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R20 Balance is everything KEARSNEY COLLEGE Sport Kearsney boys selected for Provincial selections in 2014: SA Schools in 2014: 58 Kearsney boys were selected for Basketball (U20): 1 KwaZulu-Natal teams across the various Hockey: 3 sporting codes, including 3 KZN U18 and Golf: 1 1 KZN Academy Rugby representatives Academics Kearsney’s exceptional 2014 IEB examination results: 100% pass rate and 98.4% Bachelor Degree (university exemption) pass rate; A third of boys achieved three or more distinctions; 240 Distinctions at an average of 1.95 per boy; Mathematics: 47% of boys achieved distinctions (IEB schools’ ave: 26.2%). Two boys placed in top 1% in SA; Kearsney average mark: 75%; Physical Sciences: 37% of boys achieved distinctions (IEB schools’ ave: 12.9%). Seven boys in top 48 in SA. 60% of Kearsney boys wrote Physical Sciences and the average mark was 71%; Engineering Graphics & Design: 52% achieved distinctions. Top eight candidates in SA. Cultural The Kearsney College Choir won 3 Gold Medals and World Champion status at the 2014 World Choir Games in Latvia. The World Choir Games is the biggest choir competition in the world, attracting 27 000 participants in 460 choirs from 73 nations in 2014. The Kearsney College Choir, with 13 Gold medals and 6 silver medals, is the second-most decorated Choir in the history of the Games. The Choir is currently ranked 8th in the world overall. Old Main Road, Botha’s Hill, KwaZulu-Natal, 3660 | [email protected] | www.kearsney.com 2015KERFBrochureAd.indd 1 26/02/2015 12:45:00 PM 3 ELWYN VAN DEN AARDWEG HEADMASTER KEARSNEY COLLEGE Kearsney College is delighted to welcome top rugby-playing schools from around the country to its beautiful campus on Botha’s Hill. With the teams come support staff, relatives, friends and supporters of schoolboy rugby. What an awesome opportunity to enjoy the Easter weekend in the company of rugby players and supporters, in an environment and climate that compliments the experience. The Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival has been Medical partners - Life Healthcare, Sharks made possible by the magnificent support Medical and Netcare 911 - provide match- provided by all our sponsors. Africa’s biggest day care including post-match rehabilitation bank, Standard Bank has continued as the which is on hand to cater for any eventuality. KEARSNEY EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2015 Festival’s headline sponsor this year. Standard Home comforts are provided to all players Bank has also been Kearsney’s chosen bank and management in the form of sponsors’ for well over a decade and we are delighted products and keep-sakes. As a reward to to continue the relationship. The Sharks have the coaching staff for their commitment to supported this festival from inception and we schoolboy rugby we ensure that the odd are proud to be associated with this winning celebratory libations are provided too! brand. Illovo Sugar (SA) and Nashua (Durban) are into their third year of sponsorship and Mr Taff Green, a Kearsney Mathematics we are happy to be associated with PERI teacher, is chairman of the Kearsney Scaffold Company (Durban), KEY (Pinetown), Easter Rugby Festival committee which SABMiller and Powerade. Please support includes many Kearsney staff, KZN Rugby our sponsors, as they not only offer high Union officials, Kearsney Parents Society quality products and services, but they are representatives and others who have worked also prepared to invest in supporting sport at tirelessly to produce a festival of which we school level. can all be proud. Key to the success of a festival of this nature We thank the schoolboy rugby supporters of is the attention given to the participating KwaZulu-Natal and the rest of South Africa teams. We have endeavoured to provide for their support of the Festival. Keep up to comfortable, spacious on-site accommodation date with developments over the weekend by to all the teams and management. Taking care checking our website www.kearsney.com of the dietary needs is the Compass Group representing a global catering company Enjoy the Festival and all the entertainment operating in clean, modern on-site dining and around it. kitchen facilities. Carpe Diem! www.kearsney.com @KearsneyNews (#KERF) Kearsney College DBN 26093 THE SHARKS ACADEMY YOUR PROFESSIONAL RUGBY CAREER STARTS HERE The Sharks Academy, Suite 721, Growthpoint KINGS PARK, Durban, Jacko Jackson Drive, Stamford Hill, Durban 4001 P.O. Box 307 Durban 4000 • Email: [email protected], Tel: +27 31 303 2931 Fax: +27 31 303 7419 sharksacademy.co.za 26093_The Sharks_Academy_Ad_A4.indd 1 3/24/14 10:23 AM 5 JOHN SMIT THE SHARKS CEO It is my pleasure to endorse the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival taking place between 2 and 6 April 2015. Schoolboy rugby plays an invaluable role in the development of South Africa’s rugby Each year it produces an improving standard culture. Rugby at schools is a place where of hosting and higher quality rugby offered by the values of sportsmanship, team work, hard KEARSNEY EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2015 some of the most competitive and esteemed work, perseverance, respect and honour can rugby schools in South Africa in what has be taught and embraced. become one of the most prestigious school rugby tournaments in the country. Sport has a unique way of bringing people together from different backgrounds and A close association with The Sharks cultures, an irreplaceable opportunity for Academy means we at The Sharks keep a individuals to learn about working together very interested eye on the players, their for the good of a team, to understand how schools and the festival as a whole, knowing people think and react in pressure situations that rugby in the province stands to benefit and how spirit can overcome adversity. significantly, both in the present as well as the future. Rugby has provided many valuable life lessons for me. Beginning at school where my parents Each year our scouts from The Sharks would drive hours to attend every match I Academy are impressed with the high played (and teaching me how important the quality of rugby displayed, the skills on support of loved ones really is), to playing for offer, the competitiveness shown, and the the Cell C Sharks as a 19-year-old and going spirit of schoolboy rugby that we at The on to captain the Springboks to the 2007 Sharks embrace. Rugby World Cup title in France. Many of the players in The Sharks rugby set- I urge every player to play with passion and, up, from our Academy to age group rugby, above all, to enjoy yourselves. were first identified at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival or participated and would have I would like to wish Kearsney College revelled in the opportunity to display their everything of the best for the tournament. abilities against some top quality opposition. May it continue to be a great success. www.kearsney.com @KearsneyNews (#KERF) Kearsney College 6 FUNEKA MONTJANE STANDARD BANK’s CHIEF EXECUTIVE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS BANKING IN SOUTH AFRICA It’s soon to be that time of year again when the So remember to use the facilities Standard moveable feast of Easter brings us some of the Bank will be making available: best schoolboy rugby in South Africa. • Look for our ever-popular selfie wall to use KEARSNEY EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2015 for your selfies. Standard Bank’s involvement in the Kearsney • Instagram your great moments of the day Easter Rugby Festival aligns with our (migrate to @StandardBankGRP on philosophy of putting our customers at the Instagram to participate). centre of everything we do. The approaches • Participate and comment on the festivities companies use to differentiate their brands through Twitter and Facebook at https:// do not rely solely on the service channels www.facebook.com/standardbanksa they offer, but on how individuals experience and https://twitter.com/standardbankza, them. respectively. Don’t forget to use the Standard Bank hashtag #EasterFest2015. Supporting sport assists us to connect with our customers in engaging and interactive Of course, most important of all will be ways, allowing us to build on and maintain the world-class rugby on offer, with all the these valuable relationships. By listening passion, determination and sheer talent that to our customers and understanding their made previous festivals so memorable. To all needs, we are able to provide financial the schools, parents, coaches and organisers, solutions that customers want rather than thank you for another year of compelling and what we think they need. exciting sport. Once again, we are thrilled to be one of the Good luck to the participating teams and major sponsors of the prestigious festival. It congratulations to all those who have been has come a long way since 2008 and now selected to play. Have fun, play hard and attracts many of South Africa’s top rugby- enjoy the spirit of the festival, which will playing schools, their families and loyal showcase true South African talent and supporters. It has earned its place as one of sportsmanship. the most prominent school sporting events on the SA calendar - an event and weekend We leave you with the words of Arthur not to be missed. Ashe, first African-American male player to win the U.S. Open and former World No. 1 Many of the same features from last year will professional tennis player: make this year’s festival fun, adding value for “You are never really playing an opponent. our customers and showing that banking is You are playing yourself, your own highest about more than just the obvious services standards, and when you reach your limits, people have come to expect. that is real joy.” 7 TAFF GREEN FESTIVAL DIRECTOR A warm welcome to all the players, parents, support staff and spectators who have joined us at Kearsney College to experience a fantastic long weekend of top rugby and wonderful family fun.