Rustenburg Times

03 September 2010

Volume Three Issue Four

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.

Inside this issue:

Mathematics news

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United Nations Debate

Grade 8 Leadership Programme

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Art Dept News

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Life Orientation News

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Music News

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Sports News 8

Habitat Show 9

Art Flash

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Forthcoming Events

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Personality of the Month

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Bugs on the run: Don Lock Run 2010

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UCT Mathematics Day The UCT Mathematics Day is an annual activity for Grade 10 and 11 Mathematics learners and their teachers. Alexa Bessinger and Mrs Cameron attended the event last Saturday afternoon . “A number of culturally and economically di-verse high school pupils throughout Cape town participated in the Maths afternoon. Many mathe-matical concepts, such as statistics and the appli-cation of algebraic equations, were covered. We even related the shape of what used to be the Athlone cooling towers to a mathematical graph known as a hyperpola. I found it interesting meet-ing maths “boffs” from unlikely places. To top it all, we had doughnuts and coke provided for us.” Alexa Bessinger

Mathematics Department News

Harmony Gold Mathematics Olympiad

The Second Round of the 2010 National Har-mony Gold Mathematics Olympiad was written on 18 May. This is a very different difficulty level to Round One and only the very best (top 100 nationally) go through to the Third Round. It is also much harder to score a high percentage than in Round One as is seen by the ratings given to the most successful candidates. Lauren Denny (Grade 9) is to be congratulated on reaching the Third Round in the Junior section (to be written on 8 September) once again, having reached it last year as a Grade 8.

Other candidates to achieve a rating of “Good”: Juniors (“Good” means between 19% and 42%) Grade 8: Ji Yoon Kim ; Abigail Mallows and Anya Muhr Grade 9: Alex Nel ; Natalie Luyt and Haseena Solwa. Seniors ( “Good” means between 30% and 63%) Grade 10: Yohan Chun ; Ye Jin Hur and Hyun Joo Park. Grade 11: Karen Schuster and Nicola Steinhaus. Grade 12: Jennifer de Villiers ; Firdaus Khan ; Laurie Scarborough and Laura Skippers.

All the above achieved the honour of being placed in the top 103 in the Province.

Grade Ten Maths

Maxine Steyn

and Amy Scott

do Curve

Stitching

Mr Murison teaches Lauren Duckitt

Maths IS fun!

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Our debaters have had a very busy schedule this year and they are still at it. Ameerah Allie and Chelsea Kelly together with Adene Daniels and Phaphama Tsolekile of Oaklands High School will participate in the United Nations Debate on Sat-urday, 4 September. It is the first time that Rustenburg and a partner school will debate in this prestigious annual event. The four girls will be advocating the for-eign policy of Germany in the topic Balancing Na-tional Sovereignty and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’. They had to research Germany’s possible ap-proach to this topic and they also had to familiar-ize themselves with the procedure of an United Nations debate leading up to the tabling of an ac-tual Resolution that will be drawn up during an informal caucus.

The debate will take place in the Western Cape Legislature where a provincial winner will be chosen. In the final round a national winner will be selected. The national winning team together with one member of each provin-cial team will attend a session of the United Nations in New York. We wish the four girls all the best and would like to thank the Oaklands educa-tor, Mrs Wouters, for the able manner in which she assisted the team. Mrs Anita Pretorius Debating: United Nations Competition

Inventure SA has been assisting us in setting up an exciting leadership programme which starts in the Grade 8 year and is “stepped-up” annually, build-ing on previous learning, in a carefully planned developmental framework. This programme aims to empower all our girls with the skills and confi-dence to take on leadership roles within the school. The one-day workshop for Grade 8 (Me – Identity and Survival) is designed to include a focus on both personal, team and general leadership develop-ment through a series of dynamic indoor and out-door activities, incorporating both theoretical and practical/ experiential activities.

These processes have been designed to provide maximum learning through personal introspec-tion, group work and participation using challeng-ing games and activities. They are also great fun and serve the added benefit of being an excellent Grade team builder and unifier! As the school is covering the cost of each and every learner, all girls are expected to attend for the full duration of the workshop. We trust that parents will support us in this pro-gramme and share our enthusiasm and excitement at what it has the potential to achieve. Our aim is to impact every girl, equipping her with confi-dence, the courage to lead, and skills that she can take with her when she leaves Rustenburg. Mrs Susan Schnetler

THE GRADE 8 WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER

(during school hours)

Grade 8: Leadership Development Programme 2010

VISION: “Rustenburg - a school of excellence where girls are leading courageously, exploring their unique

potential confidently and serving the world compassionately”

United Nations Debate

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Art Department News

Friday Art and Design outing 20th August The first thing that we noticed about Brett Murray was his ability to make a satirical joke out of nearly everything. From the minute we set foot in his studio we were blown away by his amazing yet simple art works. It was as if our text books had come to life, finally seeing the man behind some of the most famous and criticized works of art in the history of South African art. Mr Murray immediately jumped into an explana-tion of his art works, motivating questions and providing us with booklets of his recent works. The books, which he generously gave us, were filled with political, economic and social state-ments which he clearly, in a new democratic South Africa, needed a lot of guts to make.

After showing us various processes of his work and taking us behind the scenes, he kindly allowed us, to our amazement and utter delight, into his beautiful, artistic home. We were ecstatic to see works that we had only dreamed of seeing; like ‘Black Like Me’, a satirical take on the face of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders; in which he simply adds an African twist by adding an afro, commenting on the history of Africans in America. A huge thank you to all the art teachers who made this exquisite visit possible. Those of us who were lucky enough to choose the 26th of Au-gust to go on the excursion, were truly inspired. Tessa Collington-O’Malley and Qiniso van Damme

Michaelis Galleries On the 13th of August a group of Grade 10 Vis-ual Art learners visited the U.C.T. Michaelis School of Fine Art to view a dynamic photo-graphic exhibition. “Regeneration 2”, is the second of a very suc-cessful exhibition that features 45 young photog-raphers from around the world whose work ex-plores how they view the world and their sur-rounding. The photographs were not only beautiful; it also made us see how life can be viewed in a variety of ways, showing life through the various photogra-phers’ eyes. We were amazed at how wide the me-dium of photography actually is and what is con-sidered photography. We were stunned at how Photoshop is so widely used and we are still dis-cussing whether this work can be considered pho-tography. There were pieces that appealed to each of us individually and there were some that didn’t, as with your normal fine art. This experience was enriching and very inspiring and we left the exhibition wanting to ex-periment with our cameras.

Mieke Loubser, Skye Scott, Magenta Graziani, Maxine Steyn, Amy Scott, and Natalie Pinto

Art & Design Awards: Report The annual Art and Design Awards were held on Thursday 19 August 2010. The exciting Awards evening was kicked off by a festive art exhibition reflecting the wonderful works from both Design and Visual Art. Characteristically, the works on show reflected the talent and dedication of the

girls taking Design and Visual Art, as well as their unique, creative interpretation and expression of prac-tical projects. The award cere-mony itself was

officially opened by dynamic guest speaker James Webb. James Webb is a contemporary South Afri-can artist working with sound as a medium of ex-pression; and currently included in the Grade 12 Visual Culture Studies curriculum. He encouraged the girls to create relevant cultural products in their art making process - emphasising the fact that they work within a rich cultural environment that could be the source of a range of interesting artworks and design products. We would like to congratulate the girls who were awarded certifi-cates and thank them for their hard work and dedication throughout the year.

Art and Design Department

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News from the Life Orientation Department GRADE 12s

AFDA FILM SCHOOL. The preferred closing date for application forms is

the end of September. Until then there is no fee.

GRADE 11s and 12s

RUTH PROWSE ART SCHOOL will be holding OPEN DAYS

on 8 and 9 September between 9.30 and 6.30pm.

The school is housed in an historic house in Roodebloem estate in Woodstock and has been in

existence for 30 years. Three-year diplomas in Graphic design, Fine Art ,

Photography and Jewellery Design are offered. Portfolios and letters of motivation have to be in

by 6 October.

View an exhibition of work by students from 6 September until 10 September. 9 – 4 weekdays.

Top of Birkendale Road Woodstock. 021 4472492 www.ruthprowse.co.za

GRADE 12s

THE ADVERTISING COLLLEGE OF SOUTH AFRICA

is offering bursaries to attend their 10-week course on discovering the world of advertising. If you are interested in this field but not 100% sure

of what it involves, this would provide a very good overview. You can register thereafter to

specialize in one of their level two courses.0214651846 www.adcosa.co.za

GRADE 11s and 12s

CAPE AUDIO COLLEGE (The Institute of Sound Technology)

will host an OPEN DAY at the Waverly Campus

on Saturday 11 September from 10.00 until 2.00

021 4488383\4

“The Crossing” This true story of Jonathan Nkala’s journey from a small village in Zimbabwe to a city that works for him, Cape Town, was hosted at Rustenburg last year for all the learners. It is moving, hilarious, compelling, and a celebra-tion of the human spirit, suitable for anyone from 6 to 86! It provides insight into issues around xenopho-bia and refugees anywhere in the world. Jonathan and the director, well -known Bo Petersen, will be taking the play on tour to the States. See it this Friday 3 September at 7.30 or Saturday 4 September at 3.00pm and 7.30pm at the New Africa Theatre in Sybrand Park at 33 Golf Course Road.R60.adults and R40.00 for children. Many of the RGHS learners last year wished that their families and friends could have seen it.

Contact: Jonathan 0736434662

or Ian 0736434662.

The S.A.NAVY is recruiting Grade 12s who wish to train as divers.

The tests will take place at centres in Gugulethu and Simonstown.

Basic swimming skills, fitness and health will be taken into account for selection .

Please collect information from Mrs Dowdall if you are interested or

phone Commander Quacquarini on 021 7875212

Grade Elevens

enjoying a

Life Orientation lesson

in the

Thomson Hall

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Our musicians have been hard at work preparing for their performances at the Kaapse Afrikaanse Eisteddfod in August. Well done one these ex-cellent results;

Hoogste Lof 90-100%; Lof 80-84%; Lof+ 85-86% Lof++ 87-89%; EV 70- 74%; EV+ 75-76%;

EV++ 7-79%

String Section (Teacher: Mrs M Raynham)

Kirsten Barratt -Lof; I sabella Cupido - Lof+ Rania Davids - Lof+;

Sara Lambert - Lof+ (x2) Anja Mühr - Lof++

News from the Music Department

Recorder Section (Teacher: Ms EM Sole)

Rouzanna Coxson; Lof (x2), EV++ (13 years)

Samantha Filby; Hoogste Lof, Lof (x3) (18 years)

Alexandra Mould; Hoogste Lof (x3), Lof (x2) (16 years);

SILVER MEDAL (15-16 years); GOLD MEDAL (Senior Recorder)

Michelle Dandara/Abigail Wood (Duet); EV++ (14 years)

Christine Goliath/ Rouzanna Coxson/ Roxanne Christian (Trio)

Lof (Small Ensemble, High School)

Recorder Ensemble Lof++ (Large Ensemble, High School) And SILVER MEDAL (Large Ensemble, Senior)

(Samantha Filby/Christine Goliath/ Abigail Wood/Michelle Dandara/ Rouzanna Coxson/Sibulele Mtsi/

Ragmah Jakoet/Roxanne Christian/ Alexandra Mould)

Berocca G Lof+ (Recorders plus Large Ensemble,

High School) (Sara Lambert/Anja Mühr/Saira Adams/ Rania Davids/Ingrid Pienaar/ Abigail Mallows/Lynne

Donson/ Nahyun Pak/Yohan Chun/ Caitlin Grüning)

Piano Section (Teachers: Mesdames J Dernier,

L Gelderbloem, EM Sole)

13 years Emma Bergh - EV+, EV++

Rouzanna Coxson - Lof++, EV++, EV+ (duet) Caithlin Grüning - Lof++ (x2), Lof

Aimee La Kay - EV, Lof Lindiwe Le Brasseur - EV+ (duet)

More Kaapse Afrikaanse Eisteddfod Results

14 years Ashleigh Forster - Lof (duet), EV+;

Rebecca Norris - EV++ (x2) Yi-Shin Yuan - Lof (duet)

16 years Christine Monteverdi - Lof++ (duet)

Nahyun Pak - Lof++ (duet) Roslyn Sanby - Hoogste Lof (duet), Lof++ (x2) Lauren Sanby - Hoogste Lof (duet), Lof++, Lof

18 years Yohan Chun - Lof+ (duet)

Megan Mehnert - Lof++ (duet), Lof+ Emma Mould - Lof++ Helen Shin - Hoogste Lof, Lof+ (duet) Robyn Skead - Lof++ (duet)

Samantha Filby,

talented flautist

and recorder player

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News from the Music Department

The Beau Soleil Music Centre´s annual Gala Concert took place on Saturday 28th August at the Cape Town City Hall. It featured two separate concerts: the Junior and Senior Gala Concerts and was a celebration of the year’s work. The Junior Concert featured the Preliminary String Ensemble performing Go from my Window arranged by Nicolas Hare, Suite Francaise arranged by E. A Del Borgo and Sword Dance by Bob Phil-lips. The Preliminary Wind Band conducted by Merlin McDonald, Junior String Ensemble con-ducted by Marina Louw and the Junior Wind Band conducted by Sandra Kettle brought the Junior Celebration concert to an end. The Senior Programme performed by High School students from over 80 schools across the peninsula featured 17 of our girls. The evening opened with members from the Intermediate

Band, Intermediate Strings and the Ifidyoli En-semble performing The National Anthem. The Senior Wind Band concluded the evening with a rhythmic and energetic American Barndance by Richard Saucedo. Congratulations to all our RGHS musicians who participated in the Junior and Senior ensembles: Yeon Ju Kim (Violoncello) Roxanne Pitt (French horn) Alexandra Mould (Bassoon) Sol Jee Kim (Percussion) Lindiwe le Brasseur (Violin) Abigail Mallows (Viola) Ingrid Pienaar (Viola) Seul Jung (Violoncello) Lynne Donson (Violoncello) Julia Cooke (Violoncello) Chloe-Joy Arendse (Flute) Roxanne Christian (Alto Saxophone) Laura Skip-pers (Flute) Robyn Smith (Euphonium) Lauren Davis (Percussion) Nuraan Salie (Clarinet) Nicola Engel (Percussion). Miss O Gordon

Beau Soleil Music Centre´s annual Gala Concert

Artscape CellC Initiative Five of our Grade 11 Subject Music pupils had the good fortune of spending a day with the Cape Town Opera Company at the Artscape Theatre Centre on Thursday 19 August: Megan Hand, Sara Lambert, Ingrid Pienaar, Hye-In Shin and Amy Walton. They joined a group of about 20 high school female pupils from schools in the Cape Peninsula on a Cell C promotion day, to find out something of how Cape Town Opera functions. Some had the chance of attending a rehearsal, others went backstage to see the extent of the Artscape opera stage and others joined the admini-stration staff, for a day in the Artscape office. All attended a lunchtime concert and were given refreshments and lunch and a lift to and from the Artscape Centre and a free CD. Thank you to Cape Town Opera and Cell C for this useful opportunity.

Important Reminders

ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT Wednesday 15 September, 19:30

Kemp Hall A chance to hear the best of our Ensembles,

Bands, Orchestra, Choirs, Savuyisa and more – don’t miss!

MUSIC AWARDS DINNER

Tuesday 21 September, 19:00 Thomson Hall

Guest speaker: MONIQUE VAN WILLINGH (jazz flautist) – Winner of the 2010 FMR/Pick ‘n’

Pay Jazz Category Award Cost: R80 – fill in your name on the list in the Music Block and pay by Monday 13 September

Dress: Pirates of the Caribbean Who should attend: All our musicians and mem-bers of our Bands, Orchestra, Choirs, Ensembles,

Savuyisa. And if you’re eligible for an award, YOU SHOULD BE THERE TO RECEIVE IT!

Special Tempo Bar Awards too for the Grade Twelves.

Another definite - don’t miss!

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Sports News

Hockey Results

Saturday 21 August vs DF Malan U14A lost 0 – 1 U14B won 1 – 0 U16A lost 0 – 1 U19B won 3 – 1

Saturday 28 August U14B drew 1 -1 vs St. Cyprians

PGSGU U19 Hockey Tournament

On Friday 27 August, the Rustenburg 1st hockey team played well to place 3rd overall in this tournament. Spring-field placed 2nd with Herschel winning the trophy.

Results were as follows: Vs Herschel lost 0 -2 Vs Springfield won 1 – 0 Vs St. Cyprians drew 0 – 0 Vs Wynberg won 1 - 0

Well done to all those pupils and staff who participated and finished the Don Lock 8km and 5km fun runs, in particular our Sports Manager, Mrs Williams, who was First Veteran Lady.

Diarise the following dates, to stay running fit:

Saturday 6 November 2010 Kids 4 Kids (K4K) relay at Bishops

Sunday 7 November 2010 Landmarks 6km Fun Run

(Start at WPCC)

Biathlon is a sport involving both running and swimming.

Age groups: U15 / u17 / u19 Distances covered: Run: 1000m / Swim: 100m

Here are the Biathlon dates and venues for September – December 2010

4 September 10:30 for 11:00 Zwaanswyk High; School track, Wynberg Military pool

18 September 10:30 for 11:00 Zwaanswyk High School track, Wynberg Military pool

9 October Venue: to be advised

16 October Upington Inter-provincial

6 November Jan van Riebeeck High School track & pool

(to be confirmed)

20 November Jan van Riebeeck High School track & pool

(to be confirmed)

4 December Family meeting,

Jan van Riebeeck High School track & pool (to be confirmed)

If you are interested and would like to find out more information about Biathlon,

please contact Mrs Williams or Ms Blayi in the sports office.

Sports’ Achievers

Jessica Ashley-Cooper has been selected to represent South Africa at the Senior Africa Games, which take place in

September in Casablanca, Morocco

Tanri de Lange participated in the WP

Winter Biathlon Champi-onships, winning the

SILVER medal in the girls u13 age-group.

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Art Flash …

Grade Twelve

paper sculptures

Kerry Newby

Morgan Strutt

Mara Djeri

Aneeqah Ganief

Amber Kneisel

Catherine Luyt

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Forthcoming Events

Friday 03 PGSGU U14 Hockey @ Wynberg Astro & grass isiXhosa Dinner (Thomson Hall) 18:30 – 20:30

Wednesday 08 Ramadan ends Gr 12 Preliminary Examinations end

Thursday 09 Eid ul-Fitr Rosh Hashanah

Friday 10 Boarders weekend out Saturday 11 Boarders weekend out

PGSGU Squash @ WPCC

Sunday 12 Boarders weekend out Monday 13 Assembly: Checking of mark schedules Tuesday 14 Grade 11 German and History Holocaust Centre outing

SGB Meeting (Media Centre) 17:30 Wednesday 15 Annual Music Concert (Kemp Hall) 19:30 Thursday 16 Civvies Day (Sunflower Fund)

Gr 10 & 11 English and Afrikaans Writing Examinations Grade 8 Leadership Development Programme Grade 9 alternative programme Afrikaans Southern Cape Tour leaves

Friday 17 Afrikaans Southern Cape Tour Saturday 18 Yom Kippur

Afrikaans Southern Cape Tour

From the RCL Hello Readers This is just a reminder from the RCL to keep your break area clean and to always throw your litter away. This is our school and we all need to respect it and look after it by keeping it clean. To all the matrics, we wish you all the best with the rest of your trial examinations.

End

of the Third Term

School will close at 12:00

on Thursday, 23 September 2010.

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Personalities of the Month: Kelsey Bloom, A4, and Tracey-Lee Flanders, E‘02

Old Girl News

Tracey-Lee Flanders

Upon matriculating, Tracey-Lee Flanders en-rolled to study Medicine at the University of Stel-lenbosch. It was in her third year of study that she was ap-proached by a model scout and entered, and won, the ‘Face of Stellenbosch’ competition. In 2006 Tracey-Lee used her platform to enter the Miss South Africa pageant, where she was named Sec-ond Princess (third). In 2008 she graduated from medical school and was stationed at Addington Hospital in Durban to complete her internship. It was in this year that she was also invited back to Rustenburg High School for Girls as guest speaker for the year-end awards ceremony, the Celebration of Excellence. Tracey-Lee says that she absolutely loves her job and that, although it is often very challenging, being a doctor is rewarding as it affords her the opportunity to help those in need.

Next year she will return to the Western Cape in order to complete her community service. There-after Tracey-Lee intends to travel, before return-ing to her studies once more by either specialising in Psychiatry or Internal Medicine.

Kelsey

took part in the

Theatre Dance Association Eisteddfod for Hip- Hop

on Sunday 22 August 2010

and came first

in her age group (13-14).

Well done to her.