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May 17, 2021
Meet Malaika Salbany Malaika Salbany joins us in our Grade 4 class from Pretoria. Malaika is a product of St Mary’s and the University of Pretoria. […]
May 17, 2021
Meet The Wilmans Jason and Ange Wilmans are originally from KZN, but grew their family and raised their three children in Cape Town. Emily has joined […]
May 7, 2021
Last week, our sport teams were able to play their first fixture of the year, and what an exciting lot of fixtures it proved to be! […]
Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
St Andrew’s Junior Prep held it’s own Science Day, where classrooms transformed into laboratories and children into scientists conducting various exciting experiments. The focus of the […]
Mar 17, 2021
While we celebrate the fun of galas and the end of our Summer Sports programme, our Pre-Primary children certainly couldn’t be left out! Last week, the […]
Mar 10, 2021
The Prep pool was buzzing on Friday with the Junior Prep Fun Gala and, later, the Senior Prep Inter-house Gala. With very few schools around the […]
Mar 10, 2021
Two brothers at St Andrew’s Preparatory School in Grahamstown/Makhanda have bagged the two most coveted trophies in swimming by winning both the Senior and Junior Victor […]
Feb 24, 2021
The weather was cool on Sunday 21 February as the St Andrew’s Prep swimmers competed in the annual River Mile swim held on Bushman’s River. Under […]
Feb 17, 2021
Grade 7 is an important year. It’s the first time the Preppies get to be the `seniors’ of the Senior Preppies. As with all challenges, preparation […]
Feb 15, 2021
Interested East London families are warmly invited to relax on the sofa and join us for an informal chat around what our family of schools has […]
Feb 12, 2021
The Covid Cupids were out at Prep today, handing out early heart-felt “Happy Valentine’s Day” wishes and chocolates to pleasantly surprised Prep staff. When our cupids […]
Feb 5, 2021
The first day of Big School is a momentous occasion for our Pre-Primary children and their families. In spite of their first day being somewhat different […]
Feb 5, 2021
St Andrew’s Prep is officially 136 years old! Founded in 1885, Prep first opened it’s doors to 25 pupils. Over the century and some, it has […]
Nov 27, 2020
In spite of everything, Prep managed to host our most valued event in the calendar for our Grade 7s: Feast. Having bid farewell to the Grade […]
Nov 11, 2020
Our Junior Preppies set out on various adventures last week, exploring Kenton-on-Sea, Kasouga and Bushman Sands. The children discovered small creatures in tidal pools, built sand […]
Nov 11, 2020
As the Grade Rs were unable to go on an Outdoor Ed trip – Outdoor Ed came to them! On Friday last week, the class came with […]
Nov 11, 2020
This past Sunday, the Headmaster of St Andrew’s College, SAC Head Boy, Malibongwe Mkosi, the Prep Head Boy, Matthew Ladds and Prep Headmaster Brendan Brady represented […]
Oct 21, 2020
The Prep Grade 7s recently spent just short of a week at the Amakhala Game Reserve, sleeping under the stars, learning to make fire by friction, […]
Sep 30, 2020
In the last position of leadership for our Grade 7 Preppies, the following boys were recently selected as our Term 3 House Captains: Tigers House Captain: […]
Sep 30, 2020
The scale of influence we have on those around us cannot always be measured, but where there are causes worth fighting for, the good influence is […]
Sep 30, 2020
Covid-19 has been hard on the 2020 Matrics. With much of their anticipated celebrations being cancelled or postponed, and with restrictions dragging on, the possibility of […]
Sep 16, 2020
The Senior Prep boys have given us a glimpse of what we have been missing in our sporting calendar this year. Last week, the boys turned […]
Sep 16, 2020
Our Junior Preppies (and a few of the Pre-Primary children) took a different route this year to our Table Farm Trekkers. They enjoyed a Spring Walk, […]
Aug 28, 2020
St Andrew’s Prep and College are delighted to welcome Rev Richard Wyngaard, his wife Christine and triplet sons: Joshua, Jesse and Jamie to the Andrean community. […]
Aug 5, 2020
Last Friday, Grade 7 pupil Ethan Bradfield participated in the Belmont Valley Golf Championships in the C-Division against adult players. Ethan finished up as the Runner-Up […]
Aug 5, 2020
In spite of the unique challenges faced this entire year, our Preppies continue to show themselves able to step up. We are so very proud of […]
Jul 29, 2020
St Andrew’s Prep has led the way for many schools across the country in keeping children healthy and getting them safely back on the campus sports […]
Jul 23, 2020
The following piece was sent in recently by Old Preppie Tony Macrae, who now lives in Dubai: Challenging times globally! We live in a VUCA world, […]
Jul 20, 2020
Mandela Day at Prep this year was celebrated on Friday with some sweetness and warmth being added to the food parcels delivered to the 110 families […]