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Karate top 3 – Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High learners excel

Karate top 3. Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School’s three karate kids are in elite company. Hana Jeremiah, Nitara Totaram and Mikaylla Totaram are placing in the karate top 3 in South Africa…

Midlands Primary Schools’ Rugby – St Charles College boys in team

Midlands Primary Schools’ Rugby. St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, congratulates the boys from the Preparatory School. Michael Ajibade, Nkosinathi Mbele and Hlubelihle Nkosi have been selected to represent the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands…

Become a nurse – Know this before you decide to follow it as a career

Become a nurse. Do you want to become a nurse, but you are not sure what it entails. Schools That Rock asked Sr Marelize Nieuwoudt, nurse manager of Life Rosepark…

Social Media Law – Emma Sadleir visited Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High

Social Media Law. Emma Sadleir, South Africa’s leading expert on social media law, visited Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School recently. She spoke to the school on safe and responsible social media use.…

Pop Opera Concert – Glenwood High School hosts Concert

Pop Opera Concert. The Samuels Group presents Pop Opera Concert Al fresco afternoon Autumn Concert with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra with Natalie Rungan & Njabulo Nzuza KZN Youth Wind Band.…

St Charles College – New Playpark in Scrummies

St Charles College. “On Saturday, 23 April, we celebrated the opening of the Pre-Primary Natural Playpark and took a giant step forward in countering growing human disconnection, and the alarming…

Hockey Captains – Schools That Rock chat to Themba Tshutsha

Hockey Captains. In our series on sport captains, Schools That Rock talks to Themba Tshutsha . Themba is the captain of Curro Salt Rock boys’ 1st hockey team. Today he…

Hockey Captains – Schools That Rock chat to Teneal Grace

Hockey Captains. In our series on sport captains, Schools That Rock talks to Teneal Grace. Teneal is the captain of Curro Salt Rock girls’ 1st hockey team. She scores today our…

Scrummies – St Charles Grade 11s visited Grade 0s

St Charles College Grade 11s visit to Scrummies Recently, the Grade 11 English class of St Charles College from Pietermaritzburg visited the Grade 0s in Scrummies, the Pre-Primary school at…

Artificial intelligence (AI) – The power of AI in education

Artificial intelligence (AI). Hands up. Are you impressed when Netflix or Showmax recommends the perfect movie for your Friday night binge? What about when adverts about travel insurance helpfully start…

Glenwood Rugby Festival – Durban High School vs Goudveld High School

Glenwood Rugby Festival. Durban High School’s 2nd XV have beaten the Goudveld High School’s 1st Team at the Glenwood Rugby Festival! What a game! Trailing 8-10 with five minutes to…

U14 Hockey Boys – St Charles College vs St Andrew’s

U14 Hockey Boys. St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, U14A boys played some excellent hockey today. Their team efforts were rewarded by a 6 – 0 win against St Andrew’s. “All in…

SA Regionals Swimming – Taegen McCarthy, Durban High superstar

SA Regionals Swimming. Taegen McCarthy from Durban High school produced a superstar performance at SA Regionals for Swimming! He took part in the 2022 Level 3 SA Regionals this weekend…

Westville Hockey Festival – Durban High School U.14 unbeaten

Westville Hockey Festival. The Durban High School U14A Hockey side was unbeaten at Westville Hockey Festival! Congratulations to both coaches and players of our U14A who have won all three…

Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards – St Charles College

Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards. St Charles College’ learners, Jaimé Gous, Tristan Stielau and Nikhil Gongal are top in South Africa! Congratulations to these three St Charles College boys for their…

Hockey – St Charles College vs Maritzburg College

Hockey. It was an exciting hockey affair at Maritzburg College with spectators being allowed for the first time in over two years. There was a buzz around the field as…

City Derby Rugby – St Charles College vs Maritzburg College

City Derby. St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, started their winter season with the much-anticipated City Derby Rugby against Maritzburg College. The fixture dates back to 1882, which makes it one of…

Capping Ceremony – St Charles College 1st team hockey and rugby players

Capping Ceremony. St Charles College 1st team hockey and rugby players joined together to receive their match kit during Sports Assembly on Friday. Mr Allen van Blerk (principal) presided over…

House Gala – Curro Heritage House’ first gala in two years

House Gala. Curro Heritage House in Durban, held their first House Gala in two years for the senior primary learners. It was amazing to be back in the pool and…

Representative Council of Learners – Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School

Representative Council of Learners. Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School Representative Council of Learners (RCL) have hit the ground running and have a lot planned for their year at school. GHS look forward to…

SA Schools Squash Open – Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School A Section

SA Schools Squash Open. Four Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School squash players were ranked in the A Section in the South African Schools 2022 Squash Bloemfontein Open: U14A  Ashley Smorfitt [11th]  U16A…

Championship Gala – Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School Top swimmers

Championship Gala. Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School recently held its Championship Gala. They are thrilled to announce the top swimmers and Victrix Ludorums of 2022. Grace George (U14), Shannon Meter (U15), Ashley…

Sport – St Charles College represent at Provincial level

Sport – St Charles College from Pietermaritzburg represent the school at Provincial level in athletics, basketball and squash last weekend. Saints is very proud of Sam Ndlovu (Grade 12) who…

Filmit Festival 2022 – An exciting year ahead for high schools

Filmit Festival 2022. Filmit is a film making competition for high schools. After a successful first year (2021), Paul Roos is excited to announce the bigger, better and more creative…

Netball Captains – Taygan Mazzoni chats to Schools That Rock

Netball Captains. Schools That Rock kicked off with a new sport series. The captains from our schools’ first netball teams tell us more about their captaincy. Our fourth goal scored in this…

World Book Day – St Charles College celebrate 25th anniversary

World Book Day. On Thursday, 3 March, St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day. The message was to all children: “you are a reader”. Reading…

Wall of Fame – Curro Sport first nominees for 2022

Wall of Fame. Congratulations to the Curro sport first Wall of Fame nominees for 2022! Paballo ????????????????????⁣ ⁣ (Curro Academy Savanna City Independent School) Paballo came first in the u.17…

Academic Excellence – St Charles College Full Colours/ Honours

Academic Excellence. Congratulations to St Charles College’ 2022 Matric boys who, through the course of their Grade 11 year, received either Full Colours or Honours in Academics. They are: Yamikani…

1st X1 Cricket Captains – Jason Muirhead tells more about his captaincy

1st X1 Cricket Captains. During the next few weeks Schools That Rock  will be chatting to 1st team cricket captain from schools across South Africa. Our twelfth ball is bowled at Jason Muirhead,…

Curro eSports – Team-up with Acer to reach new gaming heights

Curro eSports. In an effort to advance their presence in eSports, Acer for Education has teamed up with Curro. eSports is professional competitions that are held using video games. Acer…

Proteas Cricket – From the Saints Oval to International Stage

Proteas Cricket. Congratulations to St Charles College Old Boy, SJ Erwee, who received his Test Cap on the 17 February 2022 and debuted in the starting line-up for the Proteas…

St Charles College – Show the Love this Valentine’s Season

St Charles College. St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, Friday morning Junior Primary assembly, taken by Mrs du Toit’s Grade 3 class, focused on showing and receiving love in one or more…

Cricket Captains – Zayne Bux tells us more about his captaincy

Cricket Captains. During the next few weeks Schools That Rock will be chatting to 1st team cricket captains from schools across South Africa. Our seventh ball is bowled at Zayne…

Schools Music – St Charles College students achieve Full Colours in Music

Music. St Charles College, Pietermaritzburg, would like to congratulate the Grade 11 and 12 students for achieving Full Colours in Music. Aryan Govender completed his Grade 7 in drums, Nathan…