After a long and thrilling final, four of our heroes came out tops during the Kids' Lit Quiz World Final hosted in Hamilton, New Zealand. The Manor Gardens team represented South Africa in the competition. Alexandra Breckenridge, Matthew Robbins, Emily Spencer and Sarah Herrington competed against teams from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. To secure their place in the World final, the Manor Gardens team competed in regional and national competitions to beat 150 South African schools and be crowned national champions.
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Congradulations to all General Knowledge and Scholarship Winners who really did Manor Gardens proud with their great achievements.
Manor Gardens pupils have achieved well in the AMESA-KZN Mathematics Olympiad/Challenge with a number of pupils in the top 20 candidates in the grade 4 to 7 Olympiad, and in the top 15 candidates in the grade 8 Challenge. This year an estimated 50 000 wrote the qualifying first round in May and approximately 8 000 pupils participated in the final round on 20 August 2009.
Manor Gardens is proud of three former pupils Alexis Sienaert, Murry Wesson and Andreas Coutsoudis who were awarded Rhodes Scholarships to study at Oxford University in England.
Manor Gardens Primary has been awarded top school in the Horizon Maths challenge for the fifth time. This interschool mathematics challenge, run by Star College, has been running for seven years. Manor Gardens’ pupils have once again excelled in the Horizon Mathematics Competition. More than 4000 children from forty state schools participated in the first round of the competition. The second round was written by approximately 1000 pupils at Star College. Manor Gardens Primary was awarded 14 places in the final top 50 and received 5 of the top 10 places.
Seven children from Manor Gardens qualified as gold medallists in the second (and final) round of the Amesa-KwaZulu-Natal Mathematics Challenge 2007. Nandile Soni, Roanne Moodley, Gemma Schumann, Kiuran Naidoo, Rubina Valodia, Fiona Watt (who achieved first place in the grade six paper) and Donovan O’Leary.
Ex Manor Gardens Pupils; Jithen Pillay, Sajal Pillai and Karisha Hargovan who came in the top 10 in the 2007 KZN (Matric)examinations, Neshica Naidu who achieved the top Maths and Science results and Simone Samuels who was placed in the top 50 in the 2007 IEB exams.