The Northwood Brass Band, made up entirely of school boys, has played at three high profile events over as many weeks.
Mrs Gail Teunissen, the Headmistress of Addington Primary School, and an educator of 42 years experience, was paraded into the school and serenaded by the Northwood drummers to mar…
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Bamboo Sushi Lounge Excellence Awards
Assembly at Northwood School on Friday 17 August 2012 saw the inaugural presentation of the Bamboo Sushi Lounge’s Excellence Awards. Every term Bamboo Sushi Lounge will honour thirty of Northwood’s top contributors with a certificate which entitles them to a term’s “eat as much as you wantâ€â€¦
Northwood win the D&D Chess finals
On Friday 17 August the Northwood chess team competed in the Durban and Districts High School Chess League Finals held at Clifton. On the day of the tournament, the boys made a conscious decision to bring the trophy home with one of the boys saying, “It’s Mr Jordan's last year and we are taking …
Northwood play soccer against Zimbabwe’s Peterhouse
Northwood’s 1st soccer team played Peterhouse Boys from Zimbabwe on Saturday, 18 August 2012 at Michaelhouse. A great free kick from Cameron Du Plessis put Northwood on the scoreboard 1-0 at half time. Peterhouse soon came back with a great goal in the 2nd half to make it 1-1. Stephen McManus scor…
Northwood’s New Head of Rugby
Northwood School welcomed La Lucia resident Swys de Bruin to its coaching fraternity recently when he accepted the position as rugby Head Coach.
Swys will continue in his position as Head Coach at the Sharks Academy and The Sharks High Performance Programme while coaching the Northwood boys. He wil…
Northwood’s U19 Softball Superstar
Recently Dale Moolman, in Grade 12 at Northwood, played in the ITP U19 Softball Tournament held at Queensmead Hockey Stadium and was selected for the U19 Softball Squad to play in the World Series in Argentina in November 2012.…
KZN High Schools Cricket Trial Squads
Northwood celebrates the selection of eleven of their boys to the KZN High Schools Cricket Trial Squads. Johnny Riekert, Dale Van Der Merwe, Nazeer Jaffer and Sereshon Moodley will represent the school in the U17/ U19 squad and Yetiesh Ramsurrup, Junaid Syed, Gavin Williams, Shimal Harichurn, Chris …
Northwood Shines at FSS Science Expo
Over 50 Northwood learners entered the annual FSS Expo Science competition held at the Westville University Sports Centre, 19 – 20 July. The KwaZulu-Natal expo attracted 560 science-related projects from schools throughout the province and this year’s competition was challenging. Judging was bas…
Culture & Community
For One – For All
Northwood celebrates a rich and varied cultural environment that caters for all who want to be involved. A kaleidoscope of learner-run committees, societies and groups covers a range of environmental, artistic, social and community service activities that encourage learners to gr…
Academics
Northwood is consistently recognised as one of the top public boys’ schools in KwaZulu Natal based on the matric results -a testament to academics remaining the primary focus of the school. The rich and varied academic programme offers a general formative education while at the same time emphasi…