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Contents Principal's Message............................................................................... 2 Grade 11 Art and Design Expo......................................................... 30 Governing Body Message.................................................................. 3 Grade 12 Art and Design Expo........................................................ 31 Looking back on 60 years................................................................. 4 - 5 Prizegiving............................................................................................... 32 - 35 Big Brag: WP and SA Representatives ....................................... 6 - 7 Athletics, Biathlon................................................................................. 36 Staff................................................................... ....................................... 8 Cross Country, Interhouse Athletics.............................................. 37 Executive Committee, RCL............................................................... 9 Swimming, Equestrian......................................................................... 38 Peer Support, House Captains, Adventure Portfolio.............. 10 Cricket, Softball...................................................................................... 39 Academic Portfolio, PR Porfolio, Matric Portfolio................... 11 Valedictory............................................................................................... 40 Spirit and Sport Portfolio, Cheerleaders...................................... 12 Matric Breakfast..................................................................................... 41 Service Portfolio, First Aid................................................................ 13 Netball........................................................................................................ 42 Textbook Committee, Safety Committee, EventsCo.............. 14 Rugby, Squash........................................................................................ 43 Tech Crew, Eco Club, Animation.................................................... 15 Girls’ Soccer, Boys’ Soccer................................................................ 44 Dinners....................................................................................................... 16 - 17 Hockey....................................................................................................... 45 Interact, Cross Connection................................................................ 18 Golf, Chess............................................................................................... 46 Food Walk, One to One..................................................................... 19 E-sports, JSE.......................................................................................... 47 Debating, Library Monitors, Locker Monitors............................ 20 Halloween ............................................................................................... 48 Portuguese Language Society, African Society....................... 21 Orange River........................................................................................... 49 Writing Club........................................................................................... 22 - 23 Matric Dress Up Days.......................................................................... 50 - 51 Culture Portfolio, High School Jam............................................... 24 Fun Day.................................................................................................... 52 - 53 Quiz Team, Business Studies Quiz................................................. 25 Matric Register Classes 2019 .......................................................... 54 Grade Outings........................................................................................ 26 - 27 Matric 2019 Poem................................................................................. 55 Junior and Senior Bands.................................................................... 28 Matric Class of 2019............................................................................. 56 - 66 Euro Trip.................................................................................................. 29 Staff Round-up....................................................................................... 67 - 68 Magazine Editors 2019 Milnerton High School celebrates its Diamond Jubilee birthday this year! Over the past 60 years, MHS has seen growing recognition and accolades, a burgeoning number of learners and staff members, socio-political changes, technological developments, innovations in teaching and learning practices, and evolving infrastructure. This year’s magazine hopes to capture some of the dynamism and progress that has characterised the last six decades. Millies learners continue to make us proud with their achievements in all facets of school life. To the 2019 Matrics: You flew the banner high for MHS and we thank you for your investment in the school. We wish you only the best in your future endeavours! A big thank you to our superstar PR committee members for helping put this magazine together: Chloe Govender, Janelle Davids, Aqeelah Van Der Schyff, Tammy-Lee Bosman, Hannah Hartogh, Nikita Tucker and Liam Davids. Grateful thanks as ever to Mrs Clulow for her innovative ideas and creative flair, and Ms Martins for her fabulous photos. Thank you too to Leanne Evans, Jeremy Langdon and Sarah Bruckmann for the photography, design and printing respectively. 2020 holds much to look forward to for the Millies family! Ms F. Ferri 1 Principal's Message Sixty years is a substantial amount of time for a school to establish itself as a centre of excellence in a community. We are very proud of our school and the legacy that has been created in this time. The school plays a significant role in our community, providing learners with an excellent stepping stone into the real world, whether it be to tertiary institutions - both in South Africa and abroad - or on scholarship to other institutions to follow their dreams. This year we have attained a superb set of achievements, in the classroom, on the sports field and on the stage, which you will see in this edition. We celebrated our 15th year in a row 100% Matric pass rate, with some outstanding individual achievements. We are able to boast 17 international and 73 provincial sportsmen and women in our school, with an additional 130+ obtaining zonal colours. These learners have certainly shone their “light brightly”, and potentially carved out some fantastic careers in their field of choice, some to university in the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and even one to the Ukraine (to study medicine!). We are very proud of all of them. Congratulations to the SGB for their expansive vision, and for “taking the plunge” to build the beautiful Aquatic Centre, which Artwork by Rebekah Pringle will be opened early next year, officially. It is going to add a whole new dimension to swimming in our school, and also to Physical Education – imagine a nice warm swim in the middle of winter! I would like to give my sincere thanks to the SGB, particularly to Robert Fish who “retires” at the end of the year. His dynamic leadership style will be missed! As an old boy, he built on tradition and made our school a better place. We sadly bid farewell to a number of teachers during the course of the year. Some were poached by New Zealand and one went to China and the other to the UK. It was the biggest turnover we’ve had in the staffroom since I started here as Principal in 2005. Mr Simon Shield and Mrs Marinette Shield set out on a new adventure in New Zealand. We will miss Simon’s energy and sense of humour, and Marinette’s caring and warm personality. Mrs Tarryn Higham also set sail for Kiwi shores. We will miss her competent and ultra-organised approach to everything she did. Ms Sandra Lynne headed for China. We will miss her witty personality and all the quips in the staffroom. We thank them all for the years of service and tireless work and effort they contributed to our school. More recently, Mrs Sandra de Sousa beat Brexit to settle in the UK. We thank her for all the hard work she put into the school in a comparatively short space of time. We wish all these Millies family members only the very best in their new endeavours. We also say goodbye to three teachers who are retiring at the end of the year: Mr James Ochse, Ms Christa Rossouw and Ms Nicky Slabber. During his 11 year tenure, James has made a tremendous contribution to the school, especially in the finance department. He has created a situation where we are able to offer what we do, tackle new projects, maintain our facilities, and continue to build new ones. Christa will retire from education after 23 years at Milnerton High School. She taught Afrikaans on both HL and FAL level at our school, served on the Code of Conduct Committee with distinction, and achieved excellent results over many years. We wish both James and Christa a long and happy retirement. During the course of June, Nicky’s retirement on the grounds of ill health was approved by the Education Department after 22 years at MHS. She will stay on as the Head of Athletics, which she loves, so I am very happy we are not formally saying farewell to such a loyal and dedicated staff member. We were very happy to welcome our new staff members to the Millies team. At the beginning