History has been made with Donald Ngwenya, the KZN Rugby Union Development Manager since 2007 being appointed as the Northwood Rugby Head Coach. Ngwenya beat out 21 other suitably qualified candidates that had applied for the position which became available overnight. He holds a Bachelors degree in …
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Orientation Fun For New Grade 8s!
Our 2013 grade 8’s had their first taste of being a Northwood Squire after experiencing a fun-filled two day orientation at their new school.
The staff and prefects planned a busy and engaging program for the boys – with the highlight being the braai and sleepover on Monday evening. Even thou…
Northwood Matrics Are Top Achievers!
Northwood Matrics had their best results in years, being one of only two boys schools to be placed in the Top 10 with 21 students achieving 6 or more distinctions.
No fewer than 15 of our students achieved 7 straight A’s, and Jason Wessels (our head prefect and cricket captain) achieved…
Father Christmas Arrives in Style
The children of the Northwood staff had a fun-filled day with swimming, party food and a giant jumping castle all adding to the excitement of the end of year Kid's Christmas Party.
The absolute highlight of the afternoon was when Father Christmas arrived in true style – landing in a helicopter on…
Northwood Wins Softball Tournament!
The KZN U19A Softball Team of which Luke Wright and Hilton Venning-Pridham were members, won the Inter-Provincial Softball Tournament held at Queensmead last weekend. The B team were placed 4th and Dean Rice formed part of that team.
Tyler Smith was selected to play for the KZN U16A Softball Team w…
Mr Jordan’s Final Assembly
It was a moving and poignant moment at the Final Assembly on Thursday 6th December as Mr Jordan rang the Northwood bell 37 times for each year he has been at the school. The Matrics of 2012 donned their school uniforms one last time to pay respect to their Headmaster and to officially "ring the be…
Northwood Olympic Reading Challenge Winners!
After months of serious reading Northwood’s Olympic Reading challenge came to nail-biting close as they boys rose to the challenge to be Northwood’s champion reader. Sean Wakeford, and old boy from 1986 and the generous benefactor of a Kindle as the first prize, came to officiate at the prize …
Northwood’s Ryan Stanley Excels at National Life Science Olympiad
Congratulations to Ryan Stanley for his outstanding achievement for being placed 3rd in the country in the National Life Science Olympiad.
This OLYMPIAD is the only officially recognised SCIENCE OLYMPIAD for Grades 4 to 11, and is recognised at Provincial, National, DoE and DST levels, as approve…
Northwood Cyclists Show Talent at the Amashova
Northwood had over 10 boys ride the 40km race, and we are proud to say all the boys finished in under an hour.
The challenge of the 106km race was taken up by 3 staff members and one of the boys. The race was successfully completed by all our riders.
We would like to thank all the boys and their p…
Northwood’s Thomas Affleck is awarded his KZNPSA colours.
Congratulations to Thomas Affleck who was awarded his KwaZulu - Natal Practical Shooting Association colours. This is an excellent achievement as Thomas is the youngest member to ever be awarded these colours in the history of the Association. We look forward to seeing more of this promising you…