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Type
  
Private, boarding

Locale
  
Suburban

Grades
  
RRR - 12

Phone
  
+27 33 846 2500

Number of students
  
720

Established
  
1898

Head of School
  
Mrs Liz Klug

Website
  
www.epworth.co.za

Motto
  
Fida Humana Fortis

Founded
  
1898

Epworth School

Address
  
95 Golf Rd, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa

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Epworth School is a Christian School with a Methodist ethos, located on a 15 hectares (37 acres) campus in Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Epworth is an independent school (and a member of the Independent Schools Association of South Africa) catering for boys and girls in Grades RRR to 7 and girls from Grades 8 to 12.

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Epworth has facilities for academic, sporting and cultural pursuits. Epworth has been the top school in South Africa for canoeing having won the title seven times consecutively 2006 – 2012. It has won the top school in South Africa Championship for squash 19 times.

The boarding establishment caters for girls-only boarding from Grades 6 to 12, on a termly, weekly or overnight boarding basis.

Origin

In 1898 the Natal Witness carried an advertisement heralding the opening of a new school in "healthy and commodious premises". This had been requested by the Revd G W Rogers and Mr Justice Mason in a letter to Miss Emily Lowe and the Misses Emma and Charlotte Mason, who were staying together in London. The request was that Miss Lowe and Miss Emma Mason open a school in Maritzburg, as it was then called. This request was seconded by a number of Methodist laymen and ministers, the intention being that once the school was established the Wesleyan Church would take it over.

History

Thus in 1898 Epworth School was founded by Miss Emily Lowe and Miss Emma Mason. It was named after the birthplace in Lincolnshire of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, the alternative suggestion of the name, "Victoria", after the reigning Queen Victoria having been rejected. The doors opened on 3 August 1898, with an enrolment of children of the early Natal settlers, in all, 45 pupils, 26 seniors and 19 kindergarten pupils.

Notable Alumnae

  • Ethel Doidge, biologist
  • Jane Porter (romance author)
  • References

    Epworth School Wikipedia