65 ACADEMIC Review Murray Polkinghorn, Willem Brooks, Michael Shadell and Zastra Conway-Nunn At the end of the first term we bid farewell to Sybil Terblanche who took up a post as head of Afrikaans Senior Primary at St Mary’s, and so we were pleased to welcomeWayne Sudding, who joined us from the Drankensberg Boys’ Choir School. For the second year running three Kearsney boys were the national winners in the Afrikaans Musiek en Liriek rap-section:Willem Brooks, Michael Shadwell and Murray Polkinghorn. The depar tment is still functioning well within the national aggregate 8 % distinction rate and we have had top 1% achievers for the last two years.We are aiming to keep it that way! Afrikaans support teaching for all grades was held on a weekly basis, but unfor tunately the classes in all the grades (with the exception of grade 12) were poorly attended. The boys could radically improve their overall averages if they just made more of an effor t to attend these classes. Next year a Sokkie is planned at St Annes; which will hopefully be a delightful and insightful experience for the boys. Zastra Conway-Nunn KEARSNEY KOOR-TOER Deur: Murray Polkinghorne Graad 12 Op 5 Julie 2010 het die Kearsneykoor ‘n toer na die wêreldkoorspele aangepak. Dit was ‘n ongelooflike ervaring wat toere deur Taiwan, Japan en Sjina ingesluit het. Toe ons by “Taipei Internasionale lughawe” aangekom het, was daar ‘n probleem met ons visums. Almal was doodmoeg van die lang vlug en hoogs geïriteerd. Dit was nege-uur voordat ons deur doane toegelaat is! Van Jouland-pretpark tot die nagmarkte in “Taichung” was warrelwind kaleidoskope en adrenalliengevulde ondervindings. Ons het in twee konser te voor duisende mense Afrikaans Kearnsey was the proud winner in the medium size Eerste Addisionele Taal national expo competition.
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