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Fairmont High School , Durbanville
Fairmont High School is a public English medium co-educational high school situated in the town of Durbanville in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Background The school was established in January 1977 and initially known as Eversdal English Medium School. The school was officially opened on 5 September 1978 by P.S. Meyer – Director of Education. Clive Wigg was the first principal and remained headmaster until 2002, when he retired. Liz Muller took over from him, but she died in 2006. She was replaced by Ron Dingley who served until 2016. Leon Erasmus is the present headmaster. The three school houses take their names from Sir Langham Dale, Sir James Rose Innes and Sir Thomas Muir, each having held the position of Superintendent-General of Education in the Cape. School's performance In 2009, Fairmont was named as one of the top ten performing schools in mathematics and science in South Africa. Alumni * Sarah Oates. At Fairmont High in 1990, she was the you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durbanville
Durbanville is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, part of the greater Cape Town metropolitan area. Durbanville is a semi-rural residential suburb on the north-eastern outskirts of the metropolis and is surrounded by farms producing wine and wheat. History Precolonial period (before 1652) The first modern humans indigenous to the Cape area included the Khoina and the Khoisan tribe. The indigenous people lived in the Cape and its surrounding coastal areas dating as far back as 60 000 years ago. They migrated from the interior of the country, what is today the Northern Cape province, and from Botswana and Namibia to the Cape. Dutch colonial period (1652-1795) Durbanville's inception can be traced to a fresh water spring located in the town. The spring is currently situated behind thDurbanville Children's Home The spring was designated by the VOC (Dutch East India Company, Dutch: ''Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie)'' in the mid-1600s to be used as a water reple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamaryn Schultz
Tamaryn Schultz (born 23 April 1985) is a South African gymnast. Childhood She was born on 23 April 1985 and grew up in Durbanville, Western Cape, South Africa. She matriculated at Fairmont High School, Durbanville. Gymnastic performance She performed in various competitions in different countries. * 25 June 2000, she won the South African National Championship (held in Centurion, South Africa) with a score of 35, winning three of the four gymnastics disciplines (vault, bars, beam and floor) in the junior category. * 14 September 2001, in her first year as a senior she placed second to the 2000 champion Joyce, in the South African National Championship (held in Pretoria, South Africa). * 5 November 2001, she placed second in the "Internationaler Leverkusen Cup" (held in Leverkusen, Germany) with a score of 32.775, just beaten by Nijssen of The Netherlands. * In the 6th African Gymnastics Championships in 2002, held in Algeria, she placed first overall with 33.112 points. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schools In The Western Cape
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory education, compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the ''School#Regional terms, Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Muir (mathematician)
Sir Thomas Muir (25 August 1844 – 21 March 1934) was a Scottish mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. Life He was born in Stonebyres in South Lanarkshire, and brought up in the small town of Biggar. He was educated at Wishaw Public School. At the University of Glasgow he changed his studies from classics to mathematics after advice from the future Lord Kelvin. After graduating he held positions at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. From 1874 to 1892 he taught at Glasgow High School. In 1882 he published ''Treatise on the theory of determinants''; then in 1890 he published a ''History of determinants''. In his 1882 work, Muir rediscovered an important lemma that was first proved by Cayley 35 years earlier: In Glasgow he lived at Beechcroft in the Bothwell district. In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Hugh Blackburn, Philip Kelland and Peter Guthr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rose Innes
Sir James Rose Innes (8 January 1855 – 16 January 1942) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes. His maternal grandson was Helmuth James ''Graf'' von Moltke, a prominent opponent of the Third Reich. Early life Innes was born in Grahamstown in 1855. His father was James Rose Innes, CMG, the Cape Colony's Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, whose own father (also James Rose Innes) had emigrated to the Cape from Scotland in 1822 to establish a school in Uitenhage that eventually became Muir College, the oldest boys' school in South Africa, later becoming the Cape's first Superintendent-General of Education. His mother was Mary Anne Fleischer, sister-in-law to Gordon Sprigg and granddaughter to Robert Hart of Glen Avon, the founder of Somerset East, who had landed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langham Dale
Sir Langham Dale (22 May 1826, Kingsclere, Hampshire - 12 January 1898, Mowbray, Cape Town ) was the Cape Colony's second superintendent general of education. Life He was born at Kingsclere, son of Henry Dale and his wife Mary Ann Stroud. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and graduated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1847. Dale was in the following year presented by Sir John Herschel as a professor of classics at the South African College in Cape Town. He held this office until 1858. During a visit to England in that year, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow and on his return to the Cape in 1859 he was appointed successor to James Rose-Innes as superintendent general of education. While serving as chairman of the board of public examiners (1859-1872), he proposed setting up a university as successor to the Examining Board, and in 1873 he became the first vice-chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope. He served as chairman of the Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State School
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary educational institution, schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Oates
Sarah Jane Oates is violinist and associate leader at the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, United Kingdom Background Oates was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 26 June 1976. Her family then moved to Durbanville, Western Cape, South Africa. At the age of nine she started with lessons at the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre in Parow, South Africa. Louis van der Watt was her teacher. Education Oates matriculated at Fairmont High. She went to London, UK to study at Purcell School of Music after she received a bursary in 1992. Yossi Zivoni was the teacher. After that she went to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. She moved to the United States and studied under Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music. She was later taught by Alexander Kerr Performances Oates performed with various groups. At the Santa Fe chamber music festival her performing career started. This was in New Mexico. She has performed violin concertos with: * The London Philharmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. About two-thirds of these inhabitants live in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, which is also the provincial capital. The Western Cape was created in 1994 from part of the former Cape Province. The two largest cities are Cape Town and George. Geography The Western Cape Province is roughly L-shaped, extending north and east from the Cape of Good Hope, in the southwestern corner of South Africa. It stretches about northwards along the Atlantic coast and about eastwards along the South African south coast (Southern Indian Ocean). It is bordered on the north by the Northern Cape and on the east by the Eastern Cape. The total land area of the province is , about 10.6% of the country's total. It is roughly the size of England or the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Cape Education Department
The Western Cape Education Department (abbreviated WCED) is the department of the Government of the Western Cape responsible for primary and secondary education within the Western Cape province of South Africa. The political leader of the department is the Provincial Minister of Education; this is Donald Grant. History During the apartheid era, education in South Africa was segregated according to race, with different government departments administering schools for the different races. What is now the Western Cape was at that time part of the Cape Province, and schools for white students were run by the Education Department of the Cape Provincial Administration. Schools for coloured students were run by the House of Representatives Education Department, while schools for black students were run by the Department of Education and Training. Some integration of these schools had occurred during the last years of apartheid, but the administrations remained divided. On 27 April 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Settlers High School
The Settlers High School is a public English medium co-educational high school situated in Bellville which is in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The high school was established in 1965. History The School was started on 19 January 1965. ET Hobbs was the Headmaster. The School recognise the British heritage in its naming of its houses: Pringle, Bain and Shaw. These three were 1820 Settlers from Britain to South Africa. Awards Settlers received the Provincial Excellence in English Home Language Award, from The Premier Helen Zille and Education Minister Donald Grant. This is awarded for the school with the highest number of passes in English Home Language. Events The school buildings were officially opened on 24 April 1969. On 23 October 1990, the parents of the school voted for the school to be opened to all races. Alumni * Annette Cowley - Retired South African Swimmer. * Neil de Kock Neil (Niles) de Kock (born 20 November 1978) is a retired rugby union footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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