KES Newsletter March 2011 - King Edward VII School

Medals (2010)Grade 10 :Grade 9 :Grade 8 :Top 10Grade 11 :Grade 10 :Grade 9 :Grade 8 :H D NaranV Y Coopoo, L May, J D Pretorius, L C Sargeant, S Sive and A Wadee.A A Abader, S A Baxter, J E Fourie and T Tsang.M R Bheeka, L D Zambetti, N P Tickle, R May, M J Heming, K Setshogoe, B Wessels,J J M McWha, J J Brown and E B Ka Makhaya.H D Naran, S J Rodrigo, S Gqibani, R C Grieves, E E Ohonba, A J Monahan, R Patel,T E Braithwaite, S N Sacoor and E D M Phera.V Y Coopoo, A Wadee, J D Pretorius, L May, S Sive, L C Sargeant, Y Akhalwaya, J Tuohy,D J Braithwaite and P K Ngulube.S M Baxter, J Fourie, T Tsang, A A Abader, D Nizetich, C W van Vuuren, H J van Jaarsveldt,R H Raad, V Govender and P K Makgobola.St J Hunter and M Sherrif were honoured at a recent GDE function for being among the top Matriculants inGauteng in the 2010 final exams.The Chess ‘A’ team was placed 3 rd in the 5-A-Side Tournament held at Parktown Boys’ High. M Bheeka,D Lee, N Burke, D Nizetich and St J Hunter were awarded a Certificate of Merit and a medal by the GautengSouth Chess Association. D Nizetich also won the trophy for best U16 player.T Marot has been elected the Johannesburg Student Council Mayor for 2011/2012Y Kalonji and M Dale have been elected as the new Johannesburg Junior Council representatives for2011/2012.The RCL Chairman for 2011 is K Setshogoe. The RCL members on the SGB are S Johnstone, K Setshogoe andK Grant-Smith.A Wadee and L Phatudi won the 1 st Moot Court final competition held in the Constitutional Court bytechnically beating 36 Schools and becoming the National Champions.Unfortunately the Dramatic production has been postponed to Term 2. This became necessary due toheavy commitments this term.The annual History General Knowledge Quiz was held on Tuesday and was well supported. M Jenner wonthe Junior Section and K Sonqishe won the Senior Section. Mr P du Plooy was the Staff winner,Mr C MacRoberts won the Old Boys’ section and Mr Cripwell was the winning parent.The first Blood Drive of the year netted 114 units.A number of Public Speaking events have yielded some very good results for the teams. D Phatudi won awell deserved A+ and high praise in the Elite Individual CompetitionR Gonsalves has been selected for the S A Junior World Cup training squad.J Stigant and R Raven will compete at the S A level 3 National Age Group Swimming Champs in Durban.D de Goede has been selected for the S A Triathlon Champs.E Despotakis has been chosen to play in an international football tournament in SpainP Neame has been selected for the SAICF squad at the 2011 Indoor Cricket Tournament to be held in NewZealand.C Ellis was selected to attend an U16 Baseball training camp in Cape Town.The 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd Cricket teams were all successful in winning their respective Johnny Waite Knockoutfinals.Water Polo provincial selections:U19A : A Watt-Pringle, D Mason and G Orchard - each came home with gold medalsU19B: A McKiverganU16A: M Marx, R McKenzie, M Watt-Pringle and C Brockschmidt.U16B: T Moloi. All U16 boys received gold medals.U15A: R Wise returned with a silver medal .The following athletes were selected to compete in the Gauteng Schools Athletics Champs:N Mbokazi, T Phukubye, T Motene, K Wright, S Shabalala, S Mayekiso, B Janse van Rensburg,T Matea,L Pooe, C Lourens, K Makhesha, M Nhlapo, B Naude and K Maphathe. N Mbokazi, T Phukubye andS Mayekiso will represent Gauteng at the National Schools Athletics Champs.