FLIPPING BOOK CHRONICLE 2024

topic. And you must have resilience. If you have all of these qualities, or develop them, then I have little doubt that you will succeed to the maximum of your ability. Good luck to you! It is now my pleasure to announce the recipients of the internal scholarships for 2024. These relate to the Sir Henry Strakosch Scholarship and the John W Hamilton Internal Scholarship. Both of these awards are based on the results in 2023. The Sir Henry Strakosch Scholarship is awarded to one boy in each Block for the best combined mark in Mathematics and Science in the previous year. The awards for 2024 are: E Block – Raif Jinnah; D Block – Matthew Longmore; C Block – Reily Elliot; and B Block – Patrick Lambert. The John W Hamilton Internal Scholarship is awarded for one year to the boy with the top aggregate in his Block and who is not a recipient of another academic scholarship. This year the John W Hamilton Scholarships are awarded to: E Block – Raif Jinnah; D Block – Graydon Leslie; C Block – shared by Reily Elliot and Roelof Rossouw; and B Block – Patrick Lambert. Well done to the recipients of these two important scholarships.

Fifthly, you require a degree of interdependence. This entails being able to work alongside others and in collaboration with them, distinguishing what is valuable in their approach to a particular subject and what is not so valuable. It entails drawing on their best ideas and feeding fellow students with your best ideas so that, together, you may all advance academically. Sixthly, you need to be resilient. You have heard this term often before and it means continuing to strive to reach your goals even when you seem to be a long way off and things have not gone as you would have chosen. It entails being tough on yourself, continuing to put in the hard yards, learning from failure and sticking to your guns. So, just to recap for you, I’ve suggested that there are six things that will bring you success in terms of your own capability. You must have ambition and set out to want to do well. You must be academically curious and seek to go deeper into a subject. You must have determination, which means that you revise the humdrum material and do your best to be ahead of the game. You must have independence and have the capacity to read further and deeper into a subject. You must be able to operate interdependently and work alongside others, learning from them and contributing to their understanding of a

May I end by congratulating the prize winners this evening. It is your day and you have every right to be proud of yourselves.

SUBJECT PRIZES

E BLOCK GABRIELLE MASSEY PRIZE Connor Wilson SUBJECT PRIZES AFRIKAANS First in Subject: Jaydon Jubber ACCOUNTING First in Subject: Oliver Thompson ECONOMICS First in Subject: Connor Wilson ENGINEERING GRAPHICS AND DESIGN First in Subject: Connor Wilson ENGLISH First in Subject: Connor Wilson DRAMATIC ARTS First in Subject: Oliver Thompson FRENCH First in Subject: Massimo Calcaterra

MERIT CERTIFICATES (Year Mark Aggregate 80% and over) Chad Abrahams, William Aylward, Mitchell Bekker, Matthew Bennett, Martinho de Abreu, Griffon Erasmus, Noah Holl, Raif Jinnah, Jaydon Jubber, Ethan Kruger, Zhengfei Li, Luneziwe Mshengu, Luthando Mxhego, Solethu Ngxola, Ethan Perry, Daniel Pieterse, Shail Rajkumar, Duncan Roberts, Nathan Roberts, Bernard Rossouw, Nivan Royappen, Benjamin Sevel, Oliver Thompson, Calum van Zyl, William Wadman, Connor Wilson, Mvelo Zondo Third in E Block: Griffon Erasmus Second in E Block: Raif Jinnah First in E Block: Connor Wilson ACADEMIC DILIGENCE CERTIFICATES Mitchell Bekker, Griffon Erasmus, Callum Fly, Griffin Goldby, Trezeguet Hawkins, Noah Holl, Jaydon Jubber, Ethan Kruger, Siphesihle Mathebula, Luneziwe Mshengu, Riley Muir, Sinaluthando

GEOGRAPHY First in Subject: William Wadman HISTORY First in Subject: Nivan Royappen INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY First in Subject: Zhengfei Li ISIZULU First in Subject: Luneziwe Mshengu LIFE SCIENCES First in Subject: Griffon Erasmus, Connor Wilson

MATHEMATICS First in Subject: Zhengfei Li

MUSIC First in Subject: Anathi Getyengana

PHYSICAL SCIENCES First in Subject: Raif Jinnah

VISUAL ARTS First in Subject: Trezeguet Hawkins

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