Newsletter of 29 August 2025
SA SWIMMING
Congratulations to Sienna and Morgan Gous who have been selected to represent the South African Open Water Swimming team to participate at the Africa Aquatics Zone IV Championships, in Eswatini, in September.
WATER POLO
The First Team Water Polo took part in Coaching Clinic held by two international coaches, Daniel Cercols from Spain and Laura Aarts from Netherlands.
Congratulations to the following Collegiate representatives for all receiving medals at the South African Water Polo Winter Series held at Newton Park Gqeberha.
Charlotte van Bochove was part of the gold medal team, Elizabeth Horn and Emily de Witt receiving silver medals, and Mr Zondani (Assistant Coach) and Alexis Fourie receiving bronze medals.
MOUNTAIN BIKING
Congratulations to Madison Law who has been selected to form part of the 2025 Eastern Cape Provincial Mountain Bike Junior Women A Team and will represent the province at the prestigious 2025 Cycle Lab High School MTB Interprovincial Final, taking place in October this year.
NETBALL FAST FIVE
Bronze medalists! We are proud of our invitational team that competed in the Sunridge Primary School Fast Five tournament. What an exciting evening.
FAIRTREE SUPER 12 HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
What an incredible honour it was for our Collegiate first Hockey team to participate at the Fairtree Super 12 event. Our girls played several tough matches and finished 7th overall.
Menlo : won 1-0
Paarl Gym : drew 2-2
Lady Fatima : lost 0-1
DSG : drew 1-1
St Anne’s : drew 0-0
Waterkloof : lost 1-2
St Anne’s : won 2-0
NATIONAL TOP 12 U16 HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
The Collegiate u16A Hockey team placed 11th in the National Top 12 u16 Tournament, hosted by Paarl Gimnasium in Paarl.
Results:
Lost 0-3 against Waterkloof
Lost 1-3 against Rhenish
Drew 1-1 against Affies
Drew 0-0 against Our Lady of Fatima
Drew 1-1 against Reddam Constantia
Lost 0-1 against Paarl Gimnasium
Won 0-0 (3-1 in shootouts) against Our Lady of Fatima
NATIONAL TOP 12 U14 HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
The Collegiate u14A Hockey team finished in 6th place at the National Top 12 u14 Tournament, hosted by Rhenish Girls High School in Stellenbosch.
Results:
Drew 2-2 against St Marys Kloof
Lost 2-4 against Paarl Gim
Lost 3-2 against Herschel
Won 4-1 against Paarl Girls
Won 4-1 against St Cyprians
Won 5-0 against Stellenberg
Lost 1-2 against Oranje
Congratulations to the team and to Old Girl Brooke Kruger (Collegiate umpire) who umpired the final.
NETBALL AGAINST EUNICE
14A won 5-4
14B won14-3
15A won 11-7
15B won 10-6
16A won 6-4
16B won 9-2
17A won 13-4
1st drew 27-27
Congratulations to Amy Jade Saayman and Amy Botha who played in their 100th 1st team match.
ORANJE DERBY
NETBALL RESULTS:
All our netball teams took to the courts on Saturday for the annual Oranje derby.
While things did not quite go our way on court, lasting friendships were made off court.
The results were as follow:
14A lost 9-12
14B lost 4-15
14C lost 2-24
14D lost 2-24
14E lost 6-20
14F lost 1-16
15A lost 10-15
15B lost 1-29
15C lost 4-34
16A lost 10-22
16B lost 11-24
16C lost 9-20
16D lost 6-25
16E lost 5-30
16F lost 7-18
17A lost 12-13
1st lost 42-13
2nd lost 3-25
3rd lost 2-30
HOCKEY RESULTS:
Despite the blustery conditions and rain, a festive and vibrant atmosphere prevailed at Collegiate over the weekend, when all our hockey teams took to the turf to do battle with the Oranje and Eunice. A huge thank you to both schools for traveling all the way here, and for the competitive hockey matches that were played.
Eunice hockey results:
U14B lost 1-3
U14A won 2-0
U16B drew 0-0
U16A won 2-0
2nds drew 1-1
1sts drew 2-2
Hockey results against Oranje:
U14C lost 0-4
U14B lost 0-4
U14A won 5-1
U16F lost 0-2
U16E lost 0-4
U16D lost 0-7
U16C lost 1-3
U16B lost 0-4
U16A lost 0-2
4ths lost 0-5
3rds won 1-0
2nds lost 0-1
1sts drew 1-1
Our top four chess girls were on form at the derby with a 4-0 win against Oranje.
22ND WORLD AQUATICS ARTISTIC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
We are extremely proud of Aneesah Lindoor who recently represented South Africa by participating in the 22nd World Aquatics Artistic Swimming Championships held in Singapore from the 18th to the 22nd July 2025.
Despite tough competition from the world’s best at Artistic Swimming, the team and Aneesah represented South Africa with pride, achieving 20th place overall for Team Free and 25th overall for Team Tech.
SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS SQUASH COMPETITION
After an exciting weekend full of highs and lows, we are incredibly proud of our 1st Team Squash who finished 7th at the SA Schools Squash Competition.
POETRY EVENING
One is truly fortunate if one is impacted by the beauty of poetry during one's high school career. And this was certainly evident at the annual poetry evening. Like-minded individuals gathered in the Resource Centre to share a little of their souls. We thank Isabella Hendricks for being a vibrant MC. We also thank Mr Batista for being the guest speaker. His depth of insight, humour and ease in front of an audience make him unforgettable. This poetry evening was certainly very special, indeed.
THE HERALD YOUTH SUPPLEMENT
Congratulations to our learners who were recognized for their contributions to The Herald Youth Supplement: Poetry 2nd Runner Up – Aqhama Poyana
Articles 2nd Runner Up – Ainy Munir and Rania Yon
Art Winner – Emma Jack
SACEE (SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL FOR ENGLISH EDUCATION) PUBLIC SPEAKING CHALLENGE
We are thrilled to announce that Aisha Mxokezeli and Holly Tudhope participated in the SACEE (South African Council for English Education) Public Speaking Challenge and have qualified to participate in the final round. They presented prepared and impromptu speeches. Well done to Aisha and Holly for performing well under pressure!
ASPIRE PROGRAME
Our Aspire to Thrive program has included many guest speakers and opportunities for our learners.
Our learners have received bookmarks that remind them to aspire to thrive daily, and have written in their GLAD journals. Learners have also recieved seeds to plant, which allows them to watch them grow over the next few months.
Mrs Swanepoel, a guest speaker, addressed our learners about the importance of watering your own garden and focusing on yourself rather than focusing on someone else's life, when you could be watering your own garden. She also talked on the importance of not letting social media take over your life and let it get to you. She was an inspiration for the learners and the teachers.
Dr Delgado was invited to talk to our staff members and some of our learners. Listening to the importance of spinal health was fascinating and he inspired us to 'eat well, think well, and move well'.
Mrs Govender conducted a workshop for the Grade 8s about empathy and action whilst the Grade 9s explored tolerance and respect. Our Grade 8s and 9s have done tug of war activities with a message of resilience. The studying sisterhood offered coffee chats. Eduvos visited some of our learners. Mrs Pederson from the Junior School spoke to our learners to inspire them.
Some of our brave learners rolled up their sleeves and donated blood — making a real difference and helping save lives.
Simemele hosted a session as part of the ASPIRE to THIRVE programme on "Building Power within and with each other". We were lucky to have very inspirational speakers from NMU's CANRAD - Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy. The main ideas from the sessions were: Communication and holding space is what creates harmony and makes societies THRIVE. A community has power.
Selected Grade Nine learners spent a day with St James collaborating and learning about team building and leadership.
MUSIC
At the annual SASMT Music competition, our learners excelled in their various instruments. We congratulate the following learners for reaching the final round:
Bronwyn Shone, Piano
Aisha Mxokozeli (2nd place, D2 section) Voice
Avethandwa Goboza (1st place, D1 section) Saxophone
Asemahle Nomnganga (2nd place, D1 section) Saxophone
C of Saxes (1st place, B2/B3 section), Saxophone ensemble.
Musical Moments 2025 was the final concert with our Grade 12 musicians. We celebrated their service and commitment to our Music department as members of the Choir, Vocal Ensemble, String Ensemble, Claribelles, C of Saxes and Concert Band. This was followed by Fairytale Follies, a beautiful celebration of musical theatre directed Mrs Hemmingway.
We congratulate the Collegiate Music Department for the success of our musicians, whose skills were adjudicated at the biennial Pearson Praeludium from 4 to 11 August. With more than 2500 learners from various schools playing in multiple categories, the Girls of the College struck the right chord. Collegiate is privileged to offer young musicians the opportunity to learn piano, percussion and various woodwind, brass and string instruments. In addition, the Music Department teaches voice as an instrument, and many singers are actively involved in revues, musicals, and Trinity of London examinations.
Mrs Range accompanied most items for which Collegiate received 28 Diplomas (Double Gold), 27 Gold, 3 Silver and 6 Bronze Awards. Evidence of the Collegiate team spirit is in the success of the Ensemble categories in which the C of Saxes, Claribelles, Choir and Band all received Diplomas in their respective categories. The Collegiate Music Department, under the guidance of Mrs Agenbag, keeps hitting the right note. We are grateful to Miss Potgieter who assisted and all the Music staff for the ongoing endeavours to sustain music.
SUBJECT FAIR
The Grade Eleven learners prepared displays and held the annual Subject Fair in the hall today for the Grade Nines. With qr codes, prizes for subject quizzes, information and advice galore: we could not be prouder of our Grade Elevens.
ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION
Congratulations to Jade van Tonder, who has won First Prize for her excellent essay in the ‘AI’ Category for the Royal Society of South Africa: Science Essay Competition. The markers this year are all professors at various tertiary institutions in South Africa. The markers commented that Jade’s essay is: “Original, balance and well-written. Good bibliography. Very good presentation”.
DEBATING PROVINCIAL TRIALS AT CLARENDON
Congratulations to the Debating team who attended provincial trials and achieved an impressive 8th place out of 25 teams.
SCA
SCA bid farewell to their beloved Matric SCA learners, spending an afternoon at the Intsika Project, where warmth and laughter filled the air. Our SCA learners rolled up their sleeves to help Grade 4 to 7 learners with their homework—and even delivered some surprisingly good Afrikaans instructions, much to everyone’s amusement!
CLARENDON DERBY
The Clarendon Derby marked the end of the season and the first of the lasts for our Grade Twelves. We knew it was a special season when everybody celebrated the seniors in style. It is an end of one chapter for them, but the beginning of the next.
Results:
Netball Results:
1st Team won 32-24
Among the other teams, there were some great wins and 6 matches lost
Hockey Results:
1st Team won 5-0
Among the other teams, there were 7 wins, we drew 2 matches and we lost 1 match
Squash Results:
Lost 15:6
Tennis Results:
1st Team won 1 out of 4 doubles and won 4 of 8 matches in singles
Chess Results:
Drew against Clarendon
Cross Country Results:
Juniors took 1st, 2nd 6th and 7th place
Seniors ranked 2nd, 3rd and 5th.
Public speaking Results:
Well done to Emily Ball, Zimfefe Gomomo, Afikile Tyiso and Holly Tudhope. Special congratulations goes to Zimfefe on placing first in the senior section.
Debating Results:
Lost against Clarendon
