The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of

knowledge, but rather a lack of will.- Vince Lombardi

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Die Perfekte Balance

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE……. I trust that each and every one enjoyed the short holiday and long weekend. This is our first newsletter of the second term.

The staff involved in the annual rugby week also had to be on duty during the holiday, Mr V. Lombard and his team, congratulations on the success of the week. 30 Rugby teams com-peted. During the 30 matches that took place, eventful and exciting rugby was played. Many thanks to all the staff who gave up of their time during the holiday. A first this year was the presence of Coffee Creative Studio recording and covering all the matches includ-ing interviews with players and coaches.

To all our parents who attended the parent consultation day on 9 April and 10 April, thank you for the interest shown in your child and the support.

LAPA Distributers visited our school on 9 and 10 April exhibiting their books and 23 April was National Book day.

SANBS visited our school on Tuesday 16 April. 55 learners applied to donate. Only 44 donors were successful.

The HS test timetable is available. The first tests commenced on Wednesday 17 April. All tests that are written this term, except gr 12’s, will form part of their term 3 report mark. The exam timetables have also been distributed.

Our annual Potjiefees will take place on Saturday 1 June. It is an event not to be missed. The night market will also take place on the Friday night, 31 May. All learners will be involved on the night.

NEWSLETTER

Parents, be involved parents because good values and a good balance is as important as aca-demic success which is necessary to build a good foundation.

I wish you a happy and productive term ahead

SCHOOL CODE OF CONDUCT – UNIFORM GR 8 - 12

• The navy blazer with the badge sewn on, is compulsory in winter and during as-sembly on Mondays. The blazer and tie is compulsory during winter.

• The blazer must have two buttons, at all times and each sleeve must have one button.

HS WINTER UNIFORM

Winter uniform is to be worn from 2 May until 20 September. Learners have to wear their long sleeve shirts with a school tie and their blazer. In case of a very hot day, they are allowed to roll up their sleeves. The jersey is only al-lowed to be worn under the blazer.

PRIMARY SCHOOL WINTER UNIFORM

From 2 May until 20 September, the Junior Primary School learners may wear their track suits. On very cold days they may wear a navy school jersey under their track suit top. Please ensure that all school clothes items are clearly marked.

The SP Phase learners wear a school jersey on very cold days. The girls may wear the navy blue tights.

REMINDER: IDENTITY DOCUMENTS

It is compulsory for all grade 12 learners to be in possession of a South African Identity Document before they can write the National Senior Certificate examination. All grade 11 learners are therefor urged to apply for their South African Identity Document during their grade 11 year.

UNIFORM: SUPPORTERS AT DNC SPORT ACTIVITIES

All learners should wear their full school uniform, according to the code of conduct, at all times when supporting DNC sport activities. At all times learners are only allowed to carry a school branded bag.

Primary School learners should also wear their school uniform if matches are played at DNC.

NEW SCHOOL BUS

Our one school bus that was stolen during the second term in 2018 was replaced and we finally received a new bus this week.

AFTER CARE CENTRE DURING SPORT ACTIVITIES

The after care centre are being used to serve tea and coffee to our visiting schools’ officials during the Saturday matches. No learner is allowed to be at the centre or sit on the pavilion.

ANNUAL CROSS COUNTRY DAY

The annual cross country day as listed on the calendar will not take place. We will have a fun run for the whole family on 13 July 2019.

DETENSIE

Detention takes place every Friday, unless otherwise stated. Please note that detention will not be cancelled or postponed on request on a Friday. If your child is unable to sit detention please contact the grade mentor immediately on receipt of his/her deten-tion letter.

HS detention times are from 14:15 to 15:45, and Primary School times are from 14:00 tot 15:00.

EISTEDDFOD

The Eisteddfod that was due to take place during the week of 13 - 17 May have been postponed to 19 - 23 August. The reason being that too many schools are busy with ex-ams during this time. Learners are still welcome to enter, the syllabus is available on the D6.

STAFF NEWS

Mrs T. Govindasami gave birth to a boy on 16 March 2019.

Miss A. Meyer got married on 16 March 2019 (Erxleben).

Miss L. Temmingh got married on 20 April 2019 (Wagenaar)

Mrs. A. Erxleben took part in the National Action Netball

tournament in Gauteng during the past week as a member of

the KZN team.

Mrs R. de Wet resigned on 30 April and is leaving for Australia.

Ms C. de Bruyn, in the library, resigned.

IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday 1 May Workers Day

Thursday 2 May Start wearing winter uniform

Wednesday 8 May Election day—school holiday

Friday 10 May PS Mothers day tea HS Talent evening

Thursday 16 May PS Choir Competition @ Kuswag - Sing in Harmonie

Friday 31 May Night Market

Saturday 1 June Pot & Fire Festival

‘Thank you to every parent’

Who helped us raise R1 487.78 on the MySchool program last month.

Do you know that every time you swipe your MySchool card, DNC receives a

percentage that goes towards the successful running of the school?

Sign up if you don’t have a card and remember to add DNC as a beneficiary

D6

Communication with parents and pupils is essential to maintain effective relationships within

a school. Durban North College uses various forms of communication, one of which is the D6

Communicator.

General news, updates, calendars, schedules and the like will be regularly posted on the D6

Communicator to keep you updated. If you have not yet downloaded the application, we

encourage you to do so to ensure that you are constantly updated with relevant news.

Congratulations goes to Zanru Roets, in grade 7 who took part in the “KZN eThekwini

Youth Chess Trials” and were placed 2nd in his age category from 118 participants.

Well done Zanru!

On Friday 12 April, the Umlazi Hockey Trials took place at Northwood. Two of our SP

learners qualified in the first round, but unfortunately did not finish the second round.

The experience and growth opportunity is something they will always remember.

Congratulations to Lesedi Msiya & Enthle Mthombeni for doing DNC proud.

Both Netball and Soccer teams have been practising very hard and are really doing

very good this term. They already had a few matches against Atholton, Durban North

Primary , Maidstone & Fatima where they really did very well.

The rugby team are also hard at work preparing for their festival taking place on the

2nd of May.

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS

Our Senior Primary choir is working hard for to the Sing in Harmony Choir competition

that will be taking place on May 16 at Kuswag School in Amanzintoti. KykNet camera

crew filmed a short insert at the school on Friday 30 April, for the evening.

We will be keeping our fingers crossed for our choir this year.

DATE DAY SUBJECT TOPICS

20/05 Monday HOME LANGUAGE PAPER 3 Essay and Transactional Gr 4 - 7

21/05 Tuesday FIRST ADDITIONAL LANG. PAPER 3 Essay and Transactional

22/05 Wednesday MATHS Term 1 & 2 Gr 4 - 7

23/05 Thursday E.M.S Term 1 & 2

27/05 Monday HOME LANGUAGE PAPER 2 Comp., Lang. & Lit. Gr 4 - 7

28/05 Tuesday HOME LANGUAGE PAPER 1 Oral Gr 4 - 7

29/05 Wednesday FIRST ADDITIONAL LANG. PAPER 2 Comp., Lang. & Lit. Gr 4 - 7

30/05 Thursday CREATIVE ARTS Term 1 & 2

4/06 Tuesday NATURAL SCIENCE Term 1 & 2

6/06 Thursday HISTORY Term 1 & 2

7/06 Friday LIFE ORIENTATION Term 1 & 2

10/06 Monday GEOGRAPHY Term 1 & 2

11/06 Tuesday FIRST ADDITIONAL LANG. PAPER 3 Oral

12/06 Wed. TECHNOLOGY Term 1 & 2

PS EXAM TIMETABLE

10 Quick Tips for Successful Exam Preparation

• Give yourself enough time to study.

• Make a study schedule that fits your way of studying

• Do not leave anything for the last minute. ...

• Use flow charts and diagrams.

• Practice on old exams. ...

• Explain your answers to others. ...

• Organize study groups with friends. ...

• Take regular breaks. ...

• Plan the day of your exams.

• Drink plenty of water.

SPORT

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

2 *SP 7s Rugby @DNC

3

4 JP Soccer @Northcrest

6

7

8 JP Chess @ La Lucia

9 SP 7’s Rugby @Redham

10

11 JP Soccer + Net-ball @ Redham

13

14

15 JP Chess @CLL

16 SP 7s Rugby @CLL

17

18 JP Soccer + Net-ball @ Soccer @Glenashley

20

21

22 JP Chess @DNC

23 SP 7’s Rugby @CMR

24 Cross Country Day

25 *JP Soc + Net @ DNC

27

28

29 JP Sport @ Glenashley

30

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HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

BLOOD BANK

DNC staff and learners once again got an opportunity to donate blood this term.

The blood services visit DNC every term giving everyone to donate . Remember that

you are also welcome to donate blood next term! There’s few things so rewarding as

the knowledge that your blood helped safe a life!

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

We would like to thank the parents for donating Easter eggs for this outreach.

Our learners visited Golden Hours School as well as Tuinsig Retirement Village on Fri-

day 17 April. Learners made cards and together with this and some Easter eggs got

to spend some time with learners less fortunate than them. This kind gesture warmed

many hearts and will stay with them for some time.

PROUDLY DNC

MISS TEEN GLOBE/ TOURISM TEEN GLOBE/ TOURISM

Christin Robson is another one of DNC learners who loves giving back to the commu-

nity. Through her hard work, passion time and dedication she was recently crowned

Miss Teen Globe/ Tourism at an event at the Durban ICC. Her win means she will rep-

resent South Africa at a global pageant in Manila, Philippines later this year. She has a

passion for helping others.

KZN - DANSSPORT

A huge congratulations goes to the following DNC learners: Thube Mthethwa (2nd

year), Lauren Fernandez (3rd year) and Antonio de Villiers (3rd year) who all received

their KZN Colours. They will be representing KZN at the National Dance Sport Tourna-

ment taking place in Cape Town later this year. What an amazing achievement!!!

GREEN & GOLD FOR SHANNON

Grade 8 learner, Shannon Bonhomme represented KZN at the SA Championships of

Performing Arts in Rustenburg. Not only did Shannon achieve one gold and two

bronze medals, she was also included in the SA team that will be competing at the

World Championships of Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

She is one of Donna Da Costa’s star students and dances at Dance Barre Studio (next

to the hall) Donna who is the owner, coach & choreographer received “Teacher of

the Year” award during this same SACOPA Champs.

UMLAZI DISTRIK SWEMSPAN

Durban North College are very proud of the learners that has made the Umlazi Swimming

Team. They competed at the KZN Swimming Champs on 14 April. At this event Marcé Strydom,

a grade 10 attained a 2nd place in the 200m Butterfly

We are extremely proud of her

ON THE SPORT FIELD

SOME SPORT RESULTS

Hockey vs Kingsway

The /14 girls lost 1 - 0,

The 1st team ended in a tie 2 each.

The 1st team boys lost 1 –0

Netball vs NGHS

The /14A team won 8 - 3,

The /16 - 2nd Span lost 11 - 5

The 1st team won 25 - 16

Netball vs Crawford North Coast

The /14 A lost 11 - 3.

The /16 - 2nd team ended in a tie 10 ea.

The 1ste team won 18 - 16.

Rugby vs Kingsway

The Juniors ended up in a tie with 12 points ea.

The Seniors lost their game 7 - 12

RUGBY WEEK 2019

During the March holiday, DNC hosted yet another successful Rugby Festival.

This year we hosted 18 schools from across KZN and schools from Gauteng and had a

total of 30 teams participating in our festival with 16 teams staying at the school.

Twizza came on board as our first ever drinks-sponsor and supplied the coaches and

staff with plenty of refreshments during the week.

We brought Coffee Studio on board as well to handle our social media for the week

and found great success with this as some videos and photos of the week was viewed

over 500 times and over 100 shares of various photos and videos.

We would like to congratulate the various winners of the tournament, Birchleigh High

School first team for winning the A division and Linpark High School for winning the

B division. The /16 division was won by Ferrum High School.

The success of the Rugby Festival can truly be contributed to the extremely hard work

and dedication of the DNC staff and a big thank you needs to go to Mr Quintin

Lategan and his ground staff for preparing our fields for the festival. We would like to

thank Twizza for the amazing sponsorship and look forward to working with them

again in the near future as well as Biztec for the 1st team sponsorship.

We are looking at making the Durban North College Rugby Festival even bigger and

more exciting in 2020 with many new ideas in the making!

Mr. Vernon Lombard

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

2 HS Chess v Northlands Girls @DNC

3

4 HS Rugby Hock-ey and Netball vs Werda *HS Chess @Queensburgh Festival

6 HS Hockey Girls v Kuswag @Kuswag

7

8

9 HS Chess v Northwood @Northwood

10

11 HS Rugby, Hock-ey and Netball vs New Forest @DNC

13 HS Hockey Girls v Grosvenor @Grosvenor

14

15 *HS Rugby, Hockey and Net-ball v Gelofte @DNC *HS Cross Coun-try @ Crawford *HS Hockey Boys v ST henrys @ St Henrys

16 HS Chess v CNC @ CNC SP 7s Rugby @CLL

17 HS Hockey Boys v Redham @ Redham

18 HS Rugby vs Crawford La lucia @ CLL JP Soccer + Net-ball @ Soccer @Glenashley

20 Hockey Girls v Port Natal @PN

21

22 HS Cross Coun-try @Waterfall College

23 SP 7’s Rugby @CMR

24 Cross Country Day

25 HS Rugby, Hock-ey and Netbal v ST Henrys @DNC

27 HS Hockey Girls @Queensburgh

28

29 JP Sport @ Glenashley HS vs Toti @ Toti

30

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SPORT

DATE GR 8 GR 9 GR 10 GR 11 GR 12

MONDAY 27/05

CATN P2 (2 HRS) CATN P2 (2 ½ HRS) TRSM (3 HRS)

TUESDAY 28/05

CATN P1 (3 HRS) GRDS P1 (2 HRS) CATN P2/BSTD (3 HRS)

WEDNESDAY 29/05

ENGFA P4 (1 ½ HRS) ENGHL P4 (1 ½ HRS)

AFRHL P4 (1 ½ HRS) AFRFA P4 (1 ½ HRS)

GRDS (3 HRS) AFRFA P1 (2HRS) ENGFA P1 (2 HRS)

2ND SESSION

CATN P1 (3 HRS)

ENGFA P3 (2 ½ HRS) ENGHL P2 (2 ½ HRS)

THURSDAY 30/05

AFRFA P2 (2 HRS)

AFRHL P1 (2 HRS)

ENGHL P4 (2 HRS)

ENGFA P4

ENGHL P1 (2 HRS) ENGFA P1 (2 HRS)

ACCN P1 (2 HRS) VSLA (3 HRS)

VSLA PRAC (6HRS)

FRIDAY 31/05

MATH (2 HRS) WISK (2 HRS)

CREATIVE ARTS

SKEPPENDE KUNSTE (1HR)

AFRFA P2 (2HRS) AFRHL P2 (2 HRS)

GRDS P2 (2HRS) TRSM (3HRS) HIST (3 HRS)

AFRHL P1 (2 HRS) AFRFA P1 (2HRS)

MONDAY 03/06

CREATIVE ARTS SKEPPENDE

KUNSTE 1HR

NS BIOL (1 ½ HRS) NW BIOL

PHSC P1 (2 HRS) GEOG P1 (2 HRS)

TRSM (3 HRS)

2ND SESSION GEOG P2 (1 ½ HRS)

PHSC P1 (2 HRS) BSTD P1 (2 HRS)

GEOG P1 (3HRS)

2ND SESSION GEOG P2 (1 ½ HRS)

VSLA (3 HRS)

TUES 04/06

ENGFA (2 HRS) ENGHL (2 HRS)

TEGN (2 HRS)

ACCN (2 HRS) HIST (3 HRS)

AFRHL P2 (2 ½ HRS)

ENGHL P2 (2 ½ HRS)

LFSC (2 ½ HRS) GRDS (2 ½ HRS)

WEDNESDAY 05/06

AFRHL P3 (2 HRS)

AFRHL P3 (2 HRS)

AFRHL P3 (2 ½ HRS)

AFRHL P3 (2 ½ HRS)

AFRHL P2 (2 ½ HRS)

THURSDAY 06/06

NS BIOL (1 ½ HRS) NW BIOL

HSS HIST (1 ½ HRS) MSW GESK

MATH/MLIT P1 (1 HR)/(1HR)

MATH/MLIT P1 (2 HRS)/(1 ½ HRS)

PHSC P1 (3 HRS)

2ND SESSION GRDS (2 ½ HRS

FRIDAY 07/06

EMS (2 HRS)

EBW

ENGHL P2 (2 HRS)

ENGFA P2

PHSC P2 (2 HRS)

PHSC P2 (2 HRS) BSTD P2 (2 HRS)

MATH/MLIT P1 (3 HRS)/(2 HRS)

MONDAY 10/06

HSS GEOG (1 ½ HRS)

MSW AARD

AFRHL P1 (2 HRS)

AFRFA P2

2ND SESSION GEOG

(1 ½ HRS)

MATH/MLIT P2 (1 HRS)/(1HR)

MATH/MLIT P2 (2 HRS)/(1 ½ HRS)

MATH/MLIT P2 (3 HRS)/(2HRS)

2ND SESSION

AFRHL P3 (2 ½ HRS) AFRFA P2 (2HRS)

TUESDAY 11/06

AFRHL P2 (2 HRS)

GR 9 APTI-TUDE TEST /

08:00 TO 13:00

LFSC (2 ½ HRS) VSLA (2 HRS) BSTD (2 HRS)

ACCN P2 (2 HRS) GEOG P1 (3 HRS) VSLA PRAC 6HRS

2ND SESSION

GEOG P2 (1 ½ HRS)

ACCN (3 HRS)

WEDNESDAY 12/06

TEGN (2 HRS)

EMS (2 HRS)

EBW

ENGHL P2(2 ½ HRS)

ENGFA P2 (2HRS)

ENGFA P2(2HRS) AFRFA P P2 (2HRS)

ENGFA P2 (2 HRS)

THURSDAY 13/06

NS SCIENCE (1 ½ HRS) NW WET

MATH (2 HRS) WISK

VSLA PRAC 6HRS BSTD P2 (2 HRS)

LFSC (2 ½ HRS)

PHSC P2 (3 HRS)

FRIDAY 14/06

HSS HIST (1 ½ HRS)

MSW GESK

NS SCIENCE (1 ½ HRS) NW WET

AFRFA P1 (2HRS) AFRHL P1 (2HRS)

ENGHL P1 (2HRS) AFRHL P1 (2HRS)

ENGHL P1 (2 HRS) ENGFA P1 (2 HRS)

HS EXAM TIME TABLE

Dance Barre offers all styles of Dance for Boys and Girls from age 4 and up.

Dance Barr are proud to announce Danna Da Costa received the SACOPA 2019

Teachers Award.

PACE Song & Dance Workshop ~5 Weekly Classes during May.

Boys and Girls Welcome