Tripple Gold For Senior Marimba Band

๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—š๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—จ๐—Ÿ๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ to the senior marimba band, consisting of Sbusisiwe Gcinisa, Precious Nobula, Ayabulela Goliath, Lisakhanya Mvandaba, Shona Zana, Ambesiwe Tokwe, Simamkele Soyana and Harly Qina, on being awarded a 92% (cum laude) – a Triple Gold Award – for their piece ‘๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‰๐˜บ ๐˜”๐˜ฆ’ during this yearโ€™s Karoo Eisteddfod. Here they can be seen playing the song during Union High School, Graaff-Reinet’s recent Music Evening.

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As part of our extra-curricular programme at Union, the school offers a marimba band programme. Learners are introduced to the programme as early as Grade 5 and are taught the skills necessary in an exciting and fun environment by our music educators, Mrs Sanette Brink and Ms Zelda Oosthuizen.

๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™ช๐™ง๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ฌ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ข๐™–๐™ง๐™ž๐™ข๐™—๐™– ๐™—๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ง ๐™—๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™. Marimba is an amazing tool for learning, team building and morale boosting and serves as a fun and interactive way for our learners to build their confidence while demonstrating their unique talents.

๐˜ˆ๐˜ต ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ญ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

Exceptional Piano Performances at Karoo Eisteddfod

The recent Karoo Eisteddfod was a wonderful experience for our learners!

๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—š๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—จ๐—Ÿ๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ to pianists Joy Merifield, Vivian McEwan, Brigette Oelofsen, Caitrin Spence and Arno Nell on having been awarded Triple Gold certificates for their respective performances.

๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ!

Cricket: U/13 vs Muir

On Saturday, 24 September, Union High Schoolโ€™s ๐—จ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐—” ๐—–๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—–๐—ž๐—˜๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฆ hosted Muir College for a 40-over encounter.

Union lost the toss and was sent to bowl first. Muirโ€™s batsmen got off to a very decent start, managing a run-rate of about 10 an over for the better part of their innings. Union’s bowlers, however, managed to bring that down by taking wickets at regular intervals, resulting in Muir making a total of 155.

Unionโ€™s best bowlers were ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜† (2 wickets), ๐—ข๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜…๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป (2 wickets) and ๐—๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ป-๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ž๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด (3 wickets).

The Union side then went in to bat, but got off to a bad start, losing their top order with only 24 runs on the board.

๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜† managed to build a few partnerships, but the Union side eventually fell short by 43 runs with ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜† being the best batsman, scoring 50 not out.

๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ-๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ

Biathlon News

This past Saturday, 24 September, Union had a strong team of 14 ๐—•๐—œ๐—”๐—ง๐—›๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฆ participating in the second meet of the season in Gqeberha.

๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต, ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ‘๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ด’ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

The great thing about biathlon is that the participants may run with several different age groups, but it is their OWN time that is important, not winning or losing a particular race. This first event allowed Union’s biathlon team to get both a running and swimming time on record in order for them to now try and beat that time at every following event.

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™š๐™™ “๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ข” ๐™™๐™ž๐™™ ๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™™, with great manners and sportsmanship, and fantastic running results, most notably Luvela Makaula and Qhama Solomon who ran fantastic times to take first and second place respectively in the u/15 boys running category.

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ง๐™ก๐™จ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™š๐™จ and mention must be made of Miley Burger and Samantha Gilfillian who, for the first time, had to run 800m – a hard sprint twice around the track!

The swimming was held at Brylin – Independent Learning Centreโ€™s 50m indoor pool, and our athletes did very well considering they haven’t been able to train throughout the winter. They held their own, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, with two of our athletes improving on their past times (Ben and Taylor)!

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง๐˜ง ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜‹๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ’๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜€:

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ ๐—š๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 1st Taylor Jacobs

โ€ข 3rd Allison Gilfillian

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ ๐—š๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 5th Samantha Gilfillian

โ€ข 8th Miley Burger

โ€ข 10th Angelique Kyanda-Kaboza

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ ๐—•๐—ข๐—ฌ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 7th Luvela Makaula

โ€ข 8th Qhama Solomon

โ€ข 9th Lulonke Vumazonke

โ€ข 10th Asakula Nkomo

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ ๐—š๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 8th Onika Jantjies

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿณ ๐—•๐—ข๐—ฌ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 3rd Ben Lemke

โ€ข 8th Sophephela Vimbi

โ€ข 9th Connor Horn

๐˜‚/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿณ ๐—š๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ:

โ€ข 6th Misha Newton

โ€ข 8th Mecoli Vorster

โ€ข 9th Rebecca Copeman