Snippets September 2017

September 2017

SNIPPETS PRETORIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

THINK BEFORE YOU POST IMPORTANT

Lizzie Harrison from Emma Sadleir’s law firm The Digital Law Company, DATES
addressed the school in assembly on 20 September. Her rive ng speech on
social media had students and teachers alike glued to her every word. 9 October
Start of Term 4
Those that a ended learnt that even when you delete something it always
remains in the cloud, they learnt that “the screen shot is the devil”, that it is 10 October
important not to talk to people you don't know (seems obvious but is very School's 115th Birthday
tricky), they learnt to leave WhatsApp groups where things are being discussed Service and Cultural Colours
that are malicious, because even though you may remain quiet you are legally Awards Evening
equally as liable, and they learnt that if you wouldn't want you mom to see it,
DON'T SEND IT! 11 October
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12 October
Park Street Arcadia Email: [email protected] Matric Final Assembly
Tel: 012 430 7341 www.phsg.org.za Matric Breakfast
Night at the Proms

13 - 15 October
Old Girls’ Reunion Weekend

15 October
Girls On Bikes

17 October
New Parents Informa on Evening

24 October
Grade 11 History Ou ng

19 October
PA Apprecia on Evening

26 October
Carols by Candlelight

1 November
Exams begin

6 December
Term 4 ends

VOLLEYBALL CHESS

Annual Volleyball tournament School Results
The volleyball team took part in the annual Volleyball Our Chess first team came second in the District Schools
tournament at the Interna onal School of South Africa in Chess Championships and went through to the Gauteng
Mafikeng. Schools Championships. Tara Pemu, Gabrielle Amrouni,
U19C made it to the quarter finals but lost all 4 of their Caitlyn Ha ngh, Natasha Janse van Rensburg, Rose
matches. Mamabolo and Deren Effendi played a fierce game on 9
2nd team made it to the quarter finals where they lost to September 2017 at the Sports Arena on UP's Mamelodi
our 1st team; winning 2 out of 5 matches Campus, and achieved 3rd place over all.
1st team won 3 out of 6 teams making it to the semi-finals
and placing 7th overall. Tara Pemu, Claire Angel, Gabrielle Amrouni, Caitlyn
Ha ngh, Natasha Janse van Rensburg, Rose Mamabolo
TUKS Tournament and Deren Effendi were also invited to par cipate in the
Saturday, 16th of September the Volleyball girls took part South African Junior Chess Championships to be held in
in the annual TUKS Tournament. January 2018.

The First team beat St. Vincent 2-0 and American Congratula ons to these girls and their achievements!!!
Interna onal School of Johannesburg's B team 2-0, but
unfortunately lost against Fourways B 0-2. They went to Individual Chess Championships
the quarter finals but lost against AISJ 0-2. Members of the PHSG 1st and 2nd team par cipated in
the D4 Individual Chess Trails at Hoërskool Waterkloof on
The second team beat DSG 2-1 and JEPPE's B team 2-0, 13 May 2017.
but lost against Fourways A and American Interna onal
School of Mozambiek 0-2. Five of the seven par cipants progressed to the Gauteng
Individual Championships played on 27 May 2017 at
U16's beat American Interna onal School of Hoërskool FH Odendaal: Tara Pemu, Claire Angel,
Johannesburg and Fourways B 2-0, but lost against Heron Gabrielle Amrouni, Caitlyn Ha ngh and Rose
Bridge 1-2 and the Interna onal School of South Africa 0- Mamabolo.
2. They went through to the quarter finals and beat Gabrielle Amrouni placed 27th overall.
Fourways A 2-0. In the Semi-finals they faced Heron Claire Angel placed 4th overall (out of 63 par cipants)
Bridge again and beat them 2-1. In a nail bi ng final, we and progressed with 7 other students in Gauteng to the
lost 1-2 against the Interna onal School of South Africa. South African Schools Individual Championships in July
Well done for receiving second place. 2017.

U14's beat Fourways D, Midrand and Fourways F 2-0, A er par cipa ng in the SA Schools Individual
they also beat Fourways A and Jeppe 2-1. In the quarter Championships, Claire achieved 5th place overall (out of
finals they beat Gressworld 2-0. In the semi-finals they 63 par cipants) and also ranked first of all the Gauteng
beat Fourways A 2-0. In the finals they lost against players.
Fourways C 1-2. Well done for receiving second place.
Congratula ons to these girls and a huge thank you for
SOFTBALL your commitment and hard work!!!

Klara Kific, Grade 10, is currently par cipa ng in schools 2
and club so ball on both regional and provincial level.

Earlier this year she par cipated in an inter-provincial
tournament and earned full provincial colours. She also
received full SA colours for her age group as she was
selected for the Gauteng All-Star Team. In addi on, Klara
was recently selected for the u19 South African na onal
team trials for the Junior World Championships to be held
next year.

CHOIR

The PHSG Senior choir are hi ng all the right notes. On Dugmore and Ms Mangena, took on the best as they
Saturday 2 September they stole the show at the "Life is a competed in the "Sing in Harmonie" compe on on 23
Song- Sing it" Choir Finals held at the State Theatre. September at the Silver Star Casino complex in
Krugersdorp where they made the top 9 (finalists) out of
This took place following the Choir's success at the Irene 104 par cipa ng choirs. The show will be broadcast on
Village Mall Choir Compe on on 29 July where they Kyknet later this year.
walked away the winners. They were also invited to
perform at the SheEO Sleepout at the Women's Day event The Choir and the School Orchestra have also been
at Cons tu on Hill in Johannesburg on 8 August. featured in the Four Schools Concerts which took place
from 24 to 26 September. We wish them all the best a er a
The Choir, alongside conductor Stephen Gericke, busy and very successful year!
accompanist Tessa Olivier, and with support from Ms

LIFEGUARD AWARDS GIRLS ON BIKES

Girls awarded their Junior Lifeguard Awards in the Open The girls of Tshwane will celebrate their youth, feminity
Water: Ezabelle Els, Skye Kershaw, Zoe ten Krooden, Jenna and caring spirit through the streets of Tshwane by riding
Paveley. bicycles in the beau ful purple Jacaranda City. An
Girls awarded their Lifeguard Awards in Open Water: expected 1500 girls will be cycling in summer dresses and
Gabriella Lucas, Pamela Maako, Tasmin Seagrave-Su on. high heels (for the brave) –through the streets of Pretoria
from LC de Villiers Sports Grounds and then follow a pre-
CHINESE determined route. The first stop is Afrikaanse Hoër
Meisieskool in Bond Street. Upon arrival they will be
CLASS AWARDS welcomed by their hostess and invited to a tea party for 45
minutes to socialise with other girls across the spectrum.
Congratula ons to Nessa Nkosi who was one of four The girls will then depart from Affies and return to the LC
learners aged 9-14, who went to China in the July holidays. de Villiers Sports ground. The return route will see them
Four learners were selected from the Mandarin groups in passing through Pretoria High School for Girls, University
Pretoria to represent Africa, together with the 4 learners of Pretoria campus and the St Mary's DSG school grounds.
from 5 other con nents as part of the promo on of Upon arrival at the finish, each and every rider will receive
Mandarin. We would like to congratulate her on her a goody bag.
selec on.
Some girls wrote the HSK Mandarin exam and the results The event will take place on 15 October star ng at 9:00 –
are as follows: the girls will be sent on their journey in batches – 9am,
Passed Level 1: Julia Mar nez, Juanita Minnaar, and 9:20am, 9:40am; 10:00am, 10:20am; 10:40am and 11am
Mercedes Singh (7 batches in total). Price R120.00 per girl. Entries will
Passed Level 3: Monnica Chiu become available via h ps://www.entryninja.com

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MODEL UNITED NATIONS

Annual Johannesburg MUN very important posi ons of Chair and Co-chair for the UNSC
On Saturday 16 September the South African Ins tute of Commi ee.
Interna onal Affairs hosted the annual Johannesburg MUN Congratula ons to all these girls for their inspiring
event at the Wits University – the biggest MUN event of the accomplishments.
year. PHSG entered three teams, represen ng Germany in a
futuris c Security Council, Zimbabwe in the United Na ons
Water Commi ee and Canada in the Interna onal
Organisa on of Migra on.
While all our girls did an outstanding job, we would like to
congratulate the delega on of Zimbabwe (Omolemo
Matseke, Hawa Ibrahim, Jo-Anne Mahlobo) for receiving an
Honourable Men on Award, and also Bonolo Moikanyane
from the delega on of Canada who walked away with a
gold trophy for 1st Best Speaker in the IOM.
We are also excep onally proud to say that two of our Old
Girls (Joyce Bongongo and Morategi Kale) were seen filling

UNESCO At the end of the day, a working document was successfully
On Thursday 31 August our Model United Na ons society passed and Tshego walked away with the prize of third best
had two teams taking part in a UNESCO event at Jeppe speaker of the day. We would also like to congratulate our
Boys' High School, discussing the topic of the youth in three first- me MUN debaters, Kiese, Nolitha, and Beniciel
global governance. on a job well done, making it seem as though they have
Kiese Mpasa, Beniciel Lonji, and Meagan Picton did an been doing it for years.
outstanding job of represen ng the pro-youth delega on
of Ecuador, while Chipo Hansungule, Nolitha Mrwata, and
Tshegofatso Matlou represented the People's Republic of
China and played their cards a bit differently, arguing that
the youth must first be educated significantly before their
role in global governance would really ma er.
Needless to say, we made sure we were no ced.
We would like to thank our dedicated and ever suppor ve
coach Kate Kabe for coming along, as well as our driver Mr
Kgomo.

GIRLS HIGH'S GOT TALENT

Girls High's Got Talent compe on held on Iris Day medals. Special awards to:
3rd place Lise-Lea Bangue Bangue Elcombe Sinokuhle Masilela for enthusias c performance of a poem
2nd place Christy du Preez and Keleketso Mabiotshego Dani van Zyl for best original composi on
1st place Zenaye Skosana (won R200)

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ART EXHIBITION AND AWARDS CEREMONY

On Monday 4 September PHSG held Drawing Category Print-Making Category
its annual Art Exhibi on and Awards · 1st place - Michelle Cazalet · 1st place - Deren Effendi
Ceremony, the exhibit on display was · 2nd place - Toni Siebert · 2nd place - Kris n Katzin
open for all to come and view. Judging · 3rd place - Dayna Binda · 3rd place - Sanam Kanjee
the pieces was Lothar Bὅ char, a
renowned glass ar st. Design Category Sculpture Category
Congratula ons to the following · 1st place - Margo Molchan · 1st place - Jean-Marie Rossouw
learners who's fabulous pieces got · 2nd place - Anya Lureman · 2nd place - Mfusi Son
awarded: · 3rd place - Kgaugelo Mkumbeni · 3rd place - Khanyi Nkosi

1st Place overall - Michelle Cazalet Jewellery Category Photographic Category
· 1st place - Zinhle Dzivhani · 1st place - Peyton Beyleveld
Pain ng Category · 2nd place - Nicole Birch · 2nd place - Monique Jivan
· 1st place - Yerang Oh · 3rd place - Siya Songa · 3rd place - Amy Gravato
· 2nd place - Margo Molchan
· 3rd place - Savana Summerton

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GERMAN DELIGHTS

On 19 September, Grade 10 German girls enjoyed
another visit to Die Brotstube in Rossouw Street. The
queue stood s ll for nearly 30 minutes as they ba led to
choose from the in mida ng variety of pastries. Time and

me again this is proven to be the hardest part of having
German as a subject. #Schwierige Entscheidungen

ATHLETICS SOCCER

PHSG athletes competed at Germiston Stadium against Senior B won 3/0 against Cornestone College
the Johannesburg private schools on 14 September and Junior A won 2/0 against Cornerstone College.
were placed 1st with a 94 point lead to the runner up. This Senior B drew 0/0 against Crawford College Pretoria
is a great start to the season. Keep it up. Senior A won 7 / 0 against Pretoria Central School
Juniors won 4/0 against Pretoria Central High
SA’S BODY Senior A won 2/1 against Curro Hazeldean
BUILDING CHAMPS Senior B Team won 8 / 0 Ha ield Chris an School
Senior A won 5/ 0 against Clapham
Jade Haynes Grade 10 Athlone has qualified to represent Senior B lost 3/1 against Cullinan Combined School
the Gauteng Team at the NABBA/WFF World at the Senior A won 8/1 against Curro Thatchfield
Na onal Body Building Championships at UNISA in Oct. Juniors won 1/0 against Curro Thatchfield

ATRISTICULTA SQUASH
DANCE FESTIVAL
PHSG A vs Menlo A: Menlo won 16-2
Congratula ons to Leigh-Ann Pentz in Grade 8 PHSG B vs DSG B: PHSG won 13-4
par cipated in the Atris culta Dance Fes val earlier in PHSG C vs PHSG D: PHSG C won 13-5
August in Centurion. She was awarded 2 silver medals for
individual dance, and a gold medal for her group hip hop PRETORIA
dance. She has qualified to take part in the Rising to Fame
Na onal Arts Fes val at the Wild Coast Sun in 2018. EISTEDDFOD

Catherine S ff, Grade 8, was awarded a number of A++
cer ficates as well as several trophies and selected as
the overall winner in the violin category String Sec on of
the Pretoria Eisteddfod.

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BASKETBALL DESIGN AN AD
COMPETITION
Tshwane Team Selec on
Following a successful Pretoria League Basketball Pretoria News has been hos ng a Design an Ad compe on
season a number of our players took part in the District for the past few years. This compe on is open to learners
trials and we are pleased to announce that the from several schools. We would like to congratulate Ann Ha
following girls have been selected for the Tshwane Jin Lee and Kristy Lowe, both in Grade 8, who received
teams: honourable men on for their entries as well as Savana
U18 Summerton who took the prize for overall winner in the
Refiloe Manyaapelo Grade 10 to 12 category! This is an outstanding
Terrell Mbokota achievement! Well done ladies.
Prudence Mbokota
Nthabiseng Malapela
Michaela Skinner
Caitlin Gomwe
U16
Odelia Madzivhe
Amandla Mashigo
Khensani Mangolele
Phemelo Matlaisane
Palesa Lenken
Congratula ons and well done! The Provincial trials will
be held on 30 September.

St Peter's Tournament
From Friday 15 to Sunday 17 September a team from
PHSG took part in the annual St Peter's College
Basketball tournament. Over the course of the weekend
we played 5 pool matches, bea ng The Glen 24 – 7,
Ridgeway 8 – 5, Enjabulweni 18 – 8, and St Dunstan's 36
– 4 and narrowly losing to Dominican Convent 10 – 11.

PHSG thus ended first in their pool and proceeded to OLD GIRL
the quarter-finals where we beat Waterford College RANKS TOP 10
from Swaziland 22 – 14. We met Norkem Park in our
semi-final match where we narrowly lost 17 -18. Old Girl, Jo-Anne van den Berg, took part in the Anglo
American Pla num 2017 PLATAFRICA compe on in
PHSG thus finished 3rd overall at the tournament, our which she was ranked in the top 10 for the piece below.
best result in the last three years. Well done to all our We are very proud of her. PHSG is one of 2 schools in the
girls and a special word of thanks to our matrics who country that offers Jewellery Design as a subject.
played their last ever tournament for PHSG.
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ROYAL SCHOOLS

OF MUSIC EXAM

Congratula ons to the following girls who have passed
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Theory exam:
Grade 1: Masana Mashapha (98 %) & Caitlyn Reddy (92 %)
Grade 3: Minkateko Shikweni (76 %)
Grade 5: Tamrin Slager (88 %), Rbekah Miller (90 %), Milan
Dowlath (80 %), Yebin Cho (83 %), and Christy du Preez (99
%)
Grade 6: Jessica Guimaraes (75 %)

SECURITY GOES CONSUMER STUDIES

ABOVE AND BEYOND Delicious smells wa ed down the passageways while the
Matrics did their final prac cals. PHSG believes there may
Security Officer Ismael Ndziane, a Security Guard placed be some Master Chefs in the making at our school.
at PHSG, received a cer ficate of acknowledgement and a
gi from Owen Musiker, owner of Owen Musiker Security.
Officer Ndziane went above and beyond his du es when
he found a wallet and enlisted the help of Brooklyn police
to track down the owner to reunite him with the item he
had lost. Well done and thank you for your outstanding
service.

NORTHERN

CLIVIA SHOW

A huge congratula ons to Kaylee Harris who
par cipated in the Northern Clivia Show. Kaylee won
the Gold medal as the overall winner in the Open
Exhibi on category as well as the Gold for the informal
arrangement and Silver for the formal arrangement.

EQUESTRIAN

Congratula ons to all our riders on a very
successful year. Very special congratula ons to
the following riders who were chosen to ride for
the Gauteng Tshwane Team at the Gauteng
Finals Compe on:
Jenna Myer, Savannah Thomson, Ka e Tulloch,
Nadia Pentz, Simone Syman and Jean-Marie
Rossouw
A er the Gauteng Finals a team was chosen to
represent Gauteng at the Na onal Championship
and we are very pleased to announce the Jenna
Myer has been chosen to represent this team.
Congratula ons to all the riders and a big thank
you to the parents for the many hours you have
given up in order to get the riders to the correct
venues and to make our team a success.

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PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS

Iris Day Amy Le with a resounding 97 photos.
Congratula ons to the following learners who amazed Rach van Biljon and Min Yoongi followed closely with 62
us with their photos of Iris Day: and 68 photos respec vely.

As a whole, thank you to each young lady that
par cipated, we thoroughly enjoyed going through the
photos, some of them were absolutely beau ful!

Spring Fair
The winner of the #SpringFair2017 compe on is
Michaela Thomaides, her photo received a stunning 328
likes. In second place, Emma Bartz with 201 likes.

The winner of the Category with the most interac on
was Emma Bartz! Her picture had received an
outstanding 526 likes at the me!
Also worth men oning is Riley Wearne and Rachel
Meyer. Their photos received 380 and 444 likes
respec vely.

The winner of the category with the most pics posted is

SACEE Syacey Sapsford Christy Du Preez and Grace Mngadi

Nine schools in Pretoria entered
the 2017 South African Council for
English Educa on (SACEE) wri ng
compe on. The standard was
very high and we are very proud
of the following learners who
have been invited to the SACEE
prize giving ceremony:
Christy du Preez Junior Wri ng
Dis nguished Performance
Grace Mngadi Senior Poetry 3rd
Place
Stacey Sapsford Senior Wri ng
1st Place

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THINK BEFORE YOU POST

Continued from Page 1 on WhatsApp.
Did you know?:
Lizzie taught learners the importance of using social media · When signing up to various well known social media
to build your digital CV, yes, one day your prospec ve accounts you have given them permission to, without your
university or employer WILL be doing a search on you and knowledge or any form of compensa on, use your content
profiling you accordingly. Unlike mes past where silly in whatever way they deem fit. They may use your bikini
things you said or did where a ributed to being young and shot in an advert oversees on a billboard 20 years from
naïve and were soon forgo en, it is now permanently now.
recorded and you are legally responsible and can be sued in · Reputable social media sites have relaxed certain public
your own capacity from the early age of 7 years old! figures privacy se ng for just 3 hours so that the media
could access their informa on and photos – yes they can do
Learners were advised to ensure the se ngs on their social that!
media are private to avoid unfavourable people from · If you are tagged to a photo that may be deemed as
viewing their accounts. Under South African law, once you discriminatory or malicious, you are legally equally as
have posted something it becomes public knowledge, even responsible as those that created, shared or liked it.
Change your se ngs so that people can't just tag you!
If an app or site is promising you that you are anonymous, it
is lying! Read the terms and condi ons.

HERITAGE DAY

PHSG celebrated heritage day with some of the young ladies dressed in full regalia. We
are truly blessed to have so many girls from different cultures (Africa and abroad) in our
school. To find such diversity at one establishment is a rare and informa ve gi , how
many other students can start their careers a er leaving school with such an
opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding about language, customs and
tradi ons? The school was alive with colour on 22 September and the young ladies
looked beau ful!

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CLEPHAN SHIELD SUPPORTERS

ACADEMIC POINTS CARDS RESULTS

RESULTS TERM 2 2017 TERM 2 2017

Grade 8 Grade 8
10th: Connaught – 78 10th: Duncan – 8
8th: Clarendon & Duncan – 80 7th: Buxton, Selborne, & van Zyl – 24
7th: Gladstone – 86 6th: Clarendon – 27
6th: Selborne – 90 4th: Athlone & McWilliam – 31
5th: McWilliam – 91 2nd: Connaught & Gladstone – 45
4th: Aitken – 93 1st: Aitken – 82
3rd: Buxton – 96
2nd: Athlone – 99 Grade 9
1st: van Zyl – 100 10th: Clarendon, Gladstone, Selborne, & van Zyl – 0
5th: Athlone & Buxton – 12
Grade 9 4th: Duncan – 22
10th: Buxton – 95 3rd: Connaught – 24
8th: Duncan & Connaught – 98 2nd: Aitken – 27
5th: Clarendon, Athlone, & Aitken – 100 1st: McWilliam – 48
4th: McWilliam – 102
3rd: Gladstone – 110 Grade 10
2nd: van Zyl – 113 10th: Athlone & Connaught – 0
1st: Selborne – 119 8th: Aitken – 2
7th: Buxton – 5
Grade 10 6th: Gladstone – 8
10th: Duncan – 72 5th: McWilliam – 11
8th: Gladstone & Selborne – 83 4th: Clarendon – 25
7th: Connaught – 84 3rd: Duncan – 27
5th: Buxton & Clarendon – 87 2nd: van Zyl – 40
4th: Athlone – 88 1st: Selborne – 49
3rd: McWilliam – 89
2nd: van Zyl – 91 Grade 11
1st: Aitken – 93 10th: Aitken – 7
9th: Buxton – 11
Grade 11 8th: McWilliam – 14
10th Connaught – 63 7th: Selborne – 18
9th: Buxton – 75 6th: Athlone – 21
8th: Gladstone – 76 5th: van Zyl – 25
7th: Duncan – 78 4th: Clarendon – 29
6th: McWilliam – 80 3rd: Duncan – 36
5th: van Zyl – 81 2nd: Connaught – 37
4th: Aitken – 82 1st: Gladstone – 47
3rd: Selborne – 83
2nd: Athlone – 88 Grade 12
1st: Clarendon – 89 10th: McWilliam – 2
9th: Gladstone – 13
Grade 12 8th: Duncan – 15
10th: McWilliam – 69 7th: Selborne – 16
9th: Aitken – 70 6th: Clarendon – 17
8th: Clarendon – 71 5th: Athlone – 29
7th: Duncan – 77 3rd: Buxton & Connaught – 38
6th: Athlone – 78 2nd: Aitken – 43
5th: Connaught – 80 1st: van Zyl – 83
3rd: Gladstone & van Zyl – 81
2nd: Selborne – 90 11
1st: Buxton - 91

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