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The first week at Wynberg.

In a whirlwind of activity, the first week of the first term passed by in a series of welcomes, introductions, new policies, resolutions and goals. There was a pool party for the Grade Eights, an orientation programme in the first week, a tea for new students in Grades Nine to Twelve and a welcome-to-new-staff cocktail party. And amidst all of that, the academic year of 2003 began.

Grade Eights were welcomed to the school by the prefects the day before the rest of the High school returned to the corridors and fields of the school. Armed with wonderful goodies to celebrate their entry into the high school, the new grade eights were welcomed at the pool by the prefects of 2003. There they frolicked about in the water and played water sports, chatted, feasted, introduced themselves to and befriended each other, and were given another quick guided tour of their school. All of this is aimed at making the first day experience at school a little less formidable than it might have been.

        

Matrics welcome the Grade Eights to Wynberg 

The Grade Eight orientation, planned and organised by Jenny McCallum, included a number of activities aimed at enabling them to get to know each other, to bond as a group and to familiarise themselves with the new systems in the High School. These activities included Mini Olympics, Swimming, all kinds of sports activities, a Scavenger Hunt on the Wynberg sportsfields

and Action Cricket and Netball at the Stadium-on Main.

For the more senior students there is a tea to which they and their parents are invited. The purpose of this to welcome them to the school, to meet their area heads, the senior staff of the school and to provide them with an overview of the kinds of extracurricula programmes offered.

New staff were formally welcomed to the school by Shirley Harding and the chairman of the Governing Body, Dr Shortall, at a cocktail party held especially for them on the first Friday of the term.

Whatever form this welcome usually takes, it is generally a wonderfully relaxed evening where the governing body members, staff and their partners can meet each other. Shirley Cartmel, tuckshop convener and superb caterer for numerous functions thoughout the year, provided the snacks to ease us into our weekend. Groups of people gathered to laugh, to chat and to celebrate new beginnings. Thus began another academic year which promises to be a great one at Wynberg.

        

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