About 30 pupils and an equal number of helpers gathered at the school yesterday for a marathon session of cheese roll-making to raise money for the pupils' sports trip next year.
Acting deputy rector Darin Smith said about 36,000 cheese rolls had been made.
It was the latest enterprise in a fundraising effort which began
in June last year.
The money would go towards a squad of 27 rugby players, four golfers and staff and parent helpers travelling to the republic next April.
The group would spend two weeks in South Africa.
''The boys are playing five games of rugby and the golfers will get the same opportunity as well,'' Mr Smith said.
The group would spend time in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, and meet former players and visit Newlands Stadium.
''It is the opportunity of a lifetime,'' he said.
However, the trip was about more than sport. The group would also visit Robben Island where former South African president Nelson Mandela spent almost two decades behind bars during the country's infamous apartheid era.
They would also go on a safari.
''It's the travel experience of going and enjoying another culture. A really good opportunity for the boys to step outside the norm.''
The trip would cost about $7000 per pupil.
''This [cheese roll-making] essentially puts one and a-half bodies on the plane,'' Mr Smith said.
''The community has been really good supporting it. The big thing is the boys being part of it.
''At the end of the tunnel, when we are getting on the plane, the boys can say 'all those cheese rolls were worth it'. And that's the real value.''
