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The school was founded by [[John Paterson (Cape politician)|John Paterson]], who also founded Standard Bank and The Herald newspaper, and named after [[George Grey|Sir George Grey]], Governor of [[British Cape Colony|Cape Colony]] for the period 5 December 1854 – 15 August 1861, who awarded the land and provided funding for the original Grey Institute adjacent to the Donkin Reserve in Central, Port Elizabeth.<ref>{{ |
The school was founded by [[John Paterson (Cape politician)|John Paterson]], who also founded Standard Bank and The Herald newspaper, and named after [[George Grey|Sir George Grey]], Governor of [[British Cape Colony|Cape Colony]] for the period 5 December 1854 – 15 August 1861, who awarded the land and provided funding for the original Grey Institute adjacent to the Donkin Reserve in Central, Port Elizabeth.<ref>{{ web|url=://www.greyhighschool.com/-/-of-/ |access-date=--|=Grey High School|=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web//://www.greyhighschool.com/-/-of-/|archive-date= |-}}</ref> |
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[[George Grey|Sir George Grey]], during his times as governor in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand is also affiliated with the establishment of other educational institutions such as [[Grey College, Bloemfontein|Grey College]] in Bloemfontein, [[Auckland Grammar School]] in Auckland, New Zealand, and [[Whanganui Collegiate School]], in Whanganui, New Zealand. |
[[George Grey|Sir George Grey]], during his times as governor in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand is also affiliated with the establishment of other educational institutions such as [[Grey College, Bloemfontein|Grey College]] in Bloemfontein, [[Auckland Grammar School]] in Auckland, New Zealand, and [[Whanganui Collegiate School]], in Whanganui, New Zealand. |
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Revision as of 15:06, 14 October 2022
| Grey High School | |
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 Grey High School main entrance | |
| Address | |
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College Dr, Mill Park South Africa | |
| Coordinates | 33°57′40″S 25°35′45″E / 33.9612°S 25.5958°E |
| Information | |
| School type | All-boys semi-private |
| Motto | Tria Juncta in Uno ("Three joined in one") |
| Established | 1856 |
| Founder | John Paterson |
| Sister school | Collegiate Girls' High School |
| School district | District 9 |
| Rector | Chris Erasmus (2018-present) |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 14 to 18 |
| Number of students | 1100 boys |
| Language | English |
| Schedule | 07:30 - 14:00 |
| Campus | Urban Campus |
| Campus type | Suburban |
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| Student Union/Association | Grey Union |
| Colour(s) | Blue and white |
| Mascot | Greyhound |
| Nickname | The Grey |
| Rivals | |
| Accreditation | Eastern Cape Department Education |
| Newspaper | Grey Matter |
| Yearbook | The Grey |
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| Website | www.greyhighschool.com |
Grey High School is a semi-private English speaking high school (grades 8 - 12) for boys situated in the suburb of Mill Park in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is one of the top sporting schools in the country, with consistently strong academics, and is one of the oldest schools in South Africa.[1]
History
The school was founded by John Paterson, who also founded Standard Bank and The Herald newspaper, and named after Sir George Grey, Governor of Cape Colony for the period 5 December 1854 – 15 August 1861, who awarded the land and provided funding for the original Grey Institute adjacent to the Donkin Reserve in Central, Port Elizabeth. The school officially opened its doors in 1859.[2]
Sir George Grey, during his times as governor in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand is also affiliated with the establishment of other educational institutions such as Grey College in Bloemfontein, Auckland Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand, and Whanganui Collegiate School, in Whanganui, New Zealand.
Traditions
Quad Races: Inspired by the film Chariots of Fire, which deals with the rivalry between two famous Olympic athletes, Grey High School had both the cloisters and the necessary clock tower to perform this, and thus created its own version of a "Quad Race", held annually.
Matric students (final-year students) participate in time trials and the two most athletic qualifiers are chosen to compete in the race. They then toss for position, the winner usually choosing the inside lane. They wait for the four quarters to strike on the clock tower before they are set off by the Rector on the first strike of the chimes. They begin the race directly in front of the war memorial and they run in an anti-clockwise direction. They race against each other as well as against the ten chimes which take approximately 20 seconds to ring. The record stands to the name of past staff member, Greg Miller, with a time of 19.8 seconds. He is one of very few who have beaten the clock.[3]
Robert Selley Memorial Concert: The Selley Concerts were inaugurated in 1986 in conjunction with the Founder's Day celebrations. The Selley Concerts recognises the contributions Robert Selley made to the school's music department. The event is hosted annually in the Feathermarket Centre, on the second Wednesday evening in May.[4]
The concert typically comprises The Grey Junior School Concert Band, and from the high school, The Grey Voices (choir) The Grey String Orchestra and The Grey Orchestra. A Jazz Band of senior high school musicians also regularly performs. The Old Grey Band is included in the program every second year, and consists of Old Greys of any age with musical experience who wish to be part of the show.[5]
Trooping the Colour: Ceremony performed by senior members of the Cadet Detachment, mostly matrics. First performed in 1938, this includes cadets from grade 10 to 12 parading to a marching band with local South African military officials in attendance.
Reunion Week: The old boys' union arranges a series of events and functions in the second week of May annually. This is particurly well attended by Old Greys and the events include a golf day, reunion dinner, Selley memorial concert, Trooping the Colour, Old Grey Club nights, and a weekend sports derby against a traditional rival school.
Sports
The school offers a number of major sports including rugby, hockey, athletics, cricket, rowing, swimming, water polo, tennis, squash, air-rifle shooting, golf, basketball, mountain biking and cross-country with several provincial and national representatives at age-group level over the years, and many provincial and national representatives at senior levels of international competition.
Grey High School has a long history of producing cricketers of international standard and rivals King Edward School in Johannesburg, and Bishops College, for 2nd place after Durban High School for the most South African representatives at senior level, and has produced the most South African Schools cricketers of any school.
The main cricket oval in the front of the school is named the Pollock Oval for alumni Graeme Pollock, voted South Africa's Cricketer of the 20th Century.[6]
During the annual reunion week in May 2022, the main rugby field at the back of the school was renamed from the Philip Field (after the patron who funded the establishing of the field) to the Kolisi Field for alumni Siya Kolisi, Captain of the Springboks during their victorious 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign.[7][8]
In 2020, SA School Sports magazine named Grey High School as the "Top Boys Sports Schools of the Decade" taking into account performances from across the sport codes of rugby, cricket, water polo and hockey.[4] Greg Miller holds the distinction of being one of 11 boys in South African history to obtain South African Schools colours for both cricket and rugby.
Grey High School has long-standing annual derby days for both summer and winter sports with traditional rivals such as Dale College, Queens College, Grey College, Muir College, St Andrews College, and Selborne College that stretch back to at least the 1960s, and have more recently establish annual derbies with Paul Roos Gymnasium and Wynberg Boys' High.
The Grey Rugby Festival is hosted annually by the school and includes under 19 and age-group teams from various schools from around South Africa.
The Hibbert Shield hockey tournament has recently been established and hosts schools from all areas of South Africa. This shield was named for a family of alumi of the school who have been extensively involved in hockey for several decades as staff, coaches and national representatives in the sport.
Grey is the only school in Port Elizabeth to offer sweep-oar rowing as a sport.[9] This sees the rowing crews travel to East London, Knysna, Port Alfred and Pretoria to compete in regattas with other rowing schools including St Andrews College and Selborne College and a number of schools from Johannesburg and Cape Town with the culmination of the season being the South African Schools Championships in Pretoria.[9] In 2014, two U16 boys were selected to represent South African Schools Rowing in Belgium and returned with gold and silver medals.[9]
Notable alumni
Sports
Cricket
- Graeme Pollock, former South African cricketer
- Peter Pollock, former South African cricketer
- David Callaghan, South African cricketer
- Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer, Warriors cricket player and South African U19 Cricket Captain
- Johan Botha, South African cricketer
- Atholl Henry McKinnon, South African cricketer[10]
- David Nosworthy, South African cricketer and coach of the Nashua Titans, Highveld Lions and Canterbury Wizards
- Pieter Strydom, South African cricketer
- Rusty Theron, South African and USA international cricketer
- Ian Howell, International cricket umpire
- Lutho Sipamla, South African cricketer
- Tristan Stubbs, South African cricketer
- Matthew Breetzke, South African cricketer
- Robert Dower, South African cricketer
- Dante Parkin, South African cricketer
- Billy Brann, South African cricketer
- Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer
- Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer
- Ron Draper, South African cricketer
- Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer
Rugby
- Siya Kolisi, DHL Stormers and Springbok rugby captain[11][12]
- Jeremy Ward, South Africa Under-20 and Sharks rugby player
- Tim Whitehead, former Natal Sharks, Western Province, and Eastern Province Kings rugby player
- Curwin Bosch, Springbok, South Africa Under-20 and Sharks rugby player
- Luke Watson, Springbok rugby player, former Western Province, Stormers and Eastern Province Kings captain
- Mike Catt, England rugby player
- Roy Dryburgh, Springbok rugby player and captain
- JJ Engelbrecht, Vodacom Blue Bulls and Springbok rugby player[13]
- Jan Serfontein, Bulls and Springbok rugby player
- Steven Hunt, South African Rugby 7s player
- Sergeal Petersen, South Africa Under-20 and Free State Cheetahs rugby player
- Junior Pokomela, South Africa Under-20 and Free State Cheetahs rugby player
- Rory Duncan, former Free State Cheetahs rugby player and captain, former Currie Cup head coach, and coach of DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka in Japan
- Michael van Vuuren, Bath Rugby, Leicester Tigers and former South Africa Under-20 rugby player
- Keanu Vers, South African schools national rugby team, South Africa under-20 and Eastern Province Kings player
- Alan Solomons, former Springbok assistant coach to Nick Mallett, head coach at various teams in South Africa and the UK most notably, The Stormers, Ulster, The Barbarians, Edinburgh, and current Director of Rugby at Worcester Warriors.
Hockey
- Wayne Graham, South Africa hockey player, 1996 Olympic games[14]
- Kevin Chree, South Africa hockey player, 1996 Olympic games[14]
- Chris Hibbert, South Africa hockey player, 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Clyde Abrahams, South Africa hockey player, 2008 Summer Olympics
- Dr Ian Symons, South Africa hockey player, 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Lindsay Reid-Ross, South Africa hockey player
- Russell Fensham, South Africa hockey player
- Wayne Fensham, South Africa hockey player
- Paul Blake, South Africa hockey player, 2008 Summer Olympics
Tennis
- Cliff Drysdale, 1972 US Open Tennis doubles champion as well as a number of other singles and doubles championships; represented South Africa in the Davis Cup
Swimming
- Kevin Paul gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Paralympics for men's 100m breaststroke SB9, breaking the world record at 17 years of age
- Peter Williams South African former Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimmer who set a world record in the 50-metre freestyle
- Christopher Reid, South African swimmer, 2016 Summer Olympics
Water Polo
- Jason Evezard, South Africa Water Polo, 2020 Summer Olympics
Military
- Rear Admiral (JG) Derek Christian, Commandant of the South African Military Academy
- Rear Admiral Robert Higgs, Flag Officer Fleet, South African Navy[15]
Politics
- David Maynier, South African parliamentarian, shadow minister of defence
Science
- Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons, leading herpetologist and Director of the Transvaal Museum
Arts and Culture
- Barry Smith, Organist Emeritus, St George's Cathedral, Cape Town; former associate professor, Faculty of Music, UCT
- David Fanning, executive producer of the multiple award-winning Frontline, the longest running documentary investigative show in the United States
- Eric Lloyd Williams, journalist and war correspondent
In the media
- The school was featured in the second episode of the Australian Seven Network's version of the TV show The World's Strictest Parents.[16]
- The Grey Cycle Tour 2008 was a cycle around the country of South Africa completed by seven students from Grey High School. All the funds raised went to the Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa (CHOC). The idea of the Grey Cycle Tour was to include young people in the fight against cancer. The total distance traveled was 2300 km. In total, R580,000 was raised.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Top national accolade for Grey High". HeraldLIVE. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ "History of The Grey". Grey High School. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ Administrator. "Ethos and Traditions". Grey High School. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ a b Young, John. The Spirit of the Tower. Grey High School and Grey Junior School, 2006, p. 208.
- ^ "Grey High School - Robert Selley Memorial Concert". Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ Chesterfield, Trevor (19 September 2007). "Pollock named South Africa's Player of the Century". Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ Tshwaku, Khanyiso. "Grey PE greenlights plans to name main rugby field after acclaimed alumnus Siya Kolisi". Sport. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ on, Published (6 May 2022). "Hallowed turf renamed after Kolisi". SA Rugby magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ a b c Administrator. "Rowing". Grey High School. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ Markman, Ivor. "St George's Park - Atholl Henry McKinnon". St George's Park History. Darryn van der Walt. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "Siya Kolisi's Springbok Debut". MyPE. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ writer, David Walsh, Chief sports. "South Africa captain Siya Kolisi at heart of team's transformation". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "JJ Engelbrecht". Who's Who SA. Archived from the original on 25 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Hockey". Grey High School. 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ defenceWeb
- ^ "The World's Strictest Parents". Seven Network. July 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.