March 29, 2024
Stockwell School February 2024 Update
Our visit to Stockwell in 2024 was as momentous as always. In 2023 we saw the school being steered by Gawain because the principal was unwell. This year when we arrived, we were met by the amazing school secretary, Tanz Lee, who announced our arrival to…
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February 26, 2023
Stockwell School Update - February 2023
Stockwell School continues to expand and develop, despite the problems of overcrowding, reduced funding and extended load-shedding. There have been a number of developments and changes which have happened over the last two years. A lot has changed, not least…
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April 29, 2019
Stockwell School Update - May 2019
It was sad to see that Melanie Marais has left Stockwell, after 8 years of extremely hard work but we all wish her luck in her new venture, she will be missed. Our trip to Stockwell in January 2019 has once again seen amazing progress. The number of students…
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April 01, 2019
Sudent in the News!
Student in the News! Carol-Ann Skippers (middle) from Stockwell Primary School has now qualified for the Boland Athletics Team. She will be going on to the Western Cape Atheletics meetings event in Paarl. With her is Beverley Jonas (Pricipal) and Gaewinne…
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March 03, 2018
Stockwell School Update - January 2018
Our annual trip to Stockwell in January 2018, has once again seen amazing progress. However, there has also been sadness: Martha, who described herself as the Jack-of-all-trades (because she did the cooking, looked after the staff, and looked after the…
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January 29, 2017
School update - January-February 2017
Great news. In 2016, one of the aims of The Friends of Stockwell School, was to provide the school with another Educator. We wrote to the Local Authority, outlining the support we had given to the school, and that this support was ongoing. We asked if it was…
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September 18, 2016
School status - 2016
Stockwell School is still growing! By the beginning of 2016 there were 145 students ranging from 5 to 11yrs of age. They now have two more classrooms, although one of them is awaiting work to secure the floor against snakes and poisonous spiders which come in…
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