Eunice High School is a girls' boarding schools in Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.Bloemfontein is popularly and...

, South Africa

South Africa

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. The language of instruction is English

English language

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History

Originally named the Oranje Vrij Staat Dames Instituut, the school was founded in 1875 on the initiative of the Dutch Reformed Church

Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk

The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk is a Reformed Christian denomination in South Africa. It also has a presence in neighboring countries, such as Namibia, Swaziland, and parts of Botswana and Zimbabwe...

. The name Eunice is a biblical reference to the mother of Timothy in the New Testament

New Testament

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. It is a Greek

Greek language

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 word meaning “happy victory”. Eunice was founded in the Scottish education tradition

Education in Scotland

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. Its first headmistress

Head teacher

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 was summoned from Stirling

Stirling

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 to replicate Scottish

Scotland

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standards and values in Bloemfontein.