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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