Red Cricket: Gauteng Cricket Awards 2017

King Edward VII School was proudly represented & awarded at the annual GCB Awards. The following Old Boys and current players received awards:

U19 Boys Player of the Year- Mitchell Van Buuren (Class of 2016)

U15 Player of the Year- Heinrigh Pieterse

Gunn and Moore Old Edwardians Club- Fair Award & President’s League Award (many an Old Boy and current King Edward cricketers represent the Old Ed’s XI teams)

Well done to all, we congratulate you on your achievements and accolades and wish you continued successes into the future.

Go School.

Red Cricket: CSA 2017 Awards held on Friday, 12 May.

Congrats to King Edward VII School  Old Boy Grant Thomson who was the proud recipient of one of the top awards at the CSA ceremony.

Grant was awarded trophy for the CSA Provincial One-Day Cricketer of the Year!

Red talent! KES congratulates Grant on this deserving accolade and award. 

Go School.

King Edward VII School Old Boy and South African visual artist, William Kentridge, has won Spain’s most prestigious art prize, the Princess of Asturias award.

The 62-year-old multidisciplinary artist has a led a life of reinvention.

After studying politics and African studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Kentridge studied fine arts at the Johannesburg Art Foundation.

Kentridge is one of the world’s most celebrated artists, best known for his animated drawings in black charcoal and ink.

His works have been exhibited at places such as the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louvre in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.

Click on given link to read more on this award: (courtesy news 24)
Spain Honours William Kentridge

Congratulations to our Old Boy on this outstanding achievement in the Arts and for the motivation to all our buddying artists and talented artists at King Edward.

Go School.

The 8th of March 2017 marked the official opening of the King Edward VII School hockey astro floodlights opened by trustee and benefactor, Mr James Teeger (Class of 1985) and Headmaster Mr David Lovatt.

In his welcoming of of the guests, Mr Lovatt noted ‘that 2017 was an important year for hockey at King Edward, as new and further projects will take place’. Exciting times indeed for our many hockey supporters and followers.

In attendance were invited guests including Old Boys, School Executives, hockey players and supporters. The lights were turned on as the sun went down which allowed for the KES 1st XI team to play against and show their skills vs an experienced OBA XI. It was the Red Sticks youngsters who took home  a final 4-2 win over the Old Boys’ XI. The game was played in true King Edward ‘spirit’ and enjoyed by the players and invited guests. 

The traditional School war-cry by the OBA and the School boys ended the formal proceedings of the evening and refreshments and eats served at Teddy Bears allowed for more fellowship of Team Red.

The addition of the floodlights to the King Edward VII School astro maximises the value of an investment in a synthetic turf pitch because of the longer periods of use for evening training and/or matches. ‘Friday Nights Hockey under Lights’ is sure to become a firm, favourite fixture at the School as teams from KES, K.E.P.S and the Old Edwardian Society will make use of this state-of-the-art facility.

Funding of the new astro lights was subsidised by K.E.P.S, King Edward Association and Old Boy James Teeger who championed this facility upgrade.

The Tradition of Sporting Excellence continues.

Go School.

Congratulations to King Edward VII School Old Boys, Mitchell van Buuren & Mohammed Mayet (Class of 2016) on their selection to the SA U19 XI Squad.
Both Mitchell and Mohammed were members of the KES 1st XI during 2016 and Mitch was the Red Caps outgoing Captain.

The announcement was made last night, 8 January at the close of the Lions Cubs Week, that took place in Stellenbosch.

SA U19 XI SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT

Both Mitch and Moe had represented the Lions Cubs XI, making good runs and contributions to the Lions been crowned the winners of the Cubs Week.

STRENUE to our newest Old Boys- go show your class, skill and red determination lads.

Go School.