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This weekend Boys' Prep hosted Grey Bloem for a weekend of sporting and cultural fixtures. One of the truly memorable highlights was our Marimba Band participating with Grey Bloem's Boere Orkes on Friday night. The Tree Quad evening setting, was a terrific backdrop to this truly unique cultural experience.
LINDSAY BENNETT AWARD for altruistic service to the community The award is made annually in memory of Lindsay Bennett, a Founder pupil of St Stithians Girls’ College. The Lindsay Bennett Award is intended for a girl who instinctively puts others before self, as did Lindsay – a Saints girl who has really “made a difference” to our community through her unselfish devotion to the interests and welfare of others. This year it has been awarded to Sherene Lahoud.
The St Stithians Girls' Prep athletes competed in the Prestige Athletics event, which was held on Friday, 9 October.  Nine girls' schools participated and St Stithians won the event, which included long distance, hurdles, sprints, long jump and high jump.
St Stithians Boys’ College – Edward Wadsworth Edward Wadsworth, the St Stithians College 2009 Deputy Headboy, won 11 prizes at the Matric Prizegiving recently. The prizes were awarded for academic excellence and service to the community, over a number of years. The Grade 12 Class prize recognised his achievement of obtaining a 90% average in the Matric Prelim exams, for which he was also awarded Honours Summa Cum Laude. Edward attended Laerskool Jan Celliers for his primary school education. He is also an accomplished pianist and photographer.
Cricketer Grant Elliott visits Saints The Boys' College was proud to host former St Stithians College pupil, Grant Elliott (Matric 1997) who is now playing cricket for New Zealand. Grant mentioned how important the values that he learnt at school have mattered throughout his life. He also said that the boys must make the most of the opportunities that come their way. In the photograph with Grant are members of the 1st XI Cricket Team and Coaches: L-R Back row: Jonathan Sardianos, Tom Wewege, Michael Faasen, Chris Abrams, Tim Rogers, David Leshnick Middle row: Shane Murphy, David Rhoda, Levino le Roux, Mr Wim Jansen Front row: Mr Charlie Nyathi, Yassar Cook, Grant Elliott, Zaahid Allie, Jonathan Hall and Mr Barry Lambson
ST STITHIANS BOYS’ COLLEGE ‘Men in Red, Boys in Blue’ Johannesburg Welsh Male Voice Choir (u.d.o Jonathan Vieler), St Stithians Boys’ College Choir and the Duke of Cornwall Singers, presented the “Men in Red & Boys’ in Blue” concert with special guests, The Wits Choir (the latter choirs all u.d.o. Dalene Hoogenhout). In the recently refurbished St Stithians College Chapel, the audience of over five hundred was entertained for more than two hours. Each choir in turn enthralled with songs from Africa and Wales, and contemporary or sacred melodies. The concert was a wonderful opportunity for former Boys’ College staff member, Hugh Huggett and ‘old’ Dukes, now in the WITS choir, to perform with the current Dukes and Choir when all the choirs performed as a massed choir. Photo L-R Kevin Walker, Dalene Hoogenhout, James Clay, Anthony Knowles, Hugh Huggett, Nicholas Harrison, Abas Rashid, Derek Selmer-0lsen, Neil de Villiers and Tim Harbour.
Girls’ Prep The Grade 5 girls are successfully completing their visits to Miracle Mission and their collections of baby goodies for Florida baby home. These are 2 homes for abandoned and orphaned children. Our Saints girls have collected items for the homes and spent time simply loving and stimulating the babies.
National School Aids Week. Bradley Walden (Grade 2) became extremely inquisitive and motivated to make a difference after Founder’s Day 2008, which focused on “AIDS”. He entered into a partnership with Sidney, his beading partner, who makes AIDS keyrings that Bradley designed and has sold in the community. He has raised more than R3000 for Cotlands through his “Stop AIDS Club”, and continues to be involved in this project. Bradley shared his story with the Junior Prep this week as part of our Social Awareness week.
THE NAVY “Chief of the South African Navy, Vice Admiral Johannes Mudimu CLS, DMG,SM,MMS,MMM,MMB requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs I Acquisto and Headgirl.” Mrs Acquisto and Candice Junkuhn our head girl had the wonderful experience of flying in a Hercules aeroplane to Durban on Saturday 11 July to experience a “Morning at Sea” onboard the SAS Amatola.
Girls' Prep - Taekwondo Amber Penney, a Grade 6 learner at St Stithians Girls' Prep, recently returned from the Taekwondo World Championships in Malaysia. This is the third time Amber has represented South Africa at this event and this time she returned with two gold medals, for sparring and patterns. When she isn't busy with Taekwondo, Amber also plays Hockey for the District and she is a member of the Under 14 South Gauteng Waterpolo squad.
SPORT - NATIONAL SELECTION Karate Kabelo Pule, Gr 12, and Cade Anderson, Gr 9, have both been selected to the 2009 South African Karate team to compete in the 2009 Commonwealth Karate Championships, in October. The championships were allocated to Chennai, India, but the Commonwealth Management decided to relocate them to Pretoria instead.   Soccer Jonathan Robertson, Gr 9, has been selected to the National U17 Soccer Team to play an international friendly matches against Swaziland and Seychelles.   Squash Oliver Stekhoven, Gr 8, has been selected to represent the S A Schools U14 Squash team.     Taekwon-do Luke Penney defended his U18 sparring title at the Taekwon-do World Championships in Malaysia. He will hold this title for two years until the next World Championships in 2011.   Waterpolo Shaun Campbell, Gr 12, has been selected to represent South Africa at the FINA World Junior Waterpolo Championships to be held in Croatia in August.
Dear One and All I am aware that some parents were unable to attend our annual Founders' Day Service and celebrations last Saturday.  The theme this year focussed on Transformation. It is reproduced below for your information. Please click here for the entire speech. Stephen Lowry Rector St Stithians College
IPL comes to St Stithians Boys' College The St Stithians Oval was the venue for a friendly cricket match between some of the members of the Mumbai Indians squad and their sponsors. The sponsors team was short of players, so four of the Saints 1st XI stepped in to help out! It was a wonderful opportunity for the young cricketers to test their skills with the professional and the match was umpired by St Stithians Science teacher, Mr Barry Lambson Picture 1 St Stithians 1st XI with the Team Picture 2 Australian Luke Ronchi going into bat with Yasser Cook of St Stithians
ST JOHN'S - a derby highlight of the year! Another nail biting weekend of rugby with the 1st XV beating St Johns by 27-16. Tries by Madoda Gamede (2 tries), Katlego Kgame and Sean Sanders. Morgan Ferguson converted 2 of the tries, and succeeded with 1 penalty. St John's took the lead but then Saints bounced right back to score and resume the lead. It was a close game then, with about 10 mins to go, Saints stamped their authority and were the deserved winners. First Photo shows Madoda Gamede on his way to scoring his first try of the match. ZWARTKOPS The match against Zwartkops was one that we did not know what to expect. It is the first time Saints has played against the school from Pretoria and there was very little information on them. It was a physical encounter, with both teams not holding back. It took Saints a little while to settle down, but once they got going the score board ticked over happily for the home side to show 37-0. Tries where scored by Grant Thomson 2,Nkuli Gamede, Cameron Smith ,Nick Hawinkels Morgan Ferguson 4 conversions and 2 penalties. Second Photo shows Nkuli Gamede about to cross the try line.
St Stithians Girls' College netball: The U16 A-team after receiving silver medals at the Gauteng Region 13 championships. Their names are back: Kelly Forman; Rebecca Carlisle; Orla Murphy ; Teagan Webster; Lauren King front: Kirstin Ransom; Mrs. L Fourie; Lauren Stead.

CANSA SHAVATHON
St Stithians College showed their support for the Cansa Shavathon on the 26 February by appealing to all students ( Grade 0 -12) and staff to contribute to this worthy cause. Through the combined efforts of the shaving, spraying and further donations from parents, the College raised a total of R46,000.
Over a three period a group of staff volunteers sprayed and shaved over 2300 learners and staff. Some of the innovative ideas for raising funds included the auctioning off of prefects, staff and the Rector to shave their heads. St Stithians College challenges all schools in the area to better the contribution to fighting cancer next year!
          

Little Saints Welcome Party
The Junior Prep hosted  the 2009 Grade R students at a welcome function on Saturday 15 November. By all accounts great fun was had, and the children were introduced to their teachers and classmates.   

St Stithians Girls’ Prep Athletics team took part in the Prestige Athletics on Friday, 10 October.  Eight Girls’ Schools participated and St Stithians Girls’ Prep won the event.  Our athletes also broke three records: the Under 11 relay, Under 12 relay and OPEN relay.  We are SO proud of all our athletes. 

Spring Festival
The annual Spring Festival was held on Saturday 27 September. The day enjoyed huge support and a great number of activities provided something for all. Once again it proved to be a very successful event on the Saints calendar.

Ubombo Community Project 2008
The tenth Ubombo Project took place during August with twenty seven boys and girls and nine adults working in this rural and impoverished community in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The group were hosted once again by Mr Dave and Mrs Dawn Irons and they taught in the high school, erected soccer and netball pitches at the junior school and built a patio and swings at the Ubombo Children’s Care Village. They also interacted with the children at the Village and took them to the circus. The Project was highly successful and enjoyed by all concerned.

FOUNDERS DAY 2008
A celebration of the founding of St Stithians College was held on Saturday, 07 June 2008 on Baytopp Field. Guests of honour were Ms Nqobani Mkhwanazi former head girl, St Cyprian's school -2002 and Naledi Pandor the Minister of Education.

The new St Stithians Girls' College Student Representative Council (SRC) has been elected. The representatives are as follows: left to right Back Row : Rene King, Taryn Mackeown, Mrs Ivanka Acquisto, Mrs Kate Doyle, Nicole Pretorius, Emma Dittner, Kamogelo Diphoko Front Row: Mbali Gwamanda, Candice Junkuhn, Gabriella Morrell, Courtney Agaienz Absent: Carla Eskinazi

The presentation of some scholarships.

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