This year, 12 Cannons Creek High School pupils entered the SACEE 100-Word Short Story Competition, and all 11 Grade 7s who entered were rewarded for their efforts. This is an impressive result as only a third of the more than 400 entries received recognition and only 16% of the entries earned Gold certificates. Our results…
This year, Cannons Creek once again participated in the Creative Writing section of The Cape Town International Eisteddfod, with Grade 5 pupil Eli Naidoo achieving an outstanding result. At the prestigious prize-giving ceremony held at Westerford High School last weekend, Eli was awarded a medal for first place in his category and a diploma for his poem…
Congratulations to three of our pupils whose writing has been published in SACEE’s ‘English Alive’ Publication – Grade 12 pupils Ameerah Patel, Chloe McComb and Ciaran Steenveld. SACEE (South African Council for English Education) runs various competitions and programmes throughout the year, where the best writing by high schools and colleges throughout South Africa is published in…
On Friday 24 November, the Cape Town International Eisteddfod Awards Ceremony was held at the Waves Theatre. Cannons Creek Independent Primary School won overall GOLD this year in the Cape Town Eisteddfod in the Junior and Senior group performance categories. Additionally Grade 6 pupil, Leah Kooyman won GOLD for the 12-14-year-old Best Solo Poem Performance….
On Thursday 16 February, some of our senior pupils were privileged to listen to Isobel Dixon, published poet and Director of Blake Friedmann Literary Agency in London. She shared her poetry and discussed it with the audience. Questions were asked and interesting interaction occurred. It is not often that pupils are able to hear from…
