One of the major highlights on the academic calendar of Muizenberg High School is the annual academic awards evening when the school honours the top achievers of Grades 8 to 11 of the previous year.
There are no words to describe the feeling one gets when sitting in the audience and hearing the “Pomp and Circumstance” play as the staff enter from the back of the hall in their academic dress. It can best be described as a mixture of pride, nerves and excitement. These emotions, however, are shadowed by those experienced when one’s name is called out to receive an award for the excellent results achieved and as a reminder that hard work is always fruitful in many ways. Many students were honoured with different awards and a number of special prizes for those who have excelled in other fields.
There are many staff members who put a massive amount of effort into organising and arranging this event and also into making sure that everything went according to plan and that it was a successful event in many respects. The ground staff, principal, head of academics, grade heads and teachers who typed and printed out the various certificates of achievement for the amazing work produced by the students at our school did a brilliant job and created an excellent standard at our school.
As our Head of Academics said in her speech on the evening, mediocrity has become the norm for our society. No-one tires to surpass the most basic anymore and that is what the Academic Awards is about. A system of encouragement to all of our learners to overcome the bar of the standards of society and set new goals for ourselves to be able to improve and also to apply to this to the other aspects of our lives as well.
Muizenberg High School has always and will always be a school with the highest standards of students and that always expects the best, always tries the best, and always succeeds at being the best we all can be.
[By: Jose Robinson, March 2012]
SCOTT visits Muizenberg High
Students from the Scandanavian College of Travel and Tourism visited Muizenberg High during their internship for 9 weeks in Cape Town. They decided to do their internship in Cape Town after a school and nature presentation about South Africa and Cape Town was done at the college in October 2012.
During their visit Angelica and Jessica did a powerpoint presentation to introduce Mora, a city in the Darlana district in Sweden to the students. They shared their country's culture and customs with the Tourism students and answered many questions. This presentation created awareness for Global Citizenship and strengthened the link for curriculum co-operation between the college and Muizenberg High.
Seen here is the first year students who were interviewed during the visit to the college, the head of the college and the two SCOTT students at Muizenberg High School, and enjoying the sunshine with the head students, Igshaam and Chante, Mrs. Leonie Jacobsen and Mr. Dave Shaw
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