Durban Girls College Father & Daughter 2010 Ball Games Cup
 
(click here to download the full pdf)
 
Inviting all Dads & Daughters of grade 6 & grade 7 for a fun-filled evening of "playworks" where awsome activities and gamess are in "goals" for you!

REVIEW FOR ARTSMART
 
  ©  Caroline Smart (editor of artSMart) http://www.artsmart.co.za Date:  March 18, 2010  (031)  2616036 csmart@iafrica.com 082  892-3959
 
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
Durban Girls College: March 16 to 20

Well-directed cast give excellent individual performances in Ayckbourn comedy. (Review by Caroline Smart)
 
If you want to see six fine professional actors and actresses in the making, then waste no time in getting to Durban Girls College to catch <em>Absurd Person Singular</em> by contemporary British playwright Alan Ayckbourn which has a short season in the Lecture Theatre.
 
To succeed the way he wrote it, Ayckbourn’s work requires a level of maturity and sophistication otherwise it can tip into melodrama. Director Wendy Watson, with Colin Chapman in the Associate Director’s chair, has created a tightly knit production and drawn excellent performances from this youthful cast made up of students in their final year at Durban Girls’ College or Durban High School.
 
The backstage team is also made up of students from both schools and the same professionalism is evident here – the first scene change is executed in the semi-darkness between acts but, if you stay behind in the auditorium at interval, you’ll be able to watch them in action.
 
The story is set in the kitchen areas of three couples – the Hopcrofts, the Jacksons and the Brewster-Wrights - so this is a complicated production from a technical point of view. Greg King has created a very effective set design which portrays the three areas - each reflecting the owners’ taste and financial standing and each skilfully transforming into the next. There is much attention to detail even down to the “Must Do” lists in the first set – one for the husband and one for the wife!
 
The Absurd Person Singular cast is well-chosen and, because it is very evident that the performers clearly understand all aspects of their characters, each role is a cameo. Comedy – and especially farce – can’t work unless it’s played seriously. Situations which may appear hilarious to the audience are often anything but to the characters in the story. It’s all credit to the actors in that while they picked up their cues quickly, they also waited for the laughs, held the pauses correctly and were consistent in their interaction as married couples, despite the fact that they’re all aged around 17.
 
Kenlynn Sutherland and Stephanie Walker have ensured that the “look” is believable and the costumes are effective and suit the personalities.
 
Sam Pennington is highly amusing as the self-important Sidney Hopcroft and Mweya Waetjen is a delight as his timorous and ditsy spouse who has a passion for cleaning things.
 
Johann Potgieter and Julie Dancaster come into their own in the third act. Johann displays a strong command of deadpan comedy timing – mind you, he does have some of the best lines in the show! Julie was very well-controlled as his elegant but inebriated wife, a role that could easily become caricatured.
 
David Prinsloo’s height, good voice projection and stage presence are perfectly suited for the suave womanising Geoffrey Jackson and Giah Cloete as his wife was at her best in the second act when (without saying a word) she decides to end it all but everyone and everything gets in the way, to hilarious effect!
 
Absurd Person Singular runs in the Lecture Theatre at Durban Girls’ College until March 20 nightly at 18h30. More information and bookings on 031 268 7206 or fax 031 209 5193. – Caroline Smart

The 2010 street collection

Jann Nichol

HIGH FIVE

CUTTING EDGE

Durban Girls’ College was the proud winner of the inaugural Durban Inter-Schools’ Ice Skating Competition held at the Durban Rink on Friday 5 March.
Chelsea Jacobs was 1st in the u9 section. Kathryn Winstanley took 2nd place in the Novice Ladies section and Chloë Massey-Hicks won the Ladies section. The school took overall top honours, followed by Fatima, with Maris Stella in 3rd position.
DGC star skater Tamarah Jacobs was unable to compete owing to illness, but was there to support the team.
 

First day at school

Welcome Aboard

We extend a warm College welcome to our new members of staff:

Mrs Claire Carson in the Maths department

Grade 4 teacher Ms Kathryn Smith

Mrs Lesley Coull in Grade 2

Mrs Minky Birkett is the locum this term for Grade 6N

Our newest Old Girls

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Thirteen excited DGC girls are looking forward to travelling to Australia, Canada and Scotland on exchange next year.
Back: Caroline Juby who will be going to Havergal College in Canada; Caitlin Stott and Emma Rodseth who will attend St George’s School in Scotland;
Shannon Krausey and Maxine Aufrichtig fly to St Hilda’s in Perth, Australia while Kirsty Macnab travels to Trinity College in Port Hope, Ontario.

Front: Kirsten Campbell goes to Trinity College while Aisha Karim, Mishka Valjee & Samantha Scott will spend a term at Ascham School in Sydney.

Kneeling: Robyn Ausmeier is attending Havergal College in Canada while Candice Philip and Janine Rutsch fly to Ballarat Grammar School in Australia.

Nikita Kekana is riding the wave!

This year she has :

• Made the junior and senior KZN Team (U20 and U18 divisions although she is only 15)
• Come 5th in South Africa in the U20 division at the senior SA Championships
  
  At the KZNSA annual prizegiving, she was awarded the Sportsmanship trophy for “making both senior and junior team, charging
  for huge waves at the senior champs and for her positive attitude and always having a smile on her face”. It’s the first time a girl surfer
  has won this award.

STRICTLY COME DANCING

DGC Grade 10s and Clifton College Grade 11s teamed up for ballroom and Latin American dance lessons.
After the final lesson the girls danced with their fathers and then enjoyed a party.



The Grade 10 dance committee: Brigette Bielovich, Riane Barnard, Jocelyn Quenet, Catherine Tod, Tessa Rodseth, Catherine Clarke & Nicola Saunders.

Spring has sprung

DURBAN GIRLS’ COLLEGE MUSIC AWARDS

Talented soprano and DGC Old Girl of the Class of 2002, Gabriella Wills (van der Stoep) was the guest of honour
at the musical awards evening On a High Note at which the prizewinners of various musical categories performed before an enthusiastic audience.

“New comrades ever bringing in comrades steps to tread”
Loughborough School Hymn sung at Thanksgiving

Twenty-two 2010 prefects were chosen to lead the school next year. The girls were handed their badges and read out The Athenian Oath.

Bending over Backwards

A WARM WELCOME

DGC is hosting exchange students from east and west of the Australian continent.
Philippa Spence, Hannah Webb and Alice Scott are students at Ascham School in Sydney, while Juliet Godwin,
Stephanie Rockett and Soraya Cranfield have joined us from St Hilda’s in Perth. 

Waterpolo Tournament for Girls


Over the weekend of the 18th of October, Thomas More College (TMC) hosted the annual Top Ten Waterpolo Tournament for Girls.

The first semi-final between St.Mary’s and Durban Girls’ College (DGC) was evenly contested for the first three chukkas.  DGC eventually won,
going away with a final score of 5-3.

In the second semi-final a very competitive tussle ensued between Kloof High School and TMC.  The scores were even until the final chukka and
Kloof eventually gained dominance, winning 4-2, to gain their place in the final.

In the final, DGC came out with all guns blazing and raced to a 3-0 lead in the first chukka. 
They successfully defended this lead, eventually winning the game 6-3 and their first Top Ten title.

Grade 11 pupil Sarah Bentham was awarded the Best Forward Player of the tournament.  
Sarah was also the second highest goal scorer at the tournament.

DGC, a very young team ably lead by captain Anna Blanckenberg, has had an awesome year under their coach Ryan Ryder. 
The team has achieved the following placements throughout the year: 1st at the Northwood Co-ed Waterpolo Tournament; 2nd at the St.Anne’s tournament
for girls; 3rd at the South Africa Top Ten Aquatic Schools in P.E. and finally ending the season on a high note at the Top Ten Tournament this weekend.

OUR OWN APPRENTICE WINNERS

The DGC winners of the Sapref Mercury Entrepreneur's competition were:

FOUNDERS’ DAY CELEBRATION

Dr John Kani, the “grandfather” of South African theatre, was the guest speaker at Senior Founders’ Day at Durban Girls’ College.

Pictured with Dr Kani (standing third from right) are:
Standing: Tessa Macnab - proxime accessit to the Dux; Chairman of the Board Andrew Robinson; Head of the High School Gill Leslie

; Headmaster Ken Elliott & Deputy Head Girl Lauren Stewart.

Keziah Peel, saxophone player in Grade 11 at Durban Girls’ College
was lauded at the recent 2009 Ethekwini Eisteddfod Prize winners’ Concert  with the:

•  Wind Players’ Floating Trophy for the Player of the Year
•  Hind Trophy for the most outstanding performance in the Woodwind section.
• Trinity College Trophy for the overall winner at the Eisteddfod.
• A Gold Certificate for achieving 94% for her saxophone solo.
  
  



HIGH SCHOOL INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS



The victrices ludorum at the keenly contested inter-house athletics competition – which was won by Palmer House – are Georgina Taylor (u14); Robyn Ausmeier (u15); Michelle Harpuer (u17); Britnee Baker (Open) and Megan Liebetrau (u16). Pictured with them in front, are Lungile Dlamini who won a trophy for the Most Dedicated Athlete and Athletics captain Hlezi Hadebe.
A brief moment in time




Nine nine year-olds at Durban Girls’ College marked nine minutes past nine on 09.09.09 at the school’s memorial clock tower.




COMMONWEALTH ESSAY



A MOMENT IN HISTORY

At 10h11 on 07.08.09 the Grade 11 Accounting class was photographed at the memorial bell tower. This was an historic moment in time.




MATHS OLYMPIANS

Durban Girls’ College Grade 9 pupil, Jin Ah Jung (pictured), was placed in the Top 100 Nationally in the Harmony South African Mathematics Olympiad.

A large group of girls was placed in the Top 100 in the province: Divanisha Pillay, Amy Freakes, Katrina Suhr, Donna Hill and Alice Pharoah in the senior competition and  Nicole Lafitte, Bianca Vernes, Salma Khan, Lauren Taylor, Kirsten Campbell and  Barry Su in the junior competition.



OFFICIAL OPENING OF DGC’S SQUASH COURTS

The Bryant family recently opened the newly built squash courts at Durban Girls’ College. Anton & Shirley Bryant sponsored the building of the school’s squash courts in memory of their daughter Jennifer. Those courts had to be demolished to make way for an astro turf and new courts were built. These make a beautiful addition to the school’s sports facilities.

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Steve Jacoby (Jacoby Nichol Construction); Joan Elliott; Shirley Bryant; Headmaster Ken Elliott; Anton Bryant & George Elphick (Elphick Proome Architects)



Members of the DGC 1st squad were the first to play on the new courts.



Freedom Hlongwa, Fikile Dlamini, Josie Noyce & Courtney Caulfield (captain) 

 

OUTREACH FROM HAVERGAL, TORONTO

In celebration of community, power and partnership a group of students from Havergal College in Toronto, together with two teachers, spent two weeks in Durban working with the community in Folweni. This was under the umbrella of the NOAH organization . The students interacted with the children in Folweni using the dance, music and sport to engage them. Durban Girls’ College has strong ties with Havergal through an overseas exchange programme.     



STARRY NIGHTS

The Grade 11 dance was an elegant affair. The foyer was scattered with Persian rugs and the Hall was filled with masses of white roses and lilies. The girls and their partners enjoyed the special occasion. Thank you to everyone involved in the organization of the dance.  



QUIZ WHIZZES

The Grade 7 team of Sana Salduker, Laura Pirjol, Claire Carlisle and Caitlin McIntosh won the regional section of the Kid’s Lit Quiz, sponsored by Exclusive Books. The team competed against sixteen teams from nine different schools. The national round will be held in Johannesburg.  

Sana writes: “After three weeks of intensive reading we were finally allowed to kick back and enjoy the competition. It was tough but all worth it in the end. All we can say now is, Jo’burg, here we come!”



New Acquisitions for the Archives

Chelsea Lawrie is showing Donna Hill ,who is on the Archives Committee, the two books which belonged to her great great grandmother Jean Lamport who was  Dux in 1885. The books were given to the Archives by Chelsea’s grandmother, Mrs Brenda Sharratt.
We are very fortunate to have these beautiful books, which were published in 1882,in our Archives.

Glenda Grainger

Archives



 

Spud

Author John van de Ruit visited Durban Girls’ College to promote his 3rd book in the Spud series, Learning to Fly.  
John talk to a rapt audience about the inspirations for his writing and read an entertaining excerpt from the book to the girls.   



 

 



 

 

 



 

 

A warm welcome

 

We welcome Rosie Rankin and Sophie Horrocks who are attending DGC for 6 weeks on exchange from St George’s School, Edinburgh.





DGC DAY

TALENT ON BOARD

Durban Girls’ College hosted a family fun day with the emphasis on a Talent on Board competition. The fun on the lasercross

and trampolines and browsing the craft stalls made way for gourmet picnics as the guests settled down to watch talented dancers,

musicians and singers entertain. The overall winner was Grade 9 pupil Rebecca Briscoe.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DGC DAY

Durban Girls’ College hosted close to 200 Old Girls at the 2009 Old Girls’ Day celebrations. The Old Girls enjoyed watching a school DVD, a lavish tea and tours of the school. The morning culminated in a moving assembly followed by a lunch at College House.

Caption 1
The Class of 1949



Caption 2
The Class of 1959



Caption 3
Head Girl of ’59 Tish Burrus (Starling) with Deputy Head Girl Dorien Schoonbie (van Leenhoff).



Caption 3
The Head Girl of 1969, Jennifer Irving (van Leenhoff) and the Deputy Head Girl of 1969, Lynne Neilson (Knowles) reunite after 40 years.



Caption 4
The Class of 1969



Class of 1974



Class of 1979



Class of 1984



Class of 1989



Class of 1999



Mother and daughter



Cousins



 

 

 

Junior Primary Voting Day

 

DGC SA DAY

 

Seussical



REVIEW FOR ARTSMART

© Caroline Smart (editor of artSMart) http://www.artsmart.co.za Date: March 27, 2009

(031) 2616036 csmart@iafrica.com 082 892-3959

SEUSSICAL
Durban Girls’ College Centenary Hall: March 24 to 27

Vibrant and professionally presented production does credit to Durban Girls College. (Review by Caroline Smart)

“A person’s a person, no matter how small” is the overall message of the musical <em>Seussical</em> and lovers of the works of Dr Seuss will have missed a great evening’s entertainment if they didn’t catch it at Durban Girls’ College before it closed last night. The production, albeit an amateur one, also marks the South African premiere of this Broadway show.

With music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, <em>Seussical</em> was co-conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle, and premiered on Broadway in 2000. The lively and energetic musical is based on the colourful works of Dr Seuss – particularly <em>Horton Hears a Who</em> and <em>Horton Hatches the Egg</em>- and it’s hats off to director Wendy Watson (DGC senior Dramatic Arts teacher) for tackling such a daunting production.

The story deals with an elephant named Horton who discovers a speck of dust upon which lives a tiny community called the Who. He places it on a clover flower for safety and carries it with him through numerous adventures.

Not only did the DGC production encompass a team of close on 110 people made up of performers, musicians and stage crew, but the action calls for an elephant to sit in a tree nursing an egg after having been conned into the act of kindness by its irresponsible mother. Added to that, there are underwater sequences, mounted horsemen, a baby kangaroo and a circus.

No problem for Wendy – she turned to three major talents to help her: multi-award winning designer Greg King, choreographer and costume designer Kenlynn Sutherland and much-loved DGC music department’s head Debbie Hosking. Greg King’s flamboyant and vibrantly-coloured backdrops and rostra turn the otherwise bare stage into a magical space and his puppet figures are, as always, a delight. Kenlynn Sutherland’s attention to choreographic detail is evident and her costume designs are bright, individual and workable. I loved Horton’s outfit. The costumes, which numbered close on a hundred, were made by a dedicated team of parents and teachers.

Much of the show’s success is due to music director Debbie Hosking’s considerable energy and total commitment to any project she is involved in. Conducting from the piano, she keeps the music crisp and lively - always encouraging, her face mirrors the action. She will be a great loss to DCG and to Durban when she leaves South Africa shortly.

Heading the cast are the highly versatile Saxon Kinnear as mischievous and manipulative The Cat in the Hat and Jodi Edmunds as a spunky and energetic Jo Jo. Then there’s Zesipho Mncwango as an adorable lumbering Horton and Mweya Waetjen as a deliciously vain and lovelorn Gertrude McFuzz. I believe that if these four performers were available to move into mainstream theatre right now, they would be snapped up by any theatre management in Durban.

While the full company deserves accolade, mention must also be made of Catherine Clarke as Mayzie LaBird, Lungile Tembe as Sour Kangaroo and Phindokuhle Dlamini as General Genghis Khan Schmitz as well as Yasmine Allen and Julie Dancaster who played the Mayor of Whoville and his wife.

My husband, who is a casting agent and not prone to flattering remarks, dubbed this show the best schools’ production he has seen in years! This accolade is well-deserved. With excellent sound and lighting, the show is professionally presented. The cast is well-rehearsed, focused and very mature in terms of comedy timing, harmonies, stage presence and discipline.

Hopefully, Durban Girls College will reprise this production some time in the future for a slightly longer run when more audiences can enjoy its vibrancy and message that the imagination is all-powerful. As the script goes … “Oh, the thinks you can think!”- Caroline Smart



The Youngleson Shield




The Youngleson Shield competition was contested under sweltering conditions on 21 March at St Mary’s DSG, Kloof. Ten schools in the surrounding Durban area competed in this prestigous shield competition that has been played since 1940. Originally it was a mixed doubles tournament and then in 1952 the Shield was changed to a competition between the top girls’ couples of each Durban school. Firstly a round robin was played and then Durban Girls' College faced St Mary’s in a closely contested final. After being 3 -1, and 40 - 0 down DGC's top couple Lauren Stewart and Mandy Mallen fought back to secure the shield after being in the final for the past few years. This was Lauren Stewart's fourth final and Mandy Mallen's first, and the combination of steady play, confidence and consistency secured the shield for DGC.

The last time DGC won this shield was in 1956, and prior to that in 1952 and 1953 when the Schuurman sisters, Naomi and Serene, were members of the team. The current DGC team has shown consistent strength and added to their collection the Smythe Trophy which is competed for in Pietermaritzburg amongst the top schools in KZN.



EARTH HOUR

20 March 2009

Dear

2009 is a vital year for climate change. Governments are meeting in Copenhagen in December to debate, and hopefully agree on, measures to slow down and reverse climate change. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), along with other environmental organisations, wants to influence the course and outcome of this meeting.

Climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity at the start of the 21st century. We’re already seeing its impacts – from melting Arctic sea ice to flooding and droughts. The time to act is now. WWF calls on the children of the world to support us in the fight against climate change by joining Earth Hour 2009.

Our aim is to take Earth Hour to one billion people in more than 1 000 cities around the globe and encourage them to switch off their lights on 28 March 2009 from 8.30 to 9.30 pm to show governments that we want action against climate change.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has honoured us by agreeing to be the patron of Earth Hour 2009. City of Cape Town Mayor, Helen Zille, and Johannesburg Mayor, Amos Masondo, have also pledged their support. To demonstrate South Africa’s commitment we will switch off the lights illuminating Table Mountain for an hour on 28 March.

We encourage all schools in South Africa to become involved in what could be the single most powerful demonstration of global solidarity on any matter in the history of the planet. We would like to challenge all schools to sign up as many pupils, friends and family members as possible to this important cause. The school that shows the most innovation with the resources they have in involving their communities will win great prizes and WWF goodie bags!

And it’s easy, fun and free – your school’s participation would entail:

Sign up on www.earthhour.org.za or send an SMS to 34017 (R2 per SMS) and register your and your school’s support for action on climate change.
Spread the message to all staff members, pupils, family and friends and encourage them to spread the word too.
Switch off the lights of your school building and homes for one hour on 28 March 2009 at 8.30 pm.

There are two ways to determine how many people sign up through your school.

If your school has a website, you can load a widget:
Go to www.earthhour.org.za
Click on Get involved.
Click on Widget.
There are 2 to choose from – click on one.
Put in a pledge target and pledge type.
And press send.
The website will give you a html coding to use to install the widget on your school’s website or blog.
The widget then counts how many people signed up from your website/blog.  If your school is making use of the widget, please inform Candice Adams at cadams@wwf.org.za of your school’s website address and we will follow up on it on 27 March. 

If your school does not have a website, but has access to the internet:
Go to www.earthhour.org.za
Click on Sign up
Click on School/Organisation/Company
Follow the instructions, but in the TYPE box click on School.
Entity name: Put in your school’s name i.e. Outeniqua Primary School.
Instruct your friends and family to follow the same route – not to sign up as an individual, but as part of your school.

If your school does not have access to the internet:
Pupils, teachers and family members can sign up by SMSing their postal code to 34017 (R2 per SMS). Otherwise you can supply us with physical lists with every person’s e-mail address / cell phone number, name, surname and postal code, and we will capture the data on behalf of your school.  Mail or fax your forms to Candice Adams, Private Bag x 2, Die Boord, Stellenbosch 7613, or fax number (021) 888 2888, to reach us before or on 27 March. 

Otherwise just spread this important message for us as far and wide as you can. We appreciate all the help we can get.

Earth Hour is not about saving electricity. You can leave on all your other appliances. It’s far broader than that – it is a symbolic action and a powerful visual message to show governments that the people of the world want an effective global climate deal at the end of 2009.

Please find attached a list of suggestions on how your school can become involved in Earth Hour. We would also love to hear what your school is doing for Earth Hour 2009. Please write to us and send us pictures and stories for our website and magazine, The Panda Bulletin.

If you are as excited about Earth Hour as we are, please visit  www.earthhour.org.za where you will find many helpful tools, such as a DIY kit to roll out Earth Hour in your community and artwork for posters, flyers etc. If, however, you prefer that we send you a DVD, please contact Candice Adams on 021 888 2840, cadams@wwf.org.za or Nicci Cloete-Annette on 021 888 2825, nannette@wwf.org.za.

We look forward to hearing from you and engaging with your school on Earth Hour 2009.

For a living planet,





Dr Morné du Plessis

Chief Executive

 

10 Ways Your School Can Support Earth Hour

On March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, tens of millions of people around the world will turn out their lights for one hour — Earth Hour— to demonstrate their concern for our living planet and send a loud and visual message to our leaders that they support action on climate change. Here are a few ideas for what your school can do when the lights go out:

1. Organise a school-wide assembly in early March to show the WWF Earth Hour video (downloadable from www.earthhour.org.za) and explain why the school supports the idea behind Earth Hour. Ask students to ask their parents if their family can participate.
2. Sponsor an art competition in which students submit posters about Earth Hour that can be put on lampposts and notice boards around their towns and neighbourhoods.
3. Send home flyers and email families about Earth Hour letting them know that your school will participate and ask families to turn out their lights at home on March 28. Encourage parents to turn off the lights, the computer, the television, the video games and the CD players and spend family time by candlelight.

4. Ask teachers to use Earth Hour as a reason to talk to their classes about climate change issues.

 

1. Assign students to write essays about the meaning of Earth Hour and what they might do while the lights are out for that hour.

6. Ask schools to turn out all non-essential lighting at their facilities during Earth Hour weekend.    
7. Hold classroom parties the week beforehand and serve green-themed food.
8. Practice for Earth Hour by turning off the lights in classrooms and learning about how people lived, attended school and played before electricity became commonplace.

1. Have older students research in advance what people did before there was electricity. What creative ways did people have fun before there was electricity?

 

Allow students to fulfil their community service requirements by organising or raising awareness about Earth Hour in their community or suburbs.

 

 

VALENTINE’S DAY

14 February was celebrated by all phases of the school.



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First Day at School 2009

welcome aboard

Congratulations

Congratulations to the Class of 2008 who produced an outstanding set of IEB results. All candidates passed at the highest level; two girls were placed in the Top 5 nationally and 20% of the candidates achieved 6 or more A symbols. For more details please click on IEB Results in Ship’s Log.

YES WE CAN

Durban Girls’ College won the D&D A gala at King’s Park pool for the 4th year in a row, with fine performances from a dedicated and determined group of swimmers.

Pictured with the trophy are swimming captain Hlezi Hadebe & vice-captain Anna Blanckenberg. (LEFT)

The DGC u15 team also won the trophy for the best in age group. (CENTER)

Water polo

Sarah Bentham, Anna Blanckenberg, Geordi Wyer and Moncherie Pepper were selected at the S.A Schools water polo tournament in December last year as members of the South African under 18 squad, which will compete at the World Games in Khanty-Mansyisk in Russia later this year.