Graduating Class of 2017

During the course of the third term, the two Generation Earth events focused on merging environmentalism and creativity. These events were the GE Eco-Fashion show and the Arbour month celebration.

Stories are part of the culture and wealth of our communities. They have the power to teach, inspire, excite, connect and soothe. We see stories come alive as we share them every day on train platforms, in taxis, in church, in class or around a fire at night. We all have stories to tell.

During the week of 16th August, the Grade 9 Afrikaans girls went to watch the movie ‘Stroomop’ and it brought tears to our eyes.

As a team determined to be reckoned with, the OWLAG girls positioned their political pillar from the onset. Their central argument called for the use of HFCT in industries based on our platinum reserves advantage.

“I was looking for smart, bright, giving, resilient, kind and open-hearted young girls who had the ‘it’, a factor that means you keep going no matter what”, said Oprah Winfrey, Founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG) during her commencement address at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism in May.

This term the co-curricular sporting programme has moved into full ‘Winter’ mode. Although we carry some of our ‘summer’ codes through the winter terms, Team Games are the main focus of the winter sporting programme.

On Thursday, 17 May, the Grade 12 Advanced Programme English students, along with two of the Round Square exchange students, travelled to the Western Cape for the 2018 Franschhoek Literary Festival.

24 year old Lindiwe Tsope from the Class of 2012 at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy has just graduated with a master’s degree in Sociology from Rhodes University.