A Century of Tradition
For
more than a hundred years, Roedean, a school based on Christian
principles and beliefs, has stood firm in a rapidly changing world.
The
school’s original principles of Truth, Honour, Freedom, and Courtesy
have proved to be a steadfast foundation on which the Roedean of today
still flourishes.
Roedean (SA) was founded in 1903 as a sister school to
the esteemed Roedean in Brighton, England, which was itself established
to provide an education for girls that was equal to that
provided by the illustrious English boys’ schools. Armed with
“the most modern ideals for the education of girls”, Theresa
Lawrence and Katherine Margaret Earle set sail for South Africa
at the turn of the last century and began their school, complete
with 22 pupils, in a small house in Johannesburg.
Today, some
806 girls from Grade 0 to Matric, wear the
Roedean uniform with pride: girls drawn from a richly diverse range of
cultures. When the school’s Centenary was celebrated in 2003, the flags
of 47 countries were displayed, representing the different nationalities
of pupils attending the school that year. They would one day leave the
school with one thing in common: the hallmark of Roedean.
Read the full letter from Mrs Williams
- Matric 2009
See the
results for the
top pupils.
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