Flashback Friday: 2023 - matrics' last day

2023 matriculants had their last official day on Friday. They signed their pledge and rang the bell.

2024 NSC October/November examination timetable

Click on the picture itself.

Matrieks: Sterkte vir julle laaste eksamen

Hoër Tegniese Skool Welkom
In Welkom se hart, 'n bastion van leer,
Hoër Tegniese Skool, staan hoog en fier.
Waar kennis en vaardighede groei en bloei,
En jong geeste hul vlerke sprei en vlei.
In klaskamers en werkswinkels, 'n bedrywige bees,
Word toekomstige leiers en vakmanne gees.
Met hamer en beitel, soldeerbout en pen,
Word drome en ambisies hier bewaar en wen.
Van ingenieurs tot kunstenaars, 'n wye verskeidenheid,
Word hier opgelei, met passie en ywerheid.
'n Tuiste van innovasie en kreatiwiteit,
Waar elke leerder sy unieke potensiaal ontdek en verbreed.
Hoër Tegniese Skool Welkom, 'n bron van trots en vreugde,
Waar kennis en vaardighede vir die toekoms aangewend word.
'n Leërskare van geesdriftige jongmense,
Word hier voorberei om die wêreld te verower en te bemeester.

Sterkte, Tekkies!

Die matriekeindeksamen begin volgende week. 

Ons allerbeste wense aan al ons leerders. Doen net jou bes!

Matrics: Good luck for the NSC exams

Hoër Tegniese Skool Welkom
In Welkom se hart, 'n bastion van leer,
Hoër Tegniese Skool, staan hoog en fier.
A forge of minds, a crucible of skill,
Where dreams take flight and aspirations fulfill.
In workshops and classrooms, a buzzing hive,
Future leaders and craftsmen strive and thrive.
With hammer and chisel, soldering iron and pen,
Ambitions are nurtured, dreams are given wings to then.
From engineers to artists, a diverse array,
Are shaped and molded here, day by day.
A haven of innovation, a fount of creativity,
Where each learner discovers their unique capability.
Hoër Tegniese Skool Welkom, a source of pride and cheer,
Where knowledge and skills are honed year after year.
An army of eager, enthusiastic youth,
Are prepared here to conquer the world with truth.

Think about it ...

Make time to work – this is the price of success.
Make time to think - this is the source of power.
Make time to play – this is the secret of eternal youth.
Make time to read - it is the fountain of wisdom.
Make time to be kind - it is the way to happiness.
Make time to love and be able to receive love - this is the privilege of the redeemed.
Make time to laugh - it’s music to the soul.
Make time for God - this is the only sustainable investment.

Statistiek: 223 000 welkome e-besoeke

Tekkie Tonic het die 223 000-kerf bereik. 'n  Tekkie Tonic-dankie vir elkeen wat die blog so gereeld besoek. Stuur gerus idees en voorstelle in - ons luister graag. Dankie vir al die positiewe kommentaar wat sommer so padlangs gestuur word.

'n GROOT DANKIE aan elke medewerker wat só gereeld bydraes stuur. Julle sterk ons hande!

• Marguerite Pienaar
• Valerie Kilian
• Israel Xaba

You Live With A Teacher When ...

* During the school year, they have two moods: completely exhausted or super stressed.

* During assessment and reporting cycles, you find a lot of reasons to leave the house.

* They continuously refer to their class as “my kids,” but you don’t remember having thirty kids.

* Every time they leave the house in the morning, they take more bags with them than on a moving day.

* When their friends come over, they speak in a secret language using words like Behaviour Plan, IEP, Duty, Supervision, Success Criteria, and Anchor Charts.

* They complain about being unable to go to the washroom during the day - even though they really had to.

* They have not eaten lunch in years.

* Part of your monthly house budget goes to school supplies such as stickers, pens, paper, glue, and art supplies.

* They leave the house looking clean and proper and return covered in dust, chalk, whiteboard marker, pen ink or paint.

If the person you live with matches most of these descriptions, congratulations, you live with a teacher!

[Click HERE to enjoy more teacher humour]

Think about it ...

Try not to be so hard on yourself.Take a moment.
Marvel at your life:
at the grief that softened you,
at the heartache that wisened you,
at the suffering that strengthened you.
Despite everything,
you still grew.
Be proud of this.

Vir ons onderwysers ...

Die jaar lê in die pylvak van 2024. Die laaste matriekhekkie lê voor en daarna die lang wag. Vir die onderwysers wat só hard gewerk het die afgelope jaar hierdie spesiale gedagte:

Hulle wat ons kinders leer

en hul gedagtes met feite
en idees fatsoeneer
wat deel in hulle prestasies.

Hulle wat raad gee en
'n liefde vir kennis inspireer,
waar hul waarheid die pad verlig
waar die jonges nog moet leer.

Want die toekoms skitter blink met elke les
en elke glimlag wat hulle verleng.
Nooit doen hulle minder as hulle bes
met elke doel wat hulle help bereik.

Want die opkoms van menige digter,
koning of filosoof
het begin met 'n onderwyser
en die wysheid wat hulle bring

Tips for fourth term: How can I memorize faster before an exam?

* Try to understand the information first.

*  Information that is organized and makes sense to you is easier to memorize. 
* Link it. 
* Sleep on it. 
* Self-test. 
* Write it out. 
* Create meaningful groups.

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

Onderwyser: "Jannie, ek is bly om te sien jou handskrif het verbeter."

Jannie: "Dankie, Meneer."

Onderwyser: "Maar nou kan ek sien hoe sleg jy spel!"

ooOOoo

Onderwyser: "Wat lees jy?"

Charles: "Ek weet nie."

Onderwyser: "Maar jy lees kliphard?"

Charles: "Maar ek luister nie."

ooOOoo

Onderwyser: "Het jy jou huiswerk gedoen?"

André: "Nee, Juffrou."

Onderwyser: "Het jy 'n verskoning?"

André: "Ja, dis als my ma se skuld."

Onderwyser: "Het sy jou gekeer om dit te doen?"

André: "Nee, sy het nie genoeg geneul dat ek dit doen nie."

Bursaries 2025: Read, think, apply and share

* National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)

• Click HERE!!

* CYRIL RAMAPHOSA FOUNDATION

• Click HERE!

* General Bursaries South Africa 2025

• Click HERE!

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Give it a try!

 

6 countries that offer free or very cheap PhD programmes:

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May your day be filled with happiness, dear teacher

WHO IS YOUR TRUE FRIEND?

The lawyer hopes you get into trouble,
the doctor hopes you fall sick,
the police hopes you become a criminal,
the coffin maker wants you dead,
only the TEACHER wishes to educate you
and liberate you from the bondage of ignorance.
Please hug the next teacher by your side,
he/she is one of your true friends.

[Thank you, Sir, for sharing this with us.]

Flashback Friday: Reünie gehou

[Vista - Donderdag 28 Februarie 2008]

Die Hoër Tegniese Skool in Welkom vier vanjaar sy 50-jarige bestaan. 

Daar word nou goed gewoel en werskaf om hierdie jaar 'n jaar te maak wat elke oud-Tekkie sal onthou. Die reünienaweek begin reeds môre en duur tot Sondag wanneer die naweek se verrigtinge met 'n sangdiens afgesluit word.

Môre begin die registrasie van reüniegangers om 10:00 met koffie en tee wat in die personeelkamer bedien sal word. Registrasie sal op daardie dag weer van 17:00 voortgesit word. Die amptelike reüniegeleentheid begin om 19:00 in die skoolsaal.

'n Heerlike ete sal voorgesit word waarna tot laat saamgekuier sal word. Verskeie artikels sal deur die aand opgeveil word. 

Saterdag is daar 'n sportdag en rugbywedstryde begin reeds om 09:30 by die Piet Bosch rugbyvelde. Die verskillende jaargroepe reël hul eie gesellighede vir die aand.

Oud-Tekkies word versoek om die skoom met hul besonderhede te bel sodat hulle op die databasis geplaas kan word. Bel me. Hester Bothma by 057 352 3255 vir meer inligting.

[Klik op die koerantberig om duidelik te kan sien.] 

World Smile Day

World Smile Day is a heartwarming global celebration dedicated to spreading happiness and encouraging acts of kindness. 

This day reminds us of the simple yet powerful impact of a smile and the joy it can bring to ourselves and others.

The message of the World Smile Day is “Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.”

Think about it ...

1. Define your dream

2. Turn your dream into goals
3. Break your goals into steps
4. Take it one step at a time

Statistiek: 221 000 welkome e-besoeke

Tips for fourth term: How can I focus 100% on studying?

* Create a Study Space. 

* Make a Study Routine. 
* Set Yourself Goals.
* Minimise Distractions. 
* Sleep Helps You Learn. 
* Feed Your Brain.
* Exercise Regularly.

Welkom terug, Tekkies!

Welkom terug aan elke Tekkie en Tekkie-onderwyser! Ons sien uit na die laaste kwartaal van 2024.Sterkte met dié kwartaal! Matrieks, ons dink aan julle!

[Klik HIER om alles op ons nuwe FB te lees.]

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ...

Onderwyser: "Ek wens jy wou 'n klein bietjie aandag gee."

Juan: "Ek gee so min aandag as wat ek kan, Juffrou."

ooOOoo

Onderwyser: "So, jou hond het jou huiswerk geëet?"

Lukas: "Ja, Meneer."

Onderwyser: "En waar is jou hond nou?"

Lukas: "Hy is by die veearts. Hy hou net so min van wiskunde soos ek."

ooOOoo

'n Kind in ons klas het altyd gesê sy hond het sy huiswerk geëet en niemand het hom ooit geglo nie. Tot verlede week ...

Sy hond het graad gevang by Wits!

Baie geluk, Christelle!

Henry Welman, saam met
sy oudleerling, Christelle
van der Walt.

Op 19 September 2024 het Christelle van der Walt haar meestersgraad in kliniese neurofisiologie behaal.

Baie geluk, Christelle, dis voorwaar 'n besondere prestasie. 

Die titel van haar verhandeling is A work integrated learning content framework for Clinical Neurophysiology Technology in South African Universities of technology. 

Baie sterkte vir die volgende stap op jou akademiese pad, nl. 'n PhD en al die uitdagings wat daarmee gepaard gaan. Ons hou jou loopbaan met belangstelling dop!

Think about it ...

"When you fill your mind with throughts, your life will start to change."

"The life you want is on the other side of the things you haven't done yet." 

"No matter how slow you go, you’re still moving faster and farther than those standing still."

Statistiek: 220 000 welkome e-besoeke

Poem: Beauty - my queen

First time I saw you, I wouldn't believe my eyes

They laid on you, I couldn't move them

My whole body froze you are the one ...

My beauty, my queen!

I had never seen one like you

So beautiful, no one compares

A lady of my dreams, before my eyes

You, the one - my queen!

I rubbed my eyes with disbelief

Was it possible, an angel right here?

A heavenly rose on earth

The one - my queen!

Inside my dead heart, love blossomed

With a frozen body, my emotions ran high

And this, this was the end of celibacy

For you my queen, had arrived!

Like a diamond you shone

A well built lady, like no other

I had found someone to live for

For you my queen, had arrived

My lovely queen, had arrived!!

[Simon Seleteng: Universiteit van Pretoria, Taaibos-digbundel: Ontblotings Uitgawe 18 2003 p 37] 

More poems HERE  

HTS groet Kabelo Moroka

'n Graad 12-leerder, Kabelo Moroka, is Sondag, 15 September 2024 oorlede. HTS se vlae hang halfmas vir jou! Die kunstenaar in jou het Sondag net stil geword en nooit weer sal jy 'n potlood optel om jou gevoelens op papier uit te druk nie. Jy het jou tekentalent in graad 4 ontdek en dit het jou passie geword. Sonder kunsopleiding het jy die talent gehad om emosie en gevoel in jou werk te sit. Jy het ook gesê dat as jy teken jy vryheid ervaar wat andersins nie moontlik was nie. 

Vandag het jou maats en familie jou gegroet. Te vroeg ... te gou!

Rus in vrede!

 

Klik HIER om een van Kabelo se kunswerke te sien.

Dankie, Israel Xaba, vir die foto.

Think about it ...

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.

If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

Statistiek: 219 000 e-besoeke

Tips for third term: Ways to Improve Your Memory

1. Walk Before An Exam
It’s been proven that exercise can boost your memory and brain power. Research conducted by Dr. Chuck Hillman of the University of Illinois provides evidence that about 20 minutes exercise before an exam can improve performance.

2. Speak Out Loud Instead of Simply Reading
Although this may make you look a little crazy, give it a go! You will be surprised how much more you can remember when you’ve said it out loud. Warning: Don’t try this in a crowded library!

3. Reward Yourself With A Treat
There are many ways to integrate a reward system into your study habits.

4. Teach What You Have Learned
The best way to test if you really understand something is to try to teach it to someone else. If you can’t get anyone to listen to you explain the Pythagorean Theorem, why not teach a class of stuffed animals!

5. Create Mental Associations
The ability to make connections is not only an easier way to remember information, but it’s the fuel of creativity and intelligence. Steve Jobs famously said “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.”  Mind Maps are an easy way to connect ideas by creating a visual overview of different connections.

6. Draw Diagrams
Drawing diagrams will help you to visualise information which would be hard to describe. This creates a visual memory in your mind which can be recalled in an exam. You may even be asked to draw or label diagrams such as the human heart in your exam so get practicing!

7. Watch a Documentary on the Topic
Documentaries are an entertaining way of compacting an entire story into a short timeframe. This will help you remember key details from a story plus you may even get extra credit for mentioning that you took the initiative and watched a film about the topic!

LOL: Blou Maandag-humor ... Eksamen-blapse

Verduidelik die rugstring.
Die rugstring is 'n klomp klein beentjies agter teen jou rug op en hulle keer dat 'n mens se bene tot by jou nek is.

Wie was kwaad toe die verlore seun teruggekeer het?
Die vetgemaakte kalf.

Waarom moet die president 'n kabinet hê?
Om sy medaljes in te bêre.

Wilhelm Tell het 'n pyl deur 'n appel geskiet terwyl hy bo-op sy sy seun se kop gestaan het.

Polonius was 'n soort van 'n mitologiese wors.

Alexander het Troje binnegeval vermom as 'n houtperd.

'n Kabinetslid mag nie 'n inwoner wees van die omgewing waarin hy woon nie

Etiket is klein goedjies wat 'n mens nie graag wil doen nie.

Skryf alles wat jy weet van Nero.
Hoe minder 'n mens van Nero skryf, hoe beter.

A Big Thank You to Our Local Traffic Officer!

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Worthy

The reflection of my beauty is defined by how I look at myself, would anyone say I speak of a mirror that hang motion less on the wall or the one that stands on the floor?

As the world orbits on its axis, the mirror sees me different as days are never the same. For it is true that some days my beauty is not present, but present is I, who stand infront of a mirror.

What is it they'll see as I take a step outside my doorstep? Will they see what I've seen in the mirror? Will my confidence boost or hinder by the first compliment or critics?

Is it well that I now read encomium, for it never fails to deliver me a message my mirror fails to tell me?

Loving myself has become difficult for I myself can't say 'I do'. Here I stood facing the reflecting glass motionless with only me moving inside 💠, with no sound. Evident that I'm empty, sad😢 and broken 💔. For my beauty is never of how the world would like it to be, and I myself lived envied and mean, for I wasn't seen worthy.

Perhaps it's true that it all begins with oneself. I couldn't see my own beauty, yet I still expected the world to.

Flashback Friday: 2011 - Senior burgers by HTS se melodramavertoning