General News

The culture of Africa is varied and manifold. According to Wikipedia, it consists of a mixture of countries with various tribes that each have their unique […]

Prep is proud of our Prep swimmers who won trophies at the recent annual Port Elizabeth Aquatic Club competition. Grade 3 Junior Preppie, Sofia Duggan won […]

Congratulations to Nsofwa Kayula, who was selected to represent EP U13A Hockey, and to Josh Hardy and Hamish Duggan, who were chosen to join the EP […]

St Andrew’s Prep welcomes Mr Jakes Fredericks as our new Headmaster. Mr Fredericks was Head of the Boy’s Prep at St Stithians College in Johannesburg, where […]

Memory Hall was rocking again as our first music concert of the year took place with our Grade 4 and 5 boys. Several parents supported our […]

St Andrew’s Prep top swimmers Chase Repinz, Hamish Duggan and Sofia Duggan competed in last week’s South African Level 3 Regional Gala, breaking records and bringing […]

After a delayed start due to chilly, wet weather on Friday last week, our Junior Preppies hit the Prep pool with renewed vigour yesterday. After the […]

Our Preppies had an awe-inspiring experience last week, seeing the planets, stars and the wondrous galaxies through 3D virtual headsets care of Virtual Reality Education.

After some stiff competition, much noisy cheering and many heats in the pool at the hotly contested Inter-House Gala on Friday, we congratulate St Andrew’s Prep’s […]

St Andrew’s Prep’s basketball tour to Johannesburg was a fantastic half-term event for our U13As and our Preppies fared very well against their opponents from St […]

It was a blue and white kind of a day today at St Andrew’s Prep, as we celebrated 137 years of educating children! What began as […]

The weekend temperatures inland soared to the high 30s, but the temperatures at the sea were vastly different. On Sunday morning, 18 Senior Prep boys decided […]

Armed with well-used 3-legged pots and armloads of ingredients, our Junior Prep boarders and Senior Preppies set off for the Monastery for an epic hike, fudge-making […]

Each year, our Grade 7s take a long and beautiful hike from Kasouga to Kenton-on-Sea along a most scenic and fascinating stretch of shoreline. Apart from […]

The quiet campus halls are ringing with bells, children’s’ voices, running feet, laughter and bags being wheeled in and out. It’s great to be starting the […]

The Prep rowing programme has started off with a major bang! With 23 boys signing up, this year boasts the largest rowing group in our history! […]

Our Prep families supported DKMS (formerly known as the Sunflower Fund) today as we handed out hundreds of Topes (tubes of hope) to our children to […]

Debbie Lowe has been part of the Prep family as our Academic Support Teacher for 23 years. Stories of pupils she has nurtured through their crucial […]

To break a record – particularly one that has been long-standing – is no mean feat, but deep into our second year of Covid constraints and […]

Our Prep boarders enjoy an extraordinary programme that is jam-packed full of exciting things to do over the weekends. Sport takes priority and is always well-supported. […]

Mrs Morgan Sparrow is one of those people you feel has always been around – and she certainly has been a part of both Junior and […]

Mrs Cathy Brown joined us a couple of years ago as our Grade 00 Teacher. She was born in Johannesburg and spent all of her happy […]

On Friday last week, we celebrated 100 days of being at school, on campus, in class. We have been counting up to this super special day […]

Kirsten Porter, our Grade 2.2 Teacher is also an Eastern Cape girl. Here is part of a conversation we had: Q: Where were you born and […]

Our Grade R.2 Teacher, Megan Yendall was born in our very own Settler’s Hospital here in Makhanda, and grew up in and near Grahamstown, so she […]

Online learning for our Preppies is, thankfully, not a new concept, as it was last year. Amazingly, the material needed to progress fairly seamlessly from in-person […]

Fairlawn is a happy place and our House-Mother, Victoria Wilson has taken our Fairlawn Prep boarders under her wing, listening to stories of their days, patching […]

Q: Where were you born and where did you grow up, Rich and Christine? R: My early years were spent in the Eastern Cape and in […]

Q: Where were you born and where did you grow up? Give us a bit of information on your school and work history: I was born […]

This week, we move over to the Music Department, to Mrs Fiona van der Merwe. Her inspiration with the boys, particularly in Choir, but also in […]

One of our Grade 7 Prep pupils used the Covid lockdown time to create some impressive artworks and his own comic characters which he would like […]