Bulletin, Rugby

Thank You Compu-Serve!

Union High School extends a grateful word of thanks to Mr Donovan Burger and Mr Chris Erlank of ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚-๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ for the new custom Union-branded rugby post protector and line flag covers for the Puttick and Minnaar rugby fields.
They have really enhanced the look of our sports grounds and we are immensely grateful for their support.
Seen here is Mr Donovan Burger with Unionโ€™s 1st XV captain Mihlali Tyanase and coach, Mr Christopher Felix.
Bulletin, Hockey

New Kit For 1st XI

Union High School extends its thanks to Botha’s Garage Graaff-Reinet for their sponsorship of our 1st team hockey girls’ new kit.
We are very grateful for their support!
๐Ÿ“ท Seen here is Union’s 1st team hockey girls with their coach, Miss Antonet Louw, and sponsor Mr Shawn Botha of Botha’s Garage.
Sport Results

Sport Fixtures 15 May

An exciting day of sport is lined up for this Saturday, 15 May, at Union High School as we welcome Muir College Boysโ€™ High School for rugby and the Diocesan School for Girls for hockey to our campus.
We wish the participating teams the best of luck for their respective encounters!
[๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.]
Rugby, Sport Results

New Kit For 1st XV

Union High Schoolโ€™s 1st XV received their new playing kit earlier today, Saturday, 8 May, thanks to the generous sponsorship provided by Bothaโ€™s Garage.
Mr Shawn Botha, of Bothaโ€™s Garage, visited the school today to present the jerseys to 1st XV captain Mihlali Tyanase. The teamโ€™s coach Mr Christopher Felix, commented โ€œWe are very grateful to our 1st XV sponsor for their support this season. Our players are putting a lot of time and effort into their rugby and the provision of new kits plays an important motivational role.โ€
Union High School is extremely grateful to Bothaโ€™s Garage for their support. Weโ€™re sure that anyone that has ever had dealings with the team at Bothaโ€™s Garage can attest to how extremely fortunate we are to have them involved at Union.
Seen here is Unionโ€™s 1st XV coach, Mr Christopher Felix, captain Mihlali Tyanase (Nr. and teammates Liso Binqela (Nr. 15) and MJ Newton (Nr. 9), accepting the kit from Mr Botha on behalf of the team.
Rugby, Sport Results

First Of The Season for UHS 1st XV

In 2020, Covid-19 destroyed many a Grade 12 learnerโ€™s dream of playing for his 1st XV, and, at one point, we could almost see 2020 repeating itself and we were all worried that the 2021 season could be over before it even began.
Needless to say, the resumption of school rugby in April was a welcome relief for all who love the game.
On Saturday, 8 May, Union High School’s 1st XV enjoyed a friendly match against Asherville Secondary School, their first since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The boys played the game with fierce enthusiasm and pride and suffice to say, we loved every minute of it, from the build-up with the war cry to the spectators supporting us from the back of their bakkies outside the school grounds.
We extend our thanks to Asherville Secondary School’s 1st XV for the friendly competition, the Union drivers for availing themselves on a Saturday to transport the Asherville players to the game and back and to the Union boys and their coach for, as always, making their school proud by giving it their best.
โžก๏ธ Next Saturday, 15 May, Union will play Muir College.
Academic, Bulletin

Top 10 Academic Achievers, Term 1 2021

Grade 12ย Top 10

  1. James Rose-Innes
  2. Kyle-Luke du Preez
  3. Melissa Swart; Hannah Watermeyer
  4. Amozolele Relu
  5. Mekisha Manzana
  6. Petra Japhta; Catelyn Anthony
  7. Jarrod Naude
  8. Shayna Japhta; Lungile Netnou

Grade 11 Top 10

  1. Kendall Krige
  2. Grace Merifield; Kathryn Odendaal
  3. Matthew Basson
  4. Amber Binney
  5. Hannah Bodenstein
  6. Marli Brummer; Daniel Nell; Jamie Japhta
  7. Chloe Shires

Grade 10ย Top 10

  1. Caitrin Spence
  2. Siphosethu Malotana
  3. Cadee Arends
  4. Gemma Naude
  5. Brigette Oelofsen; Trinity West
  6. Anna Pringle; Siyamthanda Desha
  7. Andrue Victor
  8. Sinazo Soyana

Grade 9ย Top 10

  1. Na’eem Mahomed; Caytah-Leigh Koeberg
  2. Joy Merifield
  3. Charlize Vorster
  4. Sade May
  5. Joshua Neill; Jayden Swart;ย  Tyra Binney
  6. Johannes du Plessie; Ethan Linch

Grade 8ย Top 10

  1. Erin Gedult
  2. Tara Ferreira
  3. Megan Nortje; Kenza Neill
  4. Sasha Cochrane; Sarah Jacobs
  5. Aaminah Steele
  6. Kananelo Kometsi; Jayden Eiman; Muhammad Ahmed

Grade 7ย Top 10

  1. Katelyn Trollip
  2. Ciara Kivedo
  3. Samantha Charles
  4. Amber Bezuidenhout
  5. Josh Arends
  6. Taegan Hamid; Anebel Norval
  7. Jade Palmer
  8. Xarah Hoffman
  9. Lisa Vutula

Grade 6ย ย Top 10

  1. Anna Stocks; Aimee Short
  2. Tara Piercey
  3. Amber Slater
  4. Zack Verwey
  5. Kirsten Collet
  6. Sixolile Singeni; Emma Gibbons
  7. Richard Murray; Nasreen Foster; Jennavieve Woods
Sport Results

EP Hockey Trials

The first leg of the EP hockey trials (to determine which players from the region will be progressing to the next set of trials) was held at the Union High School AstroTurf this afternoon, Thursday, 6 May.
Players from Volkskool, Union and Cradock High School participated.
Congratulations to all those who took the field.
After the year-long hiatus on sports fixtures due to COVID-19, it was truly wonderful to see all the girls in action again
Academic, Bulletin

Gr 12 Career Evening

On Wednesday evening, 5 May, Union High School hosted a career evening in the Tony Burrell Union for the 2021 Grade 12s to help them get a better understanding of their future.
With so many study directions and careers to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start! The event, therefore, aimed to bring together a diverse group of professionals to share their respective stories and career pathways pursued with our Grade 12s for their consideration.
Union High School extends its grateful thanks to the respective speakers and representatives of Varsity College, First National Bank, CTU Training Solutions and the Pearson Institute of Higher Education (some of whom met with the matrics on Thursday morning, 6 May) for sharing their stories and so eloquently discussing the various opportunities within their career fields and/or organisations with the learners.
It was a wonderful introduction for our learners to the breadth of career opportunities available to them and proved an ideal opportunity for the Grade 12s to consider their future.
It was also very encouraging to see the matrics engaging with the speakers with great enthusiasm throughout the evening with many commenting afterward that it provided them with a lot of valuable insights about life after high school that isnโ€™t obvious from a university prospectus or a course syllabus.
Union’s head prefects Kyle-Luke du Preez and Hannah Watermeyer with Wednesday evening’s speakers.
โ€ข Union extends a special word of thanks to Mrs Bronwen Langmead for organising the event, as well as to our head prefects Kyle-Luke du Preez and Hannah Watermeyer for their contribution to the evening.
Bulletin

Staff Awards

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ
On the last day of Term 1, Friday, 23 April, Union High School held its long-term service awards ceremony in the Tony Burrell Union.
The awards ceremony is held at the end of each term to acknowledge and commend teachers and support staff who have been serving the school for a long period of time.

The most recent long-term service milestones were achieved by:

Mr Arnold du Plessis – 10 years of service as a groundsman at Union High School.
Mrs Lou-Anne Gerber – 15 years of service as a teacher at Union High School.
Ms Sharon Shell -15 years of service at Union High School.
Mrs Lizet Crankshaw – 20 years of service at Union High School.
Mrs Belinda Grewar – 25 years of service as a teacher at Union High School.
Bulletin

Tongue Twisters For The WIN!

Union High School recently held a tongue twister competition to see which of our learners can fire off a set of fun Afrikaans, isiXhosa and English phrases filled with either a lot of alliteration or a confusing combination of words without tripping up!
โžก๏ธ Read more about this competition here: http://www.unionschools.co.za/…/tongue-twisters-for…/
The ๐—ช๐—œ๐—ก๐—ก๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฆ in the schoolโ€™s primary department (Grade 5 to 7) are Miecke Blom (Afrikaans), Elizabeth Houseman (English) and Hlelo Skotshi (isiXhosa).
In the senior department (Grade 8 to 12) Vuyo Pietersen won the prize for the Afrikaans tongue twister, James Rose-Innes for English and Ngomusa Zweni for isiXhosa.
There were several learners who attempted all three tongue twisters, here Jarrod Naude and Vuyo Booysen received a special prize for their stellar attempts!
Congratulations to all the winners!
โžก๏ธ Visit our YouTube channel to view some videos of the competition: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuKcTrHgpAQ_KovzKsZXPA