Dear Parents
This is the first Thursday newsletter, so I do hope the timing of its issue is going to be of assistance. Any feedback in this regard is most welcome.
ROSSALL PRECINCT AND TUTU MEMORIAL
I am pleased to inform you that all the building and refurbishment of the Rossall precinct is now complete after a lengthy eighteen month process – very inconvenient and taxing but worth it in the end. We have five new apartments for relocating staff, which replaced the dormitories of the Van Der Bijl boarding house, a completely re-paved area between the classrooms and the fields with a walled parking area for eleven cars, as well as a new set of cricket nets able to be converted for multi-purpose use in the winter months. In addition, extensive solar panels have been installed on the roof of the Grade 3 wing and the exterior of that wing, the Pavilion and surrounding walls re-painted. A total upgrade.
I spoke at Prizegiving last year about the Tutu memorial that has been included in this re-modelling of the precinct. An initiative of last year’s Parents’ Association Committee, it is essentially a large raised planter beautifully finished in tiles. With the help of our Art Department, every boy in the school painted a tile giving their own symbolic “view” of the Archbishop. On the top is the quote:
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate.
We are different precisely in order to realise our need of one another”.
We hope that this memorial will continue to remind us of the man and leader he was, one who stood for justice, fairness and peace in South Africa and the world; a stand he took with great courage, determination, compassion and love. He was, as he said, “a warrior for hope.”
Kind regards
GREG BROWN
HEADMASTER |
