Rustenburg Times

19 April

2013

Volume Two Issue One

Rustenburg High School for Girls, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch 7700

Tel: (021) 686-4066 / (021) 686-3683 / (021) 685-4710

Fax: (021) 686-7114; E-mail: info@rghs.org.za

Website: www.rghs.org.za

Rustenburg: a school of excellence where girls are leading courageously,

exploring their unique potential confidently and serving the world compassionately.

Multicultural magic makes a Monday magnificent!

Visual Arts and Design Seminar

Bell ringers Our School

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Debating Update Grade 11

Leadership Camp

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Professional photographer

shoots at RGHS

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Miss Brodie under the spotlight

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President’s Award School Magazine

Front Cover Request for

blankets

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Music Department news

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Marimba Festival at the Baxter

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Sports News 9—10

Piano Festival 12

Calendar

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Art Flash 11

5-a-side Soccer at UCT

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On 25 March 2013, the Grade Ten, Eleven and Twelve Visual Arts and Design learners were fortunate to be graced with the presence of five engaging speakers at this year’s Art and Design Seminar. Each speaker presented their work, ideas and experiences in a thought-provoking and individual way. Artist Andrew Putter kick started the seminar with his interesting exploration of the interaction and relationships between the Dutch and Khoi khoi youth of the 1600’s through his Sketch As-sembly collaborative project. Design Indaba co-ordinator Kelly Berman spoke eloquently about different designers work and the organising of the Expo. Photographer turned wallpaper designer Rob-in Sprong spoke about Lomo photography and how he applied the technique to developing his original design brand. After our most gratifying and scrumptious break, inspirational clothing designer Suzaan Heynes who had flown from Joburg to be with us, held everyone’s attention with her stunningly architectural garments made of sustainable cork. Thanks to Kezia, Jamie and Shana-Lee for so comfortably modelling these creations. T he seminar started on a good note and con-tinued to be interesting all the way through. Conceptual artist Ed Young ended the seminar with a bang. He was a most amusing and con-troversial speaker and despite it being the end

of a long day, there was not a person whose attention he did not have. The seminar was both extremely educational and enjoyable. No idea was repeated and there was something which appealed to each individ-ual. There is no way to describe how fortunate we are to attend a school such as ours with privileges such as this. We are extremely grate-ful to our devoted teachers for making it happen so successfully each year. Saaliha Jaffer, Grade 11

Visual Arts and Design Seminar

BELL RINGERS, TERM TWO 2013

The bellringers for this term are Jehaan Armien, Monique Hollis and

Ferial Najaar, all in D4. We thank them for their willingness to serve in this capacity and also extend our thanks to the bellringers of the first term, namely Amy Long,

Chelsea Christian and Monique Hollis (the latter assisting this term too).

Ms R Fourie

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Debating Update

Both our Senior and Junior teams lost their debates against Springfield. Although the Senior team (Robyn Fester, Tumelo Moloto and Nicola Cilliers) put forward some very good points in opposing the motion that: “This house would integrate men and women in sports teams”, their arguments re-quired more analysis and depth to convince the adjudicators. The Juniors (Raeesah Shaik, Jarita Kassen and Cynthia Augustine) also failed to back up their arguments in opposing the motion that: “This House supports a decline in nuclear pow-er”. The final debate in the Rotary League (round 5) will take place on Monday 06 May against

Cedar House (Seniors) and St Cyprians (Juniors). The Juniors will debate the motion: “This House would criminalise doping in sports”. In line with Round 4, the Seniors will receive their motion 60 minutes before the debate. We wish our Senior Team members: Nicola Cilliers (captain), Robyn Fester, Tumelo Moloto, Katherine Harris and Jarita Kassen, all the best on their participation in the National Girls Schools Festival from 25 to 28 April. RGHS came second in 2012 and this year’s team will be determined to uphold the high standard set by the school in this competition over the past years.

Rotary Round 4 versus Springfield on Monday 15 April

On Tuesday the 26th of March, the Grade 11s of 2013 set off on a highly anticipated leader-ship camp at Mizpah near Grabouw. We were all relieved to find we were staying in comforta-ble chalets and not tents like the many grade 11s before us. The Lead for Life leadership programme start-ed almost immediately on our arrival and we were divided up into teams, giving us all an op-portunity to work with girls we hadn’t worked with before. The next two action-packed days were filled with many team-building exercises such as ca-noe building, obstacle courses and solving vari-

ous puzzles, all of which tested our leadership skills and pushed us out of our comfort zones. We also received advice and wisdom from two motivational speakers, and after a long and tir-ing day of activities, we enjoyed a wonderful walk up to a nearby river where we were all able to cool off and spend some time with our peers. Over all, the Grade 11 leadership camp was a wonderful learning and bonding experience, as well as a lot of fun for all the girls that attended, thanks to the excellent leaders and teachers. Emma du Toit, D1

Grade 11 Leadership Camp

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Professional photographer Ms Kristina Stojiljkovic, spent 9 April on the campus of Rus-tenburg High School for Girls shooting various portraits which will be used for the 2013 school magazine, press releases and the official school archives. Editor of the Rustenburg school magazine, Mr Adrian Skelly, has worked with Ms Stojiljkovic before on the Miss South Africa pageants for Sun International in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. “Kristina is always my first choice when it comes to looking for a photographer with an expert eye,” he explained. “She enjoys concep-tualising and working to a brief. Kristina is particularly adept at understanding the needs of the client. In this case, we wanted portraits which showed the sitters as warm, ap-proachable and friendly.” Ms Stojiljkovic has previously completed photo-graphic work for Rustenburg High School for Girls. She has taken several of the official por-traits of school management in prior years and, in 2011, shot the successful wraparound front cover image, featuring six Rustenburg school-girls, of the school magazine. The creative theme upon which the 2013 school magazine is being based is the five Rus-tenburg house colours: Marchand (yellow),

Michiel Vos (red), Innes (blue), Cambridge (green) and Bleby (pink). Mr Skelly said that the inspiration for this came from watching the festivities and cheer of the Inter-house Gala on 1 February when these five bold colours clashed in the outfits worn by the girls. The system, according to which girls of the school are assigned houses, is also being reconsidered. The school leaders (Ms Bekker, Ms Schnetler, Ms Blackshaw, Mr Broster), the Chairman of the School Governing Body (Mr Abdoll), the Su-perintendent of Erinville (Ms van Dyk) and the Grade Heads (Ms Kleynhans, Ms Wallace, Ms Gardiner, Ms Pretorius and Ms Swanson) were all briefed well beforehand and asked to wear the bold colours of one or more of Rustenburg’s houses. Ms Stijiljkovic complemented their chosen out-fits by looking for backdrops on the school grounds which naturally also revealed the bold houses colours. Also photographed on the day were the Head-girl (Kate Vlok), the Headgirl of Erinville (Robyn Paterson), the Head of the RCL (Joycelyn Fos-ter), the Pupil Editor of the school magazine (Tamsin Metelerkamp) and the 2013 school magazine front cover artist (Kiana Neethling). Ms van Dyk, the Superintendent of Erinville, made a particularly sentimental effort in prepar-ing for her official portrait. She chose to wear pink and was photographed against a burst of pink blooms. Ms van Dyk said that the Erinville girls would appreciate the meaning of this ges-ture. Originally pink was the colour assigned to those girls who lived in the boarding house. To-gether they still sing the lyrics of “We all live in the Pink Boarding House” at each Inter-house Gala. Mr A Skelly

Professional photographer shoots at Rustenburg

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Miss Brodie has her portrait printed

Rustenburg High School for Girls originally presented “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark) in 1996. Now, 17 years later, the school is again rehearsing to take this same production to its Kemp Hall stage. “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” will run from 13 – 17 Au-gust. The plot is about a flamboyant and eccentric History teacher, Miss Jean Brodie, who is a staff member at a staunchly conservative ficti-tious girls’ school, Marcia Blaine. The character of the male Art teacher, Mr Teddy Lloyd, is ab-solutely infatuated with Miss Brodie. No matter whose portrait he paints, the end result always bears a striking resemblance to Miss Brodie. This angers and frustrates schoolgirl Sandy, who eventually plots her once beloved teach-er’s demise. The role of Miss Jean Brodie is being played by Robyn Paterson (Grade 12). Sandy is being played by Morgan Shelly (Grade 11). Their love interest, Mr Teddy Lloyd, is being played by Ed-ward Bester of Rondebosch Boys’ High School. The numerous painted portraits, all bearing a striking resemblance to Miss Brodie, are there-fore pivotal to an understanding and apprecia-tion of the plot. The fact that Mr Lloyd is unable to paint her is what motivates Sandy to betray Miss Brodie. Director and Head of the Dramatic arts De-partment, Mr Adrian Skelly, decided to ap-

proach various talented former Visual Arts learners of Rustenburg. These recent artistic ‘Old Girls’ of the school were excited when they heard about the project and tackled the brief with enthusiasm. The portraits were all based on a photograph of Robyn Paterson dressed in one of her Miss Brodie costumes. Julia Kabat (Matric 2011) presented a deliber-ately distorted portrait of Miss Brodie. Her inten-tion was to try and capture some of the infuria-tion and passion which Mr Lloyd may have felt towards his subject. Julia is currently a Fine Arts student at Michaelis, UCT. Hannah Mac-Millan (Matric 2011) adopted an altogether dif-ferent approach. Her Miss Brodie is poised, with marble-like skin, but crowned with a mop of flaming hair to suggest Miss Brodie’s powerful presence. Mieke Loubser (Matric 2012), who was study-ing Fine Art at the University of Stellenbosch, offered a dark, brooding and enigmatic Miss Brodie. In Mieke’s interpretation Miss Brodie appears troubled and haunted. The Miss Brodie portrait collection also in-cludes a painting submitted by a current pupil of Rustenburg High school for Girls. Ursula Hardie (Grade 10) rendered a photo-realism take on the subject. The cast of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” have been rehearsing for 11 hours each week and are excited to show the results of their ef-forts in the third term this year.

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General news and information

PRESIDENT’S AWARD Congratulations to the latest batch of recipients of the President’s Award Bronze level. They are Megan Denny, Kauthar Salie, Megan Frost, Chelsea Gibson & Lauren Wilson. This group have participated in a variety of community services from food distribution, playing in the orchestra, teaching Sunday school, helping at Lerato’s Hope food drives and voluntary work with animals at Tears. They have acquired skills in cooking, knitting and playing musical instru-ments . Their participation in various school sports fulfilled their Physical Recreation require-ments. All the girls have done some interesting and strenuous hikes in areas such as Porterville, Greyton , Fernkloof in Hermanus and Table Mountain. Congratulations to these girls! Remember to enrol for the Silver level now. It costs R230 to register at the Bronze level and anyone interest-ed in this internationally recognized programme can get forms from Ms Ryan

Kiana Neethling designs cover

for 2013 School Magazine Kiana Neethling’s illustra-tion for the front cover of the 2013 school magazine took her about three weeks to complete, largely be-cause of the technique and medium within which she worked. Stippling is the cre-ation of shadows and filling of negative space using thousands and thousands of dots. Kiana, who studies Visual Arts with Ms Jackie Cham-bers, says that drawing the academic gown was the most challenging as its many creases and folds required pains-taking attention. She feels that the image represented Rustenburg well because, especially with the addition of the colours of each of the five houses, it “pops” and con-veys vibrancy and happiness. The original drawing was in black and white. Kiana is flattered that her artwork is also being used as a basis for the internal cover pages of this magazine. Kiana finds it difficult to sum up her own artistic style be-cause, she says, she prefers to experiment and explore with different approaches. This, she believes, is what sup-ports the growth and development of art.

REQUEST FOR BLANKETS

Please give a little warmth this winter by donating a blanket for those in

desperate need. You may drop them off in Ms

burchell's lab until the 15 May. The blankets will then be distributed

to the residents of Masiphumelele.

Thank you for your support. Samantha Culligan D3

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Music Department news

FRANSCHHOEK CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP APRIL 2013

It was the 23rd annual Chamber Music Work-shop this year and four Rustenburg musicians were fortunate enough to have successfully au-ditioned for the week-long series: Kirsten Bu-chanan (violin), Stéphanie Lawrenson (violin), Samantha Ma (clarinet) and Nicola McLachlan (cello). All the players were split into groups at the Workshop and given music to rehearse, cul-minating in two concerts at which these works were then performed. The participants learned a great deal and returned home greatly inspired and ready to attend the next year’s course. Stéphanie Lawrenson, C1

JS BACH ST MATTHEW PASSION Congratulations and thanks to the members of the Chamber Choir who performed in Part I of JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Bishops Chapel on Good Friday. Conductor, Dr Barry Smith had this to say: `Thank you for the choir’s contribution to the success of last night’s performance – without your and their help it would have been impossible to perform the work as the ripieno choir is essential to Bach’s huge musical concept.’ (Worth noting, Peter Sellars, one of the Rolex Mentors who was a participant (along with author Wole Soy-inka and William Kentridge) in the recent Rolex Mentors and Proteges’ programme at the Bax-ter Theatre has directed a stage version of this work with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Phil-harmonic, which has been nominated for a BBC 2013 DVD award.)

4th PIANO FESTIVAL AT RGHS The Britten/Lutoslawski/SA Composer Piano Festival will take place on MONDAY 22 APRIL starting at 19:30 in Charlie’s Hope. ROUZAN-NA COXSON and CAITLIN GRȕNING are the two RGHS pianists that are performing with JOYCELYN FOSTER (assisted by CORNE GRȕNING) reading a poem by AG Visser based on a work that Caitlin is playing by SA compos-er, Peter Klatzow. Other pianists include Roelof Temmingh, the star pianist from Paul Roos, as well as our two already well-known Rustenburg Old Girls, Coila Enderstein and Yohan Chun, who are currently studying piano performance at UCT. Professor Emeritus, Peter Klatzow from UCT is the guest speaker. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from the front office at R20 scholars and R60 adults. This will be a night to remember.

See poster on page 11

CAPE TOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL 2013 Well done to PEARL JUNG (cello) who per-formed with three other players from the CPYO with the group Trenton and Free Radicals at the Cape Town Jazz Festival this year. She said `it was amazing!’

CHAMBER CHOIR We are pleased to announce the new mem-bers that have been accepted into the Cham-ber Choir as from this term: SOPRANO I: Robyn McKechnie, A3, Sesuthu Mdlungu, A3 SOPRANO II: Zarah Mitchell, C5 ALTO: Nicola McLachlan, B4 I mke Műhr, A4 There is still one vacancy in Soprano I – please contact Ms Sole if you are interested. You need already to be a member of the Gen-eral Choir.

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Cape Town Marimba Festival 2013, Baxter Theatre Congratulations to the members of Savuyisa Senior who performed in the Marimba Festival at the Baxter Theatre on Friday 12 April. It was a most successful event and our Savuyisa Senior performers (left to right in photograph): Joo-Young Kim, Grant Adams (director), Olivia Benetton, Robyn Paterson, Amy Hand, Jamie Masters, Kirsty Schlemmer, Rebecca Norris and Corne Odendal showed their skill in their individual and ensemble performances. Special thanks to their director, Grant Adams.

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Sports News

In the most recent edition of the RGHS newsletter, Anchor Insurance Brokers were incor-rectly listed as the sponsor for the First Team Water-polo swimming costume. It was in fact Anchor Steel Works who generously sponsored the costumes, and we apologise un-reservedly for the mix up and would like to thank them for their kind contribution to the sporting excellence of Rustenburg High School for Girls. There is no such company as Anchor Insurance Brokers in South Africa.

De Kuilen Netball Tournament Rustenburg’s u19A, u16A, u15A and u14A Netball teams participated in the annual De Kuilen Netball Tournament on Saturday 13 April 2013. The teams played their first matches of the season and had great fun. They played strong opposition and gain a lot from their matches. Thank you to the players, coaches and par-ents who came out to support the teams. We look forward to a great season ahead. U19 A vs. Paarl Gimnasium lost 10-13 U19A vs. Paarl Gimnasium won 13-1 U16A vs. De Kuilen won 19-2 U16A vs. Bloemhof lost 7-10 U15A vs. Bloemhof lost 4-15 U15A vs. Paarl Gimnasium lost 13-0 U14A vs. Paarl Gimnasium lost 2-25 U14A vs. De Kuilen won 7-5

SUMMER SPORTS COLOURS

HALF COLOURS

Cricket: Megan Denny

Indoor Hockey: Gretchin Davids, Kelsey Pike Swimming: Rebecca Haines, Tiana Hansraj, Caitlin Truter, Chelsea van Rensburg Touch Rugby: Moerieda Daniels Water Polo: Rebecca Parsons

FULL COLOURS Indoor Hockey: Haidee Davis, Lyndsay Llewellyn, Natalie Luyt, Jaime Maher, Candice-Lee Uys Swimming: Kristin Bellingan

CROSS COUNTRY FIXTURES: Term 2 Races take place on Wednesday afternoons, with the first event starting at 4pm. Wednesday 24 April: Elfindale, Heathfield Wednesday 8 May: Jan van Riebeeck Friday 17 May: SACS Wednesday 22 May: Tableview

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS Wednesday 10 April – race hosted at WBHS U14 Bianca Rijkmans (3rd) Eden Paarwater (5th) Jade Smith (19th)

U15 Ashleigh Simonis (5th)

U16 Tamsin Metelerkamp (8th) Kathleen Holcroft (9th)

U17 Sarah Donde (6th)

U19 Kristy Lanser (6th) Congratulations to our cross country runners. We would ideally like to see many more of our sports girls participating in these events.

Congratulations to CASSANDRA ERASMUS who participated in the Western Province Open Squash Tournament this past weekend. She won the u14 age group and came 3rd in the u16 age group. She will participate in the SA National Squash Tournament this coming weekend in Cape Town.

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Sports News

SA NIPPERS SURF LIFESAVING CHAMPIONSHIPS ADDINGTON BEACH DURBAN

Two Rustenburg learners participated in the SA Lifesaving championships and were mem-bers of the winning Western Province team Their individual results were:

CAYLAN BROMLEY Representing WP: Surf Swim (4th); Malibu Board (2nd); Taplin Relay (3rd)

Representing Club DHL Clifton: Surf Swim (4th) Iron nippers (5th) Malibu Board (5th)

NOSIPHO ABRAMS Representing WP (U14): Flags girls (1st) Beach Sprints (2nd) Malibu Board (3rd)

SWIMMING: NATIONAL LEVEL 1

TIANA HANSRAJ (Age 15/16) participated in the National Level 1 swimming gala which took place in Oudtshoorn during the April holidays. Her results were as follows: 50m Butterfly GOLD MEDAL 100m Butterfly SILVER MEDAL 50m Back BRONZE MEDAL

TWO OCEANS RESULTS The Rustenburg Staff continues to impress and set a great example in successfully com-pleting their races: Mrs Mallon completed her 13th Ultra Two

Oceans marathon: 6.04.29 Ms Fourie completed her 14th Two

Oceans Half Marathon 2.15.29 Mr Siebrits completed his 8th Two Oceans

half marathon 2.30.04

NATASHA VAN GREUNEN Natasha represented Western Province in the SA Grommet Games in Port Elizabeth from 27 March - 31 March. Nata-sha surfed through her heats, in the semi final she placed first and a 16,5 out of a possible 20 points in this heat .The finals were surfed in terrible on-shore, rainy conditions where she achieved a fourth place overall. Natasha participated in two other disciplines, namely the ‘paddle battle’ and the ‘flag battle’. She won the overall paddle battle and the u14 girls flag battle.Western Province won trophies for total surf, the spirit cup and the overall points. Natasha has also been selected to be part of Surfing South Africa 2013/2014 surfing acade-my. She has also been chosen to represent Western Province in the SA Longboard Surfing Champs (u16) to be held at the end of April.

EMMA SWART Emma is a member of Team Silhouette, who are the current Novice National Synchronized Ice Skating Champions. They represented South Africa at The trophy De Ecosse in Dum-fies Scotland from 11 -18 March 2013. The team placed 3rd in this competition. The team are now in training for the SA National competi-tion, which takes place in May.

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Art Flash … The Grade Nine art girls had to

create a painted strip which repre-sents the rhythm/beat of a particu-

lar piece of music that they lis-tened to during a lesson. This

piece of music had to be visually represented through the repetition of various formal elements – line,

shape and colour.

Amber Thorndike

Amy Long

So-Hyeon Park

Mikera Bassuday

Laila Korowlay

Kelly Bang

Jessica Slater

Jessica Slater

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BRITTEN/LUTOSLAWSKI SA COMPOSER

Guest Composer: Prof.Peter Klatzow

PIANO FESTIVAL

Monday 22 April 2013

19:30

Charlie’s Hope RGHS

Tickets: R60 (Adults) R20 (Scholars)

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Calendar

TERM 2: APRIL 2013 Saturday 20 RGHS Indoor Soccer Tournament @ UCT 14:00 – 20:00

Sunday 21 Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall)

Monday 22 Piano Festival 19:30 (Charlie’s Hope)

Tuesday 23 Grade 8 Parent-Teacher Interviews (Kemp Hall) 17:30 – 20:00

Wednesday 24 Gr 11 manifestos to be completed on school network

Thursday 25 National Girls’ Schools’ Festival, Johannesburg (debating, tennis, hockey, netball)

Friday 26 National Girls’ Schools’ Festival, Johannesburg Boarders weekend out

Saturday 27 PUBLIC HOLIDAY: Freedom Day National Girls’ Schools’ Festival, Johannesburg Boarders weekend out

Sunday 28 National Girls’ Schools’ Festival, Johannesburg Boarders weekend out

Tuesday 30 SGB Meeting (Media Centre) 17:30

TERM 2: MAY 2013 Wednesday 01 PUBLIC HOLIDAY: Workers’ Day

Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall)

Thursday 02 Gr 11 manifestos distributed by form teacher for checking and signing Jabulani Evening dress rehearsal Combined Choral rehearsal for African Sanctus (with RBHS+SACS) @ RBHS 18:30 – 21:30

Friday 03 Blood Donor Clinic Gr 11 manifestos returned to form teacher Jabulani Evening

Sunday 05 Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall)

Monday 06 Senior Music Performance Spotlight (Kemp Hall) 19:00 – 21:15

Wednesday 08 Music Practical examinations commence

Thursday 09 Junior Music Performance Spotlight (Kemp Hall) 19:00 – 21:15

Friday 10 Sub-Prefect manifestos go on display

Sunday 12 Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall)

Monday 13 Combined Choral rehearsal for African Sanctus (with RBHS+SACS) @ SACS 18:30 – 21:30 ROGU Committee Meeting 20:00

Tuesday 14 Second round of SAMF Mathematics Olympiad

Thursday 16 Assembly: Voting for Sub-Prefects

Friday 17 Examinations commence