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Pinelands High School

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Type
  
State secondary school

Grades
  
8–12

Phone
  
+27 21 531 7410

Founded
  
July 1952

Opened
  
July 1952

Language
  
English

Number of students
  
950

Teaching staff
  
75

Authority
  
Western Cape Education Department

Principal
  
Dave Campbell (as of April 2015)

Address
  
Forest Drive Service Rd, Pinelands, Cape Town, 7405, South Africa

Motto
  
Fides prudentia labor (Latin)

Profiles

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Pinelands High School is a public school situated in Forest Drive, Pinelands in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was opened in July 1952 and the founding principal was Jack Kent. The school now enrols about 950 students.

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In 2004, the school provided filming locations for the motion picture Ask the Dust, with the sets built to simulate Los Angeles in the 1930s.

The school originally had a House System, which was scrapped some years after its formation. The school is now planning on re-introducing to house system through the Representative Council of Learners. There have been negative to mixed reactions from students in this regard.

Instituted in 1952, the school celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2012. The school had the first official correspondence with a monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, as 2012 also marked her diamond jubilee.

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Notable alumni

  • Lesley-Ann Brandt, actress
  • Tim Harrell, professional baseball pitcher who represented South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  • Craig Matthews, South African cricket player
  • Jimmy Nevis, singer
  • Siv Ngesi, prominent comedian and actor
  • Austin Smith, captain of the South African men's hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
  • Thami Tsolekile, South African cricket player
  • Tony Twine, economist (c. 1955-2012);
  • References

    Pinelands High School Wikipedia