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Congratulations to Northwood Students Trent Dungey (50m Freestyle, 200m Backstroke and 100m Butterfly), Matthew Bedderson (50m and 100m Breaststroke) and Juvahn Singh  (50m and 100m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley) on their selection to represent the KZN Province in the South African Swimming Championships in Pretoria from 10-15 December 2014. We are proud of you!

Congratulations to Northwood’s Ngoni Chidoma for his selection to the South African Schools U18 Rugby Team, he is one of only 3 KZN boys to be selected.  Their first international match will be played against France in Cape Town this coming Friday.

Please click on the link to read the article in The Witness by sports journalist David Knowles

[prettyfilelink size=”” src=”http://www.northwoodschool.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Witness-RD-Main-RD032_Sport006-31.pdf” type=”pdf”]Chidoma Makes History For Northwood[/prettyfilelink]

 

Northwood old boy and internationally known family therapist, Rod Smith, addressed our students in a moving assembly today.  Rod, who now resides in America, is well known for his “You and Me” newspaper column which is read in over 130 countries and which is published every week in The Mercury.  He fondly remembers his grade 9 year at Northwood (previously Beachwood and Northlands) when he discovered his passion and talent for writing which set him on his lifelong career path.  Rod was previously awarded the Circle of Valour Award in 2013 in acknowledgement of his service to the community, and continues to be an example to our Squires and Knights of Northwood.

SAVE THE DATE!

Friday 12 September 2014 at Mount Edgecombe Golf Course

It’s almost time for our Northwood School Annual Golf Day! This is a perfect opportunity to market your company, entertain your clients or just enjoy a fun day on the golf course!

Please help us make our Golf Day a success by offering your assistance; either by booking a four ball, hole sponsorship, sponsoring prizes (and wrapping prizes), and referring your contacts to us should they be interested in marketing their company on the day.

 

 

Four-ball (Alliance):        R475 per person      Includes Dinner and Prize Giving

R1900 per Four-ball (Handicap limit, men 18 / women 24)

 

Sponsorships:       Title Sponsor: includes registration area, putting greenand prize giving venue              R 5000

Halfway House                       R 1000

Hole Sponsorships                R 1000

Prizes:         4 of each           The sky is the limit!

[prettyfilelink src=”http://www.northwoodschool.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Players-entry-form-PDF1.pdf” type=”pdf”]Players Entry Form PDF[/prettyfilelink]

 

Please can all prizes be brought in by Friday 5 September, or sooner, in order for us to allocate and wrap.

 

Please contact Jenni-lyn van Niekerk on Tel: (031) 5636501 / Fax: (031) 5641898 or email: marketing@nwood.co.za

We look forward to a great day of golf!

 

Your Sincerely

Jenni-lyn van Niekerk

Golf Day Coordinator

 

Payment Details

Northlands/Beachwood High School Fund t/a Northwood School FNB – Durban North (220426) Account No : 50791003665     *Please use “Golf” and your surname or company name as a reference, please email proof of payment to marketing@nwood.co.za.

 

 

 

 

 

Bay of Plenty, Durban

Friday to Sunday July 11 & 13 , 2014

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (Monday July 14, 2014) – This year’s KZN Schools Surfing League Finals was wrapped up with two days of competition in very contestable 3 foot, glassy conditions at the Bay of Plenty involving over 100 surfers, Northwood was crowned the Champions and top Surfing school in KZN on the final day of the 2014 Durban July Surfing Extravaganza.

The standard of surfing was the best seen yet! Northwood managed to surf their way to the top in every heat, enjoying the good conditions, showing their class every step of the way. The final heat was no different, where the team of Wazir Surajlall, Keagan Wallace, Bevan Willis, Nathan Wallace and Jaime Irvine showed the crowd why Northwood should be crowned the KZN Champs.

KZN SCHOOLS TAG TEAM FINAL

1. Northwood

2. Clifton

3. Westville

4. Crawford North Coast

5. Glenwood

Durban July Surfing Extravaganza

A very well done to Bevan Willis, who took part in the Individuals contest at the Durban July Surfing Extravaganza; Sanctioned by Surfing South Africa as a 2A Rated Pro Surf Tour event.

Bevan dominated the under 16 and under 18 divisions by taking first place in both age groups. Surf conditions were really tricky, but Bevan showed his talent regardless of the conditions with a display of power surfing, scoring a 9 for one of his rides in the final heat.

Well Done!

After a successful Coca-Cola Craven Week, Northwood’s Ngonidzashe Chidoma has been selected to attend the SA Schools Trials at the Barnard Stadium in Johannesburg this coming Saturday. Please follow the link to the full article on the SARU website: http://www.sarugby.net/article.aspx?category=sarugby%2Fyouthweeks&id=2543814

The Afritwin programme involves a three way link between the schools of the global north with two schools of the south, Northwood and a historically disadvantaged school in Kwa Mashu. From the inception of the programme in 2006, our bond with our UK school, Bournside in Cheltenham has strengthened culminating in three reciprocal learner exchange tours, which were both culturally and academically enlightening to all parties. Over the years the schools have engaged in exciting curricular projects in Life Sciences, English, Maths and Afrikaans which broadened the horizons of learners on both sides of the equator. The co-ordinator of the programme at Northwood, Shomane Pillay, has presented strategies to maintaining an effective partnership at an international Conference in Cape Town. This year once again sees two of our Academic Heads of subject, Vincent Vadivellu and Ronnie Harishun jetting off to our link school in the UK to share expertise and broaden their knowledge and skills in global trends in education. This exchange by its very nature, is bound to benefit Northwood Boys in their academic endeavors.

Karen Thevenau, a well know swimming coach in the Durban North community has recently joined Northwood School’s Aquatics centre. Karen will take on the role of 1st team swimming coach, as well as running high performance sessions with students.  “I look forward to putting the emphasis on technique and fitness to bring out the full swimming potential in the boys”.    She joins forces with Haydn Skinner, who relocated from Grey PE to take up the position of Waterpolo  1st team coach at the beginning of this year.  Together the two newly appointed specialist coaches are streamlining the aquatics programme, bringing a synergy  that will seriously challenge their traditional rivals in the pool.

 

Saturday the 7^th of June saw Northwood host St Charles College on their reunion Old Boy’s Day. Northwood finished off the last of their home fixtures with a great win thanks to some awesome attacking rugby.

Northwood had scored 2 well worked tries in the first half and went into the half leading 15-3. The Knights came out of the change room and really turned the pace of the game up a notch. Outside centre Phiko Sobahle ran in a hat-trick of exceptional tries earning him the match of the match award, which was handed to him by current Sharks flanker and Old Boy Justin Downey. Nathan Van Wyk and Jabu Mabida finished off a try each on their respective wings and Durran Krummeck, the gutsy number 9 had a well deserved try sniping from the base of the breakdown.

St Charles scored a converted try of their own late on to ensure a final score line of 41 – 10.

Grant Bashford and Simon Vickers can  be really pleased but so can the thousands of supporters and Northwood Old Boys who witnessed one of Northwood’s best attacking rugby displays of the season, handing them one of their most comprehensive wins of the season and the best for many years on Old Boys Day.

Northwood’s Cycling team competed in the Inter School Eliminator Series this past May. This series consisted of 3 races over 3 weekends. During the series, points were awarded based on positions achieved in each race. Our boys did exceptionally well and did Northwood proud. Northwood was the first school to win the series in KZN.

 

The results are as follows:

 

Race 3: Ashton College

 

u14         Ethan Biggar 1^st               u16         Cayde Muldoon 3^rd                         u19         Caldon Petit 2^nd

Mpumi Zuma 4^th                            Hayden Van Tricht 4^th                                   James Rich 3^rd

Shaun Bonella 4^th

Overall

U14        Ethan Biggar 2^nd                u16         Cayde Muldoon 1^st                          u19         Caldon Petit 1^st

Ben Carnie 2^nd                                               James Rich 3rd

 

1^st Northwood

2^nd Glenwood

3^rd Kearsney

4^th Thomas Moore

5^th Maritzburg College