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Sports

The sports programme at Herschel Girls School is necessary for educational value and the school recognises the many life lessons that our pupils can learn through sport. The school endeavours to provide a relevant sports programme with committed coaches and fixtures for all students.

Participation

  • A wide variety of team and individual sports are available for all pupils.
  • At present school sports (coaching provided at no cost to the pupils) include the following:
    • Outdoor Hockey
    • Indoor Hockey (Senior School only)
    • Netball
    • Basketball (Senior School only)
    • Water Polo
    • Swimming
    • Tennis
    • Squash
    • Cross Country Running
    • Soccer (Social)
  • Sport education and regular exercise is an integral part of the school’s Health and Physical Education programme.

Tournaments and Tours

We participate in many local tournaments and in top tournaments throughout the country.

School Song

We are assembled here in love,
We are united, we care for one another.
The greatest lesson of all is the one
That teaches us to live together, together.

Refrain:
Everyone’s a spark and in the night
Together we make a light, a fire burning bright
Ad Dei Gloriam; Inkosi mayibongwe:
To the glory of our God: this is what we believe.

In times of trouble we support
Our fellows; we are taught to be there for our friends.
And all around us, there will be
That special unity, that binds us all together.

If we come back after many years,
We will think fondly of the things that we remember,
And the friends that we made then,
These will be friends forever, forever.

By Thandi Siebert, Head Girl 1993