Schools in Gauteng - Sir John Adamson Secondary School, Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria Boys High School, Jeppe High School for Boys (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Sir John Adamson Secondary School, Pretoria High School for Girls, Pretoria Boys High School, Jeppe High School for Boys, King Edward VII School, Parktown Boys' High School, King David Schools, Johannesburg, Waverley Girls' High School, Hoerskool Menlopark, Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg, Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool, The Glen High School, Sandringham High School, Johannesburg, Torah Academy School, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Muslim School, St Peter's College, Johannesburg, Hillview High School, Jeppe High School for Girls, Yeshiva College of South Africa, Auckland Park Academy of Excellence, Afrikaanse Hoer Meisieskool, Hoerskool Dinamika, Staatsmodelschool, Pretoria Muslim School, Parktown High School for Girls, Hyde Park High School, Hoerskool Waterkloof, Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Ashton International College, Hoerskool Staatspresident C R Swart, Jeugland Hoerskool, Monument Park High School. Excerpt: Sir John Adamson High School is located in Robertsham, a suburb in southern Johannesburg, Gauteng. The school teaches grades 8 to grade 12. The school's motto is "Laetus Laborum" which means "Let Cheerfulness abide with Industry." F R Miller, in her Masters Thesis - The History of a Johannesburg Primary School 1902 - 1937 - writes as follows regarding the establishment of the school: "There seems to be no certainty regarding the exact date of the establishment of the school. Addressing a commemorative concert at the school in 13 April 1923, the second headmaster E J Butler reported that "as near as he could determine the school was this month 21 years of age." It would seem that even then the unrecorded earliest years of the school's history had faded into oblivion. Based on the date of the anniversary concert, and annotations appearing on official records and detailed hereunder, Butler and his ...