JUNE 2019 WEEK 9 – TERM 2

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On Saturday the rugby season drew to an end

for the blue and gold of St Charles College.

The mighty Amalekites ended off their season

on Old Boys day against St Alban’s College from

Pretoria. The visitors couldn’t have started the

game better, after a driving maul from 10m out

saw St Charles College concede the 1st try.

St Alban’s converted and had an early lead of

7-0. Both sides played a good territorial game in

the opening quarter of the match, St Alban’s

getting a kickable penalty to stretch their lead to

10-0. St Charles College then began their fight

back, 1st try being scored by lock James Laynes

and converted by inside centre Steven Scott. It wasn’t

long after their try when they again had St Alban’s on

their own try line, this time a penalty by Scott saw

SCC level the scores at 10-10. Just before the break

scrumhalf JJ Foord saw space at the back and his box

kick was fielded by fullback Simiso Ngubane for the

Saints 2nd try of the afternoon.

The 2nd half would be remembered for the

outstanding defence of St Charles College. With a

sole penalty by Scott to stretch the lead to 18-10, the

rest of the half saw brave defence by

St Charles College. With the St Alban’s team boasting

numerous provincial players and launching attack after attack, they were unable to score any points in the

last 35 minutes of the match.

The final score remained 18-10 to St Charles College; players who stood out were Captain Jason Robert

(1), James Laynes (5), Nhlakanipho Zikalala (6), Steven Scott (12) and Ruben Jacobs (14).

This concluded a very successful season for St Charles College. Having played the top rugby schools in

KZN and managing closely contested matches down the line, it is safe to say that St Charles College is a

force to be reckoned with on the rugby field.

Other Results from the day included:

2nd XV SCC 20-15 St Alban’s U15A SCC 12-29 St Alban’s

3rd XV SCC 27-0 St Alban’s U14A SCC 29-15 St Alban’s

U16A SCC 59-0 St Alban’s

The final hockey fixture of the Saints 2019 season was a well-attended and festive one. Old Boys Day

combined with Friday night lights made it a special evening for everyone involved and the match didn’t

disappoint. The Saints from PMB got off to a great start putting St Alban’s under large amounts of pressure

and displaying some good passages of play to create a number of opportunities.

2019 Old Boys Weekend St Charles College end season on a high

1st XI Hockey vs St Alban’s

Taygen Mollentze was instrumental throughout and was dangerous around the opponent’s circle area.

He managed to get through a number of tackles and weave his way into the circle, not once but twice, to

score 2 goals and put SCC into the lead. St Alban’s came back fighting and tried to change the momentum

of the game. For their efforts they managed to force

a short corner that was well converted into the top

left corner; score being 2-1 going into the half time

break.

Shortly after the half time SCC scored another goal

to take the score to 3-1 while continuing to play some

good hockey. 2 goals up, the mindsets changed and

the game began to swing. St Alban’s won another

short corner that was again converted into the top left

corner and were then awarded a penalty flick shortly

after to level up the scores.

A number of cards were awarded and disciplines from

both sides started to waver. St Alban’s kept their

composure and managed to capitalise on their

numerical advantage and converted another short

corner to take the lead. The final nail was put in the

coffin with a late break away field goal to take the score

to 5-3.

Well done to St Alban’s on a well fought victory.

The come back from behind made for an entertaining

game of hockey and kept all spectators on the edge of

their seats for the entire match.

More results from the weekend’s fixtures:

2nd SCC 0-1 St Alban’s U16A SCC 4-0 St Alban’s

3rd SCC 1-2 St Alban’s U14A SCC 3-3 St Alban’s

4th SCC 3-0 St Alban’s

On Saturday morning our Grade 1 and 2 boys played in an internal rugby festival, just prior to the Prep

1st team rugby fixture. There were many great tackles and good tries from our Junior Primary boys as they

showed their moms and dads what they have been practicing during the term. Well done to our Grade 1s

and Grade 2s.

This past weekend our Prep rugby teams hosted Cordwalles. The U9 age group had a successful morning

where both the A team the B team won their fixtures, 35-10 and 50-0 respectively. The U10As played

attractive rugby, beating their Cordwalles opposition 20 points to 15. The SCC 2nd side finished off their

impressive season with a 15-7 win against their Cordwalles counterparts. The Prep 1st fifteen showed great

heart and determination as they narrowly lost 0-10 to Cordwalles. Well done to all our Prep rugby players

this past term on some great team and individual performances. – Mr Chad Barron

Some of our Old Boys entertained our school squash

players in an Exhibition match which took place on

Wednesday, 12 June. It was a pleasure to see the skills

the Old Boys possess, and we trust that the SCC boys

picked up some skills for the game of squash.

Players are from the left: Mick Gouweloos, Justin

Gouweloos (winner of the exhibition), Jono Esteves and

Luke Barnard. – Mr Ryan Smith

On Friday afternoon the SCC cross country team travelled to World’s View to run in the weekly cross

country race held by TWC. All our SCC cross country runners achieved top 15 places this past week, with

the highlight being Nicholas Deysel’s 1st place finish in the U10 age group. – Mr Chad Barron

Prep Rugby

Old Boys Squash

Prep Cross Country

Aladdin JR “This past week, the St Charles College and Epworth collaboration of Aladdin JR was brought to life! The musical

included some favourite Alan Menken songs such as ‘Friend Like Me’, ‘A Whole New World’ and ‘Prince Ali’ as well

as a few wonderful new songs added for the Broadway production. With new, colourful character and non-stop

adventures, Aladdin JR was definitely enjoyed by all those who attended!

The final show was unfortunately disrupted due to a power outage at the Hexagon Theatre. Please contact the

Hexagon Theatre directly on 033 260 5537 for a refund on your tickets for Thursday night’s show.

The new postponed date will be confirmed shortly.

We would like to extend a massive thank you and congratulations to every single cast, crew and staff member who

spent countless hours over the past months making the production the success that is was!” Ms Roselyn Dredge

Saints Invitational Cricket Tour On Monday, 24 June, 12 St Charles College students and two staff members will be

travelling to England to play cricket. The boys will be playing seven games and will do a

tour of Lord’s, the London Eye and London Dungeon to name a few activities.

The tour will be a total of 12 days and will be a great cultural experience for the students,

especially during the Cricket World Cup.

We wish them well, fly the Saints flag high! – Mr Rowan Irons

We wish our Stayers XV all the best as they play in the Independent Schools Rugby Festival, hosted this

year by Clifton Durban at the Riverside Sports Complex. Please support our team if you are in the area:

27 June Field

13 : 00 Michaelhouse Kingswood College A

14 : 15 St Charles College St David’s Marist A

15 : 30 St Andrews School South Coast Barbarians A

16 : 45 Hilton College St Andrews College A

18 : 00 Kearsney College Clifton College A

29 June Field

13 : 00 St Andrews College St David’s Marist A

14 : 15 Clifton College St Andrews School A

15 : 30 Kearsney College Kingswood College A

16 : 45 Michaelhouse South Coast Barbarians A

18 : 00 Hilton College St Charles College A

01 July Field

09 : 00 Hilton College St David’s Marist A

09 : 00 Kingswood College St Charles College B

10 : 15 St Andrews College Michaelhouse A

10 : 15 Kearsney College St Andrews School B

11 : 30 Clifton College South Coast Barbarians A

Saints Stayers Rugby

Water Polo

Skhanyiso Khumalo, Tom van Deventer and Owen Botha leave for Croatia tomorrow. We wish them all the best for their tour.

Cricket

Sanele Mdingi and Keegan Crawford have a Dolphins U17 cricket camp in the first week of July.

Hockey

Selaelo Mashiloane plays in the U18 IPT Final against Western Province at 12pm today.

We wish Vuyo Shezi all the best as he

represents KwaZulu-Natal squash at the

U16.

IPT in Bloemfontein!

Squash

They say team work makes

the dream work. For the

U15C rugby boys and their

coach, Mr Dlamini, great

team work has resulted in

them having a dream winter

season in 2019.

Going unbeaten, at any

level in any sport, takes a

great amount of effort, team

synergy and I suppose a bit

of good fortune. Our U15

boys deserved to finish the

season with big smiles,

they have done the Blue

and Gold mighty proud.

Saints Hockey embarked on an

exciting new journey this year,

playing four fixtures under lights on

Friday evening.

The atmosphere created around the

turf with braais and music was family-

orientated and a lot of fun. We look

forward to building on this initiative in

2020. What may not have been so

exciting for parents and coaches

were the cold mid-week practice

sessions under lights!

We thank parents for

accommodating the change in

routine and especially the U14A,

U14B, U16A and 1st team families

(as well as our House Masters and catering team in the boarding establishment) for adjusting and making

these sessions possible. The positive spin-off is that more Saints teams were able to have access to turf

during the week.

Super Saints!

Friday Night Lights

A sincere vote of thanks to all the SCC parents who hosted St Alban’s boys last weekend. It is truly appreciated and makes our inter-provincial exchanges possible!

Inter House Hockey

Blood Donor Clinic

Towards the end of the season, our Senior School

boys participated in their Inter House Hockey matches.

Well done to Conway House for achieving first place.

Seen in the picture along-side is James Twycross, the

2019 captain of Conway House.

On the last day of term,

the South African National

Blood Service visited

St Charles College, giving

staff and boys in the

Senior School the chance

to donate blood and help

save a life!

Our Annual Prep School Polar Bear swim took place earlier this morning, with many brave boys swimming and a

number of staff nominated to swim! The Polar Bear swim raises money for the annual Grade 7 trip to Cape Town.

We applaud and thank the chilly champions who in all

likelihood beat their own personal best over the

15-metre swim!

Prep Polar Bear Swim

Junior Primary Words Week Hooked on Books

Scrummies Pyjama Day

Educate and Fascinate

Talking Drums

As part of their Words Week programme

our Junior Primary boys visited

Scrummies on their pyjama day to spend

some time together reading.

Our Scrummies boys loved the visit from

the boys in 'big school' and we especially

loved to see how our Junior Primary boys

with brothers in the Pre-Primary, with no

prompting, immediately sought out their

little brothers.

Our Pre-Primary and Senior Primary School

have been collecting tins of food for the

Winter Warmth Outreach this term.

These tins will be warmly welcomed and so

appreciated by the Woodlands community at

Amy Biehl Creche’ and Mama Ntombi

outreach. Thank you to all our Parents in the

Prep School for your generous spirits.

– Mrs Angie Mayo

Have you heard about our Saints Kit Recycling initiative?

Just a reminder as the second term draws to a close, and in the last two weeks of each season, we will have a collection for shoes, boots, hockey sticks and general sports equipment. If your son has out-grown his equipment, instead of it sitting at the bottom of the cupboard, please consider donating it?

There is an aluminium cage in the senior sports office where the boys can drop off their donations. We would like to thank Mr Duncan Andrew for the great initiative.

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Winter Warmth

Grade 3 Animal Projects

If you have any crutches at home that you aren’t using anymore, please consider donating them the SCC Sickbay.

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