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Welcome to Rhenish Girls' High School

The Rhenish website is meant to give everyone– whether part of the extended Rhenish family or not – an up-to-date glimpse of what has happened, is happening, or will soon happen in the school. Rhenish – the oldest girls’ school and girls’ hostel in the country – is a wonderful and exciting place to be.

We welcome visits from those who might be interested in enrolling a young lady here in the future, and we hope to re-establish bonds with those girls and staff who may already have left the school.

We trust that visitors to this website will enjoy the time they spend in our company!

Mrs Columbine Commaille
Principal

 

 

 

Rhenish 150

RHENISH SCHOOL BEGINS FIRST DAY “FLYING HIGH”

 150 FORMATION WITH HELICOPTER FLY-OVER

13 Jan 2010 - Stellenbosch: All 1400 children and staff of the Rhenish Girls’ High and Rhenish Primary Schools gathered on the sports fields in the heat today, for an aerial photograph of a “1 5 0 Formation” and the release of 1 5 0 Helium Balloons. This is the first of many events planned for the schools in this, their special 150th Anniversary  Year.

Excitement mounted as children aged from 6 to 18 years stood patiently (and sometimes not so patiently – it was very, very hot, after all) waiting for the helicopter to fly over. Julian Kruger, of Fokus Photography, was up in the sky taking the shots, whilst down on the ground teachers and prefects handed out ice water and sprayed the children with cool water from the sprinkler system. Rhenish Grade 12 cheerleaders also helped to fill the time gap and keep the spirits up with a few entertaining songs.


Never mind the Soccer World Cup; Rhenish is celebrating its 150th Anniversarythis year and we intend to celebrate in style!

Become part of the "History of Rhenish". Read more...

Please contact us if you have any wonderful ideas for special events or merchandise, or anything else that will make it the best year ever for the school! These ideas will be forwarded to the Rhenish 150 Planning Committee.

If you know of any past Rhenishers, please encourage them to let us have their details so that they can be added to our data base. If you know of any memorabilia tucked away in Gran’s memory boxes that might be of interest to the school’s archivist and the authors of the Rhenish History Book, please contact us too.


 


Updated: 7 February, 2010