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Junior Co-Curricular Activities

Chess

Participating in Chess Club gives our students the opportunity to grow their strategic and critical thinking skills while developing their sportsmanship.

Chess

Overview

Chess Club is on offer to those pupils who enjoy strategic thinking. The game of chess promotes reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking, all key to our academic curriculum. Players learn persistence, patience and how to win and lose, thus learning important lessons in sportsmanship.

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.