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School concerts are pretty special events to attend regardless of your age. They are events where so many dreams yet to be fulfilled are often birthed and imagined. A breeding ground for the world’s future artists, a place where so many of our industries leading musicians first discovered their love for their craft. This was...
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Our U14A Hockey side played in the Westville Hockey Festival and we are delighted to say that there were undefeated. Their scores were as follows: DHS 3-1 St Benedicts DHS 1-1 Menlopark DHS 1-1 Helpmekaar DHS 4-1 Grasfontein DHS 1-1 Rondebosch Well done, Gentlemen!
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The end of term 1 of 2018 sees the completion of my first year as Head Master of this incredible institution. The journey has certainly been a blur of activity punctuated with many highlights, too many to mention even in précis form. Transformation in education is a worldwide phenomenon as it has been recognised that...
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The IRANZ High Performance coaching course held at the Rugby institute in New Zealand was the most valuable experience I’ve had as a coach so far. Held in the small town of Palmerston North on the North Island, at Massey University, the institute provided a full schedule of workshops, presentations and coaching by a plethora...
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Leading Durban High School in 2017! In a special assembly in the DC Thompson School hall at Durban High School on October 11, the school’s Prefect Body and RCL for 2017 was announced. The much anticipated announcement of the Leadership Assembly was that of the Head Boy and Deputy Prefects for 2017. Head Boy of...
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We had a very good two weeks inside and outside the classroom. We announced the Junior Prefects this week and they will be in action the next few weeks. The school will then vote for their leaders for 2017. Our Athletes retained the Northwood Quadrangular Athletics title by beating Glenwood, Northwood and Westville. Our athletes...
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On Monday morning 99 Grade 10s gathered on Top Field to begin, for what was for most of them, their first experience in the outdoors in the Southern Berg. Our destination was Khotso Horse Trails situated 12 km outside Underberg. This 1300 hectare working horse and sheep farm is nestled at the foot of this majestic...
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Work on the Chris Seabrooke Music Centre is almost complete and I cannot wait to see the end product.  It was one of my dreams for DHS and due to the fantastic generosity of Old Boy Chris Seabrooke it is almost there.  We have also appointed a Music Director, Natalie Rungan who, I have no...
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I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and...
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