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In the second year of the era of COVID-19, when schooling was challenged to the hilt, our matriculants did the community and their schools proud. Here’s...
Matric results. Words that conjure up a plethora of emotions within the Jewish community – the students, their families, teachers, and many excited onlookers. It’s these...
Though some say an international qualification is needed to get ahead, others say you can follow your passion without a degree and still be hugely successful....
One of the most deeply-felt reverberations of the pandemic has been on education. While students, teachers, and parents spent those long months of lockdown at home,...
Lexi Davies, a kind, hardworking, friendly, popular student and the head of the Judaica committee at King David High School Linksfield, was about to write matric...
Yeshiva College’s head boy, Akiva Fox, and head girl, Kayla Sifris, gave student representatives of each Jewish school in South Africa an opportunity to express their...
Rachel Hertz didn’t just focus on academics to get her average of 94% in matric at Redhill in 2021. She was an integral part of the...
“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do, because you’re the one that ultimately defines your success. Like I always say, ‘When you’re...
Matriculants have had to adapt to an ever-changing learning environment in a pandemic, and for many students, it hasn’t been easy. United Herzlia School graduate Dylan...
Torah Academy Boys High School student, Eli Zlotnick, began matric in 2021 feeling as if he couldn’t take any more life blows. However, he managed to...
Hirsch Lyons student Simcha Schneider struggled to maintain a work ethic throughout high school and encountered a few curveballs along the way, so he could have...
It’s one thing to score in the highest possible percentile on international college entrance (SAT) exams and do advanced college-level AP maths and science courses. It’s...
Matric is known to be a hard slog. You have one year to do your best and not a minute more. But can you imagine finishing...
When Ella Maughan stepped out of Herzlia High School’s gates at the end of matric in 2021, she had achieved something that few had ever done...
Leadership comes in many forms, but this group of four young leaders from King David High School Linksfield’s (KDHSL’s) 2021 matric class were pretty unique. Their...
The class of 2021 is unlikely to attend university remotely this year like its 2020 peers, but it will have to be vaccinated to attend. It...
The study of a play by William Shakespeare is a compulsory part of the English Grade 12 syllabus and one of two core works assessed in...
He was the King David High School Victory Park (KDHSVP) matric student most likely to become anything he set his sights on. In 2015, Jarred Wood...
Demi Putziger, a King David Victory Park (KDVP) matriculant in 2020, was looking forward to her gap-year programme this year and was devastated when, at the...
Whether spent in Israel or elsewhere, a gap year is considered a rite of passage by most Jewish youngsters just out of matric. Yeshiva, seminary, kibbutz,...
Matrics across the country didn’t expect the disrupted year they found themselves in. While some embraced online learning and extra study time with fewer disruptions, many...
“This was the year we were going to bring it home,” says talented first-team rugby captain, Joshua Pimstein, of King David High School Linksfield (KDHSL), lamenting...
Yeshiva College last week announced its new student leadership for 2021, with the positions of head boy and head girl going to Akiva Fox and Kayla...
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