2012 South Africa-China Youth Art Festival
Last year 12 of our Music students had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to Beijing in order to participate in the Tutti World Music Festival. Apart from the privilege of participating in this festival, they also had the opportunity to attend a number of master classes by the world’s top musicians. Now it is the [...]
read moreWynberg Girls’ High wins “Top School” Award
The Metropole South Education District held a Matric 2011  Learners’ Awards Ceremony on Friday 27 January. It was an exceptional afternoon for Wynberg Girls’ High School. The District is divided into 7 Circuits and WGHS was named the Top School in Circuit 2 (this circuit includes schools who were named in the Top Twenty schools [...]
read more2011 Cambridge University AS Levels Results
Wynberg was delighted to receive the provisional AS Levels results from Cambridge University. Once again, Wynberg Girls’ High has been congratulated by the Cambridge University International Education Centre on her “excellent results.” Â The average for History and English at Wynberg were 73% and 74% respectively. Of the 16 candidates who sat the History examination, 6 [...]
read moreWynberg Girls’ High goes to “The Comedy of Errors” – Maynardville
On Monday 30 January, a group of Wynberg girls went to the Maynardville Open Air Theatre to see this year’s Shakespeare production: A Comedy of Errors, directed by Matthew Wild. The play was given an Asian twist – the bright costumes, exotic setting and theatrical interpretation of the original screenplay was influenced by 1970’s Kung [...]
read moreWynberg performing “As You Like It” at Kirstenbosch Gardens
Following the successful launch of the Shakespeare Schools Festival in Cape Town and Johannesburg last year, Wynberg Boys’ High will be hosting a fund raising event at the Kirstenbosch Gardens on the 27th and 28th of January 2012. Two plays from the 2011 festival will be showcased again – “Macbeth” by Chris Hani Secondary school and [...]
read moreLatin American Ballroom Dancing Demonstration
Grade 9 Arts and Culture girls were extremely fortunate to be able to watch a performance by past pupil Danni Valentine and her dance partner Daniel on Monday. The couple are competing in the Professional class at National level in Latin American Ballroom Dancing and recently (after only dancing together for a few months) were [...]
read moreAcademic Colours 2012
We congratulate the following girls who received awards in the Academic Assembly held on 12 January 2012. These awards were based on their achievements in 2011 GRADE 10 HALF-COLOURS (Minimum code 5 for compulsory subjects and total of 42-44 points) Ra’eesah Bray, Amalia de Abreu, Samantha de Kock , Kayla Hendricks, Michelle Lee, Martine Leukes  and Tahseen Parker  GRADE 10 FULL [...]
read moreMusic Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2011
We congratulate the following girls who were awarded colours in the Academic Assembly on 12 January. Those receiving awards in half colours were: Samantha Burnell,  Tatum Fortune, Anna Jacobs, Robyn Lassen,  Genevieve Moss and Stacey Walker. Those receiving full colours were Celeste Botha, Ye Ji Jung and Helen Slater.
read morePillar Awards – Term 4 2011
The Pillar awards are given at the end of each term to candidates in recognition of outstanding achievement in one of the four pillars of the school: academics, culture, service and sport. These prestigious trophies were especially commissioned by Wynberg for each pillar: named after Greek Gods associated with the discipline, each trophy has a silver figurine [...]
read moreWynberg Matric Candidates in the top performers in their Subject
On Tuesday afternoon, the top ten performers in each subject was published on the Western Cape Education Department website. We are delighted to report that Wynberg Girls’ High feature in 9 of the subjects: Accounting: Christine Forbes ~ 10th Afrikaans First Additional Language: Â Elaine Petersen ~ 10th Dance Studies: Tessa Suttle ~ 8th History: Meghan [...]
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