Sport Fixtures – 22 April 2023

Union High School, Graaff-Reinet looks forward to welcoming Cradock High School as well as Lorraine Primary on Saturday, 22 April, for a set of ๐—ฅ๐—จ๐—š๐—•๐—ฌ and ๐—›๐—ข๐—–๐—ž๐—˜๐—ฌ matches.

๐Ÿ”ด All games played on the Puttick Field and the Union High School AstroTurf will be livestreamed (๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด) via our YouTube channel. ๐—ช๐—”๐—ง๐—–๐—› ๐—œ๐—ง ๐—›๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—˜: https://www.youtube.com/@theunionschools

Karoo Sub Union u/13 Selection

๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—š๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง๐—จ๐—Ÿ๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐—ง๐—ข Union High School, Graaff-Reinet junior rugby players ๐—ข๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜…๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—ž๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—บ๐—น๐—ฎ ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐—ท๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—”๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ, ๐—•๐— ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ and ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—›๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป, who were selected for the Karoo Sub Union u/13 Rugby Team.

Congratulations also to their coach, Mr Mpilo Njoloza, who will be coaching the team, alongside Laer Volkskool’s Mr Ruben van Zyl.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜’๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ 22 ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ 24 ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ญ

Summer Awards 2023

Our special ๐—ฆ๐—จ๐— ๐— ๐—˜๐—ฅ ๐—”๐—ช๐—”๐—ฅ๐——๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐— ๐—•๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ that was held on morning, Friday, 14 April, served as the perfect opportunity to revel in our learnersโ€™ achievements in the various summer sporting codes.

On top of that, we were also able to present awards for Music and Culture and Service Awards to our Library Monitors and SANBS Blood Peer Promoters.

๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.

SUMMER-AWARDS-ASSEMBLY-2023

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Introducing…..Our New Winter Look For Girls

The temperature’s dropping, and our learners will be required to be in full winter uniform from the 2nd of May.

With this in mind, Union is very excited to announce that we have introduced a new โ€˜winter lookโ€™ for our Grade 5 to 12 girls. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ๐™จ โ€“ as seen here being worn by head prefects Brigette Oelofsen and Caitrin Spence – ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ง๐™š๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ.

All items needed for the schoolโ€™s Winter Uniform are in stock at the Clothing Shop and available for purchase โ€“ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ซ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—น๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฝ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿด:๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ:๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ.

Thank You Alchemy!

Skin care โ€“ the ๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฆ way!

Union High School, Graaff-Reinet would like to extend a massive ๐—ช๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—— ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ง๐—›๐—”๐—ก๐—ž๐—ฆ to Mrs Corli Schoeman of Alchemy Skin & Body as well as ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป for gifting our 1st Junior hockey team with a skincare parcel this week.

๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ข ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต, ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ.

Our 2023 1st Junior hockey girls are a dynamic, enthusiastic and talented set of girls who are dedicated to their practices and committed to seeing their team succeed. They, therefore, put in a lot of hours each week to ensure that they are competition-ready when the time comes.

With the Karoo sun being what it is, and the girlsโ€™ increased exposure to it, ๐™ฌ๐™šโ€™๐™ง๐™š ๐™จ๐™ค ๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™›๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™จ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™–๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™–๐™›๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™ก๐™š๐™ฉ๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™š๐™™.

Because the ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป range is fun (who doesnโ€™t like an instant foamy face wash!?) and practical to use, our girls can now easily have a skin care routine that helps them glow up!

Rugby Results vs Muir College

In today’s rugby fixture against a visiting Muir College, the u/11A team – Union High School, Graaff-Reinet’s undoubted ๐—ง๐—˜๐—”๐—  ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐——๐—”๐—ฌ – showed great form and passion to win their match (the first of the day) 24 – 0.

๐—ช๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ ๐——๐—ข๐—ก๐—˜ to Lukhona Bulembu (2), Robert Finlaison (1) and Sibusiso Jantjies (1) on their respective tries, two of which were successfully converted by Lukhona.

๐—ง๐—˜๐—”๐—  ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐——๐—”๐—ฌ – U11/A

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ธ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ด, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ.

This reflected on the scoreboard, with our boys suffering the following losses:

u/13A 5-55
u/14A 7-26
u/15A 5-22
u/16A 10-22
2nd XV 14-33
1st XV 7-39

๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด!

Junior Hockey Results vs Sunridge

This past Saturday, 15 April, Union High School, Graaff-Reinet’s ๐—จ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐—” ๐—›๐—ข๐—–๐—ž๐—˜๐—ฌ team travelled to Gqeberha where they faced their Sunridge Primary School counterparts for their first fixture of the season.

Although the girls played well and displayed some lovely skill on the day, in the end, hockey is a game of opportunity as much as it is a game of skill and the Union girls fell short in that they did not capitalise on the opportunities presented.

Sunridge claimed the win with 3 goals to Unionโ€™s 2.

Big pat on the back, however, to all the girls for playing their hearts out โ€“ the grass was a challenging surface to play on, but they ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜€.

We look forward to seeing the team go from strength to strength this season as they are a talented group of girls with a passionate and knowledgeable coach.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

๐—จ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ๐—”

The u/11 girls played their first full-field, 11-a-side hockey match this past Saturday against Sunridge Park. The girls have had to learn new structures and rules in a very short period of time and have done exceptionally well to apply all instructions.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ 2 ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ 1.

๐—จ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐—•

The u/13B side enjoyed a good start to their season, ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐Ÿฌ-๐Ÿฌ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ. The girls dominated this match and unfortunately did not capitalize on opportunities to score goals. We predict an excellent season ahead for this group of girls.