GENERAL
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Portrait of the artist TRUDIE Cousins, the new art teacher at Rosebank Junior School in Rondebosch, says her pupils are very enthusiastic about art and are a joy to teach. They did these selfportraits in her class, making her very proud.
ARTY: A self portrait by Sadie Adams, a Grade 3 pupil at Rosebank Junior School.Photo: Supplied
TALENTED: Lia Makhurane’s view of herself. She is in Grade 3 at Rosebank Junior School. Photo: Supplied
BUSINESS MINDED: Eloise Leibrandt, of Abbots College Claremont, decided in 2010 to repeat Grade 11 and change her subjects to a business stream, even though she had been promoted to Grade 12. With the encouragement of her economics teacher, she entered the Nedbank/Provincial Treasury/ WCED Economics essay competition. Eloise was selected as one of 19 final ists, and had to present a 10minute PowerPoint presentation to a panel of judges. The winners were announced at a gala dinner at the Waterfront attend ed by MECs Donald Grant and Alex Winde, on Saturday 12 March. Lei brandt came sixth and was awarded a full bursary to study a commerce de gree. She wants to study for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at UCT or Stellen bosch. She says the competition taught her that one does not need to be an Aaggregate pupil to be an achiev er, but that consistent hard work and perseverance are the keys to success. She believes that one needs to set high goals and have good morals and princi ples. She also finds mediocrity unac ceptable, and sees herself working in a good position in a successful South African company in 10 years.
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AMATEUR DRAMATICS: The Pine lands Players Amateur Theatre Socie ty is staging “Godspell” from Friday 15 April until Sunday 24 April at the Artscape Arena. “Godspell” is de scribed as a fun, modernday musical telling the New Testament parables from the Gospel according to Mat thew. All 10 members of the cast were carefully selected to portray Cape Town characters. It is directed by Ro ché Haupt Buckle, who lives in Clare mont. Justin Wardle, also from Clare mont/Harfield Village, paid a lot of at tention to musical perfection. The set has been constructed by Waldo Buck le, and costumes were designed by Mowbray resident, Carryn Underhill. The players say this “high energy mu sical” is a jubilant celebration featur ing a number of wellknown songs like “Day by Day”, “Bless the Lord”, and “All for the Best”. Book at Computick et or Artscape (021) 4217695. Pic tured here are (in the back row, from left) Allana Aldridge, Byron Bure, Jen nifer Moss, Gary Kiewitz and Greg Tin ney. (Front row, from left) Michélle Hough, Maryanne van Eyssen, Darik Velez and Douglas Middlebrook. In front is Tanya March
VICTORI OUS: Court ney Smith and Tam syn Louw represent ed Mickle field School in Ronde bosch at the recent interschool tennis com petition at Sans Souci School on Thursday 17 March. They came first in the under11 group.
CUP HOLD ERS: The Rustenburg Girl’s Junior School achieved exceptional results in the West ern Prov ince Diving Champion ships, win ning both of the oneme tre competi tions open to girls of junior school age. Emily Malherbe (right) and Gabriella Cotchobos are seen holding the trophies they won in the under13 and under11 age groups respectively. The WP Championships were held at Newlands Swimming Pool on Saturday 12 March and attracted adult divers in the Open division, as well as High School and Junior School competi tors. Divers are required to perform numerous dives from the different categories with varying degrees of difficulty. Photo: Supplied