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sTaBILIS
Parlez-vous
Francais is nou
aan die orde van
die dag by Grey
Grey Kollege het vanjaar Frans as
‘n tweede addisionele taal bygekry.
Dit is moontlik gemaak deur
Montpellier, ‘n Franse rugbyklub,
se Badawi Legacy Scholarship
Programme. Die sowat 12 leerders
wat die taal as vak neem, doen dit
in die week na skoolure.
Stabilis het ‘n paar vrae aan
‘n graad 10 leerder, Petrus Claassen,
wat tans die vak neem, gerig. Ons
wou weet hoe Frans met Duits 2e
addisionele taal vergelyk.
Hy sê dat hulle in die Frans
klas fokus op die uitspraak en
spelling van die woorde. Hulle oefen
dit totdat hulle dit ken, verstaan en
kan praat.
Duits leer hulle meer hoe om
die woorde te skryf en minder op
die uitspraak. In die Frans klas het
hulle meer individuele sessies met
die juffrou as in die Duits klas,
want die klasse is kleiner.
Petrus wil Frans leer omdat
dit werksgeleenthede meer maak;
dit is baie lande se huistaal of
addisionele taal – soos bv. Kanada.
Dit dra ook by tot ‘n beter CV, en is
eintlik ‘n baie lekker uitdaging.
Dit is moeilike taal in die sin
dat ‘n woord wat ‘n mens lees sal
meestal totaal anders uitgespreek
word. Daar is ook geen verbintenis
tussen Frans en Afrikaans nie,
wat beteken dat ‘n mens nie kan
afleidings maak nie.
Hy wil die taal graag na skool
gebruik. Indien hy die buiteland wil
besoek sal hy reeds ‘n voorsprong
hê want hy sal met baie mense
kan kommunikeer. Dit sal sy taal
verbeter en hom ‘n voorsprong in
die toekoms gee.
Dit is te wense dat meer
leerders hulle by die Frans klasse
sal aansluit; die voortbestaan van
enige vak word bepaal deur die
belangstelling van die leerders.
Hierdie uitdaging sal ook definitief
enige leerder se wêreld verbeter
en hopelik beter insigte in die
omgewing verskaf.
Die Badawi Legacy Scholarship
Programme betaal vir die eerste vyf
jaar van die onderwyser se salaris
alhoewel Grey self kon kies wie
hulle wou aanstel. Die program het
nie net ‘n impak op die akademie
nie maar ook op die leerders wat
rugby sou wou speel in Frankryk by
‘n klub soos Montpellier.
- NICO DU PLOOY
STABILIS Grey College Secondary March 2018
Representative Council of
Learners introduced in 2018
Augmentation of the prefect body established
Ian Small-Smith (president), Daniel Williams (deputy president), Sikhanyiso Nkosi (secretary) and Nathan Raath
(treasurer) constitute the new RCL.
Photo: Eric Diswane
The role of senior scholar leader-
ship has been the task of mainly
the prefects for years. However,
this year a new system of organised
leadership, namely the Representa-
tive Council of Learners (RCL), has
been introduced. The RCL incorpo-
rates learners from every grade and
allows for a more diverse approach
to decision making in the school.
Many arguments for and
against the system are based on the
hierarchy within schools. One argu-
ment for the system would be that
the younger learners get to hold
the seniors accountable to a much
greater extent and that there is a
much more solid bridge between
the powers that be and the young-
er grades. An argument against the
system is that, being in the school
for the longest, matrics have the
necessary expertise with problem
solving in the school. The maturi-
ty they should possess allows for
bigger problems to take priority, in-
stead of more trivial problems.
The executive committee of the
RCL understand both sides of this
and the general opinion is to turn
the RCL into a necessary means of
improving communication in the
school and being of aid, rather than
replacing the prefect structure.
Executive committee mem-
bers -Ian Small-Smith (president),
Daniel Williams (deputy president),
Sikhanyiso Nkosi (secretary), Na-
than Raath (treasurer) and Mzim-
khulu Jita (PR officer) - plan to use
it as an opportunity to teach and
reinforce the values that get lost
along the way.
The major issue many seniors
at the school have with the RCL
is the idea that younger guys can
Shaun Human is adamant about discipline
Mr Shaun Human in front of his
class.
Photo: Eric Diswane
[News]
Another new face in the language
department, mr Shaun Human,
teaches English First Additional,
grades 8 to grade 11, in the place of
ms Bets Bezuidenhout who retired
at the end of last year.
Mr Human is a product of
Saint Andrew’s school for boys in
Bloemfontein; it can be assumed
that he must be extremely grateful
to have come to Grey ... ;-)
Before accepting the position
at Grey, he taught at Bainsvlei
Combined School. Mr Human is
also a product of the UFS, where he
obtained a B Ed. Degree, followed
eventually by an honours degree in
Policy Studies.
Mr Human is involved in water
polo and soccer at school – but his
most noteworthy achievement
will be to create order and silence
on the staircase leading up to his
classroom in the B block; many have
tried but he seems to be winning.
He has previously also taught
English as first additional language,
but mentions that it would be good
to one day move over to English
Home Language. Thus far, mr
Human has made an impression as
a caring individual, yet with very
strict classroom ethics; this shows
in the silence when he teaches.
This mother tongue speaker
of English is a person of varied
interests – his interests include
soccer, squash, mountain biking,
trail running, reading and spending
time with his family – his wife and
his 18-month-old daughter.
- RELE TSOAI
dictate what the seniors can and
cannot do, and the range of mat-
ric privileges at the school. Many
schools with these systems lose the
innate social hierarchy determined
by length of time at the school, due
to the power given to younger guys.
Until the roles and responsibilities
of the RCLs are comprehensively
elaborated on, the executive com-
mittee believes this as well.
This is a problem many schools
in Bloemfontein have, but their
views on how the benefits of RCL
outweigh this, vary. Perhaps the
responsibility given to the younger
learners will allow them to better
understand and respect duties of
their seniors and that it helps the
matrics, whose academic schedule
is packed, to breathe because of the
distribution of the workload.
- RELE TSOAI
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‘n Groot groep Grey seuns en
onderwysers het Saterdag 17
Februarie deelgeneem aan die
Toyota Warrior Race wat by
Maselspoort gehou is.
Dit is ‘n hindernis-baan
wat elke jaar in agt verskillende
plekke in die land gehou word.
Warrior Ric, een van die
organiseerders van die byeen-
koms, gaan elke week voor ‘n
Warrior Race na verskillende
skole om leerders te motiveer
om deel te neem.
Hy het ook baie afslag-
bewyse vir die skool gegee om
aan leerders wat wil deelneem
te gee. ‘n Aantal seuns het van
die geleentheid gebruik gemaak
en het besluit om die uitdaging
aan te pak.
Josh van der Westhuizen
in graad 10 het die Warrior
Race vir die eerste keer gedoen
omdat Warrior Ric hom tydens
die saalperiode geïnspireer het.
Josh het dit saam in ‘n span
gedoen en hy sê hy sou opgegee
het sonder hulle. Hierdeur
het hy besef dat spanwerk in
baie verskillende vorms kan
voorkom.
Mnr Marcel Cronje het
ook vir sy eerste keer aan die
Warrior Race deelgeneem. Hy
het dit gedoen saam sy vrou,
juffrou Marnie, wat die Warrior
Race al twee keer van tevore in
Johannesburg gedoen het, en
haar neef.
“Om in ‘n span deel te
neem is lekker. ‘n Mens motiveer
mekaar en ondersteun mekaar”,
sê mnr Marcel. Hy sê ook dat
hy besef het mens is werklik
tot baie in staat, solank jy in
jouself glo.
- VLADIK SEAGREEN
NB daTes
10 April:
School Opens
14 April:
Sport Day – Waterkloof
4-5 May:
Interschool Paarl
9 May:
Career Expo
11-12 May:
Interschool Selborne
18-19 May:
Interschool Affies
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