Clapham High School is a

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high school in Queenswood,

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, in the

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province of

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. The school moved out of central Pretoria to the present facilities in Queenswood, beginning of 1955, and has approximately 1300 pupils.

Sport

The school intra-sport teams are divided into houses which are named after the members of the

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: Scott, Wilson, Evans, Bowers, and Oates. Sport is not compulsory, as the school believes that success and enjoyment comes with voluntary participation. However, the grade 8 learners are expected to attend most of the

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meetings as spectators. The school offers the following sports: *

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Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

* Cross Country *

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

Netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...

Squash (sport) Squash is a racket-and- ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. T ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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Clapham High School is part of the Pretoria English Medium High Schools Athletics Association which is good-spirited rivalry between all the co-ed government schools in Pretoria. The schools have three meetings held a year including the swimming gala (held at Hillcrest Swimming Pool), cross country (held at the host school) and an athletics meeting (held at Pilditch Stadium). Other schools participating in the association are: *

Hillview High School Hillview High School is a public English medium co-educational high school situated in the suburb of Roseville in the city of Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Sport Sport is not compulsory, as the school believes that the su ...

Lyttelton Manor High School , principal = Ms. Wendy Hall , staff = 100 full-time , head_name2 = , head2 = , city = Centurion , province = Gauteng , country = South Africa , students = 1,400 pupils , lower_age = 14 , ...

* Pretoria Technical High School * Pretoria Secondary School * Rietondale High School * Sutherland High School, Centurion *

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* Willowridge High School

References

Clapham High School official website
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