Sandtonview High School congratulated its 2015 matrics for obtaining an 88 percent pass rate in the final examinations and challenged the current pupils to surpass them.
This was at the school’s prize-giving ceremony where last year’s best achievers in all grades were awarded certificates of merit for academics, chess, netball, football and athletics, and an award was given to the best young scientist.
Principal Horatio Loff said the ceremony was to encourage current pupils to emulate and better last year’s matric results. “The 2015 pupils left a proud legacy and the challenge is for you to exceed through commitment, good behaviour, taking advice and opportunities through textbooks, fully equipped classrooms and committed teachers provided by the school,” he told the pupils.
He advised them that school was part of a journey and training ground to greater things in life. “Take advantage of its resources, commit to weekend study at home, avoid loitering on the streets, and also listen to positive messages, even from strangers, about the importance of education.”
Deputy principal Kogie Nair requested that parents contribute to their children’s education by providing them with nutritious food to help their concentration in class and their physical development. “Eighty percent of the enrolment is from struggling households in Alex and need support to deal with poverty induced hardships, including emotional trauma which is difficult to know of if their social problems are not disclosed to the school,” she said
Nair added that some pupils had had substance abuse issues which she asked parents and the community to help deal with outside of the school environment.
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