Congratulations to our 2011 Matrics!

STATEMENT: CEDAR HOUSE 2011 GRADE 12 RESULTS

Dear Cedar House community

It gives me enormous pleasure to share with you our 2011 Grade 12 results and to congratulate all who were involved in making the many successes possible. Our 2011 Matric class was an asset to our School and deserve sincere congratulations for their results; this was also a truly inclusive class and I am exceptionally proud of the fact that their results place Cedar House right “up there” as a top performing Independent Examinations Board (IEB) School.

28 out of our 39 candidates achieved Bachelors Degree (BD) passes; 10 received Diploma passes; 1 candidate did not meet the requirements for a National Senior Certificate pass. IEB results, according to UCT research, are reliable and so a candidate who has achieved a BD pass or a distinction is worthy of this accolade. A candidate who stands out (details below) is a truly top candidate. Cedar House, in 2011, produced many top candidates and I am very proud of them indeed.

We can justifiably pleased with our School’s results: 20% of results were As, 22% Bs and 24% Cs.

Some highlights:
• The group’s English results were remarkable. 12 out of 39 candidates achieved distinctions. 4 (Oliver February [95%], Kate Pinchuck [93%], Anjuli Daya [92%] and Jessica Mayson [90%]) were in the top 1% of English candidates in the IEB’s national sample. 8 out of the 20 students who were part of the Advanced Programme English course (a pilot group of Schools launched this new programme this year) achieved distinctions: Oliver February [97%], Jessica Mayson [94%], Shameegah Mohamed [90%], Kate Pinchuck [90%], Alice van den Heever [92%] and Katy Williams [93%] all achieved over 90%; I think that this places Cedar House as the top performing AP English school, nationally. If, as UCT research has pointed out, an English result is an indicator of capacity for future tertiary success, then the class of 2011 have a bright tertiary future ahead of themselves!
• Life Orientation has established itself strongly at Cedar House and it is wonderful (and appropriate, given our community’s commitment to be a place of thinking and transformation) that 22 of our 39 candidates achieved As or Bs.
• 8 out of 15 Geography candidates achieved As and Bs
• Shameegah Mohamed achieved in the top 1% of candidates, nationally, for Afrikaans
• 33% of Maths Literacy students achieved distinctions and 86% achieved over 60%
• 25% of Design candidates achieved distinctions
• 22% of Life Sciences candidates achieved distinctions and 22 out of 27 candidates achieved higher than 60%
• 21% of History candidates achieved distinctions
• 17% of Visual Art students achieved distinctions and 83% achieved over 60%
• 57% of students achieved over 60% in Physical Sciences
• Both Dance Studies and both Drama students achieved distinctions

Cedar House is interested in offering so much more than can be measured by Grade 12 external results. We do, however, attract many very capable students, people with serious academic aspiration and so it is important that, in addition to everything else, a world class Examinations Board, with exacting standards and expectations, is part of the deal. It is important that our particularly good students do well. This has happened.

The point, however, is summed up by this story; when asked about his results, one of our most academically talented Grade 12s (he begins studying a BSc at UCT this year) said the following in the context of being disappointed at having received 76% for English and 79% for Physical Sciences, hereby missing symbols he had been aiming for: “…but the truth is that I could not have wished for a better schooling”.

VERY well done to our Staff and our 2011 Matrics!

Yours sincerely

FRANK RUMBOLL
Principal

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