public
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English medium
An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction—particularly where English is not the mother tongue of the students.
Initially this is associated with the expansion of English from its homeland i ...
co-educational high school situated in the suburb of
Eldoraigne
Eldoraigne is a residential suburb east of Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.
References
Suburbs of Centurion, Gauteng
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Centurion
A centurion (; la, centurio , . la, centuriones, label=none; grc-gre, κεντυρίων, kentyríōn, or ) was a position in the Roman army during classical antiquity, nominally the commander of a century (), a military unit of around 80 ...
in the
Gauteng
Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'.
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...
province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
, It is one of the top and academic schools in the Gauteng province, The school was established in 1987.
School houses
Upon successful registration at Sutherland High School, students are divided among the following eight
houses
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...
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* Argyll
* Bays
* Cameron
* Dunrobin
* Freskin
* Lindley
* Roberts
*Seaforth
These houses compete in various sporting and cultural competitions throughout the year.
Leadership programmes
The School of Leadership is a youth leadership development initiative that is unique to Sutherland High School.{{Citation needed, date=October 2019
Red blazer programme
Learners at Sutherland High School can sign up for the "Red Blazer" programme. This is the most prestigious award that the School of Leadership offers. The main characteristics of a red blazer recipient are respect, integrity and accountability. Below is a more extensive description of each requirement of the Red Blazer programmes.
Desert walk
Desert walk is the first event that the School of Leadership offered. Learners are expected to endure a walk through the desert through challenging physical activities and limited food and sleep.
Mentor programme
The mentor programme was initiated in 2009 where Grade 8 pupils were allocated a Grade 11 pupil who would look after them, “showing them the ropes” of Sutherland High School, and helping them cope with their first year of high school.
Sports activities
Sutherland High School is part of the Pretoria English Medium High School Athletics Association (PEMHSAA), and has won the association's inter-highschool events 20 consecutive times from 1991 to 2011.
Sutherland High School has been performing very well on sports during the year.
The sports that are offered in the school are:
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Archery
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Athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
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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 ...
Equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
*Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
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Hockey
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Netball
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(Girls)
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Rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
(Boys)
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Shooting
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Football (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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Swimming
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Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
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Water polo
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Notable alumni
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Gareth Cliff
Gareth Rhydal Cliff (born 26 August 1977) is a South African radio and television personality. He began his professional radio career at 702, and later became the host of the breakfast show on 5FM. During his career at 5FM, his show included a fe ...
In September 2011, the school set a world record for the most solved
Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...
s in one hour: 711, exceeding the previous record of 300 in an hour.{{Cite web
, title = Pupils set Rubik's cube record
, work = Independent Online
, date = 27 September 2011
, accessdate = 2015-02-17
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Five years later in 2016, this record was surpassed by nine students in India–2,454 in one hour.{{Cite web, url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-rubiks-cubes-solved-in-one-hour-(team), title=Most Rubik's cubes solved in one hour (team), last=, first=, date=23 January 2016, website=
Guinness World Records
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