Unfortunately, Mr John Richardson has had to take sick leave to have a back operation and we thank Mrs M Lloyd and Mr J Knipe for helping out and covering his classes. Both are very experienced teachers. Mrs Harding has been able to take his Grade Twelve Computer classes so they will be well prepared for their May examinations when Mr Richardson is due back.

The Home Economics Room has been refitted and the girls are delighted with their modern classroom! They surprised the staff with a special tea to show their appreciation. This was the spread and the little gifts at just one of the tables.

Just one of the tables revealing
the extraordinary generosity and thoughtfulness of our girls

Another busy term draws to a close and we have managed to fit many activities into a few short weeks. The highlight of the term is undoubtedly the Arts Festival when all the talent at Wynberg is on display.

Our hockey girls are keeping the flag flying high in Australia and are gaining enormous experience from the tour.

During the course of the term our new Governing Body was elected and is as follows:

Please diarise the first Parent Teacher Discussions which take place on Tuesday, 16 April from 17:30 to 19:30. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your daughter's teachers, if you have not already done so, and to discuss her progress.

Please do not hesitate to contact the school with any queries you may have. Enjoy the holiday with your daughters and please travel safely.


P McEwen

Open Day

Open Day at Wynberg was held on Monday, 25 February and was a most successful and enjoyable occasion. Our school looked beautiful and was abuzz with people and a wide variety of activities.

We were delighted to welcome students from our feeder schools and especially our Junior School. Information talks were given in the hall by Mrs Harding at 15.15 and 17.30. These were preceded by a delightful collage of creative work presented by the Ballet, Art, Drama and Xhosa students. This was a new idea and proved to be a great success. Our thanks are extended to the staff and students who put it together at such short notice.

The various sporting activities were a great attraction. The Interhouse Water Polo Match was fought out in the pool, while Tennis, Cricket and Volleyball matches were played on the respective fields and courts, revealing just something of the range of sport offered at Wynberg.
Once again, the work that is produced by our Art Students left our visitors amazed as they looked, admired and commented on the work that was on display around the school.

Our visitors were entertained by the Roman Banquet, French Tea, Debating Society, Yoga and Xhosa Society dancers. They were encouraged to witness some of the improvisation and workshopping that regularly happen in Ms Glover’s Drama classes. The tours also included visits to our beautiful and well-equipped computer rooms, the various laboratories and the library. Posters promoting some of the clubs and societies were on display in the foyer of the hall and gave a taste of the wide range of activities available here. Our thanks also to Mrs Cartmel for the tea and provisions at the tuckshop, and to her helpers.

All in all, the Open Day was a wonderful opportunity to show off what makes our school so special.

I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to a most successful occasion.

J McCallum

Grade Elevens prepare to launch their balloon

Launch day for the projects (25 March) brought with it greater success from the Grade Twelves. Monday proved to be a still day, and we watched with delight hot air balloons soared into the sky, and boats floated merrily upon the still waters of the swimming pool.. A detailed report of all of the experiments will follow next term.

D Jaaback

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Maynardville 2002

Our annual outing to Maynardville this year to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the Grade Eight setwork) was a wonderful experience, and we could not have chosen a more perfect evening to attend. Once again, about 250 girls came along. They all agreed that the 1960s setting for the play was innovative and great fun. They fully appreciated that Shakespeare is timeless and relevant to all age groups. Seeing such an outstanding performance will surely inspire the girls to go back to future productions.

T Lauff

King Lear

On Wednesday, 20 March a group of Matriculants, accompanied by Mrs Sparks, Mrs Kourie and Ms Thomson, attended a performance of King Lear at The Little Theatre in Cape Town. Produced by the UCT Drama Department, this tragedy is one of the Matric setwork books this year and in 2003. The performance was described as “most interesting” and prompted a number of thought provoking discussions in their lessons the next day. King Lear was played by a woman and his daughters by two men. Students who saw the production thought that the costumes did much to highlight some of the animal imagery so evident in Shakespeare’s poetry.

English Olympiad

On Tuesday, 5 March, several of our students sat a three-hour Poetry and Language examination in which they explored the theme of ‘Conflict and Reconciliation’. This was the 2002 Anglo-de Beers English Olympiad examination. An open book exam, it provides students with an opportunity to work on the basis of self-study and self-motivation. Its aims include encouraging students

• to take responsibility for their own learning
• to think creatively
• to see the relevance of what they study to themselves and to the world around them.

It is an examination that always provides students with an unusual opportunity to experience the English Language, its Literature and indeed, the cultural and social issues arising in and from it in a personal, creative way. This year was no exception. Our students reflected deeply on the language of power, prejudice and pejoration and responded to questions which demanded an ability to create and critique the prescribed work, a poetry anthology compiled especially for it, entitled The Land Will Heal. So it was that they were required to write dialogues, speeches or design brochures and pamphlets which revealed a critical understanding of the poetry that they had studied.

Last year, two of our girls won (amongst other prizes) scholarships, which cover their first year at University (in the course of their choice), and we eagerly await the results of this year’s examination.

P Orpen

A Cope

MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Choir

A choir workshop was held in the third week of term. The new members were all too soon awakened to the fact that singing in the choir is not all fun, but hard work too! Mrs Barwise was very pleased at the end of the workshop because she and her choir achieved what they set out to do: preparing the repertoire for the term’s performances for functions such as Open Day, Sans Souci Choir Competition and the Arts Festival.

On 19 March, our choir performed at the Sans Souci Choir Competition. Although the presence of an adjudicator made the girls somewhat anxious, once Mrs Barwise took her position, the choir responded as one woman might do under her expert guidance. The audience appreciated the performance and responded very warmly.

Special thanks go to Ms Franke on the flute, and Emma Brink on the saxophone, who added that extra special colour to the song ‘My Heart belongs to Daddy’.

Vocal Ensemble

A few members showed interest in forming a smaller vocal a capella ensemble. We were absolutely delighted when they were able to give a public performance on 1 March for Women’s World Day of Prayer. The song they sang complemented and reflected this year’s theme, ‘Challenged to Reconcile’.

They are to be commended on their beautiful singing

Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble And Marimba Band

The Music Department accepted an invitation from the Kirstenbosch Branch of the Botanical Society of South Africa for the Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble and Marimba Band to perform at the Plant Sale on two consecutive days, Saturday 16 March and Sunday 17 March. Our appreciation is extended to Mrs J Inglesby and her team for organizing the transporting of the keyboard, the six Marimbas and ten stands to and from Kirstenbosch for this occasion.

The musicians are to be commended for arriving early and staying afterwards to assist with the setting up and packing away of our performance gear. We should also like to extend our gratitude to those willing pupils from Wynberg Boys’, SACS and Groote Schuur who helped to move the keyboard for us.

The weather was very hot but perfect on both days. Saturday’s performance started off rather haphazardly with the Orchestra competing with a generator close-by. Unfortunately, this made it extremely difficult for them to hear each other properly. Although distracted initially by the people milling about, by the end of their performance they were playing admirably. However, it was the Jazz Ensemble and the Marimba Band that drew the crowds closer on Saturday. On Sunday the performance went off without any major hitch, with the Orchestra lifting their level of performance and proving that they too could draw in the crowds. Our commendation is extended to all of those who participated.

Feedback from the audiences was very positive. A couple of people did however want to see the girls in the Marimba Band loosen up a bit more - the way Bongi does when she plays! So girls, take your lead from her, and let’s see what you can do for the Arts Festival!

The Marimba Players delight audiences at Kirstenbosch

Assemblies

So it was that on Friday 15 February approximately one hundred and fifty Grade Nines were able to learn something about rhythm and dance in a practical workshop held by Vusi Ngema and drummer, Themba Pondo. In this practical workshop, they learnt a blend of Zulu, Xhosa, Venda and Shangaan dancing, something about the performing arts and a little about language, culture and communities.  Vusi is an inspired teacher,

and he bowled them over. Within an hour, he had all of the Grade Nine pupils (and their teachers) dancing, singing in harmony and clapping out rhythms in ways that they didn't believe they had in them. And he had them begging for more. On Tuesday 19 March, the school was witness to a number of performances by various dance groups from both within the school and outside – these included a range in forms from tap, to a blend of Brazilian and African dance to Modern. All were received by a most appreciative audience.

Perhaps appropriately so, a significant occasion for which the Dance Department has been preparing has been Arts Festival on 27 March. The Grade Tens, with the help of GAP student Natalie, are working on something they enjoy!!!! The Grade Elevens are working on two routines. One of them is called ‘And we’re dancing’ - choreographed by Leigh Kindo, Kirsten Klein and Leigh-Ann Smith. The second item has no particular theme, but the girls explore their choreographic skills in a more up-beat (rather than classical) style of dance. The Grade Twelves are preparing a demonstration of barre work used to warm the body and render the muscles soft and pliable for more demanding work that follows, and a short excerpt of 'Feelings', dedicated to Miss Glover, who asked the girls to choreograph something to a piece of music she loves. The third item which they have been working on is something chewy, cheeky and zappy – also a piece choreographed by themselves with a few tips from their teacher!

C Shapiro

Vusi gets the Grade Nines going in an African Dance Workshop

TS Eliot’s Cats on the prowl
in preparation of the Arts Festival

We worked under a bit of pressure to come up with a promotional programme to present on our Open Day. We are extremely proud of the girls who so willingly gave up their breaks to rehearse and put it all together at extremely short notice. The response from those visitors to the school who saw the show was very complimentary, and we plan to improve, refine and extend the repertoire in order to promote Wynberg Girls’ High as a school that recognizes the value of, and places great emphasis on, Arts and Culture.

All of the elements so thoroughly enjoyed in the movie of Grease have been retained, but not surprisingly, with the Boys and the Girls’ school production, a couple of unique aspects have been included. It is being directed by Mr John Baxter, a teacher at Wynberg Boys’ High School, who has directed many successful plays over the years.

The play appeals to all age groups from young children to grandparents. Each person of the one hundred-member cast has an important role in the production of Grease. The show starts on 5 May and runs throughout the week, with matinee performances on Friday and Saturday. We encourage everyone to come and support the Girls’ and Boys' schools.
To find out more about it, read what the Boys’ School has put onto their website at www.wbhs.org.za ”

The Drama Department has had a busy and exciting start to the new year and we look forward to providing good entertainment for you throughout the year!!!

P Glover

Cast members involved the audience by creeping in during the interval and interacting with us. During one song, one of the cats pulled a man out of his seat and sat down to enjoy the show! Later he was seen rifling through someone’s bag! Our grateful thanks are extended to Ms Shapiro for organizing this evening for us. It was an absolute treat!

L Gardner

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING

Once again this term of Debating has proved to be a busy one. We have entered both our Junior and Senior teams in the Rotary League Competition. This year an added "catch" has been introduced into the World Schools’ Style of Debating in that the senior teams are only informed an hour before the time as to whether they will have to propose or oppose the given topic.

On Monday 18 March, our teams participated in the first round against the German School. Our Junior team - Catherine Cameron-Dow, Cathy Gill and Sheree Lang - narrowly lost the debate. The Adjudicator mentioned that it had been a close decision, as the debate was of an exceptionally high standard. Our senior team - Aaliyah Ameer, Christina Blom and Kelli Futter - was given the task of opposing the highly controversial topic of active euthanasia being introduced in South Africa, and was awarded the debate as well as the Best Speaker award.

K Futter

WYNBERG STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN HIGH SCHOOL PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION.

Nikki Aspeling and Christina Blom, both Grade Eleven students, represented Wynberg Girls' High School in a High School Public Speaking competition, organized by the SA Guild of Speech and Drama Teachers. Required to prepare a speech on Ecology and Economy, these girls acquitted themselves very well in the competition and were superb ambassadors for the school.

P Orpen

D Jaaback

CHESS CLUB

Many enthusiastic Grade Eights joined the chess club this term, and it seems that we will have enough players to make up two full teams for the league chess matches next term. These girls are very committed to the game and meet every Thursday from 15:00 – 16:00. Even though games are played in a relaxed and informal environment during the first term, a strict record is kept of games won or lost.

On one of the occasions we invited the Wynberg Boys’ High to join us and were not disappointed by their willingness to teach us some of the skills that they have learnt. During the second and third terms we invariably play more serious league matches. We look forward to testing what we have learnt on the Wynberg Boys, who will be our first opponents next term.

E Lith

PRAYER GROUP: MOTHERS WHO CARE

Mothers Who Care consists of a small group of Christian mothers who believe in the power of prayer. Their primary objective is to provide prayer support for the learners and educators at Wynberg Girls' High School. They believe in God’s ability and willingness to help and bless. They can be called upon in confidence at any time for emotional, spiritual or practical support.

The group, led by Mrs Sally Johnson, meets at school on a Thursday from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. At present, prayer requests are placed in a box in the staff room. The prayer items, which may be written anonymously, are treated in the strictest confidence. Urgent requests are conveyed to the members of the prayer group by telephone.

Any mothers, grandmothers or guardians who feel called to be part of this ministry are welcome to contact Mrs Smith at school. Any learners or parents who have prayer requests are also welcome to hand these in at the office in a sealed envelope addressed to “The Mothers’ Prayer Group”.   

A Smith

REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF LEARNERS (RCL)

Not many people would think of turning to a cuddly, yellow bear and his bashful pig-friend for the key to running a successful organisation, and it was for this reason that the RCL members were slightly bewildered when Mrs Harding first brought the following quote to our attention:   

"Where are we going?" asked Piglet
"Nowhere" said Pooh

So they all started going.

Childish nonsense? Perhaps, and not exactly the map to success. Yet when Pooh and Piglet's conversation is considered, it reveals an important lesson: without a destination in mind, one will get nowhere. It is vital that we have goals to work towards. It was during a leadership seminar in February that the RCL was taught about the importance of setting realistic goals, and it was on Thursday that the RCL planned its very own "map to success".

After a session of brainstorming and discussions amongst the representatives (including our new Grade Eight representatives: Vhahangwele Masutha, Tarryn Saunders and Joanna O'Carrol) and our
liaison teacher Mr Burrell, we came up with the following goals:

• To provide peers with good and efficient representations
• To motivate our fellow learners into fostering a greater school spirit
• To improve the relations between the management teams within our school and the learners
• To create awareness about issues, such as eating disorders, that concern teenagers.

So we had our destination in mind, but how were we to get there?

Well, we decided that the best way to ensure a dynamic, efficient team was to distribute the duties of the council into various portfolios. Each portfolio had a certain duty such as Advertising, Surveys, Media and Sport and Cultural Awareness.

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Our next stop towards success was to gain an understanding of what our electorate wanted, as our main duty is to serve them. A survey, posing questions about their views of Wynberg Girls' High School was conducted, and the results brought to the attention of the "powers that be" who are currently taking them into consideration.

In an attempt to improve relations/communication between the RCL and our peers, suggestion boxes were placed in every in every homeroom and an RCL email address and web page should be up and running soon. The suggestion boxes have proved to be a HUGE success and the RCL as well as the staff have been made aware of issues that learners feel strongly about.

One such problem has resulted in the RCL’s finding an experimental solution for the using of cell phones. At the beginning of the year cell phones were banned at Wynberg owing to the abuse of this privilege. The RCL was inundated with complaints pertaining to this, and after many discussions with the staff members, cell phones are now allowed to be used during our second break.

Another issue that seemed to plague our fellow learners was the state of our school toilets. Suggestions ranged from wanting hairdryers and surgical gloves in each bathroom, to other less extravagant needs such as new paintings, locks and a full-length mirror. Consequently, the RCL have implemented a "Lekker Loos" campaign which will spring into action during the Easter holidays. Learners will hopefully be returning to brighter, more "user-friendly" toilets at the start of next term.

In an effort to interact and learn from our surrounding school's RCLs, Wynberg Girls' High School hosted a training day run by a youth development organisation called SPADES. Valuable lessons on how to achieve as a team as well as individuals were learnt, and after having to listen to a Mariah Carey hit song, we all know that "a hero lives inside our hearts". We also had the opportunity to put our artistic skills to the test by decorating an RCL flag and having to coin a motto that would relate to our peers. At the end seminar, we emerged a stronger team and our flag read: "RCL 2002 - Loud & Proud".

It is within the framework of the needs of our electorate, our own personal goals that we believe our success is contained. And it is our fervent hope to achieve those goals. However, for now our journey is far from over and as the new term approaches, the RCL will strive even harder to make every Wynberg girl heard.

P Maharaj

CAPE TOWN JUNIOR CITY COUNCIL


We are pleased to announce the election of the new Junior Councillors for 2002. The following girls will represent their grades:

Grade Ten – Jessica Rivieria and Gillian Lupton-Smith
Grade Eleven – Alex Butterfield and Sarah Ward

Our JTC representatives
Back, from left to right: Gillian and Jessica
Front, from left to right: Sarah and Alex

The new Junior City Council will be representative of schools across the Unicity and will be given assistance in the management of its affairs by the Cape Town Junior Chamber, which promotes leadership skills and ideals among young adults.

Junior City Council affairs will be controlled by an Executive Committee elected by Junior Councillors from Grade Eleven nominees, who have served at least one year on a Junior Council or equivalent youth organization committees.

The Executive Committee will elect the Junior Mayor and the Deputy Junior Mayor and various office bearers as provided for in the Constitution.

We have every confidence in our representatives and wish them a successful year in office. Congratulations once again.

J McCallum

M Wilding

In groups, the Grade Elevens reflect on Leadership

PREPARING AND EMPOWERING GRADE TENS

Their anticipations had reached "fever-pitch" by the time Monday morning arrived. Their concerns: the sleeping arrangements; the amount of free time; the food; the volume of work; the lack of TV, music and limited cell phone use. Their teacher's concerns: the punctuality of the buses; the safety of the girls; their well-being; the outcomes of the workshop; the menu...

The Grade Ten RCL members had negotiated the sleeping arrangements - they would organise it. The RCL would oversee the use of cell phones.... The Grade Ten RCL members had the assurance of the group that this was "a great group of Grade Tens. These girls would reveal their responsibility... their maturity... and their ability to have (good, clean, harmless...) fun."

And they did. They were superb.

Working hard during the one and a half hour lectures and workshops that had been organised for them by "Youth with a Vision" (part of the Pregnancy Help Centre), the Grade Tens focused on a range of topics concerning Sexuality, Relationships, Pregnancy, Abortion, Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

The workshops provided girls with a safe forum in which
they could form their ideas

Rather than being prescriptive about these highly personal but deeply significant decisions in a young woman's life, the lecturers from the centre designed a course specifically for them. It was their intention to empower the person to make her own decisions from an educationally informed position. It is intended to liberate (from positions of helplessness, confusion and ignorance) and to strengthen by demanding that these issues are thought through personally and comprehensively.

These workshops and lectures were counter-balanced with games, a considerable amount of free time and recreational activities such as swimming and an obstacle course.

P Orpen

The Setting

CAPSTONE CAMP 2002

On 8 March, 2002, 88 campers from Wynberg Girls’ and Wynberg Boys’ High Schools arrived at Camp Faraway, Noordhoek, for the much-awaited annual Capstone Camp.

Sunset over Sun Valley in Noordhoek, taken from Chapman’s Peak

For the committees of both schools, it was the culmination of weeks of planning, hard work and dedicated prayer, while for the campers it was an experience they will never forget.

Our inspiring worship sessions, led by Aiden Wallis and Michael Mee, proved to be the highlight of the weekend, as God made His presence felt more than ever on the Saturday night, through the worship and speaker, Richard Berg. Richard was assisted in the Saturday morning sessions by Kevin and Mandy Liddle.

The theme of the camp was “The Amazing Race” and the talks, workshops and games were centred around the Christian life being likened to a race, including the prize, the ultimate destination, the obstacles and hindrances we face along the way and the preparation we need to make in order to succeed. Topics as diverse as relationships, prayer and eating disorders were discussed collectively, in separate gender groups and as smaller quiet time groups each morning.

The food was wonderful and the friendships built long lasting. It was not just a camp, but a life-changing experience and for this we are incredibly grateful to the worship team, the speakers, Mrs Hartmann and Miss Keel (the teachers in charge) and, most of all, to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who has shown us again and again that in Him all things are possible.

L Hartmann

The Mountain Club has been quite active this term.  All hikes have been in the Boland with an emphasis on river hikes with plenty of swimming.In February, Mr Bodenstein and Miss Glover took ten pupils up the Elands River in the du Toit’s Kloof Mountains. It was a day of boulder hopping and jumping into deep pristine pools. The girls returned sunburnt and tired, but ecstatic about their day in the wilderness.

The first overnight trail of the year was the Limietberg trail. Although the trail officially starts at the Hawaquas Forestry Station, we were dropped off at the top of du Toit’s Kloof Pass. This cut out most of the uphill for the day. We then hiked through to the Liemietberg hut in Happy Valley with a swimming stop at Junction Pool at lunchtime. Several of the girls were first-time hikers, but all coped well. The pool at the hut has a beautiful setting and was most welcome at the end of a hot day. Some were brave enough to jump off the center rock, but only when Mrs Wilding was out of sight. The following morning we hiked out to Bain’s Kloof Pass and headed home.

St Patrick’s Day was celebrated along the lower Palmiet River.  The pools here must be the largest series of pools in the Western Cape. Many are larger than our school pool. The water is soft and feels like silk on the skin. The GAP students, who came along, remarked how lucky we were to have such pristine rivers which are now unknown in England. The Kogelberg is a Biosphere Reserve with fynbos in excellent condition. Access numbers are restricted to preserve its integrity.  

L Johansson

1952 Matriculants

Wynberg Girls' High School came first in the Interschools Athletics meeting held at Green Point Stadium on 12 February. The day was long and tedious but we came back holding Wynberg's name high.

Special congratulations must go to the following girls who did very well, winning their races and making it to the second round of the Western Province Trials: Aimee du Toit, Tara Lee Morton, Kerry Stuart, Jade Bucklow, Danielle Kroezen, Jeanne van Rensburg, Daniella Visser.

TENNIS 2002

The Tennis season started off on a high note this year, because all of the teams – that is the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Grade Eight A and B teams - won their first match. Lots of new talents surfaced, especially in the Grade Eight teams, and throughout the season, skills have improved and been refined. Needless to say, our team spirit was something to be reckoned with.

On Saturday, 9 March the First and Second teams showed off their skills at the Senior Tennis Interschools matches. After an enjoyable morning we came third. The Grade Eight teams followed our lead on the 16 March, playing in the Junior Tennis Interschools, and did us proud by coming 2nd.

On Monday, 18 March, Interhouse Tennis was played. Waterloo convincingly beat Copenhagen in the finals.

It was an enjoyable, fun and successful season of tennis. Well done girls!

INTERSCHOOLS RESULTS

WATER POLO

As we end the 2001/2002 waterpolo season, we say farewell to our Matric players, some of whom have played the game since their first term in Grade Eight. Katharine Tromp has been a popular and well-respected captain, whilst Arendene Fourie has represented Western Province as a goalkeeper and has done a wonderful job coaching the junior players. We will miss their energy and enthusiasm for the game. Lauren Seaman, Kirsten Skidmore, Karen Greetham, Michaela Nevin, Bevin Reynolds, Lauren Kent and Sylvann de Robillard are Matric players who always gave of their best and enjoyed playing waterpolo.

The results of this term’s fixtures are as follows:   

The First Team was narrowly beaten in the play-offs for the Waller Cup semi-finals. We entered an under 14 team in the league for the first time and have a number of promising young players coming through. We also continued with the weekly social waterpolo squad. Well done to all the players for their part in a most enjoyable waterpolo season.

P Bodenstein, D Wray

Interhouse Waterpolo

The afternoon began with a bunch of enthusiastic girls entering the pool area dressed in their respective house colours. The matches began and as the competition deepened, the cheers and support grew and grew. By the end of the eventful afternoon, Waterloo walked away with the cup. Wellesley followed closely behind, with Apsley in third position and Copenhagen fourth.       

M Fourie

ROAD RUNNING REPORT

Road Running got off to a good start. The first couple of runs were very short distances - trying to build up fitness levels. The number of girls attending has increased dramatically. There is a large group of middle runners, who struggle to run long distances but are very enthusiastic. One of their favourite activities happens at the end of the run when they share a large bag of apples.

We have lots of visitor runners who arrive, run once and are never seen again. We also have people who arrive and stroll the route. We have now decided to accommodate them by starting a walking group next term!

CRICKET REPORT

Wynberg’s cricket team has had a successful season this year losing only two matches. Playing matches every Monday afternoon has certainly helped develop the batting, bowling and fielding skills. With Paula Chowles and Carolyn Jones as opening batswomen, Wynberg always had a good start to the innings. Playing on a relatively small pitch also helped them build up their tally of fours and sixes behind their names.

Carolyn Jones – the next
South African Cricketer from Wynberg?

Our bowling team lead by captain, Siphokazi Thobi, has played a major role in many victories. On more than one occasion, teams were bowled out within 10 overs for 30 runs.

Carolyn Jones leads the batters with an average of 45 runs, similar to that of Jacques Kallis, while Melissa February is the top bowler with an average of 4.3 per over, and a wicket every fourth over. Even Shaun Pollock would be proud of that.

M Edwards

We caught up with the touring team at the Airport

The 2002 Australian Hockey Tour Team

Showing its diversity in aquatics, we were also the only school to present a synchronized swimming demonstration.

Our synchonised swimmers open proceedings at PGSGU Gala

Opening the proceedings, selections from our “Zorro routine” were combined with Michaela and Lindsay Nevin’s “Mandosa duet” who, in their bright yellow costumes and African beads, brought the water itself to life.

Micheala and Lindsay in synchronised beauty

Well done to the following girls who were selected to represent Western Province at the annual SA High Schools Championships in Bloemfontein: Ashley Smith (u19) and Claire Coldrey (u14).

M Edwards

April  2002

May   

June

An aerial shot of our beautiful school

Thank you to all the girls who have so generously given of their time. I look forward to an exciting second term.

J Jordan

WATERLOO HOUSE

It was a fresh start for many this term - Waterloo House welcomed many new girls, and the very exciting birth of Mrs Cheney’s son, Justin.

The matrons and staff have put their hearts into the running of Waterloo this term - especially Mrs Grotjohn who took over many of the responsibilites of Mrs Cheney while she enjoys the opportunity to get to know her new baby. For the duration of Mrs Cheney’s maternity leave, Mrs Harding has been responsible for the hostel.

The term has gone by so quickly - it seems just minutes ago that bags were being unpacked and tentative "Hello's" were being made. Now, as bags are being repacked, names of friends echo down the passages, as a lost towel is found or a borrowed book is returned.

As the first term draws to a close, we are reminded that winter is approaching. It is guaranteed to be cold, so boarders are encouraged to bring warm clothes!                        

L Kent