Big school sportsevent.

[georg ruf jr.]

Somehow some of us hated the way we had to learn to sing on the "Big sport event". Don't know what it was called. Athletics and swimming. Comning to Germany, it was something I missed. We had pt at school, but the rest was done private. No competition in school.
Does ops still have Oppenheimer (blue) Benato (green) Rhodes (red) ???

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

I loved our inter-house athletics days. I have never seen another school that goes to such lengths for inter-house. Remember how we all had to make rosettes in our house colours and wear them on sports days? We also used to call on individual teachers to take the stand when we were cheerleading. They gave a singing cup and a cheerleading cup to the best team too. We had to stay on the stands and keep our area clean.

[Michael Alexander]

As a kid I hated the idea that you were forced to go to those sporting events, I always thought, who the hell gave the company the right to force me to take my free saturday to attend a sporting event that I never liked....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I was in Blue House "Oppenheimer" I loved sport's day used scream my lungs out. Only I wasn't very sporty,used to run up to the high jump pole with great enthusiasm beliving I could do it ,then stop dead in front of the pole.As for running well I'm still coming in.Very sad really,   :pianto1:  as I so bady wanted to take part. Never the less I have found my forte in life  poledancing .



Terry Early was the big sportsman at the time won all the trophy's.How cool I thought he was then.If I'm not mistaken He was also in Oppenheimer,probably the only sportsman they ever had.
 

[georg ruf jr.]

As a kid I hated the idea that you were forced to go to those sporting events, I always thought, who the hell gave the company the right to force me to take my free saturday to attend a sporting event that I never liked....

hahaha.
I remember Mrs. Coffin wanting me to be a cheerleader. That was embarassing for a boy at 10 or 11. somehow I got away with an excuse. 

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

oh i loved the sports days ............
R for Rhodes we sing this song
H is how we go along
O for Openeihmer blue
D for danger that is true
E for excellece you see
S the songes we sing we glee
RHODES the best team on the field
and we will win the cup today ay ay ay .....
dont know if there the right words but there the ones ive had in my head for the last 40 odd years.

did they keep the trampolines in the school..think there was about 10 sunk into the ground..my fav lesson

[georg ruf jr.]

Bev.
Your a perfection. Remember the song well myself.

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

I also remember the school song in afrikaanse....but dont remember the english version....same with the national anthem.....i remember the afrikaanse,.............but through the years i may have changed a few words........when i went to see nicolene barrett in C/T last year we both rememberd words to a song in a show we were both in..none of us remember the show or anything about it other than we all had dolls tied onto our backs....i had a teddy bear cause i wasnt a doll lover....we were on our knee's singing.........mamas little baby loves shortnin shortnin  mams little baby loves shortnin bread.................................i though id made those words up inmy head over the years.....but we both sang the same.........does anyone else remember this......................or does this even makes sense to anyone ....got a real big hang over today thanks to my very good friend and hangover sharer.....sandy b.... sandy.xx

[Michael Alexander]

For some reason the song Onward Christian Soldiers was a hymn I remember singing in assembly, we had those little green hessian type hymn books....

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[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

For some reason the song Onward Christian Soldiers was a hymn

:emot26:

Thats right Mike, we also sang that in oh what a lovely war, but different lyrics.

We are Joe Soaps army

marching without fear

we can not fight we can not loose

what blinking use are we

and when we get to Berlin

the Kaiser he will say

hoch hoch mein Gott

what a bloody rotten lot

is the rag time infantery




 

[georg ruf jr.]

Must you remind us of assembly, Michael??? Remember Dr. Venter up on stage? This was like going to the army. The typical german "Marschmusik". Then the hymns.

[Michael Alexander]

Were'nt all the teachers on the stage? i don't remember, then he would march in from the back and everyone would have to stand!  I seemed to have blocked out quite a bit of the OPS memories!~

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[Michael Alexander]

I remember the school play, "The Wizard of Oz", the carpenters had to build a stage by the fishpond at OPS, a lights studio was built on the roof next to the school hall, that must have been the biggest play the school ever performed!

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

We did a school play called Christopher Robin. We were all toys that came out to play when he went to sleep. I was a ragdoll and can still remember the song started Raggedy Doll, Raggedy Doll, 1,2,3...... The Golliwogs were the best because they had black stockings on their heads with their faces on the back, it couldn't be seen from the audience and really confused them.

[Michael Alexander]

Golliwogs and Niggerballs are not legal in the EU i believe, hey Georg?