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FEBRUARY 2014 11
PRG se Afrika-kampioen
Musica Perpetua in Wellington
Simon Venter (Graad 12)
Musikale Boot Camp Rijk de Wet (Graad 11) Paul Roos, Bloemhof, en Rhenish se ensemble, Musica Perpetua, was die naweek van 24-26 Januarie in Wellington vir ’n “boot camp”, waar hulle hard gewerk het om hulle repertoire in orde te kry. Tesame met Bloemhof se Stringendostrykorkes het Musica Perpetua onder andere Queen se Bohemian Rhapsody, die Radetsky-mars, die Pirates of the Caribbean-tema en ander stukke baasgeraak. Musica Perpetua tree eersdaags saam met die Kaapse Jeugorkes by die Stellenbosch-Woordfees op.
Foto: Alet Conradie
Stephan Senekal (Graad 12) is in Januarie vanjaar tydens die African Continental Championships by Willowbridge, Durbanville as Afrikakampioen bekroon – met ‘n tyd van 1 uur 15 minute en 56 sekondes. Dié suksesverhaal is nóg meer besonders omdat Stephan verlede jaar sy arm twee maal na mekaargebreek het. Dit het hom daarvan weerhou om behoorlik vir die African Champs voor te berei. Mnr. Ben Poedoe, een van sy onderwysers, het glo gewaarsku
As easy as: eins, zwei, drei!
Julian Bock (Grade 11)
When one hears of Germany, various names come to mind: Mercedes, Porsche, Siemens, Berlin, Stuttgart, Beethoven, Bach … but for Eric Collins (Grade 11) only one thing comes to mind: “German, a gateway to my future.” Eric wrote the National German Olympiad at the end of last year with some of his German class mates at Stellenberg High School. Various schools nationwide wrote this Olympiad. Eric achieved first place, sharing his position with a student at the International German School in Gauteng. Through this illustrious achievement Eric is afforded the the opportunity to represent South Africa, in August of this year, at the International German Olympiad in Frankfurt, Germany. The trip, sponsored by the Goethe Institute, will be all-inclusive. The Goethe Institute is not only a sponsor of this event, but also a generous giver to Paul Roos (laptops, books, posters et
cetera). The recent study tour to Poland definitely helped Eric in achieving such great success. “The exposure to the culture and actual
dat Stephan goed gaan presteer, maar mnr. Andreas Grobler, ook ’n onderwyser, se geld was op Alan Hatherly van KwaZulu-Natal, wat onlangs Spur se MagaliesbergInterskolekompetisie loshande gewen het. Mnr. Grobler sê self dat dit die blyste is wat hy nog ooit was om R100 te verloor!
Foto: Alet Conradie
language in practice helped me to achieve such a great accomplishment,” he says. 180 million people world-wide speak German as either native or additional
Foto: Alet Conradie
Eric Collins (Graad 11, heel regs, agter) verlede jaar by die LOTE-gimnasium in Pole tydens die Duitsleerders se besoek daar
language. Eric joined the German class in 2012 (Grade 9) when he moved from Krugersdorp, Gauteng, to Stellenbosch. He quickly became one of the best students in the class, although he had never had any association with German before. It has always been his dream to do his post-graduate overseas, so it was convenient for him to join the German class. German students receive an international certificate (Zertifikat Deutsch) which one can use to apply for studies at universities in Germany. “I could not have done it without the support of the German class and especially Ms. Conradie,” Eric adds humbly. Through Eric’s remarkable achievement we can truly see that: Deutsch ist einfach. Deutsch ist cool. Deutsch ist wirklich genial! (German is easy. German is cool. German is simply genius!)
Glenn Stein, together with Paul Roos, making SA history
The first school in South Africa with its own app Coenraad van Zyl
A certain Mr Glenn Stein has developed an app for mobile devices with all the needed information for your weekly planner. Not only does this app enable Old Boys to stay in touch, but it also provides the user with the entire history of Paul Roos Gymnasium – not to mention the fact that from now on Concipio, your favourite weekly, is on tap, ready ro read and raring to go!
What is your association with Paul Roos? I have no previous association with Paul Roos, other than having two friends who went there once and matriculated in 2006. That has obviously changed since starting on this app, and I must say that I have really enjoyed working with some of the staff and students, apart from learning about the strong culture of tradition at Paul Roos. What is your profession and where were you educated/trained? I am the founder and chief technical officer for Speak Mobile, a mobile application design & development studio based in Cape Town. What made you decide to design this specific app? We were quite interested in building an app for a school since this has not yet been done in South Africa.
Concipio (Paul Roos Gymnasium’s weekly newletter) recently interviewed Glen, who came up with quite a number of interesting thoughts and facts.
What are the qualities of the app (what is one able to do with it), and why is it so unique? It’s a general-purpose, school-related content aggregation tool for students, teachers, parents and Old Boys alike. The app can be used to access news and info relating to sports, general news, culture, Old Boys, history, timetables, digital Concipio downloads and links to social feeds.
Where and when will one be able to download it? In time for the launch of the 250th Concipio! It can be downloaded on any Android or Apple devices. However, there will also be a mobisite version. Do you have any interesting future plans that we should be on the look out for? Also watch out for an app called Aweza - a multi-lingual South African language phrase translator. This is one of our in-house projects that we are INCREDIBLY excited about launching!
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