- MJ On the 3rd of June, the first day of the much anticipated mid-year holiday, ten Sheppie students began the long trip to Hilton College to embark on their President Award’s Bronze over-night camping trip.
I think it’s important that I address the question that is on everyone’s mind first. What is the President’s Award? It is not a recruiting camp among the youth for the future President of South Africa. It is in fact a development programme for teenagers. It aims at empowering the youth by encouraging them to complete a series of tasks which include community service, a new skill, a sport and an adventures journey. After these tasks are complete, the student can progress from Bronze level onto Silver where the task are for a greater length of time. From Silver the student can finally progress onto the final level of Gold. Completing any of these levels earns you recognition that is beneficial in your university application. Ten of our Sheppie students spent two days and a night hiking a total of 25km through Hilton College Private Reserve to complete their adventurous journey. They each had to carry their own backpacks which contained everything they needed for the night (including food and sleeping equipment). This only made the already gruelling experience even more impossible. - Sammy On the 20th of April 13 Tourism students from Port Shepstone High School went on an educational tour around Sheppie’s own Grand Canyon, Oribi Gorge. There were 5 other schools on the tour so that made 60 to 70 learners roaming the ‘wild’. We walked towards our death on the suspension bridge. Fun but deadly. We saw the Zip line, which is very very long but has a beautiful view.
--TasThe annual Grade 12 Geography Tour to Durban took place from 4th to 5th May this year. The idea of the trip was to re-inforce concepts learnt in the classroom and to provide the students with an opportunity of seeing urban patterns first hand.
-MJThey cook for us. They encourage our ridiculous ideas. They never fail to say how good we look even when we have woken up from our teenage hibernation sessions. They love us even when we are being very unlovable- Mystic Raven The opening of Port Shepstone High School’s new school library took place on the 4th of May 2017. It was a delightful evening filled with delicious food and mingling among all those present. Mrs Foster gave a heart-warming speech in which she gave credit to the various people who helped make the new library possible. The upgrade of the library makes it look brand new and one of the people who made this possible is Mr Korf. Mr Jenkins gave a speech expressing his gratitude to all those who were involved in the project and who made the library dream come true. He also told a few anecdotes and amusing stories. Mrs Fifield gave an amazing introduction for our guest speaker Lukhona Mnuguni – an ex-student of Sheppie High. He gave a motivational, inspiring and thought-provoking speech. On behalf of Sheppie High we’d like to thank him for taking the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us.
Two weeks ago the students of Port Shepstone High School had the privilege of listening to a spokesperson from Narconon Drug Education which is based in Cape Town. The talk was split into two sessions: a morning one for the juniors (grade 8 & 9) and a midday one for seniors (grade 10,11 & 12). During registration all students at school were given a worksheet to answer about the use of drugs and stimulants.
Robert was our guest speaker and he educated us about drugs in a way unlike other speakers. 'I would not be a very good speaker about drug abuse, if I hadn't been through it,' he said when he started. He was able to teach us about things we knew about in a new way. He mixed jokes and entertainment in his talk about a serious subject. _Thato Ndamase Last year, towards the end of term 3 and beginning of term 4, Genesis Cele and Yandile Jordan were elected and sworn in as our deputy heads for the year 2017. We sat down with the two deputy heads for an in-depth interview to help everyone get to know them, find out what their ‘jobs’ as deputy heads and ECLs entail and what qualities they think learners who someday want to be deputy heads, or even ECLs, should possess.
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