Riebeek College Girls’ High School is immensely proud of their matric class who obtained a 100% pass rate and a fantastic 90% Bachelor Pass rate. There were 107 subject distinctions from a class of 78 girls. Mrs Marilyn Woods, principal (newly retired though but still busy today helping with the p...

A small-town girl with old-fashioned values, and a strong advocate of tradition, Marilyn Dodd Woods is about to step down after a forty-four-year-old love affair with teaching. Herself an old girl of the school, Mrs Woods catapulted from schoolgirl to school principal with tenacity so typical of her...

2016, being my retirement year at Riebeek College, has been so very special, although probably the year that has flown by the fastest. I consider it a privilege to be able to retire while still loving my job. I have tried, over the years, to entrench and nourish values in the ethos of the school sin...

At the start of 2013, Nicola McEwan wrote for the school magazine about new arrival, Mrs Gunter: “There was one query prominent more than the rest. Who was the mysterious new Life Sciences teacher? The girls were delighted to discover just how caring, happy and genuine their new teacher was and he...

This year all the Grade 7 learners together with Mrs Snyman, Mrs Chrysostomou and Mr Jonas went to VCSV in Jeffrey’s Bay for our Grade 7 camp on the 17th of November to the 18th of November 2016. When we arrived at VCSV we met our camp leaders: Tijane, Zonika, Hanna, Gerard and Tarina. They taught...

Grade 4A Certificate for 4th position in LS and a Merit Certificate: Buhlebenkosi April A Certificate for 3rd position in NS/Tech and a Merit Certificate: Tracey-Anne August A Merit Certificate: Taytum-Paige Bosch, Nikaylynne Ford, Nakeixha Hendricks, Ruth Isaacs, Liyanda Jack, Jenna Miram...

VALEDICTORY ADDRESS – FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2016We now come to the 2nd part of our proceedings this morning, THE VALEDICTORY CEREMONY.   (For the Grade 4s, this is when we celebrate and say goodbye to our young ladies in matric.)Today is one of those special moments in time, that will be an ...

The senior Inter-house hockey matches were held on the 28th September 2016. These hockey matches were enthusiastically supported by all the senior students and each player was determined to make their team and their house proud.The first match was between Elton and Eleanor. It was a tense game and t...

The senior netball day was held on the 29th September 2016. The games were played on two courts and each grade played fiercely throughout the day in an attempt to reach the final round and become the overall netball champions.The players started their day by applying their unique war paint to distin...

After an exquisite border banquet in Mrs Woods' honour last night, Mrs Woods was the centre of attention at school today when the end of term assembly became a surprise assembly. Past headgirls and Zoleka Mtila (Class of 2010, The VoiceSA contestant) serenaded Mrs Woods as did Lemley and our ground ...

The iNkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition took place in East London on the 15 and 16 September 2016. This was the provincial round as 8 finalists were going to be chosen to represent the Eastern Cape. Omhle Bissett in Grade 10 at Riebeek College Girls’ High School represented the Uitenhag...

After a long and cold winter, what else is better than to have a little bit of sunshine and a summer day at the beach? The Cultural Induction Party, with the summer beach party theme, left all of us (even those who prefer winter) longing for those warm summer days spent at the beach eating ice-cream...

The Riebeek College Choir secured a category win at the Cantamus National Choir Festival that took place in George, Western Cape during the long weekend of 6 to 9 August 2016.We kicked off our trip early on Saturday, 6 August, arriving at the hostel at 6:30 A.M. Though we were still a bit groggy, th...

On Friday the 22 July, Riebeek College hosted the 2016 Matric Farewell. It was a truly unforgettable evening filled with fun, laughter and amazing music.This year’s chosen theme by the Dance Committee, under the guidance and mentorship of Mrs Bean, was an Enchanted Forest. A beautiful forest archw...

The De Beers English Olympiad was an insightful and enjoyable experience that exposed me to many new and different writing styles and gothic novels. It expanded my knowledge of literature and language and taught me how to delve deeper into the true meaning behind the writer’s words. The theme...

From Marilyn, with love quotes by JuniorsGrade 4“I love that everyone was working so hard and that we were successful on the two nights. I believe that every single one of us can heal the world, like not making the world dirty with litter. I will never forget the song I feel better when I am danci...

On Wednesday, 15 June, the first team went to Graaff-Reinet to play a match against Volkskool. This felt like a mini tour, because Graaff-Reinet is quite far away. We were lucky enough to be joined by Michaela Balie and Lindsay McFarlane, our Captain and Vice Captain from last year. We loved having ...

On 23 April, the Interact Board members volunteered at Bayworld.Here we got involved with the behind the scenes work such as cleaning of the tanks, cleaning of the baby penguin centre etc.After the hard but fun work was over, we were treated to a special "handshake" with one of the seals.Not only wa...

The Gr 8’s and 9’s are very active in the Going Green club every Wednesday from 2.15 – 3.15. We are divided into groups and we compete against each other every Wednesday.So far we had: a visit from a lady telling us more about recyclinga treasure hunt a ground’s clean up Two b...

Although it is with a sad heart that I address you all this morning, I also feel privileged to be able to pay tribute to the late Mr Neill Hoare, who passed away on breaking up day, the 18 March, at the end of last term. Last year he was really not well at all and then arranged to go down to Cape To...

A day in the life of a Grade 4 is really exciting, everybody lines up in the mornings to meet their teacher. My teacher’s name is Mrs.Viljoen and she is the best teacher ever! I am enjoying Grade 4 a lot because we have many interesting subjects like Maths, English, Afrikaans, Social Scienc...

The 2016 Stay-Awake took place on the 25-26th of February. The theme for the evening was the “Wacky Woods Carnival.” The Grade 4s had a blast at their first Stay-Awake and so did the Grade 5s and 6s. With the Grade 7s and Mrs Woods having their last Stay-Awake, we all decided to make it memorabl...

Favourite subjects? My favourite subjects were  definitely Maths, Afrikaans and Biology. The content for Maths was far more interesting than previous years and Mrs Stevens always added her special touch to the work. I loved the Afrikaans poems this year so I looked forward to poetry lessons in ...