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Merrifield’s Very Own Newspaper www.merrifieldschool.co.za 28 May 2018
Outdoor Classroom Day is a global campaign to celebrate and inspire outdoor learning and play. On the day,
thousands of schools around the world take lessons outdoors and prioritise playtime. In 2017, over
2 million children in over 100 countries took part. This year, on 17 May, Merrifield took schoolwork outdoors.
From the Executive Head, Dr Guy Hartley
It has been a busy couple of weeks with a range of sporting, cultural and academic activities taking place. Our
students have performed admirably at the Port Rex Lions Eisteddfod with our various marimba bands and Foun-
dation Phase choir excelling in achieving golds and special mentions. Particularly pleasing is to see the growing
number of individual instrumentalists participating in the eisteddfod from Merrifield. This has led to the intro-
duction of “Merrifield Unplugged” – a showcase of our soloists and their musical talents at a special musical
evening held on Tuesday 22 May, which is certain to become an annual event.
Sports results have been encouraging with hockey leading the way, justifying the construction of the Astro turf
as our anchor project of the new sports precinct. For the first time, all our college boys’ teams won their match-
es in the hockey derby against Stirling last weekend at the U14A, U16B and 1st team levels. The number of Bor-
der hockey representatives – both boys and girls at prep and college levels – has never been higher. As the
teams build and progress, there certainly is a great deal of excitement and anticipation to host our own hockey
derbies in the 2019 season.
The focus of the academic term now shifts as we enter an examination and assessment period. Students who
have applied themselves diligently and consistently throughout the term can certainly face the exams with con-
fidence. By following a clear study plan and being dedicated in their preparations, they will be in a solid position
to achieve their academic goals this term. All the best for a successful exam period, everyone.
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Port Rex Lions East London Eisteddfod
Merrifield Prep and College
entered 43 items into this year’s
Port Rex Lions Eisteddfod, and
performed remarkably well. In
total, 8 bronze, 13 silver, 19 gold,
4 Special Mention and 3 Medal
wins were recorded.
Bronze:
Piano: Siobhan Barry, Priven
Govender
Singing: Keegan McLaren, Hannah
Evers, Slayde Herman, Amani
Sohaba
Flute: Tia Hart, Liam Hart
Silver:
Singing: Ross Slater, Jenna Poovan, Grace Whiteley, Shaelyn Hartley, Michaela Joubert
Piano: Rishen Govender, Liora Jardine, Selin Tolu, Alyssa Miles, Josh Stone
Clarinet: Inathi Carlson, Corbin de Villiers
Saxophone: Khian Denison
Gold:
Singing: Ayakha Ngcwangu, Yanelisa Sishubu, Gerhard Kotze, Anna Ford, Sihle Pakade
Marimbas: Foundation Phase Marimba Band (Medal: sectional winner), Grade 4 & 5 Marimba Band,
Grade 6 & 7 Marimba Band (Medal: sectional winner), College Marimba Band
Violin: Aviwe Tsama, Daniella Webb, Lilanga Mboniswa, Keegan McLaren
Clarinet: Erin Ramsay
Piano: Regan Minty, Lungati Maki, Erin Ramsay
Violin Duet: Daniella Webb and Lilanga Mboniswa, Keegan McLaren and Aviwe Tsama
Special Mention:
Singing: Foundation Phase Choir (Medal: sectional winner)
Piano: Inathi Carlson, Devina Pillay and Iyanda Zwane
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Fabulous result for Foundation Choir!
Jersey week collection
Grade 2 Adventure race
on the school field
SRC Winter Social
Blood donations
Grade 3 elephant interaction
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Outdoor Classroom
Slipper Day
Beach Clean Up
Entrepreneurs’ Markets
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HOCKEY
8 May: Stirling Primary School U10 boys festival. Results: Merrifield vs Selborne U10C, Merrifield won 4-3; vs
Cambridge U10B, won 5-1; vs Buffalo Flats U10, lost 0-5; vs Stutterheim U10, lost 6-3.
9 May: U10 Girls at Berlin Festival: Merrifield vs Stirling A won 2-0; vs Grens won 3-1; vs Kingsridge A lost 4-1;
vs Stirling B won 5-0. U13 girls vs Berlin, Merrifield won 6 -1.
Congratulations to the following Merrifield students who have made the Border U13 hockey teams: Anesu
Chimusoro made the Border A team; Mdanda Pasiya and Daniel Van Rensburg made the Border B team. Lithabe
Shweni made the Border U12 team. Shaun Barnard and Andrew Barnard have been selected as non travelling
reserves. Boys U14 A: Joseph Townes and Adam Murray. U14 B: Daniel Emslie, Dylan Kurten and Byron Emslie.
Girls U14 A: Nishreya Naidoo, Sarah Marais and Gemma Braun. U14 B: Amy Swart, Lara Bruce and Liora Jardine.
U12: Rachel Webb and Shaelyn Hartley.
15 May: U13 Merrifield Boys vs Cambridge U13 Boys, Merrifield won 2-1.
15 May: U11 boys 1-0 loss to Berlin. 1-0 loss AW Barnes.
16 May: U13 girls hockey beat Komga 3-2.
18 May: 1st team boys: lost 3-0 to Dale 1st.
19 May: U9 girls vs Lilyfontein: lost 5-1. U13 boys vs Lilyfontein, won 4-0.
19 May: 1st team boys beat Stirling 1st 2-1.
19 May: U13 Boys Hockey vs Lilyfontein won 4 – 0; U13 B girls lost 1-0; U13 A girls lost 4-1.
19 May: Stirling Hockey Derby: BOYS: U14A vs Dale U14A, Merrifield won 3-1; U14A vs Stirling U14A, won 3-1;
U16A vs Dale U16 A, lost 5-1; U16A vs Stirling U16B won 2-0. GIRLS: U14A vs Stirling U14A drew 1-1; 1st's vs
Stirling 1st's, lost 7-0.
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Sports continued…
HOCKEY CONT…
22 May: U10 Hockey Boys.
Merrifield vs Selborne D, won 3-0;
drew 1-1 to Stutt; lost 3-0 to
Selborne C, and lost to Komga 5-1.
23 May: U13 girls hockey vs
Clarendon C, Merrifield won 5-0.
23 May: U10 Girls Hockey drew 1-1
to Clarendon B; lost 1-0 to Crewe;
won 2-0 to Clarendon C; and lost
3-0 to Hudson A.
23 May: Girls Hockey vs Lilyfontein.
U14 girls won 1-0; 1st girls won 4-1.
25 May: College Cambridge boys
and girls hockey derby: U14 girls drew 1-1; 1st girls lost 4-0; 1st boys lost 4-0; U16 boys lost 10-0; U14 boys won 10-
0; and U16 girls lost 1-0.
PORT ALFRED DERBY
12 May: Merrifield U14 team girls par-
ticipated in the Port Alfred derby. Senior
Squash went down 0-6 with only 1 set
to us against 18. Hockey boys U16 drew
4-4 with PA 1stand U14 girls had a 6-0
win. Merrifield debating vs Port Alfred.
Juniors vs seniors: a draw. Merrifield
Juniors won over Port Alfred Juniors.
Special thanks to Nutriwell for sponsoring the girls U13 hockey kit.
SURFING
11 May: Nahoon Junior Reef Open 2018. Merrifield Surfers
were fully invested in the Nahoon Junior Reef Open, powered
by Twizza and Sea Harvest, hosted by Buffalo City Surf riders
and Border Surfing. This National 3A event brought the best
junior surfers from around South Africa to surf our local Na-
hoon beach break this past weekend. The waves turned on and
the weather was perfect for the jam packed two days of
surfing. As always our Merrifield Surfers dominated and were
involved in both surfing the comp and working at the event. A big shout out to Tom Lindhorst and Miguel Da Silva
for managing the Priority Board, Lhea Johnston for working as Beach Marshal and being the Manual Totaliser. Con-
gratulations to Byron Emslie, Sebastian Harris, Reilly Mare and Lhea Johnston for making it into the quarters and
semi-finals respectively and a massive congratulations to the following Merrifield students who were either win-
ners or finalists in the following age divisions: U10 Boys - Josh Talbot 3rd; U14 Girls - Adriel Wolmarans 1st; U14
Boys - Daniel Emslie 1st; U16 Girls - Zoe Steyn 1st. These are phenomenal results and commitment by the Merri-
field Surf Family. Well done to all who surfed and worked at the contest this week-end. As a region we can be very
stoked with these results and certainly hosted a fantastic event with great hospitality.
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Sport continued…
LIFESAVING
4-6 May: Merrifield College student Megan Waechter represented the Eastern Cape in
the Lifesaving Interprovincial Championships at King Park Pool Complex and Addington
Beach. The Eastern Cape came third and Megan earned her provincial colours.
SQUASH
Congratulations to Daniel Richter and Tye Benge (reserve) who have been selected to
represent Border Schools Squash at the U14 Interprovincial Tournament in Johannes-
burg in June this year.
14 May: Prep squash drew with Stirling 5 all.
14 May: College: The A side drew 2-2 in matches with Clarendon B but went down 8-9 in games. The B squash
team also drew 2-2 against Port Rex B but were up in games 9-6.
21 May: College Squash: A squash team won 9-3 against Port Rex A. The Merrifield College B side won 4-0
against Dale B.
SOCCER
7 May: U9 soccer beat College Street 2-1.
14 May: U9 soccer vs St Anne’s: Merrifield won 5-0.
16 May: U19 boys vs Baysville: Merrifield won 6-2.
17 May: Willow Park vs Merrifield. U11 Merrifield lost 2-1; U13, the teams drew 1-1.
25 May: The Merrifield senior boys first side Soccer guys had a good game vs Selborne. It was physical and skill-
ful play that was fast-paced. Merrifield lost 3-6.
NETBALL
8 May: Merrifield U11 netball lost 2-8 to Central Primary.
19 May: U13 7-6 vs Lilyfontein, U 11 netball 9 – 3.
22 May: U11 Netball vs St John’s, Merrifield won 3-2.
CROSS COUNTRY
11 May: Mbasa Ngqeleni came third in the Girls U11 category at Selborne Primary.
TENNIS
23 May: Tennis 1st team boys vs Stirling 1st, Merrifield won 6-0.
OTHER RESULTS:
CHESS
26 May: Merrifield students performed well at the Border chess trials on Saturday at
Hamilton club. There were good results with Mikaël Isaacs coming second in U12B, Rishen
Govender 3rd, Nathan Sparg fourth and Luke Klinkradt sixth in U14A.
NATIONAL COMPUTER TALENT SEARCH OLYMPIAD
Merrifield students took part in the National Computer Talent Search Olympiad. There
were over 11 000 participants nationally, and Merrifield students achieved 8 gold awards,
19 silver awards and many more bronze awards. Gold means a student did better than
93% of the participants countrywide. The following students received Gold: Thomas Raut-
enbach (93%), Matthew van Harmelen (93%), Keelan Hartley (81%), Yusuf Peer (79%),
Emily-Faye Xantho (73%), David Weber (72%), Corbyn Keen (67%) and Bristin Liebold
(65%). Mikaël Isaacs
DEBATING
The Merrifield Junior A and B Debating teams have both been invited to EC trials for debating.
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Happy birthday to the following Merrifield staff and students, from
12 May to 28 May:
Students: Kuhle Ntlantsana, Damian Pillay, Mitha Somana, Colby Braun,
Ashleigh Dreyer, Tim Klook, Daniel Richter, Sarah van der Walt, Selin Tolu,
Nicara Diedericks, Neve Hayman, Peter Townes, Mitchelle Basin, Corbyn Keen, Mange
Shweni, Langelihle Nobatana, Gillian Burger, Avuzwa Cekiso, Fyodor Olivier, Gcobisa
Marafane, Siphumelele Mngewu, James Tasker, Safiyyah Dhoda, Fathima Moola,
Bradley Schroeder, Sushmita Naidoo, Michael Tasker, Thomas Braun, Harshul
Ranchhod, Murray Briceland, Matthew Mangold, Hannah Petzer, Senamile Shandu, An-
ton Hasselberg and Aviwe Tsama.
Staff: Taralyn Mclean (14/5), Sue Prinsloo (16/5), Katie Joubert (19/5), Jacques Nel
(22/5), Connie Tshemese (25/5), Debbie Burton (26/5) and Natasha Williams-Jones
(28/5).
Merrifield memorabilia and merchandise for sale from Julie Xantho in Finance,
and Tracey Mangold in Marketing PR.
Merrifield BUY&SELL: whatsapp group, contact
Claudia Bleibinger to join: 0835415726
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