Teaching goes digital with ebooks, tablets.
By Leanne Jansen, The Mercury
Pupils at Northwood School in Durban North are to be among the first in the country to have digital versions of their textbooks.
From next year, the boys will be able to watch physics experiments come to life and complete t…
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Softball Results 6 September 2013
The U16 softball team played against Glenwood on Friday 6/9. We had a shaky start but Cole Pretorius stepped up to take over the pitching. After the 1st frame we were 6 runs all and things were looking good. Unfortunately after some umpiring discrepancies not in our advantage, we lost the game 10 ru…
Northwood 1st Soccer Team Score Comprehensive Victory Over Hilton
An own goal early in the first half opened what was going to be comprehensive victory. Northwood definitely brought their A game for this fixture. A brace by Godfrey Nkabinde, another by Ntobeko Sibisi and a goal by Joshua Janse van Rensburg, made a clinical performance into a route. Hilton were alw…
Farewell Message From Mr Krause
To all the parents of boys at John Bruyns House,
I would like to take this opportunity to say farewell. It has been a privilege to take care of your sons for the past five years. I have watched the boys develop over the course of their stay at the Boarding Establishment and have come to see the…
Northwood’s 2014 Prefects
Congratulations to the following pupils who have been elected as Prefects for 2014.
Shasteel Bridgmohan
Wallace de Lange
Tevin du Toit
Warren Ferguson
Derek Fitzgerald
Dean Fouché
Tyler Hale
Brent Haviland
Clayton Holland
Paras Juta
Chad Katz
Shane Kennedy
Muhammad Kolia
Duran Krummec…
Northwood Welcomes Mr Paul Viljoen As New Deputy Principal
Paul comes to Northwood from Curro Private School in Nelspruit where he is the Academic Headmaster, having previously been the Deputy Principal of Penryn College, Nelspruit. He commences at Northwood on the 1st January 2014.
Paul has an outstanding organisational and managerial track record wit…
Grant Bashford Appointed As 1st Team Rugby Coach For Northwood
Journey Comes Full Circle
FORMER Sharks assistant coach Grant Bashford has gone back to school, accepting a contract at Northwood as the school’s first team rugby coach.
It’s a journey that has reached full circle for Bashford as he is an old boy of the school and taught there for 13 years.
B…
Northwood Career Talk On Orthopedics
On Friday morning some of our grade 10 students were able to listen to, and interact with questions and answers with Dr Kamalesh as he chatted to them about his career as an Orthopedic Surgeon. Dr Kamalesh said he was very impressed with the type of questions asked by our students, and that it s…
Results from the Quadrangular Athletics Meeting August 21
Athletics
Results from the Quadrangular Athletics Meeting held yesterday at King's Park.
1st place DHS - 328 pts
2nd place Glenwood - 303 pts
3rd place Northwood - 288 pts
4th place Westville - 261 pts
Minenhle Mchunu broke the U19 Triple jump record with a jump of 13,9…
Chess Inter-house Results August 2012
Interhouse chess was held on Wednesday 21 August and the two houses in the finals were Bishops and Knights, with Crusaders and Kings playing for 3rd position. Most of the boys who never attend chess club (the matrics), played for their houses and this turned out to be an extremely enjoyable and fu…