Be sure to buy your tickets for this beautiful event from Mrs Moos from Monday, 14 January – only 160 tickets available. Moms without daughters are welcome to adopt one for the morning! Please support our hardworking grade 11 fundraisers!
We are very pleased to announce that our 2018 efforts for our eco-schools projects have been favourably received and we’ll be awarded with our Platinum 1 Eco-Scools Award soon. Any parents who would like to be part of our 2019 Eco-Schools Committee please contact Ms Street.
Five of our learners (left to right in photograph), Amahle Finca (U/16A), Harun Wajid (U/18A), Liano Naidoo (U/18A), Tracy Petitt (U/16A) and James Rose-Innes (U/18A) represented the Chris Hani District in Chess at the South African Junior Chess Championships that were held in Johannesburg from 15 to 20 December. The event included the following categories: Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Under 18, Under 20.
The SAJCC is the largest chess tournament in South Africa and one of the biggest chess events in Africa with approximately 2300 players and 300 coaches and team managers attending from all over the country. It was indeed an honour for these five learners to represent our School and the district at such a prestigious event.
It is our pleasure to announce a NSC 2018 pass rate of 96,9%. Sixty one out of sixty three learners managed to pass their final examination for 2018. Whilst disappointed that we could not manage to maintain a 100% pass rate, we are delighted in the overall excellent performance of our learners. We wish to congratulate our Top Achievers and thank them on their commitment to making Union High School proud.
Union’s top matriculant, Amanda Brink, who received 6 distinctions, with her proud parents and Headmaster Mr William Pringle.
Kelly Rose-Innes, Amanda Brink and Rebecca Langmead who all acheived ‘A’ aggregates.
Our Top 3 performers, Kelly Rose-Innes, Amanda Brink and Rebecca Langmead, all achieved an overall A-aggregate performance (above 80%) in this final NSC examination for 2018. A special congratulations goes to:
Amanda Brink on achieving six subject distinctions and placed 1st on year,
Kelly Rose-Innes (five subject distinctions) placed 2nd on year,
Rebecca Langmead (four subject distinctions) placed 3rd on year,
Uthimna Somi (3 subject distinctions), placed 4th on year,
Kirsten van den Berg (2 subject distinctions) placed 5th on year
Megan Meintjes (2 subject distinctions) placed 6th on year.
Congratulations are also extended to the following learners for obtaining subject distinctions:
Tracy-Lee Abels (two distinctions)
Phawoluhle Abraham (two distinctions)
Caitlin Arnott (one distinction)
Kayla Bodenstein (one distinction)
Oarona Dibi (one distinction)
Lilitha Hans (one distinction)
Bavuyise Hermans (three distinctions)
Zita Jacobs (two distinctions)
Michael Krige (two distinctions)
Ben Kroon (one distinction)
Britney Ludick (one distinction)
Faith MacDonald (two distinctions)
Loren Mackelina (one distinction)
Linomtha Mudzana (one distinction)
Sinethemba Ndudula (one distinction)
Olwethu Ngcai (one distinction)
Leigh-Ann Ormond (one distinction)
Ronan Potgieter (two distinctions)
Sonique Simpson (two distinctions)
Yonwaba Smith (one distinction)
Likho Zwakala (one distinction)
Forty two learners qualified for Bachelor Studies, sixteen learners for Diploma studies and a further three for Certificate studies. A total of 54 distinctions have been obtained by the class of 2018.
A further note of congratulations goes to the following subject educators for achieving 100% pass rate in their respective subjects:
Ms V. Van Rensburg: Afrikaans First Additional Language (18 subject distinctions)
Mrs C Scott: Life Orientation (19 subject distinctions)
Mr C Felix: Accounting (3 subject distinctions)
Mr H Sparrius: Life Sciences (2 subject distinctions)
Mrs Van der Walt and Mrs Van Rooyen: Music (1 subject distinction)
Mrs C Read: Tourism (1 subject distinction)
Mrs A Gedult: Mathematical Literacy (5 subject distinctions)
Our sincerest thanks go to a very dedicated team of educators, who assisted these learners to reach their full potential. Our sincerest thanks are extended also to all stakeholders in this community for their tremendous support of our efforts to maintain excellence in education and academics in particular.
Our final praise goes to our God Almighty, who makes the impossible possible.
Union is delighted to welcome our 2019 Salisbury Exchange Student Max Blank, who is settling in well on the Davenport’s farm in the Pearston district. Max and Matthew have spent the last few days exploring the farm before starting the new term at Arthur Kingwill house on Tuesday. Union extends a very warm welcome to Max!
It has been over a month since the first keystone of the Centenary Walkway was lain, and today the final rock was put into place. This 200kg rock, sourced on the Watermeyer’s farm, has since been driven to Port Elizabeth, sandblasted with our crest and motto, and driven back to its final nestling place at the entrance to our beautiful school. Today, the painstaking work of sealing each rock began. It was a meditative and contemplative process as the team brought each rock, representative of our special school community, to colourful life.
Five of our learners (left to right in photograph), Amahle Finca (U/16A), Harun Wajid (U/18A), Liano Naidoo (U/18A), Tracy Petitt (U/16A) and James Rose-Innes (U/18A) represented the Chris Hani District in Chess at the South African Junior Chess Championships that were held in Johannesburg from 15 to 20 December. The event included the following categories: Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Under 18, Under 20.
