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Stepping Up To The Challenge

Union was recently challenged to participate in the ‘Dance of Brave’ challenge.
True to form, our learners rose to the challenge and on Wednesday, 24 November, we recorded them taking on the challenge along to the Ndlovu Youth Choir’s latest song, “We will rise”.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll these past two years and the road ahead is still long and uncertain. There is a lot of work that lies ahead and every one of us has a role to play.
However, watching our learners do this dance together, was inspirational. There is nothing that unites us quite like singing and dancing together – it’s incredible. And, the kindness and camaraderie that we see in our learners each day brings us such a renewed sense of hope for the future.
We hope this video of our learners’ dance of hope brings you the same joy it has brought us. #BeBraveMzansi!
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Resurfacing Of Tennis Courts

When Union’s athletes take to the school’s tennis courts to start off the 2022 season, they will be playing on beautiful, newly reconstructed, playing surfaces.
The resurfacing of the school’s tennis courts kicked off this morning, Wednesday, 17 November, and – in a couple of weeks – will soon be in great shape again, ready to serve the school community!
𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯!
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Palisade Project Underway

At Union High School, keeping our school 𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘 – along with all the teachers, staff and learners residing inside – is of utmost importance.
We, therefore, recently embarked on a project that will see the school’s perimetre fence along the riverbank replaced with secure palisade fencing.
The total length of this project – which will enhance the security of our campus immensely – spans 600m and will stretch all the way from the corner at Union High School’s AstroTurf, past Herby Arnott House and the Union Preparatory School to the back of Arthur Kingwill House.
We can’t wait to see this project completed and thank our team of groundsmen for their efforts in erecting this fence.
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Langbourne Series Completed

“𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵.” — 𝗝𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶
Author Mr Alan Landau, who currently resides in Australia, recently published the sixth and final book in his ‘Langbourne’ series, titled ‘Langbourne’s Legacy’.
Although this book isn’t available in South Africa as yet, Union was extremely fortunate to be gifted two of them by Mr Landau, to complete the two sets of this series he donated to the school in 2019.
We are extremely grateful to Mr Landau for this gesture. The learners have loved following David and Morris Langbourne on their epic African adventure and we’re sure that many are looking forward to – what is sure to be – its epic conclusion.
Follow the link to read more about the Langbourne novels by author Alan Landau: https://www.unionschools.co.za/2019/08/
📷 Seen here are library monitors and bookworms of note, Precious Nobula and Keisha Mentoor, with the copies of ‘Langbourne’s Legacy’.
Cricket, Sport Results

15th Senior Cricket Festival

Union High School is excited to announce that we will be hosting our 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 at the start of 2022, from 12 to 15 January!
We look forward to welcoming Daniël Pienaar Technical High School, Marlow Agricultural High School, Queen’s College Boys’ High School, Stirling High School, East London, Edgemead High School, Milnerton High School and Nico Malan to our campus for four days of competitive cricket in an environment that promotes collegiality, friendship and camaraderie.
𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠
The team that will be representing Union High School as its 1st XI during this festival, consists of Sisipho Arnols (captain), Hlaki Skepe, Ivan Murray, Lihle Mxhunyelwa, Daniel Nell, Brent Hesselink, Joshua Horne, Laythan Carelse, Shaakir Kazi, Camran Swartz, Jude Langmead, Thokozani Mpanza and Jordan Wilmot.
We wish them all the best in their preparations for this festival
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Learners Shine At Karoo Eisteddfod

In spite of yet another disruptive year, the cultural activities of Union High School continued in the background.
The highlight of the year was certainly the more than 100 learners who participated in 82 items for the Karoo Eisteddfod in the categories of Music, Art, Drama, Speech, Photography and Creative Writing.
We are truly grateful to our educators, Ms Jenny Street, Mrs Hanli Rose-Innes, Mrs Bronwen Langmead, Mrs Sanette Brink, Ms Zelda van Rooyen and Miss Paula-Jane Phillips, who prepared and entered the learners in the different categories.
Our learners did exceptionally well, with marks ranging from Triple Gold to Silver.
Not one learner got under 70%.
📷 Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll feature the achievers in each category, but we’d like to start it off today with Camran Swartz, Joy Merifield, Tyra Binney and Ababalwa Matutu, seen here on the accompanying photos, who each received a Triple Gold certificate for their 2D artwork entries.