Kingswood College (South Africa)
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| Kingswood College | |
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| File:Kingswood College logo.jpg Kingswood College School Crest | |
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| Coordinates | 33°18′14″S 26°31′52″E / 33.30389°S 26.53111°E |
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| School type | Private & Boarding |
| Motto | Studia Hilaritate Proveniunt (In Cheerfulness, Is The Success Of Our Studies) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Methodist Church |
| Established | 14 March 1894 |
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| Locale | Suburban |
| School number | +27 (046) 603 6600 |
| Headmistress | Dr Colleen Vassiliou |
| Exam board | IEB |
| Grades | Pre-Primary (Grade 000 - Grade R) to Grade 12, then Bridging Year (Post Matric). |
| Gender | Boys & Girls |
| Age | 3 to 18 |
| Number of students | 650 pupils |
| Language | English |
| Schedule | 08:00 - 14:00 |
| Campus | Urban Campus |
| Colour(s) | Red Black White |
| Nickname | Kingswoodian |
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| Alumni | Old Kingswoodian Association |
| Fees | R86,150 to R157,710 for boarders R20,850 to R88,725 for day scholars |
| Website | www |
Kingswood College is a private, Methodist co-educational school in Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa attended by boarding and day scholars, and a member of the Independent Schools Association of South Africa. The school leavers write the matriculation examinations set by the Independent Examinations Board (IEB).
History
Kingswood College is one of the oldest Methodist boarding schools in the country. It derives its name and ideals from Kingswood School, the 18th century college established by John Wesley [a] near Bristol, England, in 1748.
The Reverend William Shaw was a Methodist minister who came to Eastern Cape as a member of Sephton's party of 1820 Settlers, he founded the Salem Academy in Salem in the Albany district in the 1830s. The Academy was subsequently moved to Grahamstown where it was renamed the Shaw College, and later the Wesleyan Collegiate School for Boys. In 1896 the Wesleyan Collegiate School for Boys was located on the site that is the present home of Kingswood College.
Kingswood College was founded by Daniel Knight in 1894.[1]
Sport
Kingswood College has been performing very well on sports during the year.
The sports that are offered in the school are:
- Archery
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Chess
- Cricket
- Cross country
- Cycling
- Equestrian
- Golf
- Hockey
- Netball
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Squash
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Water polo
Notable alumni
- Neil Aggett, medical doctor and political activist who died in police custody
- Chris Bennett (admiral)
- Tiny Francis, rugby player
- Geoffrey de Jager, businessman and philanthropist
- Fabian Juries, rugby player
- Jeremy Mansfield, radio and TV personality
- Sir Allan Mossop, Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China
- Bennie Osler, rugby player
- Meyrick Pringle, cricketer
- Brett Wilkinson, rugby player
- David Denton, rugby player
- Grant Hattingh, rugby player
- Rosco Speckman, rugby player and Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Brett Schultz, cricketer
- Jack Slater, rugby Springbok
- Denys Hobson, cricketer
- David Divine, novelist, Distinguished Service Medal (WW2), CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
- Harvey Tyson, author and former editor of THE STAR newspaper
- Graham Beck, internationally acclaimed business magnate, wine maker, stud farmer and philanthropist
- Percy Scholes
- Uyinene Mrwetyana, key figure in the movement against gender-based violence in South Africa.
Notes and references
- ^ John Wesley was an Anglican priest who is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism
- ^ Southey, Nicholas Derek (1984). Period of Transition: History of Grahamstown 1902-1918 (masters). Grahamstown: Rhodes University. p. 354.
- Kirkby, Howard; Kirkby, Joyce (1994). Still upon a frontier: a history of Kingswood College, 1892-1993. Old Kingswoodian Club, Kingswood College. ISBN 978-0-620-18220-1.
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