South African College Schools
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The South African College Schools, commonly referred to as SACS, is a primary and secondary education institution located in Newlands, Cape Town
, South Africa
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
took over control of the Cape Colony
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
facilities, a new library
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
and Kearsney College
.
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
's Carmina Burana
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
and Border
conflicts.
The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
†Two options
§Not colours awards
, South Africa
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
took over control of the Cape Colony
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
facilities, a new library
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
and Kearsney College
.
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
's Carmina Burana
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
and Border
conflicts.
The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
†Two options
§Not colours awards
, South Africa
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
took over control of the Cape Colony
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
facilities, a new library
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
and Kearsney College
.
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
's Carmina Burana
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
and Border
conflicts.
The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
†Two options
§Not colours awards
died in 1902, he specifically named the South African College in his will as one of four schools in the Cape Colony
where the Rhodes Scholarship
would be awarded on an annual basis for a former student to study at the University of Oxford
.
Newlands, Cape Town
Newlands is an upmarket suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.It is located at the foot of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, and is the wettest suburb in South Africa due to its high winter rainfall...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
History
The concept of the South African CollegeSouth African College
The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools .-History:...
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Netherlands
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Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
Jacob Abraham de Mist
Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist was a Dutch statesman. He was Head of State of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic from 17 April 1797 - 1 May 1797 and Commissioner-General of the Cape Colony during the interregnum from 21 February 1803 - 25 September 1804 in accordance with the...
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
took over control of the Cape Colony
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Lord Charles Somerset
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa, from 1814 to 1826.-Background:...
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
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...
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
Max Michaelis
Sir Maximilian Michaelis was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts....
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
School buildings
The current school buildings are situated along Dean Street and Newlands Avenue in Cape Town.The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
Tennis
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courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
facilities, a new library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
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| Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...  |
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| Rugby Rugby football Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...  |
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| Athletics Athletics (track and field) Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...  |
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| Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball... |
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| Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...  |
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| Water polo Water polo Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...  |
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| Fencing Fencing Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...  |
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...  |
| Judo Judo is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...  |
Rowing Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...  |
| Rock climbing Rock climbing Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling... |
Shooting Shooting sports A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...  |
| Table Tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...  |
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....  |
Sporting activities
The students in both Junior and High Schools are divided into four houses, different in both divisions of the school. In both instances there are annual inter-house sporting events, as well as cultural activities. The events range from cross country and lacrosse to cricket and rugby.The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
Diocesan College
The Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is more commonly known, is an independent, all-boys school situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa...
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' School
Rondebosch Boys' School may refer to:* Rondebosch Boys' High School* Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School...
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
Durban High School
Durban High School is an all boys public school in Durban, South Africa.- History :DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore...
and Kearsney College
Kearsney College
Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.- History :...
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| Junior School | High School |
| Art Club | Choir Madrigal Ensemble Junior and Senior Choirs |
| Chess | |
| Cubs | Band Jazz and Concert |
| Drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a... |
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| Enviro Club | Computer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
| General Knowledge | Photography Photography Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film... |
| Climbing | First Aid First aid First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care... |
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| History Society Committee | |
| Music Society Committee | |
| School Magazine Magazine Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three... |
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| Debate Debate Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion... |
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Cultural activities
Both the Junior and High Schools have active Music Departments. The High School choirChoir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School is a state secondary school in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1897 and is known by the acronym "RBHS".-Academics:...
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
Carl Orff
Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...
's Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana (Orff)
Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana...
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
Barry Smith (organist)
Barry Smith is a South African organist, choral and orchestral conductor, author, and musicologist.-Early life and education:Born in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Smith was a choirboy at St Mary's Collegiate Church. In 1956, Smith was awarded a scholarship to Rhodes...
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
Fame (musical)
A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
and Border
South African Border War
The South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, was a conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's...
conflicts.
Uniform
The traditional school colour of navy blue was determined in the 1880s when SACS pupils purchased the only pattern available of alternating white, light- and dark-blue horizontal stripes from Porter Hodgson's Outfitters in Cape Town. Prior to this, the pupils wore what they could afford while still being presentable.High school
The current uniform of the High School has been in place since the 1930s. Pupils from Grades 10 - 12 who excel is Academics, Cultural Acitivites or Sports may be awarded School Colours.| Summer | Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Boater Boater Boater may refer to:*Boater, a type of hat*Boater, one of the first disposable diapers*Someone involved in boating... |
Standard | |
| Blazer Blazer A blazer is a type of jacket. The term blazer occasionally is synonymous with boating jacket and sports jacket, two different garments. A blazer resembles a suit coat cut more casually — sometimes with flap-less patch pockets and metal buttons. A blazer's cloth is usually durable , because it is an... |
Navy blue/Light blue (colours awards) | |
| Tie | See below | |
| Shirt | White short sleeve | White long sleeve |
| Trousers | Khaki Khaki This article is about the fabric. For the color, see Khaki . Kaki, another name for the persimmon, is often misspelled "Khaki".Khaki is a type of fabric or the color of such fabric... shorts |
Charcoal long |
| Socks | Brown knee high | Black standard |
| Shoes | Light brown | Black |
School Colours Awards
The awards are conferred upon pupils by the Headmaster at the end of every school term at the end-of-term assembly (depending on award type).The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
| Type | Additional attire |
|---|---|
| Scroll | Scroll to be sewn Sewing Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era... or ironed Iron (appliance) A clothes iron, also referred to as simply an iron, is a small appliance used in ironing to remove wrinkles from fabric.Ironing works by loosening the ties between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials. With the heat and the weight of the ironing plate, the fibers are... -on below the school badge pocket |
| Half Blues | New Navy blue blazer pocket with half laurel Laurel wreath A laurel wreath is a circular wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel , an aromatic broadleaf evergreen. In Greek mythology, Apollo is represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head... in silver Silver Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal... thread around the school badge |
| Full Blues† | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge |
| New light blue blazer with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge | |
| Prefect§ | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver metal Metal A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light... lic thread around the school badge |
| New Prefect tie |
†Two options
§Not colours awards
Tie patterns
The South African College Schools, commonly referred to as SACS, is a primary and secondary education institution located in Newlands, Cape TownNewlands, Cape Town
Newlands is an upmarket suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.It is located at the foot of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, and is the wettest suburb in South Africa due to its high winter rainfall...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
History
The concept of the South African CollegeSouth African College
The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools .-History:...
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
Jacob Abraham de Mist
Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist was a Dutch statesman. He was Head of State of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic from 17 April 1797 - 1 May 1797 and Commissioner-General of the Cape Colony during the interregnum from 21 February 1803 - 25 September 1804 in accordance with the...
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
took over control of the Cape Colony
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Lord Charles Somerset
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa, from 1814 to 1826.-Background:...
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
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...
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
Max Michaelis
Sir Maximilian Michaelis was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts....
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
School buildings
The current school buildings are situated along Dean Street and Newlands Avenue in Cape Town.The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
facilities, a new library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
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| Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the... |
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| Rugby Rugby football Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:... |
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| Athletics Athletics (track and field) Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking... |
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| Cross-country | |
| Hockey (field) Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks... |
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| Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball... |
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| Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... |
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| Water polo Water polo Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a... |
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| Fencing Fencing Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games... |
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... |
| Judo Judo is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an... |
Rowing Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water... |
| Rock climbing Rock climbing Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling... |
Shooting Shooting sports A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event... |
| Table Tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net... |
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... |
Sporting activities
The students in both Junior and High Schools are divided into four houses, different in both divisions of the school. In both instances there are annual inter-house sporting events, as well as cultural activities. The events range from cross country and lacrosse to cricket and rugby.The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
Diocesan College
The Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is more commonly known, is an independent, all-boys school situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa...
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' School
Rondebosch Boys' School may refer to:* Rondebosch Boys' High School* Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School...
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
Durban High School
Durban High School is an all boys public school in Durban, South Africa.- History :DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore...
and Kearsney College
Kearsney College
Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.- History :...
.
| Extramural Activities | |
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| Junior School | High School |
| Art Club | Choir Madrigal Ensemble Junior and Senior Choirs |
| Chess | |
| Cubs | Band Jazz and Concert |
| Drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a... |
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| Enviro Club | Computer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
| General Knowledge | Photography Photography Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film... |
| Climbing | First Aid First aid First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care... |
| Social Committee | |
| History Society Committee | |
| Music Society Committee | |
| School Magazine Magazine Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three... |
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| SACSnews | |
| Multimedia Society | |
| Interact | |
| Debate Debate Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion... |
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| Christian Union Christian Union (students) Christian Unions are evangelical Christian student groups. They exist in many countries and are often affiliated with either International Fellowship of Evangelical Students or Campus Crusade for Christ. Many Christian Unions are one of the societies affiliated to their universities' students'... |
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| Muslim Muslim A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable... Students Association |
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| Wine Wine Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast... Club |
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Cultural activities
Both the Junior and High Schools have active Music Departments. The High School choirChoir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School is a state secondary school in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1897 and is known by the acronym "RBHS".-Academics:...
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
Carl Orff
Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...
's Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana (Orff)
Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana...
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
Barry Smith (organist)
Barry Smith is a South African organist, choral and orchestral conductor, author, and musicologist.-Early life and education:Born in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Smith was a choirboy at St Mary's Collegiate Church. In 1956, Smith was awarded a scholarship to Rhodes...
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
Fame (musical)
A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
and Border
South African Border War
The South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, was a conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's...
conflicts.
Uniform
The traditional school colour of navy blue was determined in the 1880s when SACS pupils purchased the only pattern available of alternating white, light- and dark-blue horizontal stripes from Porter Hodgson's Outfitters in Cape Town. Prior to this, the pupils wore what they could afford while still being presentable.High school
The current uniform of the High School has been in place since the 1930s. Pupils from Grades 10 - 12 who excel is Academics, Cultural Acitivites or Sports may be awarded School Colours.| Summer | Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Boater Boater Boater may refer to:*Boater, a type of hat*Boater, one of the first disposable diapers*Someone involved in boating... |
Standard | |
| Blazer Blazer A blazer is a type of jacket. The term blazer occasionally is synonymous with boating jacket and sports jacket, two different garments. A blazer resembles a suit coat cut more casually — sometimes with flap-less patch pockets and metal buttons. A blazer's cloth is usually durable , because it is an... |
Navy blue/Light blue (colours awards) | |
| Tie | See below | |
| Shirt | White short sleeve | White long sleeve |
| Trousers | Khaki Khaki This article is about the fabric. For the color, see Khaki . Kaki, another name for the persimmon, is often misspelled "Khaki".Khaki is a type of fabric or the color of such fabric... shorts |
Charcoal long |
| Socks | Brown knee high | Black standard |
| Shoes | Light brown | Black |
School Colours Awards
The awards are conferred upon pupils by the Headmaster at the end of every school term at the end-of-term assembly (depending on award type).The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
| Type | Additional attire |
|---|---|
| Scroll | Scroll to be sewn Sewing Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era... or ironed Iron (appliance) A clothes iron, also referred to as simply an iron, is a small appliance used in ironing to remove wrinkles from fabric.Ironing works by loosening the ties between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials. With the heat and the weight of the ironing plate, the fibers are... -on below the school badge pocket |
| Half Blues | New Navy blue blazer pocket with half laurel Laurel wreath A laurel wreath is a circular wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel , an aromatic broadleaf evergreen. In Greek mythology, Apollo is represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head... in silver Silver Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal... thread around the school badge |
| Full Blues† | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge |
| New light blue blazer with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge | |
| Prefect§ | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver metal Metal A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light... lic thread around the school badge |
| New Prefect tie |
†Two options
§Not colours awards
Tie patterns
The South African College Schools, commonly referred to as SACS, is a primary and secondary education institution located in Newlands, Cape TownNewlands, Cape Town
Newlands is an upmarket suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.It is located at the foot of Table Mountain in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, and is the wettest suburb in South Africa due to its high winter rainfall...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest school in South Africa and one of four schools expressly named by Cecil John Rhodes to offer an annual Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
to one of its graduating students. The schools are a combination of the South African College Junior School and the South African College High School.
History
The concept of the South African CollegeSouth African College
The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools .-History:...
was first formed in 1791 when the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
Jacob Abraham de Mist
Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist was a Dutch statesman. He was Head of State of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic from 17 April 1797 - 1 May 1797 and Commissioner-General of the Cape Colony during the interregnum from 21 February 1803 - 25 September 1804 in accordance with the...
, asked for funding to be set aside to improve schooling in the Cape. After the British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
took over control of the Cape Colony
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
its first governor, Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Lord Charles Somerset
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa, from 1814 to 1826.-Background:...
, gave permission for the funds reserved by de Mist to be used to establish the South African College in 1814.
The founding committee met in the Groote Kerk
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...
to discuss funding and accommodation for the school and on October 1, 1829, the inauguration of the South African College was held and classes began. The original location of the school was in the Weeshuis on Long Street and moved to what is now known as the Egyptian Building in the Gardens district of Cape Town in 1841.
It was decided in 1874 that the younger students should be separated from their older counterparts. The South African College was separated into the College which became the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...
and the College School.
The College School moved to its own building on Orange Street, separate from the College, in 1896. For the next few decades, the school grew and the building became too small for the number of students attending.
In 1959 the school moved to its current home in the Montebello Estate in Newlands, former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis
Max Michaelis
Sir Maximilian Michaelis was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts....
, after a decade-long negotiation with the Cape Administration.
School buildings
The current school buildings are situated along Dean Street and Newlands Avenue in Cape Town.The Junior School is located along Dean Street and is equipped with numerous fields for sporting activities, of which some are shared with the High School. The Junior School has a full length swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
with a smaller children's pool for the younger students. A number of tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
courts are also available to the students. The Junior School has a new Media Center which hosts computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
facilities, a new library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and classrooms. The music department also has its own auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
for cultural events and is also used for events with smaller audiences. The Junior School's boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
is named after J E De Villiers.
The High School is closest to Newlands Avenue which also hosts a number of sport fields for the various sports which the school offers throughout the year. The swimming pool is mainly used for Water Polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
and is also heated to facilitate training and usage in winter. The High School also recently had a new Media Centre constructed with air-conditioned computer labs and library. The school hall is named after one of its most famous students, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. The boarding houses for the High School are the Michaelis House (for the junior students) and Rosedale House (for the senior students).
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| Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the... |
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| Hockey (field) Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks... |
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| Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball... |
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| Water polo Water polo Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a... |
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| Fencing Fencing Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games... |
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... |
| Judo Judo is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an... |
Rowing Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water... |
| Rock climbing Rock climbing Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling... |
Shooting Shooting sports A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event... |
| Table Tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net... |
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... |
Sporting activities
The students in both Junior and High Schools are divided into four houses, different in both divisions of the school. In both instances there are annual inter-house sporting events, as well as cultural activities. The events range from cross country and lacrosse to cricket and rugby.The students take part in sporting competitions with schools from the area, Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting teams from other countries.
A prestigious annual competition for both the High School and the Junior School, named the Triangular, is a chance for the students of three prominent schools in the province to compete against each other on the track and field. The other two schools are Bishops
Diocesan College
The Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is more commonly known, is an independent, all-boys school situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa...
and Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' School
Rondebosch Boys' School may refer to:* Rondebosch Boys' High School* Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School...
. The first meeting took place in 1935 and it has rotated between the three schools every year since.
The High School also plays host to various schools around the country in an annual water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
tournament during the September holidays. The visiting schools range from the traditional rivals from the area such as Rondebosch Boys' High School and Bishops, to other institutions such as Durban High School
Durban High School
Durban High School is an all boys public school in Durban, South Africa.- History :DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore...
and Kearsney College
Kearsney College
Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.- History :...
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| Art Club | Choir Madrigal Ensemble Junior and Senior Choirs |
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| Drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a... |
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| Enviro Club | Computer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
| General Knowledge | Photography Photography Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film... |
| Climbing | First Aid First aid First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care... |
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| School Magazine Magazine Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three... |
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| Debate Debate Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion... |
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| Christian Union Christian Union (students) Christian Unions are evangelical Christian student groups. They exist in many countries and are often affiliated with either International Fellowship of Evangelical Students or Campus Crusade for Christ. Many Christian Unions are one of the societies affiliated to their universities' students'... |
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| Muslim Muslim A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable... Students Association |
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Cultural activities
Both the Junior and High Schools have active Music Departments. The High School choirChoir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
often performs in the Cape Town City Hall with other schools such as Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School
Rondebosch Boys' High School is a state secondary school in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1897 and is known by the acronym "RBHS".-Academics:...
and Rustenburg Girls' High School in collaborations of such works as Carl Orff
Carl Orff
Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...
's Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana (Orff)
Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana...
in 2001 (conducted by Dr. Barry Smith
Barry Smith (organist)
Barry Smith is a South African organist, choral and orchestral conductor, author, and musicologist.-Early life and education:Born in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Smith was a choirboy at St Mary's Collegiate Church. In 1956, Smith was awarded a scholarship to Rhodes...
). The choirs and bands of both divisions of the school competes in the Cape Town Eisteddfod every year at both group and individual events. The High School has two annual bursary competitions, the Christopher Brown and the Walter Swanson Competitions. These are designed to both give an evening of music from the highest standards as well as to encourage the music students to excel in whichever disciplines they take part.
The High School drama department stages annual dramatic productions as well as annual inter-house play competitions. Some recent notable performances are Guys and Dolls in 2000, Fame - The Musical
Fame (musical)
A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...
in 2003 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2005.
Every year the school celebrates the founding of the school on Commemoration Day around September 20 (depending on which day it is every year). The High School trains a select group of volunteer students for the parade as well as a handful of centuries for the ceremony. The majority of the group take part as cadets for the parade and march from the Memorial Fields to the Major Quadrangle. The music department trains its students for the marching band. The Head Boy and a notable Old Boy of the school would then lay laurel wreaths at the plaques which commemorate those Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the Korean
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
and Border
South African Border War
The South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, was a conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's...
conflicts.
Uniform
The traditional school colour of navy blue was determined in the 1880s when SACS pupils purchased the only pattern available of alternating white, light- and dark-blue horizontal stripes from Porter Hodgson's Outfitters in Cape Town. Prior to this, the pupils wore what they could afford while still being presentable.High school
The current uniform of the High School has been in place since the 1930s. Pupils from Grades 10 - 12 who excel is Academics, Cultural Acitivites or Sports may be awarded School Colours.| Summer | Winter | |
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| Boater Boater Boater may refer to:*Boater, a type of hat*Boater, one of the first disposable diapers*Someone involved in boating... |
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| Blazer Blazer A blazer is a type of jacket. The term blazer occasionally is synonymous with boating jacket and sports jacket, two different garments. A blazer resembles a suit coat cut more casually — sometimes with flap-less patch pockets and metal buttons. A blazer's cloth is usually durable , because it is an... |
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| Trousers | Khaki Khaki This article is about the fabric. For the color, see Khaki . Kaki, another name for the persimmon, is often misspelled "Khaki".Khaki is a type of fabric or the color of such fabric... shorts |
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| Socks | Brown knee high | Black standard |
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School Colours Awards
The awards are conferred upon pupils by the Headmaster at the end of every school term at the end-of-term assembly (depending on award type).The Cultural Awards Committee, consisting of senior staff members (typically Heads of Departments) and two Grade 12 students, meet before the end of every term to nominate and vote for potential award candidates. Student representatives are nominated and selected by the senior staff members on the committee, and serve for one year.
The selection process for Academic and Sporting awards vary slightly to the process of Cultural Awards.
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| Scroll | Scroll to be sewn Sewing Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era... or ironed Iron (appliance) A clothes iron, also referred to as simply an iron, is a small appliance used in ironing to remove wrinkles from fabric.Ironing works by loosening the ties between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials. With the heat and the weight of the ironing plate, the fibers are... -on below the school badge pocket |
| Half Blues | New Navy blue blazer pocket with half laurel Laurel wreath A laurel wreath is a circular wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel , an aromatic broadleaf evergreen. In Greek mythology, Apollo is represented wearing a laurel wreath on his head... in silver Silver Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal... thread around the school badge |
| Full Blues† | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge |
| New light blue blazer with full laurel in silver thread around the school badge | |
| Prefect§ | New Navy blue blazer pocket with full laurel in silver metal Metal A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light... lic thread around the school badge |
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§Not colours awards
The S.A.C. (School Song)
The school song was written by Rev. Dr. F. C. Kolbe with music composed by Sir Meiring Beck and first publicly performed in December 1887. The original school song had three sections but only the first section is currently used. The S.A.C. is well-known to all Old Boys as well as those students who attend the University of Cape Town since they share this as their school song. In the High School, The S.A.C. is sung at the first and last assemblies of the school term as well as other special occasions such as Valedictory Service and the annual Academic Prize Giving events.- The S.A.C.
- Is the College for me,
- The best in the country round;
- Wherever you go
- The records will show,
- Our equal has never been found!
- For study or play, it is always the same
- Wherever we be,
- We spread the name, and we swell the fame
- Of the S.A.C.
SACS War Cry
The war cry is performed by pupils and Old Boys (Alumni) alike at various occasions such as sporting events or the final assembly of the year.- Kaaaa...
- Boomaluka, Boomaluka, wha, wha, wha
- Chilalaka, Chilalaka, cha, cha, cha
- Bommaluka, Chilalaka, who are we?
- We are, we are the S.A.C.
- School, School, School
- Yeah SACS, yeah SACS, yeah SACS
- Vat hom, vat hom, vat hom, Yeah!
Rhodes Scholarship
When Cecil John RhodesCecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%...
died in 1902, he specifically named the South African College in his will as one of four schools in the Cape Colony
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...
where the Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
would be awarded on an annual basis for a former student to study at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
.
Old Boys' Union
The SACS Old Boys' Union (OBU) is the oldest Old Boy (Alumni) group in the country. John Ince (1936–2010) — a notable Old Boy who was previously the Headmaster at Camps Bay High School, teacher at the High School, and Guidance Counsellor at the Junior School — served as Executive Director of the OBU until recently.Notable Old Boys
- Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr — former Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa, Minister of Finance and Education, Administrator of the TransvaalTransvaal ProvinceTransvaal Province was a province of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, and of its successor, the Republic of South Africa, from 1961 until the end of apartheid in 1994 when a new constitution subdivided it.-History:...
and Rhodes Scholar - Leonard Hoffmann, Baron HoffmannLeonard Hoffmann, Baron HoffmannLeonard Hubert "Lenny" Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, PC is a retired senior British judge. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009...
— former senior British justice - Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman — British zoologist, public servant and key World War II AlliedAllies of World War IIThe Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War . Former Axis states contributing to the Allied victory are not considered Allied states...
strategic advisor - Albie SachsAlbie SachsAlbie Sachs was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009...
— former justice of the Constitutional Court of South AfricaConstitutional Court of South AfricaThe Constitutional Court of South Africa was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution: the Interim Constitution of 1993. In terms of the 1996 Constitution the Constitutional Court established in 1994 continues to hold office. The court began its first sessions in February... - Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw — AfrikaansAfrikaansAfrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
-language poet, playwright, and scholar - William Ewart Gladstone van Wyk LouwW. E. G. LouwWilliam Ewart Gladstone van Wyk Louw, who published as W.E.G. Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet. He is the younger brother of the poet N.P...
— Afrikaans-language poet - Percival Colin "Percy" MontgomeryPercy MontgomeryPercival Colin "Percy" Montgomery is a retired South African rugby union player...
— former South AfricanSouth Africa national rugby union teamThe South African national rugby union team are 2009 British and Irish Lions Series winners. They are currently ranked as the fourth best team in the IRB World Rankings and were named 2008 World Team of the Year at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.Although South Africa was instrumental...
rugby unionRugby unionRugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
footballer and 2007 Rugby World Cup2007 Rugby World CupThe 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...
winner - Peter KirstenPeter KirstenPeter Noel Kirsten is a former cricketer who represented South Africa in 12 Tests and 40 One Day Internationals from 1991 to 1994.-Cricket career:...
— former South AfricanSouth African cricket teamThe South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...
cricketer - Stephen SimpsonStephen SimpsonStephen Simpson is an A1 Grand Prix and Champ Car Atlantic Championship race car driver. Stephen is a resident of Cape Town in South Africa hence his connection to A1 Team South Africa.-Biography:...
— race car driver and former A1 Grand Prix Team South AfricaA1 Team South AfricaA1 Team South Africa is the South African team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series.- Management :A1 Team South Africa owner is Tokyo Sexwale. The Chief Executive Officer of the team is Dana Cooper and the technical and sporting manager is Mike Carroll...
driver - Ross SkeateRoss SkeateRoss Carson Skeate is a rugby union player.He plays for the Sharks and Natal Sharks in the Super Rugby and Currie Cup competitions respectively...
— rugby union footballer for RC ToulonRC ToulonnaisRC Toulonnais is a French professional rugby union club based in Toulon in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
and formerly for StormersStormersThe Stormers, for sponsorship reasons referred to as DHL Stormers, are a South African rugby union team based in Cape Town competing in the Super Rugby competition . Despite their lack of silverware over the years, their home stadium, Newlands, typically draws the highest average attendance figures...
and Western ProvinceWestern Province (rugby team)DHL Western Province is a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. The team has won the Currie Cup on 32 occasions and has the most supporters of any Currie Cup team...
rugby union teams
- Eric Lloyd WilliamsEric Lloyd WilliamsEric Lloyd Williams was a South African-born journalist and war correspondent who covered World War II for the South African Press Association and Reuters....
— journalist and World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
correspondent - Dr. Cecil MossCecil MossCecil Moss was a South African rugby union player and coach. He was professionally a physician. Moss was Jewish. He and his wife had two children....
— former South African rugby union footballer - Guy Abercrombie Elliott — professor of Medicine at University of the WitwatersrandUniversity of the WitwatersrandThe University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...
- John Ince — educator, former president of the South African Teachers' Association and Headmaster of Camps Bay High School, Cape Town
- Solly Kessler — statesman and anti-SemitismAnti-SemitismAntisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
legal expert - Martin Singer — professor and Head of Hand Surgery, Groote Schuur HospitalGroote Schuur HospitalGroote Schuur Hospital is a large, government-funded, teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa...
and University of Cape Town - J.E.J Krige — professor of Surgery and Head of Surgical Gastroenterology, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
- Ronald Singer — archeologist
- Peter Jander — artist
- Dylan Lewis — sculptor
- Captain Andrew (Anthony) Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor, VC, DSO, MC and bar, DFC