Month: August 2015

The Durban and District Chess Tournament took place at Northwood School on Saturday 22^nd August 2015. With Northwood School being in the lead from round 1, the team progressively managed to increase the lead by 7 points by round 5 with a total of 37,5 points, leaving Glenwood High School in 2^nd place and DHS in 3^rd place.  This is Northwood’s 4^th consecutive win since 2012, and we look forward to continuing to excel in the sport of chess!

Front Row: From Left to Right: Mr Paul McAvoy (Chess Team Coach and Headmaster), Ananta Reddy, Sachin Reddy, Kyran Appanna, Charles Lin, Jed Govender and Sharon Reddy (MIC of Chess)

Back Row: From Left to Right:  Shivan Govender, Nimal Gajahur, James Meadows, Nihal Goorchuran, Yashil Morar, Ukyle Bezuidenhout

Congratulations to grade 10 Northwood students, Kairav Ramdularay and Tuvir Jugganath on placing 1st in the FFS Expo in the Chemistry Category for their scientific project Entitled Milk = Plastic.

Northwood was proud to host the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra today as they performed a concert for school students taking music as a subject.  Their performance was on matric set work music pieces.  Schools in attendance were:  Northlands Girls High School, Danville Girls High School, Pietermaritzburg Girls High, Waldorf School, Crawford North Coast and Eden College.

Northwood’s Luyanda Mngadi recently competed in the Youth Nationals Athletics meet in Pretoria where he came 1^st for the Triple Jump, 2^nd for the Long Jump and 6^th in the 100m events.  He has now qualified for the African Youth Championship in December in Mauritius in December.  We look forward to watching Luyanda excel in his chosen sport are very proud of his achievements.

Last week saw a very competitive annual inter-house athletics event take place on our fields.  Thank you to those parents who joined us on the day to support their boys. Crusaders were the overall winners, however there were outstanding personal achievements from several of the athletes.

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Congratulations to the following boys from Northwood who have been selected to represent North Durban at the regional trials:

U19:    W. Roelofsza;  B. Melville; S. Letsi; N. Ntombela; M. Comitos; S. Sibisi; N. Domingo; N. Sibisi; S. Nzuza; B. Mushangazhike; J. Syed

U16:    M. Xulu; M. Mlangeni; K. Lutchmeenarrain; M. Talbot; M. Dalle-Vedove; S. Mkhize; T. Stanley; T. Bartlett; K. Naidoo; S. Ncwane; M. Mnombeli; J. Stewart

U15:    N. Moodley; N. Hlombe; Q. Sibisi; S. Ngubane; S. Majali; L. Singh;

U14:    S. Banda; M. Mngomezulu; J. Dlamini; C. Mfakadolo; S. Hlongwa; N. Mkhaza; N. Chanco; R. McClean

Northwood surfed in the 2015 KZN Schools Surfing Champs at Dairy beach on the weekend. Northwood 2nds surfed their way to 6^th place, while the 1^st team used the small but pristine conditions to their advantage to get to what was to be an epic final! The team were disciplined and surfed with consistency, making it very difficult for the other teams to contend with.  Clifton came close but in a team event like this, Northwood out shone them all. Well done to Bevan Willis, Keagan Wallace, Matthew Sills, Saxton Randall and Jaime Irvine who did us proud!

The standard of surfing was the best we have seen at a Schools Tag Team competition and there was no margin for error. The boys displayed some exciting surfing and focussed on getting the most out of the waves under enormous pressure. It was a fine way to end off the season and I can’t wait for next year.

Thank you to Paul Canning from O’neill for putting up the Prizes!

2015 KZN SCHOOLS TAG TEAM SURFING CHAMPS FINALS

1 AUGUST 2015, DAIRY BEACH

1^ST NORTHWOOD SCHOOL

2^ND CLIFTON 1

3^RD WESTVILLE BOYS HIGH

4^TH CRAWFORD NORTH COAST GIRLS

5^TH ASHTON COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL

6^th NORTHWOOD 2

7^TH CLIFTON 2

8^TH GLENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

9^TH CRAWFORD NORTH COAST BOYS