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Congratulations to the following St Stithians Boys' Prep boys who have been selected to play squash for Central Gauteng. From left: Martin Currin, Jared Swart, Calven Wilson, Declan Connelly, David Burgess and Andrew Galatis (reserve)
MICHAEL LUMB MATRIC 1998 Has been selected to play cricket for England. He is the son of prolific Yorkshire opener Richard Lumb and his sister Katherine attended the Girls’ College. Michael was born in South Africa and was educated at St Stithians Boys’ College. He made his way through the junior teams in Transvaal before going to England to play for Yorkshire. A knee injury in 2001 meant that Lumb played only a small part in Yorkshire's success in winning the County Championship that year, although he did record a maiden first-class hundred against Leicestershire. In doing so Lumb became part of only the fourth father-and-son pair to score centuries for Yorkshire. Recently Michael was signed by Shane Warne to play for the Rajasthan Royals in the 2010 Indian Premier League. Lumb has been selected in England's 15 man squad for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 currently playing in the West Indies.
Boys’ College - Theatre Workshops At the end of Term one Old Stythian, Tamarin McGinley, conducted physical theatre workshops with the Boys’ College Grade 11 Drama students, in the Stage Door Theatre. Using Jerzi Grotowski’s theology as her basis, she challenged the boys to think out of their physical comfort zones.
Ayanda Zwambila competed in the South African Junior Diving Championships during the holidays. She competed in the Under 14 age group and her results were fantastic! 1st in the Synchronized Diving section. 2nd in the 1 Metre competition 3rd in the 3 Metre competition
Micaela Bouter's success at SA National Aquatic Championships, held in Durban from 10-13 April. Micaela won the 16/U events on 1m, 3m and platform, making her the SA Champion in that age group. However, the most impressive feat was the fact that she won the WOMEN'S events on 1 and 3m. Probably the most impressive result was Micaela winning the "Most Improved Trophy" with an improvement of 14.78 per dive. This is remarkable and fully attributed to her determination, tireless hard work and good spirit. Micaela has learnt a full list of new dives this season - all with very high degree of difficulties. She certainly has kept the St Stithians flag flying high with regards to diving, and is a great credit to her school.
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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!

St Stithians Boys' College
In keeping with the importance St Stithians Boys' College places on heritage and on acknowledging the work of former members of the Saints Community, the College recently celebrated two historic occasions.

The first was to commemorate Years of Headboys from 1956-2009. The Headmaster, Mr Dave Knowles, hosted a dinner for seventeen former Headboys as well as the four living former Headmasters: Mr Steyn Krige 1962-1968), Mr Mark Henning (1969-1988), Mr David Wylde (1989-1999) and Mr Ian McLachlan (1999-2006). The evening was a celebration of the progress made by the Boys' College over the

years, as well as an occasion for reminiscing and for giving gratitude to the hard work of those who gave so much to the College.
Mr Ian McLachlan, Mr Mark Henning, Mr Steyn Krige, Mr David Wylde, Mr Dave Knowles

The second occasion, equally nostalgic, was to Celebrate 21 Years of The Duke of Cornwall Singers. Affectionately known as The Dukes the group started in 1986 with Mrs Moira Schafer as the Conductor, followed by Mrs Dalene Hoogenhout since 1998. Various groups of Dukes entertained a delighted audience with a variety of songs and at one point during the evening, there were 52 former and current Dukes performing on the stage!

Current Head of Dukes, Anthony Knowles & Murray Masterson Head of Dukes in 1986
Both events proved to be extremely successful and were a reminder of the importance of tradition and of continuity in creating a strong foundation on which the Boys' College will continue to flourish.

Back row L-R Abas Rashid (2006) Mrs Moira Schafer, Mrs Dalene Hoogenhout, Anthony Knowles (2009), Mike Aitkin (1987)
Front row L-R Rick Clarke (1990), John Huggett (1989), Richard Sibeko (2008), James Clay (2007)

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.

Junior Inter High Winning Team
St Stithians Girls' College won the Junior Inter High tennis tournament held on 11 October. Team members are (L-R): Jenna-Leigh du Preez, Lauren Louw, Kate Lowndes, Robyn Sher

Cricket Dinner
L-R - Mr Ray Jennings, Levino le Roux, Chris Abrams, Zaahid Allie, Michael Faasen and Nicholas Douglas
Mr Ray Jennings was Guest Speaker at the annual St Stithians Boys’ College Cricket Dinner. It was an honour for the parents and young Cricketers hear Mr Jennings address them.
Congratulationis to the boys in the photo who have recently been selected to Gauteng teams:
Michael Faasen U\15A (Captain), Zaahid Allie U\15A
Nicholas Douglas U\15B, Levino le Roux U\17A
Chris Abrahams U\19A

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.

St Stithians Boys’ College is pleased to announce that seventeen Academic, Music and Sports Scholarships for Grade 8 2009 have been awarded to the following students:

Bandile Simelane, Colin Campher, Dylan Geel, Ignaz Richter, Innocent Radebe, Ivan Briechle , Kagiso Rabada, Lebogang Latakgomo, Lishanthan Naidoo, Max Liebenberg, Mitchell Livingstone, Nicholas Hern, Roald Roodt, Sinethemba Zulu, Taylor Boel, Wade Cresswell and Yusuf Pharak.

Golf Team
St Stithians Boys’ College recently participated as one of thirty-six schools in the annual St John’s College International School's Tournament, played at Sun City, and came 2nd. The team is captained by Nicholas with Luke, Jonathan & Haydn.
Picture is of Nicholas

Knitting blankets with grannies
St Stithians Junior Prep Grade 2 pupils were assisted by their grannies in knitting squares for blankets. These were handed over to some of the residents of Soweto old age home (White City) at a tea on Thursday 24 July 2008.

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.

Ms Mkhwanazi

N Pandor (MP)

Aids Ribbon

Learners Art

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

St Stithians offers scholarships for academic, sporting and music excellence.

All the 2008 scholarship winners!

The presentation of some scholarships.

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