament in PE last weekend. This is a South African selection tournament and all the top players in each age group are invited.
Julie Lee had to unfortunately withdraw halfway through – but she still did well enough to come 8th in the U19 section.
Bronni Smithers played very well to come 3rd in the U16 section, with Cayleigh Conradie 6th and Nadia Ramchandra  and Lisa Truter in the top 10.
Kimberley McDonald beat some seeded players to finish 6th in the U14 section and Kristi Conradie also made it into the top 10.

MIDLANDS NETBALL

Congratulations to Mbali Mtandela who has been selected to represent the Midlands U17 Netball Team.

TERM 1:
Wednesday 20 January – Friday 26 March
Wednesday 20 January – Friday 26 March
Wednesday 20 January – Friday 26 March

Grade 8s to be at school on Tuesday 19 January

Half Term:
Thursday 18 February (17:00) to Tuesday 23 February
Thursday 18 February to Tuesday 23 February
Thursday 18 February to Tuesday 23 February

TERM 2:
Monday 12 April – Wednesday 09 June
Monday 12 April - Wednesday 09 June
Monday 12 April - Wednesday 09 June

No Half Term

TERM 3:
Monday 12 July – Thursday 23 September
Monday 12 July – Thursday 23 September
Monday 12 July – Thursday 23 September

Half Term:
Thursday 19 August (17:30) to Tuesday 24 August
Thursday 19 August to Tuesday 24 August
Thursday 19 August to Tuesday 24 August

TERM 4:
Monday 04 October – Friday 03 December
Monday 04 October – Friday 03 December
Monday 04 October – Friday 03 December

Half Term:
Thursday 21 October (17:00) to Tuesday 26 October
Thursday 21 October (12:00) to Tuesday 26 October
Thursday 21 October (12:00) to Tuesday 26 October

Saturday School

Term 1: 23 January, 27 February, 6 March
Term 2: 17 April, 8 May (Family Day), 22 May
Term 3: 17 July, 31 July, 28 August (Grade 12 Trials)
Term 4: 9 October, 13 November, 27 November

Public Holidays in School Term

Public Holiday (Human Rights Day)                         22 March              School
Freedom Day                                                           27 April                School
Worker’s Day                                                           01 May                 Closed
Women’s Day                                                           09 Aug                 Closed