Westville Senior Primary School term two highlights.Cricket Captains We would like to introduce you to our cricket captains for the year. Gaurav Sewlal is captain and Ulrich Van Tonder is vice captain. Congratulations boys!

Cricket Captains

Netball Captains We would like to introduce you to our netball captains for 2023! The captain is C’pahle Ngqola and vice captain is Scarlet Willett. Congratulations, girls!

Netball captains

Rugby Captains 

We would like to introduce you to our rugby captains for the year.

• Ayabukwa Mbanga – Forwards captain
• Ulrich Van Tonder – Backline captain
• Matthew Thompson – Vice Captain

Congratulations, boys!

Rugby Captains

Squash Captains

A day of congratulations all round! We would like to introduce you to our squash captains for 2023. Our captain is Callum Gossman and our vice captain is Yashiv Panday! Well done boys!

Squash Captains

We would like to introduce you to our badminton captains for 2023! Mohamed Uwais Hassan is our captain and Deansha Mcaylee Govender is our vice captain!

Badminton Captains 

U13 PADSSA Girls Cricket: Congratulations to Annastaica Pillay and Tarita Bodalia who were selected for the U13 PADSSA Girls Cricket Team. They will be participating in the KZN Cricket Trials this Saturday – good luck, girls!

Padsa Girls Cricket

U11 PADSSA Boys Cricket: Well done to Humzah Bayat, Devon Clark, Ronaldo Moodaly and Humzah Ally who participated in the KZN U11 Cricket Festival last Term. Well done to Mr Hatch who has been selected as the PADSSA u11 team head coach.

U11 PADSSA Boys Cricket

PADSA Rugby Boys Congratulations to the following boys who have been selected to represent PADSSA for rugby at the up and coming KZN trials this weekend.

PADSA Rugby Boys

U12A

• Bandile Mahaye
• Andile Ndlovu
• Buchule Chithi

U13A

• Eliah Schonken
• Matthew Thompson
• Ayabukwa Mbanga
• Ulrich Van Tonder
• Siyanda Ntuli
• Caleb Mokawem (unfortunately Caleb is unable to attend as he has picked up an injury)

U13B

• Keaton Fisher
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Kyle Symes
• Kyle Israel
• We wish them all the best!
• Well done to Mr Adamson who is coaching the U12A team.

 Chess

Michael Schwartz recently competed in the South African Junior Closed Chess Championship (by invitation) where he performed extremely well and was placed in top 2 players in U12 category in our country. He won 7 rounds out of 9, sharing the top position with another boy from Gauteng! Both boys were awarded SA Protea Colours for Classical Chess and were selected to represent SA in the World Chess Championships later this year! Michael also took part in the South African Closed Rapid and Blitz Championship (by invitation) where he was placed 2nd in the U12 category! He was awarded SA Protea Colours for Blitz & Rapid Chess and was chosen to represent South Africa in World Rapid & Blitz Youth and Cadets in Batumi, Georgia later this year! Well done, Michael. This is truly an incredible achievement and we cannot wait to see what the future holds for you.

Swimming 

Our children really are just so talented! Waldo also took part in the SA National School Championship Gala at the end of April and he got 1 gold medal, 4 silver medals and 1 bronze medal! We are so proud of you, Waldo!

During the school holidays, Waldo Fritz represented KZN at the 46th SA Biathlon championships in Stellenbosch. He did exceptionally well and managed to achieve his personal best times for the 800m run, as well as the 50m swim! Waldo received a gold medal for his performance and is now the u13 boys SA title holder!Congratulations, Waldo! This is outstanding and we are so proud of you.

Waldo Fritz

PADSA Hockey

Congratulations to the following boys and girls who will be representing PADDSA at the KZN hockey trials. We are so proud of you all and we wish you the best of luck for trials

Girls U12A

Victoria Johnson

Arya Domun

Usiphile Khanile

Girls U12B

Olivia Maxwell

Gabrielle Rautenbach

Sky-Shae Anderson

Morgan Wray

Kristin Fowler

Girls U13A

Tshiamo Sizane

Girls U13B

Sam Nkau

Elizabeth Bold

Boys U12A

CJ Esau

Boys U12B

Tyler Maingard

Ryan Lawson

Boys U13A

Gaurav Sewlal

Boys U13B

Ulrich Van Tonder

Kayleb Foxon

Evan Phillips

PADSA boys and girls hockey

KZN Hockey Selections We would like to congratulate the following learners on their KZN Hockey selection:

• U13A Gaurav Sewlal and Tshiamo Sizane
• U13C Kayleb Foxon and Sam Nkau
• U12A Victoria Johnson
• U12B CJ Esau and Usiphile Khanyile We are very proud of these learners and we wish them all the best for their upcoming tours.

KZN Hockey Selections

Monitors 2023

Take a look at our monitors for 2023. These are our class monitors, media monitors, tuck shop monitors and hall monitors.

Monitors

Prefects

Congratulations to the following learners who have been selected as our prefects for 2023.

• Keaton Fisher
• Siyanda Ntuli
• Ulrich Van Tonder
• Gaurav Sewlal
• Isabella Warburton
• Mufaro Mutsvunguma
• Emma-Lee Boem
• Juhi Bugwantha

Pictured below: Mrs Heather-Clarke, Mr Verster, our Heads and Deputies, our prefects, Mr Ingram and Mr Webber

Head Prefects 

We’d like to introduce you to our leaders of 2023.

• Matthew Thompson – Head Boy
• Lilah McDermid – Head Girl
• Thomas Hutchinson – Deputy Head Boy
• Nicole Van Niekerk – Deputy Head Girl

We cannot wait to see how you boys and girls lead your school with pride and determination this year. Congratulations to you all.

Photographed below: Mrs Pillay, Nicole, Lilah, Thomas, Matthew and Mr Webber.

Girls Cricket Academy  The start of a great relationship as we have partnered with the KZN Dolphins Cricket Union to help us promote the growth and development of girls cricket, not only in the school, but in KZN!  Any girls in Grade 1 to 7 in the Westville, Upper Highway and Durban areas are welcome to join us for practices! Contact the School for further details. PICTURED L-R: Mr S George (WSPS Sports Office), Mr Hatch (WSPS Head of Sport), Mr RC Webber (WSPS Principal), Nduduzo Ngcobo (KZN Mini Cricket Co-ordinator), Miss A Ngcobo (WSPS Girls Cricket Coach), Mduduzi Ntuli (KZN Cricket Coach), and Mr Mhlathi (WSPS Sport Office and Skills development).

Football

Congratulations to Ulrich Van Tonder, Siyanda Ntuli, Noah Mokawem, Caleb Mokawem, Thomas Hutchinson and Kyle Israel who will be representing KZN Football this year at the annual Bill Stewart Football Tournament! This tournament is the longest-running Inter-Provincial tournament for Under 13 footballers in South Africa and our boys will compete against other provincial teams. Great players like Neil Tovey, Delron Buckley and Mark Fish have participated in it, and yet others like Conrad Jaantjies and Jonty Rhodes who chose other sports as their profession, have also played in this prestigious tournament. By taking part in this tournament, the players have an opportunity to get exposure and make friends from all over the country. Ulrich, Siyanda, Noah and Caleb have made the KZN Warriors (A Team) and Thomas and Kyle have made the KZN Amabutho (C Team). Well done, boys! We are so proud of you

Swimming

Bandile Mahaye recently participated in the SA National Schools Championship Gala and came back with 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal! Well done, Bandile! We are so proud of you

Bandile 3 May 2023

LIT Quiz

Congratulations to the our A Lit Quiz team who achieved second place in the Durban regional round of the 2023 Kids’ Lit Quiz held on Monday 13 February. Dahlia, Saajid, Ashton and Bilal – we are so proud of you all.

Lit Quiz

Westville Astro Turf 

Westville Schools Astro Turf, proudly introduced by The Westville Schools’ Hockey Trust. The turf is shared between Westville Girls’ High School, Westville Boys’ High School, Gryphons Hockey Club, us and our community club. The Westville Schools’ Hockey Trust has given the astro a new irrigation system, new lighting and a change of colour from green to blue. “Westville Senior Primary is very proud to be a part of this amazing development for the Westville Schools. Westville Senior has recently had an advance of its sports programme and the opening of the revamped and resurfaced Westville Schools Hockey Trust Astro will not only add to our offering and the upliftment of hockey at our schools, but we also look forward to the increased participation of learners from our Primary School, and the Westville Junior Primary School through the Gryphons Academy based at the astro. The presentation today goes to show the strength and increased collaboration of the Westville Schools as we strive for excellence both on and off the pitch.” Robert Webber – Principal of Westville Senior Primary School. We cannot wait to witness the action that this turf will see!

Gryphons Hockey Club

New year

New turf

New kit

New… You’ll have to hang around to see what else we have in store for 2023! Sign up today for Term 2, practices starting Sunday, 16 April Sheldon George and Stuart Lee George are heading this club up.. Stuart is the MIC of hockey and 1st Team boys coach at WSPS, and Sheldon is a Sports Intern and 1st Team girl’s assistant coach at Westville Senior Primary. Members of the Senior Club, Sheldon, and Stuart are a dynamic duo that boasts over 7 years of coaching experience each. Sheldon and Stuart are very confident and know the skills needed by junior players to succeed in the game of hockey and will lead a team of coaches across the different age groups and skill levels to ensure continuous player development and growth at Gryphons Mini Hockey. Sheldon has played for KZN at the U18 Schools level and both Sheldon and Stuart have been selected to coach in the KZN Primary Schools setup previously and in the coming year. Sheldon is a SAHA level 1 coach and Stuart has just completed a SAHA level 2 course. We are excited about this new development and hope you are too! Don’t forget, term 2 registrations are still open, sign up here: