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On Saturday 15 January, the St David's Marist Inanda basketball 1st team went head-to-head against a team of our alumni in the annual Old Boys basketball game.

The annual inter-house swimming gala was held on the 14th of January, and The Bishops emerged victorious as the winners of the first inter-house competition of 2022.

Our first College assembly of 2022 saw the induction of this year's prefects as well as the official welcoming of the Grade 8s into the College with the ceremonial banging of the school drum.

The 2022 school year got off to a great start on Wednesday 12th January, with every boy - new or returning - arriving with great excitement at what this school year may bring.

The 2022 House and Portfolio Heads were announced in an assembly held on Friday 5 November. The new leaders are taking charge for 2022 as well as the new Marist tradition of the house and school drums. The assembly also provided the opportunity for the formal introduction of the Marist Gold rose, a rose registered through Ludwig's Roses by the PTA as part of our 80th birthday celebrations. 

On Wednesday, October 27th, a number of our Matrics made their final visit to the place where their Marist journey began, at Mini-Marist, in a tradition that has come to be known as the 'Survivor's Tea'. 

The annual Montagne Day Mass was held on Wednesday 27 October, to commemorate the life of Jean-Baptiste Montagne and honour his role in St Marcellin Champagnat's realisation of his life's calling to provide education and spiritual teaching to even the poorest of society. 

During the third term, the Grade 9s were given a Life Sciences project focusing on menstruation and period poverty called ‘Period poverty to period positivity’, which included the creation of a video or poster campaign aimed at normalising the conversation about mensuration, as well as running a sanitary product collection.