On January 2009, Domino Servite School opened its doors for the 24th year. With a full team of teachers and eager learners, we were ready to face the challenges of the academic year. The Grade R 09 class received a special welcome with balloons and sweets to make the first day of ‘big school’ something to remember.
The Technology Olympiad is an annual competition run in South Africa on national scale. In 2008 Domino Servite School won the national competition! Congratulations to Nkululeko Hlophe, Mxolisi Mbuthuma , Sakhile Radebe and their mentor Mr van Straten.
The requirements for the 2008 Technology Olympiad were to design, build and test a self-propelled earthmoving machine which could move plaster sand between two points across a flat horizontal surface three meters apart.
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Athletics
Interhouse
The new field was ready for the Interhouse Athletics meeting held on 1 and ? October, albeit a bit sandy. Thank you to Mr Karl Heinz Duvel and those who so ably assisted him.
Highlights
With the track being on the sandy side one did not expect many new records to be set. However, 22 new records were set and one was equalled. 11 of those records were track records, most of them in the junior age categories. André Engelbrecht improved the Boys 14 years 200m record by almost a whole second to 26,6s on the sandy track! He also set a new record in the 100m event. Another impressive performance was that of Timothy Olsen who improved the Boys 15 years Javelin record by more than 3m to 46,33m. Mamazane Maphanga cut off almost 30 seconds from the Girls 19 years 3000m event with her time of 14:09.9. Both Jaco Coetzee and Joshua Lopes improved the Turbo Javelin records in their respective age groups by a number of metres.
Last year a few of our athletes participated in the SACSSA Cross Country competition for the first time. This competition coincides with the Zonal and Provincial Winter Sports on 10 May. This year we entered U17 and U19 athletes. 21 athletes participated at Zonal level in Estcourt of which 18 proceeded to represent Northern Natal … Read more
After having lost all our matches last year, the 2008 season seemed to be heading in the same direction after we were convincingly beaten by Greytown High School early in the first term. But the boys turned the tide and accomplished the improbable – they beat Hermannsburg Deutsche Schule by an astonishing nine wickets.
KZNCSSA netball and soccer teams participated in the SACSSA Netball and Soccer Regional tournament in Brits on 26 July. 6 of the Domino Servite U19 soccer players and 5 of the U19 netball players went along on the short tour. Simiso Ngubane was selected as captain. We boarded the luxury tour bus in Stanger and … Read more
Zonals
Due to the fact that we did not have a sports field this year we only participated in the U19 age category in Soccer, Netball, Boys and Girls Hockey and Volleyball. 54 U19 players participated in the Northern Natal Zonal Winter Sports Trials in Estcourt on 10 May. 34 players were selected to represent Northern Natal at the KZNCSSA Provincial Winter Sports. Some represented Northern Natal in more than one code of sport.
Provincials
At the Provincials on 22-24 May the Northern Natal U19 teams did very well. The Girls U19 Hockey team won all their games and overshadowed the opposition as did the Boys U19 Hockey team. Eric Hailstones was true to his name and made sure that the hockey ball shot into the opposition goal at regular intervals. Wilhelm Meyer also did well and lost a tooth in the process.
The community gathered for a joyful Carols by Candlelight evening hosted by Domino Servite School. The school hall was decked out in beautiful Christmas décor. The programme included a number of choral items which were performed by the Youth and CCE choirs. While holding candles the whole school choir sang a carol. This added to … Read more
The National Creative Arts Youth Festival offers a Life Skills Competition where learners can showcase their abilities in different types of public speaking. There are a number of different categories in which learners can compete i.e. Public Speaking, Poetry Speaking, Story-telling, Choral Verse among others. This year we had a record number of entries for … Read more