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Falcon Weekly News
Week 5 First Term 2006

 
Cultural Weekend - A Great Success

110 students & teachers from 19 schools
attended

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The Cultural Weekend 2006

The Falcon Stand in Francistown
The Querls and the Stewarts represented Falcon College at the Clifton Expo in Francistown.

Quiet Waters chalets very popular 
A lovely place to spend the nights.
Mbonisi Weir likely to spill


New Computer Room to be Built soon.
The good news from the Beit Trust came as we went to press.

Sports 
Dirk van Heerden takes 7 wickets

Cricket Results Versus Peterhouse.

 



 Cultural Weekend at Falcon - A Great Success
The annual Cultural weekend was held on the weekend starting Friday 10th February. Despite acute fuel shortages in the country 110 students from 19 schools attended the workshop. Read more about this....

Falcon at the Clifton Expo , Francistown
On the 9th February, the Headmaster Reg Querl and Martha Querl, Peter and Jacqui Stewarts represented the College at the 2006 Clifton Expo in  Francistown, Botswana. two Zimbabwean, fifteen South African and two Botswana exhibitors were present to showcase their colleges, handout prospectuses, discuss their curricula and answer numerous questions posed by prospective parents and their children.FalconStandBots.jpg (52248 bytes)

It was a most worthwhile exercise and one which will hopefully bear fruit if we can address and overcome the problems experienced with expensive and frustratingly long border crossing.
In the thumbnail Martha shows a prospective parent pictures and charts depicting life at the College.

New Computer Room to be built
 Work is to start soon on the new Quiet Room following a grant from the Beit Trust. The Computer Room will be attached to the Dugmore Memorial Library.  The new Computer is room is to be truly a Falcon innovation.  The unique architectural plans were designed and drawn by Alistair Gibson, a former Design and Technical Graphics student at Falcon. We will give you more details on this in a later issue.

Chalets at Quiet Waters very popular
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One of the four chalets at Quiet Waters merges quite naturally with the local surroundings..

The Chalets at Quiet Waters have become very popular and are frequently fully booked whenever there is a function at the College.

Still at Quiet Waters..........................

Mbonisi weir likely to spill this seasonmbonisaweirlatest.jpg (39485 bytes). 
The thumbnail shows Gordon looking at the spillway rather hopefully.  Gordon has every reason to be hopefully because If the weir spills there will be an official opening.

Sports Results

cricket2.jpg (36270 bytes)In the cricket match against Peterhouse played on Saturday van Dirk Heerden took 7 wickets for the U16 side.
On the left, Dirk bowls on target.

Here are the rest of the Crickets results versus Peterhouse.

1st - drew
2nd - lost
3rd - lost
16 A - lost and rained off
16 B - lost
15 A - drew and won
15 B - drew
14 A - drew
14 B - lost

1st and 14 A played 2-day matches, 15A and 16 A played two one-day matches, the rest played just one match. D van Heerden (7-28) recorded the best ever bowling figures by an U16 bowler against Peterhouse; K Chiwanza and K Chawira scored a record 10th wicket partnership (64) for an U16 team vs Peterhouse. C van Rensburg scored 71 and took 6 wickets in the Saturday U15 match. G Aliseni took 5-25 in the Peterhouse 1st innings at 1st team