Cambridge principal retires from teaching
After 40 years of teaching at and leading Cambridge High School, principal Spencer Welman, is finally wiping the chalkboard and heading off for retirement.
During...
Port Rex, Stirling pupils excel in national contest
The annual Sasol Foundation and Kagiso Trust National Skills Competition saw Tjaart van der Walt from Port Rex Technical School scoop second place in...
Harry’s celebrates 2024 Young Writers contest winners
Amara Odugwu from Merrifield College was announced as the winner of the second annual Vrij and Karuna Harry Young Writers Competition.
Founded last year, the...
Modelling show crowns new ‘queens’
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
The annual St Luke’s Kassie Modelling Show saw Amy Fourie and Kirah Poyo crowned at Miss Teen and Miss Tween respectively for 2024...
Centre of Excellence claims victory: EL team wins U19 heritage tournament
The BIS Heritage U19 School Rugby Tournament brought together talent, passion, and resilience from township schools across the Border region, culminating in an unforgettable...
Bellafides Private School principal dies at age 51: Masola was passionate...
East London is mourning the loss of Clarissa Joy Masola, the beloved principal of Bellafides Private School, the city’s first school dedicated to children...
Lilyfontein presents ‘Annie Jr — the Musical’ to showcase pupils’ talent
Lilyfontein School, well-known for its adventurous spirit, is set to delight the East London community with a heartwarming production of Annie Jr — the...
Clarendon High’s new 2025 RCL are prepared to lead: School wants...
Clarendon High School’s newly announced student leadership for 2025 expect an exciting and challenging year of leadership ahead, as the school sets its sights...
CYCLING CHAMPS
Merrifield Schools extends huge congratulations to Leo Annesley, who finished in 1st place in the Nippers age group at the Glenhill Interschool Cycling and...
Smart pupil heads to Dubai on academic tour
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
The East London community, Hudson Park High School, and the Volmink family are coming together to support grade 11 pupil Alysa Volmink as...
Young biathlete needs support to compete in Egypt
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
The Jogie family from East London is reaching out to the community for sponsorship to help send their 10-year-old son, Ryan Jogie, to...
Hudson Park’s Demi Potgieter leads the pack
WRITTEN BY LEBO MJANGAZE
Demi Potgieter, a 14-year-old racer from Hudson Park High School in East London, is making waves in the 2024 go-karting circuit...
Farewell to Beaconhurst’s first head
WRITTEN BY LEBO MJANGAZE
The sun has set for Beaconhurst High School founding principal Johannes Coetzer who passed away at the age of 90 on...
Pefferville Primary opens its new media centre
Thanks to a generous donation from the Motsepe Foundation, Pefferville Primary School has finally been able to open a fully equipped media centre worth...
Clarendon fights to avert death of SA girls rowing
On Tuesday night, Clarendon High School for Girls reversed its decision to suspend its rowing programme – the only public, all-girls school rowing programme...
Education on the big screen for schools: Cutting-edge facility to...
Last week Lumko High School in Amalinda became the first school to air programming from the Eastern Cape department of Education’s state of the...
Crewe Primary School celebrates 120 years
Crewe Primary School is 120 years old and over the last 12 decades it has solidified its reputation as a school of great repute...
Greening up Selborne with new garden
Written by EMIHLE MBANGATHA
Selborne College is greening up its campus by turning an old school water fountain, which had fallen into disrepair, into a...
Hope School reflects on history, looks to future
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
Independent Christian school Hope Schools celebrated their founder’s day, honouring its 19th anniversary on August 16, at the school’s Sois Blessed Hall, in...
EL pupils excel at top science expo
A total of 125 pupils participated in the 2024 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists regional science fair last week at Hudson Park.
The high school...
Greenpoint celebrates 40 great years
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
Greenpoint Secondary School, a celebrated scholastic jewel in East London’s Buffalo Flats community, celebrated its 40th anniversary on August 8, with past and...
Parkside Primary receives a green makeover
Parkside Primary School recently received a green facelift with the help of garden enthusiast Renay Kelly Smith, who belongs to the gardening club, Anything...
Clarendon choir scoops gold medal
EMIHLE MBANGATHA
Clarendon High School for Girls’ De Novo Serenata chamber choir have done it again, achieving a gold award and finishing fourth in their...
NGO harvests future Einsteins with maths programme
KAZIMLA MFIKILI
Shaping tomorrow’s mathematical minds is the mission for the Izibalo non-government organisation, a local extra tuition programme that aims to help more Buffalo...
Eagles become Wildcats on stage next week
Hudson Park High School is bringing the enduring magic of cult classic, High School Music to the local stage for the first time ever...
Selborne’s Afrikaans play wows judges: School was only English-medium institution participating...
KAZIMLA MFIKILI
Despite being an English medium school, Selborne College’s dramatic society was among only 12 schools countrywide who were invited to perform an original...
Teenage pupil to train with top Italian soccer team
BIG DREAMS: Aluve Ntwana celebrates with the scout for World Wide Scholarships, Fabrizio Piccareta, after he was selected as the recipient of the scholarship....
ECDoE says unemployment is indictment of education system
Buffalo City teachers believe the 2024-2025 curriculum will see the Eastern Cape department of education play an important role in alleviating youth unemployment but...
Daniel Pienaar pupil victorious in tough Motor Mech competition
Emotions were high and talent in abundance as eight young contestants from Port Rex Technical High School in East London and a team of...
Maths, science programme boosts pupils’ matric results
In a remarkable display of dedication and resilience, pupils benefiting from an established mathematics and physical sciences programme in Mdantsane township near East London...
Disney friends inspire pupils to exercise
Ten East London schools have been selected to benefit from the Disney Happy Healthy Play programme, an initiative aimed at empowering under-resourced schools to...
Big score for pupil who heads off to Italy on soccer...
New Generation Primary School pupil Aluve Ntwana made history last week when he became the first player in the inaugural run of the TRA-BIS...
Schools rewarded for recycling
Thanks to the annual DNF Waste & Environment Services schools’ recycling programme, 30 schools across the city collectively managed to divert 34.5 tonnes of...
Selborne golfer is the best in 100 years
The wins keep adding up for Selborne College’s Ben Weber (14), who made history last week at the SA Amateur Championship and then went...
Signs to watch out for if teen may be suicidal
In recent years, concerns about teenage suicide rates have become increasingly prevalent.
It is a distressing issue that demands urgent attention. To combat this alarming...
Second chance programme helps pupils finish matric
In 2016, the department of education introduced the second chance programme as a solution to assist those matrics who did not meet the requirements...
Sponsor comes to aid of young rugby player
Local pupil Owam Nqweniso’s dreams of playing rugby for SA were almost compromised due to lack of funds until a local business, BTKM Quantity...
TS Galaxy sign EL duo: Centre of Excellence teenagers given chance...
Two 17-year-old football proteges from the youth development football structure of East London Central Local Football Association Centre of Excellence FC, Lakhan Gqango and...
Matrics make history: Merrifield class of ‘23 achieves 100% pass rate
The city was abuzz last week celebrating the outstanding performances of the matric class of 2023 and Merrifield College deputy principal Bridget Fielding said...
STEM subjects take off at Parkside Primary
At the end of last year, Parkside Primary School (PPS) earned recognition at the Eastern Cape Gambling Board’s (ECGB) annual corporate investment awards for...
Matriculant who died in December obtained five distinctions
A pupil from St Benedict’s college in Bedfordview‚ Ekurhuleni‚ who died before seeing his matric results‚ obtained five distinctions.
The school said it was mourning...
Impressive 98.46% pass rate for IEB matric class of 2023
Private school pupils who wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) through the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) achieved a 98.46% pass rate in the 2023...
Despite some cheats and poor printing‚ Umalusi approves release of 2023...
Poor print quality on some exam papers and alleged cheating by hundreds of pupils marred the 2023 matric examinations.
Despite this‚ the executive council of...
Ulwazi High School starts new year early
ANELISA GUSHA
For more than a decade, Ulwazi High School has maintained a 100% matric pass rate, and the school is determined to continue this...
Young science boff off to China
Kiyara Swartbooi, a young innovator from Port Rex Technical High School is set to represent SA at both the Eskom Expo International Science Fair...
Local schools score among top in SA
Buffalo City schools featured in the top 25% of 210 schools in the country in the Top Boys Sports Schools for 2023.
SA Schools Sports...
Selborne Rowing Club to relocate to Nahoon Dam
Last year, Selborne College Rowing Club (SCRC) celebrated 100 years of rowing on the Buffalo River.
However, the club has broken with tradition and will...
