Here we are at the close of what has been a term of mixed blessings. Mixed in the sense that we were “blessed” with an unusual number of extra holidays, but with the “burden” of having lost a serious amount of teaching and learning time. To quote a member of staff: “It has been a very challenging time.” The fact that this has also been an examination term has not made the work requirements any easier. I think I can safely say that the whole school is looking forward to the July vacation with eager anticipation.

You may have noted that the school is also involved in the final phase of the rezoning process and that the Rue de Jacqueline upgrade is approaching completion. While this has been a trying time from a traffic point of view, we can look forward to a much improved situation next term.

Two of our learners, Jeanu du Plooy and Sean Bacon, have been included in the team to represent South Africa in the sports of Wake-boarding and Wake-skating respectively and have embarked on an exciting overseas journey to include Norway and Poland. We wish them well and much success in this adventure.

May I conclude this short message by thanking all members of the “SWPS family”: learners, staff and parents alike, for their positive input during this past term. May you all enjoy a well-earned rest and return safe and rejuvenated to face the third term.

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Deep in thought

As part of our Eco-Schools programme we

decided to Go-Green and not print our

newsletter any more. Only electronic copies

will be available on Facebook, our webpage

and via e-mail!

Our programme for the rest of the year:

23 June: Pilot project for “Plant a Door” vegetable garden

10-15 September: Clean-up SA Week

14 September: Recycling Day (SA)

15 September: International Coastal Clean-up Day By Anina Grobler

Grade 10’s

Jared hoffman

Grade 11’s

Charlotte boerstra

Tayler sani

Jordan marais

Post matrics

BANNISTER, MICHAEL

BOUWER, CHRISTIAAN

BRANDT, CHERIE

BRANGUINHO, JOSHUA

BROWN, LEE ANN

COETZEE, JW

DU BOIS GABRIEL

DU PLESSIS, DYLAN

FERGUSON, TYLON

GEARD, CATHERINE

GEARD, MICHAEL

GERBER, JEANNE

HAVENGA, RUAN

HORNE, KELSEY

HORNE, RYAN

JOACHIM, LINDSEY JEAN

KLOPPER, LARA

LOURENS, NICLAS

MEAKER, ASHLEY

MEYER, NADJA

MOSTERT, JEAN PIERRE

NEL,COBUS

POOL, BARTO

SAMUELS, ALISTAIR

SNELL, TRISTAN

SNYMAN, PEDRIE

STARKE, JAMES

STEENBERG, ERIK

STRYDOM, REINARD

VAN BREDA, DUVAN

VAN DER MERWE,

FRANCOIS

VAN SCHOOR, GERRIE

VAN WYK, JEAN

VAN ZYL, COBUS

VISSER, JASON

WILLIAMSON, ASHLEY

ZEVENSTER, ADRIAN

The President's Award is a rewards programme with the aim of youth empowerment. A group of us have joined the programme and would like to urge others to sign up as well. There are three levels: bronze, silver and gold. The higher the level, the more time you have to complete it, as well as the more goals to reach, such as a certain number of community service hours or learning a new skill. It is something that looks amazing on a CV, as it is recognized throughout the world. Establish yourself above the rest! Join today! Find out more at www.presidentsaward.co.za Remember: "Do not go where the path may lead, instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.“

Jessica Andras

Matric Geography Outing As we drove over the Sir Lowry’s Pass we could only

see the mist blanket that covered the False Bay area

- this added to the excitement of our trip to the

Palmiet Pump Storage Scheme.

On arrival we were greeted by our tour guide,

Vanessa. She received our matric class with a smile as

she took us into the presentation room. There she

told us more about Palmiet and what exactly a pump

storage scheme is. We were all ears and we were

fascinated by all the complicated procedures that go

into running a pump storage scheme.

After the presentation was finished we drove to the

actual power station where we could see for ourselves

just how it works. No surprise, everyone was amazed

and we had a great time looking around the power

station.

By Zelin-Erin Goldberg

Get off Tumblr

Silence in

court!!!

We’re going to Flap/Klap it!!

It’s… not…

rocket…

science?!

By Ayesha Marthinus

January 21 – February 19 You are unpredictable, flamboyant, progressive and humane *Finances: Apparently the best things in life are free. You better hope that’s true in the near future. *Love: You will be abundantly loved…..by your own cats.

February 20 – March 20 You are moody, spiritual, idealistic. *Finances: Lets just say you’ll be getting a sports car…… ……and maybe living out of it for a while. *Love: You will find someone who will love you unconditionally. You will just have to dig them up first.

March 21 – April 20 You are determined, loyal, headstrong and impulsive. *Finances: You will waste your third Genie wish on 1 000 000 bucks……time to start a springbok farm. *Love: Ever considered Chloroform?

April 21 – May 21 You are dependable, obstinate, faithful and proud *Finances: You will find your couch cushions quite bountiful. *Love: You will meet a tall dark stranger….and then you will wake up.

May 22 – June 21 You are sociable, scattered, excitable and a thinker. *Finances: You will double your money, if you work double as hard. *Love: Your better half is closer than you think.

June 22 – July 23 You are loving, faithful, sympathetic and instinctive. *Finances: You will win the lottery……….in another life….maybe. *Love: Its time to show the love of your life the real you…. ………on second thought, maybe not.

July 24 – August 23 You are ambitious, inflexible, motivated and charitable. *Finances: You will make a fortune this holiday……… depending on how you feel about smuggling. *Love: Hahahahahahaha……um…I mean you WILL meet your soul mate.

August 24 – September 23 You are over-reactive, sympathetic, susceptible and loving. *Finances: You will realize your potential as a professional gold digger. *Love: Your future relationship will be pure and……………. ……..non-existent.

September 24 – October 23 You are refined, social, artistic and intellectual. *Finances: Your budget always balances. That’s normally the case if there is nothing to balance. *Love: You make 5 generations of spinsters and bachelors proud.

October 24 – November 22 You are secretive, steadfast, passionate and insensitive. *Finances: Your hostage will really pay off. *Love: Now is the perfect time to let that special person know that they are in a relationship with you.

November 23 – December 22 You are honest, reckless, extroverted and generous. *Finances: You will be a millionaire – in your next Monopoly game. *Love: You will see the most gorgeous person and feel an instant connection, then your mom will turn off the TV.

December 23 – January 20 You are moody, sensual, loving and instinctive. *Finances: Your financial success lies in the 3 B’s – beg, borrow or bank-robbery. *Love: I hope you are vain, because your mirror is the most attention you will get for a while.

For better or worse, I sit here, having completed my exam, finding myself

surrounded by people, yet completely isolated. Left alone with nothing

constructive to do, the mind soon notices the peculiar little things that’s

happening around it; the shuffling of feet, the clicking of a pen, the odd

face palm of a defeated student.

One thing I’ve noticed is that people have different characters when they

are focusing completely on something. You get the people who frown

furiously at their exam paper as if it is personally responsible for the

predicament they’re in (you should have studied….). Then you get those

who fidget compulsively, these are the people who are responsible for the

continuous agonising creaking of tables and chairs. Then you get those

who have conquered the exam (or have been defeated already) and who

are now sleeping, often with faint, whistle like snores.

Then there are those people who are without a doubt the most hated and

abhorred of all people. The people who the rest of us wish to throttle at

times……. the pen clickers. These people repeatedly click their pens,

click click click click. Every time jarring the rest of us back to reality and

away from our thinking. I personally wish to give these people a very

particular pen, like the one from Golden Eye. When you click it enough, it

will explode. But maybe that’s a bit excessive.

So, I ask you: what do you do during the exam? Are you the fidgeter, the

snorer, the furious gazer or are you the most hated of them all, the

dreaded “clicker:?

By Zander Vermeulen

On behalf of all of us here at SWPS, I would like to congratulate our Physical Sciences teacher,

now Mrs Marlie Stander, on tying the knot!

The small and intimate ceremony was held next to a beautiful waterfall at Cascade Country Manor in Paarl. She told me that she was happy that her

husband wore a pink tie - what a team player!

Mrs Stander looked quite stunning herself! The wedding cake was a carrot cake with cream cheese icing, and instead of the standard bride

and groom on top, there were two little penguins - a reference to how they had met: aboard a ship on the way to Antarctica where

they were both working on projects.

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

Congratulations!

By: Jessica Andras

I spoke to two of the school's aspiring musicians, Rowan Slemon and Trystan Vercuiel. They provided us with live music at the Valentine's Dance and have recently recorded a few songs. We are, of course, all very proud of them and their dedication. I decided to find out a little more about them. J: What is the name of your band? When did you start/join the band? What is the genre of music you mainly play? R: The name of our band is GroundFlower, weird name I know. I met Trystan (the lead guitarist) at school in Grade 8 and our former member, Matthew, at a party. We started around June last year, with the main members being me, Trystan and Matthew. We would jam most weekends and compose our own music - mainly punk, rock etc. Recently though, Trystan and I got together with Arthur and Rudi Dennis of Akkedis for our recording.

J: What instruments can you play and which do you play for the band? R: Drums/percussion/rhythm/guitar/vocals T: Lead guitar/vocals J: Tell me about your recent recording. Where did you do it? How did you come across that opportunity? R: Well we got to do the recording because my older brother, Conor, studies at City Varsity in Cape Town and needed to record a band for a project, so we got two days of studio time for free! We decided to do it with Arthur and Rudi (the guitarist and drummer of the popular band Akkedis) with Arthur on guitar and vocals and Rudi on bass. J: Obviously you need to spend lots of time practising by yourselves and with the band. How do you balance the different aspects of your life? R: (he laughs before answering) Yeah, it's hard to balance it out, but for me music is more important than anything else. J: Where do you see yourselves and the band in 5 years? R: Millionaires? No, nothing happens that quickly…. probably having a great time playing gigs and desperately trying to make some money! .

J: Would you like to study after school or are you going to pursue a music career? If so, do you think that it is a viable option? R&T: Definitely a musical career. I know most people think that starting a band is fun for a while as a hobby but in the long run is a stupid idea and not a viable career. But we have a lot of contacts in the South African music industry. We can have free studio time whenever we need it at some of the best recording studios in Cape Town. We can get gigs easily, and most of all we have a huge passion for music and not for the money we make from it, but for the feeling you get from playing something you wrote with your best friends in front of an audience and giving them the message you want to convey in your lyrics or whatever J: What is the best/most important thing you have learned from music/a musician? R: To have fun, be yourself, entertain people and not care about making millions. Also that for me is the greatest thing in the world. J: Any advice for those wanting to start learning to play an instrument/to start a band? R&T: Do it. Even if you suck. Most famous bands like Nirvana and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers started out not knowing anything about music and just messing around and playing stupid songs, and look at them now!

Also, you don't need Fender guitars or a shiny 20 grand drum kit - we started with acoustic guitars and a dilapidated old drum kit! It's never about the equipment, it's about how much love and passion you have for music and entertaining people. We'll be selling our first album (with 2 tracks) soon. Seeing as we didn't pay for the recording and have no need to make any money at the moment, there is no set price on the CD. You decide what it's worth. If you don't think it's worth anything, then you can have it for free. Otherwise, decide if you think it's worth R10, R50 or whatever. Thanks to Akkedis for their time, Conor Slemon & Keenan Fourie for recording us, and anyone who buys the CD or comes to our shows. A huge congratulations and thanks to these two guys for telling me all about their band, their music and their passion!

"Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand." – Stevie Wonder

By Jessica Andras

Lanser, Dylan 08-Jul

Botes, Monique 09-Jul

Baumann, Simon 11-Jul

Isaac, Bryan 14-Jul

Du Toit, Marleen 15-Jul

Perchoc, Maxime 15-Jul

Errnstzen, Cameron 17-Jul

Oelofse Daniele 21-Jul

Hoffman, Jared 22-Jul

Stauch, Aileen 23-Jul

Van Rensburg Hugo 23-Jul

Wright, Ryan 28-Jul

Majola, Lamla 30-Jul

Gething, Kristin 11-Aug

Du Toit, Simon 01-Aug

Samuels, Allisaire 01-Aug

Vercuiel, Trystan 03-Aug

Joachim, Lindsey 15-Aug

Bouwer, Christiaan 16-Aug

Barge, Terry Lynn 19-Aug

Snyman, Jason 20-Aug

Coetzee, JW 24-Aug

Els, William 24-Aug

Willis, Henry 30-Aug

Kofahl, Andrew 31-Aug

Tavenor, Gary 02-Sep

Venter, Ivan 03-Sep

Kinghorn, James 11-Sep

Moeller, Megan 11-Sep

Venter, Maria 13-Sep

Du Plessis, Dylan 14-Sep

Jefta, Joshua 15-Sep

Cole, Sarah 18-Sep

Van der Merwe, F 19-Sep

Van Niekerk, Trinica 23-Sep

Brand , Cherie 25-Sep

Ferguson, Tylon 29-Sep

Branquinho, Joshua 30-Sep

1. What is your full name? Valerea Kamfer

2. Do you know the meaning of your name? Italiaans – Om sterk te wees

3. What subjects do you teach/are qualified to teach? Afrikaans gr 7 – 11(EAT), gr 11(HT) and Drama

4. Why these subjects? Ek het ‘n passie vir die taal. Afrikaans is mooi.

5. First impressions of SWPS. Streng en Wiskunde mal.

6. Do you enjoy teaching here? Why or why not? Ja, ek hou van die kleiner klasse.

7. Would you rather be blind or deaf and why? Blind, ek hou van verskillende klanke

8. If you did not teach, what would you be doing? As ek geld gehad het sou ek heeltyd gereis het.

9. What is your favourite movie/book? Life as a house (fliek)

10. If you were an animal, what would you be and why? Kat, hulle slaap net heeldag.

11. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Wie sal weet?

12. Travel experience/ 2 jaar in London en vakansie in Europa/Skotland en Ierland

13. How many pets do you own? 1- ‘n Jack Russell, Trompie. Hy is baie slim en oulik maar verloor baie hare.

14. Do you have any superpowers? What makes them super? Ek kan agter my rug sien en baie goed hoor

15. Favourite TV show. Grey’s Anatomy, Vampire Diaries

16. If you could be a supernatural creature, what would you be and why? Tinkerbell – want sy het magic dust

17. What sitcom character do you relate to most? Monica(Friends)

18. What is the answer to the ultimate question? Geen kommentaar

19. What is the best way to keep a secret? Moenie luister na geheime in die eerste plek nie

Our Hoodies look great!!!!

They showcase the personality of our group perfectly in terms of the

minimalistic design, the comfortable shape and the choice of colours.

We designed the hoodies as a group and thought that the ∑ sign was

perfect for our Grade 12 SWPS students. We are the “sum of” a group

of individuals and although we are different we can come together as a

whole.

As for the colour scheme, we were indecisive between charcoal and

black and therefore decided on both colours with the same design for

everyone. But yet ,each of our hoodies are unique in that we have our

names /nicknames printed on the back. So each hoodie has its own

“personality”.

All-in-all, I think we did a great job and I hope we’ve made an impact on

the designs to come

By Thalia Frost

After completing the Core Maths program, I can conclude that it will most definitely help any individual with their pure maths course in school, as it gives you a complete guide through the basics. With this background knowledge now accessible, you can apply yourself more in class, and it is always a great feeling to have the right answer. To conclude, it is near impossible to do pure maths without Core Maths and, after the course, it becomes much more of a pleasure - rather than torture - to learn maths. I suggest this program to anyone who is achieving slightly under what they would like to in maths, or anyone who is simply keen to learn more in a very easy, simple and user friendly way. OLIVER BLEMING

Core Maths was my solution to the struggle I had towards everyday mathematical problems. Not only did it improve my maths marks tremendously, but it taught me to try and try again until I succeed. ROCHELLE ROUX

Core maths has really helped me grasp the basics of maths. It has helped me improve in all the aspects where I have struggled. Core Maths is very user-friendly and has helped me a lot." Final Maths Mark 2013: 75% Maths Mark Term 1 2014 - 90% ANDREI DEYER

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