Rustenburg Times

26 July

2013

Volume Three Issue One

Rustenburg High School for Girls, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch 7700

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Rustenburg:

a school of excellence where girls are leading courageously, exploring their unique potential confidently

and serving the world compassionately.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Starring Robyn Paterson as Miss

Brodie and Morgan Shelly as Sandy

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International Exchanges

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General News And

Information

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World Challenge South India

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Busy Bugs on

Mandela Day

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Music Department News

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Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival

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Sports News 10—11

Art Flash: Grade Nine

Collages

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Calendar

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Who would you choose: the teacher who needs to be taught a lesson, or the schoolgirl who wants to grow up too soon?

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“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”

Ticket sales for Rustenburg’s 2013 spectacular dramatic production of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” open on Monday, 29 July. Tickets cost R55 and will be available for purchase from the

Drama Room at first and second breaks on Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednes-day 31 August. Thereafter, they will be available from the Main Administrative

Office. The show runs on 13, 14, 16 and 17 August.

THE CAST

NARRATORS

MISS PERRY Siphokazi Mbatani SISTER SANDRA Jordannah Leach

MARCIA BLAINE STAFF MISS JEAN BRODIE (History) Robyn Paterson MISS MACKAY (Principal) Lauren Smithie MR TEDDY LLOYD (Art) Edward Bester (Rondebosch) MR GORDON LOWTHER (Music) Nathan Rens (Rondebosch) CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS Amy Kunz MISS LOCKHART (Chemistry) Lauren Pienaar

MARCIA BLAINE PUPILS

SANDY Morgan Shelly JENNY Julia Holzberg MARY McGREGOR Catherine Sonnenberg MONICA Chloe Venter HANNAH Hannah Luxton PATSY Kelsey Bloom CHARLOTTE Alyxé Rosenberg ALICE Gillian Williams BONNIE Aaliyah Vayez JANET Kendra Saunders

THE CREW PRODUCTION SECRETARY René Zinn BACKSTAGE MANAGER Dominique Nothnagel PROMPT Jennifer Oosthuizen TECHNICAL BOX Ursula Hardie

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“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”: BIOGRAPHIES OF LEAD ACTRESSES

ROBYN PATERSON as MISS JEAN BRODIE

Robyn Paterson (Grade 12) boasts an ex-tensive and impressive Drama Performance résumé. 2010: Cast in “Zigger Zag-ger” (Rondebosch Boys’). 2011:” Cast member of “Who’s your Daddy?” at Nation-al Girls Schools’ Festival; awarded Best Overall Production at East London’s Guild Theatre; “Who’s your Daddy?” performed in Cape Town at the Bishops Drama Festival; Awarded Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of She-Wolf in “A Tribute to Roald Dahl” (Marchand) at the Inter-house Drama Festival. 2012: Lead character in “Bride’s Head, Revisited” at National Girls School’s Festival; awarded Best Overall Production in Potchefstroom; “Bride’s Head, Revisited” received 7 of the 9 possible awards for Dra-ma; Awarded Best Actress for her portrayal of Humphrey in “The pen is mightier than the sword” (Marchand) at the Inter-house Drama Festival; Performed as the Sweet Transvestite from “The Rocky Horror Pic-ture Show” at Erinville’s Fancy Dress; Awarded the Alston le Roux Cup for Drama at the Celebration of Excellence; awarded Full Colours for Drama Robyn is currently also rehearsing towards her final Matric Drama Performance exami-nation, a Workshop Theatre production en-titled “Hit the Road.” Despite the demands of her extra-curricular commitments and her responsibilities as Headgirl of Erinville, Robyn has consistently achieved outstand-ing academic results. “As a school leader, I have had to draw on the strength and as-surance cultivated by my passion for the Dramatic Arts. This has allowed me to de-velop my public speaking skills.”

MORGAN SHELLY as SANDY

Morgan Shelly (Grade 11) began her ca-reer in Drama at Rustenburg Junior School where she particularly remembers when, in Grade 1 (2003), being trained by Ms Buckle to act in “The Cabaret of Letters.” In 2012 Morgan was cast in “Bride’s Head, Revisit-ed,” the production which was victorious at the National Girls Schools’ Festival in Potchefstroom. Morgan is represented by Boss Model Management and has, under their guidance, already achieved as a local model. She has been featured in many fashion magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Glamour, as well as doing cata-logue work for Edgars Club. Her foray into modelling has allowed Morgan the oppor-tunity to perform in a number of television commercials, such as for Levi’s Jeans and Identity. Morgan regards as the greatest credit, currently on her résumé, being se-lected as South African ambassador for Guess Jeans. She is also proud of shooting an international television commercial for Clear Hair for Men, which was screened both in the USA and Europe. She intends working further in the fashion and media industry upon matriculation and looks forward to travelling overseas. Mor-gan has studied Dramatic Arts as an aca-demic subject since Grade 8. She is cur-rently also rehearsing towards her final Ma-tric Drama Performance examination, for which she will present to the adjudicators a Workshop Theatre production entitled “Sieves and Elephants.” Mr A Skelly

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Rustenburg welcomes our Rotary International Exchange students. We wish them an enriching experience and that they take home many memories and extra English! Kate James is hosting a male student from Brazil, who is attending Rondebosch Boys’ High, and Ellen-Marie Trautman will host in 2014. The six Rustenburg Girls will go on Rotary Exchange to these students in December.

Back row Lisa Seefeld (Germany) and her host sister Katherine Da-

vidson, Emma Bergh with Bori Bernat (Hungary), Caro-

line Pasquert (France) and Natalie Davidson.

Front row Rachel Raciner (France) with Eden Howard, and our long-

term student, Franziska Sallman

(Switzerland)

International Exchanges

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General news and information

Learners must please take note that Monday, 12 August will be a Day 5 plus

Assembly at the start of the day.

The bellringers for this term are: Bianca da Molo (D4), Henna Bux (B2) and Michaela Jor-

daan (B2). Our sincere thanks to the bell monitresses of last term, Jehaan Armien,

Monique Hollis and Ferial Najaar, all in D4. Thanks too to the two boarders, Kathleen

Holcraft and Ashleigh Prinsloo, who rang the bell during the exam time.

SAIPA National Accounting Olympiad The following Grade 12 learners took part in the SAIPA National Accounting Olympiad on 22 May 2013:

Amara Ebrahim Elina Chen

Haseena Solwa Corne Odendal

All the girls performed well and will receive certificates for participating (which will be hand-ed out when we receive them from SAIPA). Amara Ebrahim scored a mark of 84% and will therefore go through to the 2nd round in August (you must achieve a mark of above 80% to qualify for the 2nd round). The National Accounting Olympiad is run by the South African Institute of Professional Ac-countants (SAIPA) and the purpose of the Olympiad is to encourage more learners to choose accounting as a profession. Well done to all the girls for taking part. Mr G Marneweck

Rustenburg’s Presidents Award participants help at UCT

National Fencing Competition From the 24th ~ 29th of June, during the school holidays, the 13th African Senior International Fencing Championships were held at the UCT Sport Complex, and we, a group of Grade 9 Rustenburg girls, volunteered our time to act as crew for this event. We were offered this oppor-tunity as part of our community service sector for the President`s Award. We had great fun and got to watch our conti-nent’s greatest fencers at work and also to meet highly esteemed ministers, politicians and head of states. Not only did we have time to bond, but we learnt so much about our diverse continent as well as the art of fencing. We had the chance to serve our community as well as broaden our horizons and prospects through this experience and we would like to encourage others to join us in similar events in the future. Kelly Bang (TiC Presidents Award:B. Ryan)

Have you booked your tickets to hear the performance of David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus at the City Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday 30 & 31 July starting

at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available from the RGHS Office at R70 adults and R40 scholars. A special request to the audience attending the performances NOT to park in the disabled bays outside the City Hall as they are needed for disabled

patrons attending the concerts.

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In the June school holidays Ms Ryan and Ms Blackshaw took a very excited group of 16 girls away (from anxious parents!) on a World Challenge adventure to Kerala in the SW of India. We went of a three day trek through amazing spice plantations up into the Western Ghats mountains. The girls coped really well with the high tem-peratures, monsoon rains, slippery slopes and the dreaded blood-sucking leeches!! We then travelled down to Varkala, on the coast, where we spent five days on a pro-ject at a small government school. The girls bought supplies and worked really hard laying cement floors, tiling areas, building benches and making a retaining wall. In between the bouts of heavy la-bour, time was spent interacting with the gorgeous children at the school who loved having the girls there. Having earned the right to some R&R we travelled to Kollam where we spent a relaxing day on a house-

boat before setting off the next day, via train, taxi and plane, on our thirty-four homeward leg. Throughout the trip the girls assumed lead-ership roles and made all the major deci-sions about the budget, the work we did, the trips we took, the transport we used etc. I think I can safely say that it is a trip that will be remembered for a long time and one which for many girls was a life chang-ing experience. They were really wonder-ful ambassadors for their school and coun-try and coped remarkably well with the hard work, spicy food, lack of toilet paper, crowded living conditions, mosquitoes & constant hand sanitizing!! They went away as a group of individuals and came back as a team with a whole lot of skills and qualities some of them never knew they had! Ms B Ryan

WORLD CHALLENGE SOUTH INDIA

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Busy Bugs on Mandela Day

The Grounds and Estate Staff enjoyed a meal

prepared for them by the Bon Appetit Committee, as part of the 67 minutes for Mandela Campaign

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Music Department news

TRINITY ROCK & POP RESULTS

Well done to the following two musicians who enrolled for the Trinity Rock & Pop ex-

aminations in May this year: Merit (75%-86%)

Caitlyn Abdoll (Bass guitar, Grade 1) Catherine Torrington (Keyboards, Grade 2)

WINTER PIANO MASTER CLASS AT UCT

Well done to ROUZANNA COXSON and CAITLIN GRűNING who attended the Win-

ter Piano Master classes and lecture at UCT on Friday 7 June. Both had the oppor-tunity of performing in two different master classes each with the Faculty Professors

Franklin Larey, Francois du Toit and Albie van Schalkwyk.

GENERAL NEWS

Special thanks to Mr Gregor Profitlich who kindly donated his 100 Watt bass amp to RGHS before leaving South Africa to re-turn to Germany.

Well done to PEARL JUNG who was se-lected to play in the Orchestra at the Inter-national Chamber Music Festival in Stellen-bosch and to JULIA COOKE who led the cello section of the Concert Orchestra at the Festival. Julia played in The Selfish Giant written by the South African composer, Peter Louis van Dijk, which was narrated by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu!

The SANYO course was held in Port Elizabeth during the July holidays. After rehearsing for a week with esteemed coaches such as Farida Bacharova (Leader: CPO) and Lucia Scott, the orchestra gave performances at the Feather Market hall in Port Elizabeth and the Guy Butler theatre in Grahamstown, as part of the National Arts Festival. Our conductor was Gerard Korsten and we performed the 2nd Symphony by Sibelius, Hin-demith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis and a spe-cially commissioned piece by Robert Fokkens (a RBHS Old Boy now living in England). The concerts were well attended and we had a won-derful time. The Rustenburg participants were: PEARL JUNG (cellos of NYO) and STEPHANIE LAW-RENSON (2nd violins of NYO).

ROGs Lynne Donson (cello) and Ingrid Pienaar (viola) also attended. Stéphanie Lawrenson, C1

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA COURSE

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STANDARD BANK NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ FESTIVAL

Each year the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival, held in Grahamstown, is a soul-enriching and thought-provoking experience, and this year was no excep-tion. Seven Rustenburg girls, Claire Den-ny, Megan Denny, Aimée George, Stépha-nie Lawrenson, Jaime Newdigate, Azraa Parker and Marianne Schwellnus accom-panied by Mrs Jepson, attended the festi-val this year. It was the first time that all of these girls had taken part in the festival and each of them came back inspired and enthused by the jazz idiom. They learnt more about the art of performing, their in-struments and how to improvise. During the day, the girls were exposed to a selection of elective workshops to which they could choose one that was of most interest to them. Workshops were given by teachers and professional performers

whom they were able to watch performing in the evening in the main hall. These con-certs were open to the public, but were in-cluded in the registration fee for each stu-dent attending the Festival. The girls were able to ask the professionals any ques-tions about being a musician and perform-ing, as well as about practice techniques and how to produce a ‘professional’ sound on their instruments, including the use of microphones. The girls were also put into mixed ability bands where they were able to play and perform with musicians from other schools and universities from across the country. This experience was incredi-bly enriching for all involved, even the con-ductors, as everyone was able to learn from each other, network and make new friends. Mrs R Jepson

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Sports News

SWIMMING

Western Province Aquatics Awards for the 2012/2013 swimming season

Congratulations to the following swimmers who received various awards:

KRISTIN BELLINGAN was awarded Western Province Youth Col-ours, Western Province Colours for Swim-ming (medaling in an A relay at SA Nation-als) and Western Province Youth Colours

for Open Water Swimming CAYLAN BROMLEY

received the following awards: Top WP Open Water Swimmer - age

group 12-13 years, WP Youth Colours for Open Water, WP Record for 400m Free-

style Relay (age 13)

Western Province Short Course Swim-ming Championships Results:

Long Street swimming pool: 12 – 14 July CAITLIN TRUTER (16 and over)

Caitlin placed 2nd winning the Silver medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle

events. She also won 2 bronze medals in the 100m Individual Medley and 100m

breaststroke events. CHELSEA VAN RENSBURG

(14-15 age group) Chelsea placed 3rd winning the Bronze

medal in the 800m freestyle event CAYLAN BROMLEY

Caylan placed 1st winning the Gold medal in the 400m free and the Bronze medal in

the 200m freestyle events CAROUX DE LANGE

(14-15 age group) - Caroux placed 1st winning the Gold medal for 100m

Breaststroke

Congratulations to Caitlin Truter and

Caroux de Lange (50m and 100m breastroke) who have qualified for the South African Short Course Swimming

Championships which take place in Pieter-maritzburg from 15-18 August

NEW FOOTBALL FIXTURE

vs VICTORIA PARK HIGH SCHOOL, Eastern Cape

SATURDAY 27 JULY VENUE RUSTENBURG

START: 11H00

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS Table View 22 May

U14 Jade Smith 44th 37.00 U15 Ashleigh Simonis 2nd 15.38 U17 Sarah Donde 8th 20.05

SQUASH RESULTS

Friday 19 vs Springfield 1st team won 14 – 0 2nd team lost 8—11

MATCHES vs VISITING TOURING

TEAMS from UK

vs Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK Thursday 18 July 1st

Hockey team drew 2 – 2 Friday 19 July 1st netball team lost 11 – 25

vs Pates Grammar School, UK

Friday 19 July U16A netball team lost 5 – 25 U16B netball team lost 12 - 16

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Sports News

U14: RGHS learners who played in the Cen-tral Zone were: Caroux de Lange, Brittany Gouws, Kelly van Vlaanderen and Casey Wheeler. The Central Zone came 11th out of 16. U16A: WP was placed 1st in Potchefstroom. Haydee Davis played in the WP B side which played in the A Section. This team placed 10th out of 12. U16 Zonal: Disa team (Tamarah Pike and Ga-bi Morgan) placed 3rd and the South Zonal

team (Jessica Walters, Kiera Maher and Michelle Winter) placed 4th out of 12. U18A: Played in Durban and this team placed 6th. Gretchen Davids was selected to the SA schools team. U18 South Zonal team (Candice Lee Uys and Natalie Luyt) placed 1st and the Disa team (Lindsay Llewellyn and Jaime Maher) placed 2nd out of 12 teams. The South zonal team beat the Disas in a very closely fought final, with Natalie Luyt scoring the winning goal.

U16A won 3 – 0 (Goal scorers: Jessica Wal-

ters, Kristen Naidoo and Georgie Firth

U16B won 5 – 0 (Goal scorers: Ashleigh Voss, Jameela Rawoot,

Jamie Peisl, Jamie Newdigate, Elle Mouton)

U14A won 4 – 0

U19C won 2 - 0

PROVINCIAL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT RESULTS

HOCKEY RESULTS: Friday 19 July versus Bellville HS

Inter-House Cross Country 2013

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ART FLASH The Grade Nines had to make a collage in which they combined a traditional and a modern inter-pretation of a particular theme in art. Some of these themes included landscapes, portraits

or still life painting.

Alex Dill

Amber Thorndike

Gia Aitken Jane Lineveldt

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ART FLASH The Grade Nines had to make a collage in which they combined a traditional and a modern inter-pretation of a particular theme in art. Some of these themes included landscapes, portraits

or still life painting.

Vanessa Langton

Tara Panton

So-Hyeon Park Kathleen Holcroft

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Calendar

JULY 2013

Sunday 28 Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall) Monday 29 African Sanctus Dress Rehearsal @ City Hall 18:00 – 21:30 Tuesday 30 Gr 10–12 Life Drawing (VA, Photography and Design) 15:15 – 17:15

African Sanctus Performance @ City Hall 19:30

Wednesday 31 Gr 10–12 Life Drawing (VA, Photography and Design) 15:15 – 17:15 African Sanctus Performance @ City Hall 19:30

AUGUST 2013

Thursday 01 Gr 12 Oral and Practical Moderation begins this month Friday 02 All Gr 9 Subject Choice forms due to form teachers Saturday 03 Rhenish vs Rustenburg Hockey and Netball Derby Sunday 04 Brodie rehearsal 14:00 – 18:00 (Kemp Hall) Monday 05 Assembly: Women’s Day presentation (Grade 12 History and isiXhosa)

Visiting hockey and netball touring team (Shrewsbury HS, UK) Tuesday 06 Gr 10–12 Life Drawing (VA, Photography and Design) 15:15 – 17:15

Wednesday 07 Thursday 08 Eid ul Fitr

Hostel Committee Meeting, incl Budget (Media Centre) 16:30 – 18:00 Boarders weekend out

Friday 09 Eid ul Fitr PUBLIC HOLIDAY: Women’s Day Boarders weekend out