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Senior Co-Curricular Activities

Art and Design

Art tours, competitions, fashion shows and clubs give our pupils a wide variety of opportunities to express themselves and explore their creativity.

Co-curricular Art and Design Activities

National Art Competitions

As South Africa does not host many national art competitions, to provide our pupils with the opportunity to accrue additional points for Art Colours, we liaised with Dr Rexleigh Bunyard’s initiative, The Rainbow’s Child – a musical designed around a number of social responsibility aspects including the health of the earth, recycling, and learning through alternative avenues. Consequently, an annual, national art competition was launched through the Roedean Department of Visual Arts & Design, in partnership with the MTN Art Foundation and the United Nations. The latter body relies on our entries to collate teaching tools in the form of theatre masks designed for the various characters in the musical. These tools will be used in schools set up in refugee camps.

More information around this ongoing project can be viewed at www.therainbowschild.com

Bothale Lesedi - LV: 'Hurtle the Turtle' mask

Demi-Leigh Diesel - LV: 'Mnisi the Rainbow Bird' mask

Gabriella Abatzidis - LV: 'King Liger' mask

Imogen Preston - LV: 'King Liger' mask

Jenna Murphy - LV: 'Mnisi the Rainbow Bird' mask

Marang Bokaba - LV: 'Hurtle the Turtle' mask

Mnotho Senamela - LV: Mask

Taskia Cassini - LV: 'King Liger' mask

The Annual Fashion Show

 

This show forms an important part of the real-life experience of our young designers. After being made cognisant of world-wide trends in fashion, film, industry and engineering practices, a brief is followed by our young designers around a given theme. Significant prestige is awarded to the creators of winning entries, and, in several instances, these extraordinary designs most successfully enriched the applications of young designers to tertiary institutions – local and internationally.

Art & Music Evenings

 

These events are hosted once per term to showcase the cultural talent in our school. Exhibitions include artworks, photographs and films done in lesson time, but also facilitate an exhibition space for co-curricular artistic achievement.
Works are accompanied by a rationale in which the artists explain various points of interest around the creation of their exhibited works.

Some of these works are also showcased on our social media platforms in the form of interviews and film clips.

International and Local Art Tours

 

Ideally, international Art tours are conducted to a selection of countries hosting important art collections and architecture such as England, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, etc. These tours usually take place during the April holidays.

We also plan local art tours to visit special points of interest such as San art and engravings on site, the Stern museum in Cape Town, as well as important contemporary architecture and art such as the Zeitz Mocaa Gallery.

Photography Club

 

The club is run by photography enthusiasts – not all of them Art girls – and competitions are run regularly.

Their skill is also acknowledged when a photograph is of such a high standard that it is used in the annual school magazine, for which Art Colours points are awarded.

Senior Co-Curricular Activities

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Dale Quaker

Dale Quaker is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Cupric Africa, a private equity owned mining company which through its Botswana sister company Khoemacau Copper recently completed the building of its copper silver project.

He was previously the CFO of the Khoemacau Group leading the finance function as the Group transitioned from an exploration company, through the fundraising of a $650m debt, streaming and equity funding package through to completion of construction..

Prior to joining Cupric, he was an independent consultant to the mining and construction industries. In his last corporate role, he headed up the marketing and logistics function for Xstrata Coal South Africa, after having fulfilled a senior finance role in the company previously..

Dale held roles at BHPBillition subsidiary, Samancor Chrome, both at the operations and corporate office in Johannesburg. Dale is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Management Accountant and has three daughters at Roedean.

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