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 moreElandspad River Walk – Wynberg Girls’ High Mountain Club
12 girls and 4 staff (including Elise, our Dutch exchange student) headed out last Sunday morning on a kloofing trip in the Du Toit’s Kloof mountains. Starting out in cool drizzle, the day eventually offered us hot sunshine and beautiful mountain pools to swim in. The scenery was spectacular and although the terrain was very [...]
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 moreWynberg Girl representing South Africa in Face/Faith to Faith Programme
A’lia Mohedeen is representing South Africa as part of the Face/Faith to Faith Program. The year-long programme is a multi-faith youth leadership programme that takes place annually with Jewish, Muslim and Christian teenagers from the USA, Northern Ireland, South Africa and the Middle East. The programme encourages teenagers to discuss and take part in interactive [...]
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 moreNicola Suttle selected by one of World’s Top Photographers for Photography Training Course
We received the following bit of news about Nicola (2010 Head of School) from Cindy Suttle: Nicola continually keeps me on my toes & no doubt will never fit into any box. At the end of December, just before we went on holiday, she (at the very last minute – literally at 11.45pm – deadline [...]
read moreWynberg hosts World Schools’ Debating competition
As a school that takes debating seriously, we were honoured to be one of the schools hosting a day of the preliminary rounds of the World Schools’ Debating competition which was obviously being hosted in South Africa this year. As this took part during the school day on 19 January, some of our girls were [...]
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 more2012 Major Production – “How to succeed in Business without really trying”
Members of the cast – and their parents – are invited to a very important meeting at Boys’ High in Clegg Hall about the 2012 Wynberg High Schools’ Major Production.
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