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REDDAM HOUSE UMHLANGA OFFERS STUDENTS TOP-CLASS SPORTING FACILITIES TO COMPLEMENT THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESSES
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eddam House uMhlanga not only achieved exceptional academic results with a 100% Bachelors pass from their class of 2021, but the school has also underpinned their strong academic offering with sporting facilities and teachers who empower their students to excel in the competitive sport arena. The school recently added Sports Science as a subject in the College and their inaugural group of Grade 10s are pioneering the path to writing their IEB Matric exam in the subject in 2024. The subject will be taught under the
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guidance of Menzi Ngcobo, who is both a qualified and registered biokineticist who teaches Life Science in addition to Sports Science. He will also be fully integrated into the school by taking on the role of the Assistant Boys Res Head at the school’s boarding facility. The school’s Executive Head, Adam Rogers believes their holistic approach to developing well-rounded young people is made possible because the teachers they have on staff are experts in their fields: Director of Hockey, Gowan Jones represented South Africa as part of the 2020 SA Men’s
Olympic Hockey Squad at the recent Olympic Games held in Tokyo and more recently in Ghana in the African Cup. The school’s sand and water-based AstroTurf, mini-AstroTurf, together with the indoor sports facility, ensure he can apply his extensive knowledge proactively. Julie Manne comes to the school from Reddam House Bedfordview and is also currently a provincial hockey player and a national karate champion. She will assist Gowan by heading up an indoor hockey programme for girls in the first term and boys in the third team. Director of Sport in the Prep School, Robyn Wiggett, teaches Sports Science and Natural Science and is herself a provincial hockey player who is currently a member of the SA Women’s Masters Hockey Team. The school’s Aquatics Centre with a heated floodlit Olympicsize pool (which means the school can host water polo clinics and tournaments) falls under the guidance of Director of Aquatics, Hadyn Skinner, who came to the
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school from Northwood Boys school four years ago and is a provincial water polo player himself. Hadyn heads up the water polo training programme which starts in the Prep School – Reddam House uMhlanga is one of the few schools in KZN offering water polo starting in the Prep School. A Learn to Swim facility in a heated pool within the Aquatics complex means the Early Learning School offers a swimming programme which then filters all the way up to the College. Ross Veenstra (College Director of Sport) – an exprovincial cricketer who played for the Dolphins and played county cricket in the UK – now runs a Cricket Academy on campus for the College making good use of the school’s six cricket nets. Book a personalised tour and experience Reddam House uMhlanga’s sporting facilities first-hand! FOR MORE INFO Visit umhlanga.reddamhouse.com or phone 031 566 5736.
