Independent Schools at Bishops
Bishops – the Diocesan College – is in the suburb of Rondebosch, about eight kilometres from the centre of Cape Town.
Twenty teams are taking part, two of which are from Eton College near Windsor Castle, an all-boys, all-boarding school founded by King Henry VI in 1440. The school is famous for two of its very own games, the Wall Game and the Field Game and played more soccer than rugby till fairly recently. Rowing has always been strong at Eton. In 2007 Eton also toured South Africa.
The other schools are all South African.
The festival is biennial, the last one being at Michaelhouse in 2014.
Bishops will host the teams and the matches will be on Bishops fields – the Piley Rees Field which is the main rugby field and named for a famous schoolmaster and rugby coach, the Avenue, which is parallel to the driveway into the school and the Range which is the field nearest the buildings and at right angles to the Avenue. The Range is so called as the shooting range was next to it in bygone days.
The schools taking part are Clifton (Durban), Michaelhouse (Balgowan in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands), Hilton (outside Pietermaritzburg), St Charles (Pietermaritzburg), Kearsney (Botha's Hill outside Durban, Kingswood (Grahamstown, St Andrew's College (Grahamstown, St Andrew's School (Bloemfontein), Christian Brothers' College (CBC)(Boksburg), St Stithians (Johannesburg), St David's (Johannesburg), St Alban's (Pretoria), Uplands College (White River), Penryn College (Nelspruit), Somerset College (Somerset West) and Bishops, Reddam and Excelsior of Cape Town.
Fixtures
Day 1, Saturday 2 July 2016
Piley Rees
11.30: Clifton vs Reddam
13.30: Michaelhouse vs Kingswood
14.45: St Stithians vs Hilton
16.00: Bishops vs Eton 1st XV
Avenue
10.15: CBC Boksburg vs Excelsior
11.30: St Charles vs Uplands
13.30: Kearsney vs St Alban's
Range
09.00: Penryn vs St Andrew’s School
10.15: St Andrew’s College vs St David's
11.30: Eton 2nd XV vs Somerset College
Day 2, Monday 4 July 2016
Piley Rees
11.30: St Andrew’s School vs St Andrew’s College
13.30: Penryn vs Kingswood
14.45: Michaelhouse vs St Alban's
16.00: Bishops vs Hilton
Avenue
09.00: Eton 2nd XV vs Excelsior
10.15: Uplands vs Reddam
11.30: Eton 1st XV vs Kearsney
13.30: St Stithians vs Clifton
Range
09.00: CBC Boksburg vs St Charles
10.15: Somerset College vs St David's
Day 3, Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Piley Rees
09.00: CBC Boksburg vs St Andrew’s School
10.15: Michaelhouse vs Penryn
11.30: St David's vs Kearsney
13.00: Bishops vs Kingswood
Avenue
09.00: St Stithians vs Reddam
10.15: Clifton vs Uplands
11.30: Hilton vs St Andrew’s College
Range
09.00: St Alban's vs Excelsior
10.15: St Charles vs Somerset College
