CWESI is the Adult Night School started 27 years ago by Mrs Joan Williamson, a WBHS parent, in her own home. When the demand became too great, she persuaded the local Church in Price Drive, Constantia, to house the evening classes. In 1996, the church in turn became too small and Wynberg Boys’ High School was approached. Thus the Constantia Wynberg Education Sharing Initiative was born.
123 boys (i.e. 88% of the grade) achieved University Endorsements which allows them to apply for University. This is the school's highest recorded Matric Endorsement rate to date.
Maths and Maths Literacy were the two most successful subjects. 93 boys wrote Maths returning 28 A's and an average of 74%. 47 boys wrote Maths Literacy also returning 28 subject A's and their average was 81%. In all, there were 128 subject A's throughout the subjects.
As a new subject in the curriculum, EGD's average of 73% is particularly commendable.
Our top pupils were magnificent and all credit to our top six matriculants who returned outstanding results. Edmund Rodseth retained his ranking as the schools number one academic achieving a memorable seven subject A's.
Matthew Gruter achieved six subject A's with four matrics returning five subject A's: Glen Hartmann; James Stock; Aaron Kim; Grant Little.
As this is the first set of exams of the new curriculum, the results have been eagerly awaited and the implications dissected. Seven subjects improved on their averages from November 2007: Maths, Geography, Life Sciences (Biology), I.T., Music, Physical Science and Art. Most of the other subjects were within a few percent in aggregate of what they achieved last year. There is no doubt that the matric examiners have retained the standards and the quality of the matric exams and that the school has managed to measure up to these standards and to ensure that Wynberg pupils have been suitably prepared for university. Overall, these matric results are as good as any achieved by the school in the last twenty years.
The following boys have been selected in a preliminary squad for the U14A and B teams for 2009 (they were selected from those who attended the New Boy Nets on Fri 28/11/08):
B Edwards, J Phillips, R Overmeyer, G Sutton, R Wyngaard, B Coetzee, T Petersen, M Timlin, S Alam, N Zeeman, J van Rooyen, J Sage,
B Chedburn, Q Dreyer, W Lawrence, R McKinley, G Maasch,
T Straszacker, N Boulle, J Dowdall, M Hairbottle, D van der Mescht,
C Thorpe, C Thomson, L Rogers, S Bradley, L van Aswegwen,
G De La Cruz, J Bassett.
There will be 3 practices at the Oval - Tues 13/1, Wed 14/1 and Thurs 15/1 at 16h00.
All of these boys will be expected to attend an Umpires Course on the following dates - 22/1, 26/1, 4/2, 5/2 and 9/2 from 17h00 to 19h30.
Golf: Wynberg Congratulates
Christian Helmbold and Josh de Klerk who won the WP Junior foursomes Champs at Somerset West recently, and Josh for being named WP JUnior Golfer of the Year 2008.
Christian Helmbold (left) and Josh de Klerk
Cricket: Outstanding Achievements
There have been 3 quite astonishing achievements in the last couple of weeks. They are listed as they happened:
Josh Fransman took 5 wickets in 5 balls against Tableview H.S. in the semi-final of the WP U15 knock out – I have never heard of this being done before.
James Cameron-Dow took his 300th 1st XI wicket against Westerford – a feat only done before at schoolboy level by Ian Solomons of Bishops.
David Bedingham scored 212* against Westerford including 16 sixes and 19 fours – the 2nd highest score ever recorded by a WBHS boy in the second highest total ever recorded by a WBHS team. (Highest was Richard Levi, Matric 2005 – 216* in a total of 337/4 dec.)
