Herzlia HS Magazine 2021

Grade 11 SA Institute of International Affairs Quiz

Mazeltov to the following Grade 11s who finished 9th out of 30
local schools in this online quiz: Benji Anstey, Sabina Kerton, Tim
Moore, Jade Rubin, Aaron Schwartz, Adam Selikowitz, Talia Varkel

and Luca Williams.
Irwin Jacobson Memorial General Knowledge Quiz 2021


This quiz is written annually in memory of Irvin Jacobson, an ex-

pupil who excelled in general knowledge. The pupil who scores
the highest mark in each Grade receives the Irvin Jacobson

Memorial Award for General Knowledge at Prize Giving. Mazeltov
to the following winners:
Grade 7 - Kye Berman

Grade 8 - Sam Bagraim
Grade 9 - Judd Jocum

Grade 10 - Jenna Zetler
Grade 11 - Alexandra Showell

Grade 12 - Ben Daniel, Gideon Sweijd and Ariella Katzeff

Tournament of Minds
This has been a new opportunity this year for our pupils to extend

their thinking in a lateral, ‘out of the box’ way. For the first time we
have entered 4 junior high teams into this year’s national

competition. TOM is an international programme designed to give
participants the opportunity to participate in creative activities

involving stimulating open-ended challenges, which demand
experimentation and reward divergent thinking in four main areas:

Language and Literacy; Esteam; Arts and Culture and Social
Sciences
Challenges are designed to develop critical, creative problem-

solving approaches and techniques and encourage the
development of the various 21st century skills and behaviours. On

Tournament Day, teams of seven students are required to present
their solutions to two challenges - the Long Term Challenge and the

Spontaneous Challenge. These challenges are designed to foster
the development of attitudes and skills that are valued by

employers and to promote lifelong learning. Mazeltov to the
following groundbreakers for having been willing to take on the
TOM Challenges this year.


Team 1: Gabi Querido, Charlee Levitt, Amala Moodley, Zachary

Rosenberg, Hannah Atie, Jami Levy (Moreh Or Kadar)
Team 2: Samantha Wolffe, Savanna Klaff, Ella Orford, Maxine Zacks,

Zachary Coetzee, Matthew Kretzmar, Coby Selikowitz (Ms Tanya
Steyn)

Team 3: Mira Gibson, Leah Rodenacker, Jessica Sherman, Ariella
Landau, Benjamin Levinson, Neo Hermus, Amy Distiller, David Buys
(Mrs Amanda Varkel)

Team 4: Tim Polakow, David French, Ruby Webb, Sarah Allardice,
Joshua Atie, Tori Bruk, Joshua Van Tonder (Mrs Rentia Pretorius and

Mrs Mart-Mare de Klerk)

This year, for the first time, Herzlia entered a team into the World
Ort Taub Yep Entrepreneurial Competition – an annual
entrepreneurship competition. The program was offered to any and

all students who were interested in this unique, exciting learning

opportunity. The students involved are Sarah Allardice, Taya
Allardice, Tatum Benatar, Gemma Cohn, Joshua Daniel, Gabriel
Dubb, Aaron Schwartz, Jonah Schwartz, Adam Selikowitz and Jenna

Zetler – Herzlia High School students from Grade 9, 10 and 11. We
compete against other teams across the Southern Hemisphere like

Argentina, Brazil, Panama and also South Africa. The program is all
about developing entrepreneurial and teamwork skills and we do
this by participating in a number of team challenges throughout the

year as well as the main and final challenge where, as a group, we
develop a product and pitch it to a panel of judges. Each of the

challenges are scored and weighted and the team with the highest
overall mark, will win the title of ORT’s Young Entrepreneurship

Team of the year. So far we’ve completed an introduction
presentation which included an “impossible sell”, a market research

report where we performed a swot analysis on Apple Inc. and
presented our findings – and a business concepts report where we
had to brainstorm innovative, creative and relevant product ideas.

We received 8.8 out of 10 for our market research and full-marks for
our business concept report, the two highest marks for both

challenges, placing us in first position in the competition.

So far, it has proven to be a valuable experience and
learning opportunity. We’ve learnt and enhanced skills
like problem solving, critical thinking, teamwork,

leadership and presentation skills. This term, we even
had the opportunity of meeting an entrepreneur and

former shark from Shark Tank who gave us feedback and
advice on our business concept ideas for the Go/No-Go

challenge that we are currently preparing for. We’ve
really had to push ourselves to think creatively and

innovatively, researching issues and brainstorming
solutions to come up with a worthy business initiative.
We are excited to bring our business concepts to life and

for the rest of the program and competition!



Over the course of Term 1 and Term 2 Herzlia High School competed in
a number of Mathematics Competitions with outstanding results.



South African Maths Olympiad



Herzlia had 84 pupils from Grade 8 to Grade 12 compete in the first
round of the competition. Out of the 84 that wrote the first round, 54

qualified and wrote the second round, with Aaron Epstien (Gr 9)
achieving 100% for his first round test, a truly outstanding feat.



The pupils who completed in the second round are as follows:



Grade 8: Connor Amsdorf, Samuel Bagraim, Naphtali Beinart,Amelie

Bilski, David Buys, Alexand Franco, Sam Frankel, Mira Gibson, Joshua
Helibron, Romeo-Noah Herzkovitz, Aimee Hutchinson, Judd Kilborn,
Benjamin Lazarus, Michael Maher, Benjamin Marks, Samuel Marks,

Gabriella Narunsky, Leah Rodenacker, Zack Rogoff, Eden Sachs,
Lia Sachs, Daniel Sha´Altiel, Joel Shamley, Danni Shochot, Joshua Stoller,

Daniel Webb and Jed Wijnberg



Grade 9: Sarah Allardice, Josh Atie, Daniel Bieber, Mia Burnham, Sienna
Dibowitz,

Aaron Epstein, Aidan Kusevitsky, Aaron Lustig, Jenna Myers, Josh Van
Tonder, Ruby Webb, Matt Whitesman, Noah Zive and Mia Shewitz

Grade 10: Taya Allardice, Matthew Carrol and Jonathan

Querido



Grade 11:Liam Amsdorf, Benjamin Anstey, Jacob Cohen,
Timothy Moore, Gideon Weiss and Adam Marcow



Congratulations to all those who qualified for and participated
in the 2nd round.



A particular congratulations to Aaron Epstein and Matthew

Carrol who have qualified to participate in the 3rd round of
the competition which will be written on the 28th of July.



South African Maths Challenge

We had a number of Grade 7 learners participate in the 1st
round of the competition and the following pupils qualified for
the 2dn round:

Sienna Berridge, Marek Rumbelow, Nee Hermas, Noah
Helman, Liam Baruch, Zachary Rosenberg, Noah Bloch, Joseph

Epstein, Daniel van Breukelen, Megan Hurwitz
and Hosea Cole.



Only the top 98 participants in the country qualify for the 3rd
round and Liam Baruch was invited to participate.

UCT Maths Challenge



We had a number of teams and individuals who participated
and the individuals that came in the top 50 are as follows:



Grade 8: Benjamin Levinson (41st)

Grade 9: Aaron Epstien (18th), Sarah Allerdice (37th), Sienna
Dibowitz (17th) and Noah Zive (20th)

Grade 10: Matthew Carrol (12th) and Jonathan Querido (38th)



Congratulations on the excellent result and effort.







Wits Maths Competition



We had a number of individuals who participated in this

online competition. The following pupils have qualified for the
2nd round, which will be written in September



Grade 7: Levi Meyer, Liam Baruch and Saskia Gofman
Grade 8: Mira Gibson

Grade 9: Aaron Epstien
Grade 10: Ella Videtsky



More information about the competitions that the Grade 7s

have participated in will be available soon.



Congratulations to all of our fantastic Mathematicians!





Herzlia aims to expose pupils to as many learning
opportunities as possible. 2021 has seen pupils participating
in a large number of exciting activities and events during the

school day and in the afternoons.



Herzlia established its first Esport virtual drone racing team in
the High School. This engaging ESTEAM extramural presents

pupils with the opportunity to develop their fine motor skills
while competing against pupils from schools across South

Africa. We are proud to announce that Herzlia pupils took up
all three top positions in the Inspire Africa Drone Racing
League.



One of the Innovation Centre additions, the Makerspace, has

been buzzing with activity throughout the year with pupils
from Gr R-11. Activities included: design and construction of
animal shelters, 3D South African province representations,

electric circuits, new product inventions, animal cells and
viruses.



Our newest subject, ESTEAM, presented Gr 7 pupils with the

opportunity to develop virtual properties in Minecraft
Education. Gr 7 ESTEAM and JLL have also joined forces in

their Stop Motion Animation project that will allow pupils to
enter the World ORT animation competition later in the year.
In Gr 8, ESTEAM becomes an elective subject

Pupils who choose to do ESTEAM in Gr 8 and 9 are exposed to
Mechatronics and Civil Engineering that include classic

computing, coding in JavaScript, Python and HTML, working
with EV3 robots and Mavic drones as well as more advanced
3D design and printing. Grade 9 ESTEAM pupils also had the

opportunity to collaborate with Drama and Art pupils on a CGI
film project and a 3D virtual op art project.



Herzlia is incredibly proud of all the pupils who entered the

annual Computer Olympiad. The top achievers were: Michaela
Perkel in Gr 11 with a score of 100% (only 2 participants out of

2428 in the category in SA achieved a perfect score.) Sienna
Dibowitz in Gr 9 and Benjamin Levinson in Gr 8, both with a
score of 100% (only 5 participants out of 4638 in the category

in SA achieved a perfect score.) Joshua van Tonder, Joshua Atie
and Aaron Epstein in Gr 9 each with a score of 93% (only 14

participants out of 4638 in the category in SA achieved this
score.)



Herzlia’s teachers are constantly engaging in staff development

opportunities to continue to innovate. Over 60 teachers have
already obtained their Google Educator certification upon
completing the online training that was provided by Herzlia’s

Innovation Department. Teaching staff have also been granted
access to the PurpleZA platform that provides a wide range of

pedagogy-related online certification courses. This platform
allows teachers to track their progress on their dashboard as

they are completing courses relevant to their area of expertise.



Finally, thank you to Herzlia’s Innovation and IT teams for
supporting all the pupils and staff with the use of technology
and to ensure that Herzlia remains connected whether we

teach in-person or online. We have more exciting
opportunities that await in 2022 and we can’t wait to share

these with our pupils.



























It has been a difficult year to get sport up and running.
Just as we established a real flow of practices and even

some matches - it was taken away from us in a flash,
with the announcement of a harder lock down at the

end of term 2. This left us wondering whether sport
would resume during the 3rd term.


Much to our surprise, we were allowed to start practices
and matches. Of course, the excitement is tempered by

reservations about rising Covid cases in the Western
Cape.


While the effect of Covid on sport has been really

heartbreaking, we continue to do what we are able to do
and we continue to strive for excellence within the

parameters.

Herzlia would like to congratulate all those

sportsmen/women who were able to continue training
and who have excelled in their chosen sports. This takes

true commitment and dedication and we look forward
to following their successes.


Hats off to all the Sports Heads, teachers in charge of

sports and the pupils for persevering through these
trying times. Your efforts are much appreciated.