Western Cape honour Class of 2013

Western Cape honouring top 2013 matrics per subject, most improved schools, top schools and top matric candidates:

• Bishops High takes Bronze in school awards
• St Cyprian's High takes Silver in school awards
• Herschel High is province's top school for 2013
• Klein Nederberg Secondary wins Bronze as most improved school 
• Imizamo Yethu Secondary wins Silver as most improved school 
• George High is most improved school for 2013
• De Kuilen High wins Bronze for Bachelor passes
• Schoonspruit Secondary wins Silver for Bachelor passes
• Mondale High is top school for increase in Bachelor passes
• Strand High most improved in Maths
• Paul Roos Gymnasium has most Maths passes
• Punt High most improved in Physical Sciences
• Paul Roos Gymnasium has most passes in Physical Sciences
• Spine Road Secondary most improved in Accountancy
• Spine Road Secondary most improved in Accountancy
• Spine Road Secondary most improved in English Home Language
• Fairmount High has most English Home Language passes
• Klein Nederburg Seconday most improved in Afrikaans Home Language
• George Secondary has most Afrikaans Home Language passes
• Imizamo Yethu Secondary most improved in isiXhosa Home Language
• Bloekombos Secondary has most isiXhosa Home Language passes
• Bianca Nel, Jan Kriel School, is top Elsen candidate
• Zimkhitha Basana, Inkwenkwezi Secondary, is top in isiXhosa
• Robyn Paterson, Rustenburg GHS, is top in English
• Wianke Jenkins, Durbanville High, is top in Afrikaans
• Samuel Wolski, Bishops, is top in Mathematics
• Gerben Draaijer, Paul Roos Gym, is top in Physical Sciences
• Gerben Draaijer, Paul Roos Gym, is top in Accounting

Western Cape Education Department

MY goal in life

A new academic year starts this week. Wait......!!!! we call it school year.

It’s also one with a new challenge, entering a new environment if you new on the grounds. If you lucky you the new teacher, if not it means you grade 8 or R, or at a new school.

I still remember my first school day, similar to what you see these days for our grade R and grade 1 learners, just in my day we called it pre-primary and sub A. The fear of starting something new was again with me when I started standard 4 (now it’s known as grade 6) at a new school and then came high school with all the standard 6 (grade 8)-kids going through orientation – miraculously I survived this. If you ask me how, I guess it is true “it’s who you know and not what you know”. Five years later the fear of a new start was on my door step again, after completing my high school career I went on to a tertiary institution.

Some of us when we young and others still in their twenties are unsure of our purpose in life and where you heading and we thus feel as if our life is on autopilot, taking each day as it comes, falling into a routine.

This might be the case but the bible teaches us God has a purpose for each one of us. Our fingerprints and DNA are proof that God created us each unique with a talent. In Isaiah we read “God called me before my birth, when I was in my mother’s womb he called me on my name” and 1 Corinthians 12 tells us God has a task for each one of us.

Throughout our school career we meet and greet teachers some of them busy with their hobby trying their best to teach us the quality of life, others try and do their job.  Even they don’t realize the impact they have on our lives.

During a teacher strike a few years ago, I made the statement “instead of our teachers being on the streets protesting which is a good option but they might not get the increase or being paid for that time, they could have been in the classrooms educating our learners to become better leaders looking after their followers.”

It is important to always try and inspire, motivate and encourage a person, someone once told me “the fruit of your harvest you might not see today or in a year but someday could even be after you left earth your motivation, inspiration or encouragement to that person will bear the fruit.”

Through all these phases that so many go through annually at whatever stage I went through there’s one thing that motivated me, MY goal in life!