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• Vacancies

  The following vacancies are available at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School: THE DRAKENSBERG BOYS CHOIR SCHOOL INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF HEAD The Head is responsible for the effective management and leadership of a...

• TAKE A BOW, GRADE 8 - WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!

  Bronwyn Bentley, stalwart of the school and recruitment expert, reflects on her time with the Grade 8’s during Outward Bound  : Two weeks prior to Outward Bound, I was asked if I was still passionate about “Drakies”, after my experience with D...

• OUR FINAL ADVENTURE - 2011 GRADE 9 BID FAREWELL TO THE MOUNTAINS

  Their quest was the summit of Champagne Castle - their emotions were a mixture of excitement and nostalgia - their companions were Mr Mellema, Mr Staegemann and five brave Dads. Comments from the 2011 Grade 9 boys : ‘’Friday morning everyone was e...

• ‘’CHRISTMAS IN THE BERG’’ BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

  Bookings for our annual ‘’Christmas in the Berg’’ opened on Monday 31 October.  Be warned : the special line-up offered this year means that we are expecting full houses for most shows and that we strongly advise you to BOOK EARLY to av...

• A Dolphin Extravaganza

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• HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE AN EYE-OPENER FOR GRADE NINE

  Geoff Thompson reports:After studying the moving novel ‘’The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’’ it was essential that the Grade Nine class visited the Durban Holocaust Centre. This week’s visit was both heart-warming and tragic, in the sense that the ...

• Social Science visit

  Judy Wellbeloved reports:We were fortunate to have Frik Lemmer Visit our Grade 7’s on Friday and Saturday during their Social Science lessons. Mrs Lemmer is in the process of discussing earthquakes and related earth movements.  She was fortunate en...

• POMP AND CEREMONY USHERS IN OUR MUSIC COMPETITION

  Geoff Thompson reports:One of the school’s annual highlights is the DBCS Internal Music Competition which takes place over the next few weeks. Previous winners of this exciting event are Clint van der Linde, Nicolai Nicolaidis and the Bala Brothers, amo...

• Winter Wonderland at DBCS

  Geoff Thompson Reports:What a sight!  The boys woke up to something seldom seen from the grounds of our school, on Tuesday morning. The whole of Cathkin Peak, Sterkhorn and Champagne Castle was covered in a blanket of deep snow, down to the foothills...

• Cooking up a storm at Drakies

  An exciting new addition to the school’s extra-mural activities is the new Cooking Club, where a group of Boys are put through their culinary paces, by DBCS caterer Ady Small. The group meets once a week and the innovation has proved enormously successf...

• Die Huisgenoot - Tempo Awards

  The Drakensberg Boys Choir’s Hallelujah has been nominated in the Category Gospel which makes up Die Huisgenoot’s – Tempo Awards. Anyone and everyone can vote for us as follows:1. SMS the letters TEM4 A at 32113 – the costs of the sms is R1. 2. F...

• USA Diary, 27 & 28 May

  Written by Mrs Judy Wellbeloved It's time to send you all and update of all the exciting happenings far, far away on the other side of the world - we are having an awesome (a well used word over here) awesome time. Thursday dawned bright, sunny and fresh...

• USA Tour Diary #1

  Written by Mrs Judy Wellbeloved The adventure began at the crack of dawn on Monday morning when 40 excited boys and 7 just as excited staff were waved off in true traditional Drakie style. The bus trip up to Johannesburg was filled with fun and laught...

• Music in the Mountains bookings

  Please note that telephonic & electronic bookings for the Music in the Mountains festival close on Wednesday evening, from Thursday 28 April - only walk-in bookings will be accepted....

• OUR TOUR TO BOTSWANA AND NAMIBIA

  Charmaine Black reports....... Geoff Thompson phoned me this morning to put together a short paragraph on our tour....how do you ‘’short paragraph’’ two weeks worth of travelling - 5000km in 14 days....that’s a lot you know ! Well, here goes.....

• Local Choir Festival

  On Thursday night, 14 April, DBCS invited three choirs from the local area to an evening of social interaction and song. After Winterton Primary, Bergville Primary and Ladysmith High School had arrived, a short combined choir practice took place, befor...

• Namibia Tour & Bergschool

  For the latest news & information regarding Bergschool and the international tour to Namibia, please visit our Facebook page. The link to our Facebook page can be found on the side bar....

• Library News

  Clearing out the Old for the NewWe were very fortunate to have Jason from 'Books 2 you' visit us on Friday 18 February. We were also very fortunate to be able to spend some of our generous Library budget – R7 000.00 on some wonderful new books for our L...

• New Boys 2011 First Song

  The new boy song of 2011 (We are the young), as performed during their first Wednesday concert on 16 February 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38fYjULa-A...

• The Midmar Mile

  From a boy's perspective:The idea is to swim a mile - 1,6km -from one bank of the dam to the other. The swimmers are divided up by age and gender, herded into pens and then released every few minutes to avoid congestion. Swimmers are also supplied with an...