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NORMAN HENSHILWOOD 50th BIRTHDAY EDITION | 1968-2018 HENSHILWOOD From the 1968Editor’s - 2018 Pen... ooking back on 2018, I realise what a turbulent year it was at Normies with Lmany changes which faced us. But we at Normies are not afraid of change; rather, we view change as a challenge and an opportunity to reflect. In April 2017 Mr David Millar left to take up his new position as a Director of Education and Mr Jawaad Holland became the Acting Principal. We were very pleased when he became the permanent principal as of January 2019. 2018 was a significant year in the history of our school as we celebrated our 50th birthday with many special events such as a food fair and an alumni evening. It was a tough year as the severe drought placed many restrictions on our activities. We were unable to have our annual interhouse athletics because our fields had become dust-bowls and of course swimming galas were out of the question! However, in true Normies spirit, staff and pupils rallied around and came up with creative ideas to save water and we survived the crisis well. We continued to flourish as an IT school and were part of a pilot project run by the WCED whereby our pupils were given a Chrome-book with their textbooks on. Teachers and pupils were trained by the IT team, very capably led by Mr Zahir Hendricks who is also our new Acting Deputy Principal. It makes us very proud when other institutions approach us to learn about best IT practices. I would like to thank Mike Dallas Design for the superb layout of the yearbook. Thank you also to Fred Barker, our professional photographer who is always so willing to assist us. Thank you also to Paul Dirksen, our photograph ‘guru’ and to Judith Crosswell for her invaluable assistance. As you peruse this yearbook, you cannot but notice what a busy, versatile and happy school Normies is. We are immensely proud of our pupils who are indeed brand ambassadors. May this yearbook provide you with many happy memories. Ms Renate Wegerhoff 2018 Contents The History of Norman Henshilwood 2 50th Birthday Celebrations 14 Principal’s Report 26 Principals’s Award 27 SGB’s Report 28 Staff 30 Service and Outreach 34 Pupil Achievements – GET Prizegiving 36 – FET Prizegiving 38 Grade Matters 40 Cultural Reports 52 Sports Reports – Boys 60 – Girls 63 Inter-Schools 68 Triangular Athletics 70 Amazing Race 72 MADD 74 Fashion Show 76 Matric Matters 78 NORMAN HENSHILWOOD Matric Awards 84 HIGH SCHOOL Matric Ball 86 CONSTANTIA MAIN ROAD, CONSTANTIA, CAPE TOWN Matric Results 88 T: 021 797 8043 E: [email protected] WWW.henshilwoodhigh.CO.ZA Index |1 The History of Norman Henshilwood School ur school is named after Mr John Norman Henshilwood, Owho was born in 1896 and died in 1972 at the age of 76. John Norman Henshilwood was the second of six children, and joined the family firm of Thomas Henshilwood (Pty.) Ltd, where he eventually became the Chairman. His brothers Douglas and Thomas joined him later as Director and Managing Director. “Henshilwood’s” was one of the most prestigious outfitters in ‘old’ Claremont. John Norman Henshilwood was a member of the Cape School Board from 1943 to 1954, where he served as Chairman from 1950 to 1954. During that time he was instrumental in ‘discovering’ and securing sites for many schools and colleges such as Westerford High, Camps Bay High, Pinelands High, Sans Souci, Hewat College and of course the land on which our school was built. The school was officially opened as a “Whites-only” school in May 1968. In 1990 the school became multi-racial, in line with the transformation of South Africa from race-based policies and politics to democratic dispensation. The school has had a total of five principals since 1968: Mr John Pugh (1968 – 1982) Mr Andre Abrahams (1982 – 1993) Mr William ‘Jim’ Slater (1994 – 1998) Ms Lesley Johnson (1999 – 2003) Mr David Millar (2004 – 2017) The sixth and current principal is Mr Jawaad Holland who was Acting Principal until his permanent appointment from January 2019. May he have a long and successful stay. 2| The History of Normies Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History JUDITH CROSSWELL WITH DAVID MILLAR of Norman Those were the days In the seventies, there were only about four hundred pupils and my first classroom was a prefab in the car park. Many of the trees were still small saplings, and when one of the staff backed into one we left an RIP in concrete at Henshilwood the site of its demise. There was also Youth Preparedness, the precursor to Life Orientation. As there were no YP trained staff, we were School left to our own devices – with some peculiar results: This was also the time when surfing became the ‘in’ thing Music appreciation and our boys always tried to get away with long sun bleached hair. Hair inspections always netted a crop of Classes were held in the room at the side of the stage (the lopped off locks. One boy however told me that he got matrics now use it to store their bags at exam time and away with his long hair by folding it under at the back of hall furniture is stacked there). The class plus homeroom his neck and securing it with hair pins. teacher packed themselves into the space and were beguiled by tape recordings of Beethoven and Chopin etc. This was also the time of bomb scares and we had several The result could be compared to a barrel of monkeys all which thankfully turned out to be hoaxes. The pupils fighting for one banana. rapidly assembled out on the fields, leaving their bags Beauty without Cruelty behind in the classrooms, then senior staff were dispatched to look for the BOMB! How we were to find, let alone I arranged for a film on this topic to be shown in the hall, recognize the device I will never know. One entertained but Mr. Andrew Abrahams and myself spent the time visions of a round black sphere with a long sputtering fuse, sitting on the foyer steps as we could not bear to watch it. or a loudly ticking clock festooned in red and black wires. However we soon realized that the ‘scare’ always occurred Manners in exam or test time, and not linked to political unrest as was the case in other schools. As we had quite a rough crowd in those days we decided to give some hints on how to behave on a dinner date. We acted out a ‘date’ on the stage, where I tried to explain The printing machines using wax stencils were housed in how to do things in a polite way. The kids were delighted what is now the kitchen at the end of the admin block, and laughed the whole way through! I very much doubt and run by David Hicks, one of the Science teachers, who that they took our advice. had a team of boys to help him. Those wax stencils were difficult to type on and mistakes had to be painted over Social Awareness and Current Affairs with pink waxy stuff which dripped everywhere and made your work resemble chicken pox. The machines had to be We invited Mr. Richard van der Os to come and give a talk cleaned frequently – a messy business but nevertheless to the matrics one evening. This was a time of political the system worked very efficiently thanks to good leader- and social upheaval and Mr. van der Os was a prominent ship and an enthusiastic ‘crew’. figure in the struggle for human rights. I phoned him a few days beforehand to tell him how to find the school. When I began my instructions, he very kindly told me that he The beautiful cloth with the school crest, which we use knew where the school was as his family once lived in the to cover the table at prize giving, was embroidered by valley and his father had been a worker in the vineyards. Mr. Hick’s mother. Mr. Hicks was also in charge of sound Needless to say his talk left us with much to think about. and lighting crews for all our plays and concerts. To amuse the school at the end of term, we sometimes had a film show in the hall, but the films were old and the sound bad. My Geography classroom was the room now used for These are just a few memories I have of NHHS in the Technology, and I had a bird’s eye view of boys bunking seventies, a time of change and upheaval in our country, by climbing over the back fence – they never realized that very different from the electronic explosion and social I was the seventies version of CCTV who led to their being changes we face today. caught. Mrs Judith Crosswell Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History of Normies |3 4| The History of Normies Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History of Normies |5 MATRIC DANCE 1978 6| The History of Normies Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood STAFF 1978 Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History of Normies |7 8| The History of Normies Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood 1980 THE SCHOOL BUS Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History of Normies |9 PAST PRINCIPALS CHECK OUT THE COMPUTER > JIM SLATER, DAVID MILLAR AND LESLEY JOHNSON 10| The History of Normies – Past Principals Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood The History of Normies – Past Principals |11 OUR CURRENT PRINCIPAL’S PAST Mr Holland at the swimming gala in 2007 At the Matric Ball in 2007 with Mr David Millar Our new boss in 2019 Matric breakfast at Primi Piatti in 2004 Mr Holland when he heard that his wife was expecting triplets Mr Holland AFTER Mr Holland before the triplets the triplets 12| The History of Normies – Present Principal Norman Henshilwood Norman Henshilwood SMT Bosberaad in 2007 Grade 10 camp 2004 SMT working at McDonalds in 2004 I do not do karaoke Staff fun in 2011 Above and right: Matric

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