CTHS Applications for 2017 Open 1 Mar '16

Applications for new learners to enter Cape Town High School in 2017 will open on the 1st of March 2016.

Please note that Applications for 2017 will close on 18 March 2016.

Please download the single-page Application Information Document, which provides very important information (such as Admission requirements for prospective learners).

To download the relevant document, click on the appropriate [link] below. The document will then open up from Google Drive. You can then download that document to your computer (or print it out) via an icon at the top of that page.

It is available as a PDF document [here] and as an MS-Word document [here].

The Application Form itself is available as a Spreadsheet [here] and as a read-only PDF file [here].

The Application Form must be filled in and returned, with its accompanying documents, to the CTHS School Secretary by the abovementioned deadline.

 

CTHS Award for Academic Performance Improvement - 18 Feb '16

We are proud to announce that on 18 Feb 2016, Cape Town High School received an award from the Western Cape Education Department for the improvement in academic performance of its Grade 9 learners in 2015.

The award is titled:
"Overall Improvement in Academic Performance: Grade 9 Schools
with an enrollment of less than 600 learners
2015 WCED Language and Mathematics Systemic Tests"

This award illustrates how Cape Town High is moving steadily to its goal to become a centre of excellence in those relevant subjects.

On behalf of Cape Town High, Principal. Mr E. M. Cloete accepted the award from Ms Penny Vinjefold
(Head of Education, Western Cape) and Ms Debbie Schaffer (MEC of Education, Western Cape) at a presentation recently.

Heartiest congratulations to the learners who wrote the tests, and to the Mathematics educators who took them for the subject.

Above: Mr E. M. Cloete receives the Award on behalf of CTHS, for
Grade 9 Systemic Tests in Mathematics and English, from Ms Penny Vinjefold
(Head of Education, Western Cape) and Ms Debbie Schaffer
(MEC of Education, Western Cape)

Above: The Award Certificate

CTHS Upgrades of School Facilities - 18 Feb '16

Following decisions made by the principal and SGB last year, Cape Town High School is renovating and upgrading its infrastructure and facilities, An amount of R4 million has been budgeted. This includes necessary repair work, repainting the class rooms, improvements to the main School Hall (including new curtains) and improved audiovisual facilities.

This work, which began towards the end of 2015, will continue into the new year as part of the ongoing upgrade of our school and its facilities.