Grade 6 Monitors and leadership camp
Grade 6 Monitors 2022
Grade 6 Leadership camp 2022
Welcome to our family Mr Wana
We welcome Mr. Thulani Wana from N.V. Cewu as the new Head of Department in our school.
This post became vacant with the passing of Mrs Christian in April 2020. As there are HOD’s in excess, the Department of Basic Education placed Mr. Wana at our school.
He is a young, vibrant leader and we welcomed with open Mr Wana to the Good Shepherd Family.
Sir, we wish you a pleasant stay at our school and we know you will bring your leadership skills and passion for teaching to our community.
Our new lab facilitator Tishan Jegels
At the start of the 2021 School Year, the Click Foundation cemented their relationship with the Good Shepherd Primary School. They appointed a Facilitator for their programme at the school in the form of the young and vibrant Tishan Jegels.
Tishan matriculated at Victoria Girls High School in 2019, and has seen this appointment as a step in the direction that she will be studying in to. She enjoys working with the children and have, during this term, really managed to get to know each of the learners entering the Computer Lab. She is a positive acquisition to the school with the children all enjoying her bubbly personality.
Our school play ground refurbished
GOOD SHEPHERD PRIMARY SCHOOL REFURBISHED
The school recently did some work on the Grade R premises at the school. The play area for the children were re-painted to add some vibrant colour into the lives of the young ones. In addition, a new sandpit will be available to the Grade R learners when they return from the break in term 2.
Donation from Elephant Cup of Children.
Good Shepherd would like to thank Elephant Cup of Children’s for donation of masks and a sanitiser dispenser to our school.’
This donation will assist in the fight against COVID19 at our school during this time.
Tribute to Mrs Eleanor Christian
On 6 April 2020, Mrs Eleanor Christian, HoD and Gr3 teacher, passed away after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. The entire Good Shepherd community were saddened by the devastating news.
Tribute to Mrs Eleanor Christian
It is with a great deal of sadness that we learnt of the passing of our beloved teacher, Eleanor Christian. At the time of her hospitalization, she was Head of Department (HOD) at Good Shepherd Primary School, where she spent 25 years as a dedicated teacher. Her professionalism, passion, love and care for her Grade 3 learners will always be remembered with fondness. She was also a very committed and dedicated member of the School Governing Body for a number of years. Such a humble, hardworking and unselfish Educator, an anchor and stalwart serving as SMT, SGB, Educator and Leader for years at Good Shepherd. A person with a heart of Gold.
Ella was a dedicated and loving mother and family member. She gave practical expression of these qualities in her career and community life as well. Her quiet and unassuming demeanour masked her determination and resilience in tough situations. These traits stood her in good stead in various leadership roles. She was a team member, but relished individual assignments as well. Christian always executed her profession and the Batho Pele Principles with pride, passion and distinction, always going the extra mile for the school, putting the learners first and continued striving for excellence.
We are devastated by the loss of a remarkable member of our community and send our condolences to her children and family. A memorial service for her will be held after lockdown.
We as the SGB, Trust, Staff, Learners, Parents and the broader Good Shepherd Community will surely miss you Ella.
Written by Chesley Daniels
Good Shepherd School Governing Body
6 April 2020
2018 News and Highlights
Good Shepherd School – 2018 Highlights
2018 was an exciting and demanding year in the life of Good Shepherd School, as it was in the life of the Grahamstown community and of our beloved country. On the staffing front, the highlight of the year was, undoubtedly, the long-awaited appointment of the new Principal. The investment in academic excellence has paid off with demonstrable literacy advances in the Foundation Phase and academic performance of Good Shepherd learners in High School. The good news in this regard is profiled below. The School continues to be ensconced in networks of support and care that make it more than just a school. Leadership camps, outdoor education, cultural and sporting activities are a growing part of the lives of Good Shepherd learners. A brief Trustees’ Report concludes the Annual Report.
Acting Principal to New Principal
Ms Katie Appollis took on the Acting Principal role with trepidation and some reservations at the beginning of 2018. She had been looking forward to spending the last year of her illustrious teaching career (of over 40 years) in the classroom, teaching her precious Grade 2 learners. She is a passionate and outstanding teacher and it was a pity that the management role was beckoning in this, her last year of teaching before retirement. However, she took it on and did an admirable job under the circumstances. Ms Appollis was very relieved to hand over to Mr Manie Cronje as newly-appointed Principal on 10 September 2018 and to enjoy her final two Terms of teaching.
Mr Cronje hails originally from Hartenbos and has spent his entire teaching career at PJ Olivier School in Grahamstown, as teacher and then Deputy Head. He displays a type of leadership which Prof Van der Mescht espoused in his 2015 evaluation of Good Shepherd School: At almost every level, and at every stage of its remarkable history, the school and its community has been blessed with the vision and ‘practical’ leadership of people who seem to have placed its needs – and hence the educational, social and pastoral needs of the community – at the very top of their list of priorities.
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The school foyer exudes spirituality and age; history, tradition, service and love of humanity. I am reminded: Good Shepherd School was started as a school for the poor, for orphans. It is more than a school. It is a home… |
