Hoërskool Strand

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location = Strand, Western Cape
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Hoërskool Strand (English: Strand High School) is an Afrikaans high school located in Strand, South Africa. 1 097 [ [http://wcedemis.wcape.gov.za/wced/findaschool.html Find-A-School ] ] students attend the school, mostly residents of Strand, although students from as far as Gordon's Bay, Somerset West, and even Grabouw attend the school. The school is the major provider of secondary education in the area and is headmastered by Mr Christo Vorster.

With the post-war growth of the Hottentots Holland district, in 1963 a second High School (Afrikaans medium) was opened, which mainly served the Strand.

Hoërskool Strand has four quarters in a school year, stretching from January to December. The school provides classes from grade eight to grade twelve (the latter also known as matric).

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Hoërskool Strand competes in inter-schools activities with neighbouring schools Parel Vallei High School and Hottentots Holland High School, and it also competes against tour groups, such as the Bablake school from England, which last toured Strand in mid-2006. The sports in which it competes include rugby, cricket, hockey, netball, squash, tennis and chess. Sports activities which the school provides but which is not limited to inter-school competition includes swimming and surfing.

The school also has a strong academical focus, but it is considered by most to be concentrating on excelling in the sports-world. A school rule requiring students to take part in at least one winter- and one summer activity, introduced at the beginning of 2006, is evidence of the school's goal to become a sport power within the school circles in the area. They succeeded in winning the winter-interschools again in 2006 by beating Hottentots Holland in the main rugby match of the day.

On 14 October 2006, the school has sent a year 11 student, Corné Blaauw, to compete in the World Junior Chess Championship which was held in Georgia.

Academic

Academically the school also excels on national front.

The school provides a wide variety of subjects to its students, however the students are required to take the default list of subjects in grade 8 and 9, with the option to take English as a first language.

Here is a list of the subjects:
*Language, Literacy and Communication
**Afrikaans First Language
**English First Language
**English Second Language
*Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
**Mathematics; or
**Mathematical Literacy
**Additional mathematics
*General Sciences
**Physical Sciences
**Biology
*Human and Social Sciences
**History
**Geography
*Economics
**Accounting
**Business Economics
**Information Technology
**Computer Literacy
**Computer Sciences
*Technology
**Enginerical Graphics and Design
**Metalworks and
**Home Economics
**Technology
*Life Orientation
**Life Skills and Psychology
**Arts and Cultures
**Visual art
**Cultural Studies
*Art History
*Music
**Practical; and
**Theory
*Other
**Drama
**German Third Language
**Tourism

Some of the subjects require minimum qualifications.

Exchange System

The school is very active in exchanging students with the Burgerschool in Roeselare in Flanders (Belgium), due to the language similarities between Afrikaans and Dutch which makes communication much easier. Students can also visit schools in Germany, Switzerland and Argentina. Exchange students visiting the school come from Belgium, England, Germany and Italy. England and Italy however mainly provide sport tour groups. The exchange students from Germany go there through FSA Youth Exchange.

External links

* [http://www.strandskool.co.za Official Website]

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