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SENIOR HOUSEMASTER
Mr J. Brodrick
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HOUSEMASTERS
Ms L. White (Assisted by Mr R White)
Mr R van Blerk (Until Term 4)
Ms S van Blerk (After Term 4)
Mr N Muiznieks (From Term 3)
Mr B. Nhleko
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MATRON
Mrs W. Cullen (A KKS Employee)
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PREFECTS OF HOSTEL 2009
Michael Vorster (Head Prefect)
Callum Dawn (School Prefect)
Dennis Halo
Sandile Masondo
Aluwani Nengovhela
PREFECTS OF HOSTEL 2008
Rebone Molotsi (Head Prefect)
Thomas Weedman (School Prefect)
Dean Boyd
Andile Somana van den Bempt
Sean van Rensburg
PREFECTS OF HOSTEL 2007
Jared Main
Busiso Moyo
Charles Zikalala
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PARENTS' COMMITTEE
This has been disbanded owing to lack of interest. Mr Bruce Vorster is still nominally chairman, but no meetings have been held this year. Mr Vorster also represents the hostels on the Governing Body.
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Oribi House began when in 1910 four cottages near the school were rented to accommodate sixteen boys. When the number increased to thirty, more accommodation was taken.
A site given to the school by Sir Julius Jeppe and others having proved unsuitable for the school was sold, and the money raised was used to build the school’s first official hostel, which opened in 1913.
Today the house accommodates fifty boys.
A more detailed history of the house is available in the School’s Centenary Magazine.
We try to make Oribi a home from home for our boarders. The rules of the house are very much like the rules that most parents apply (unwritten) in their homes. These are based on consideration for others, and an attempt to give them as much freedom as is compatible with equality, security, and the smooth running of the house. The rules are not engraved in stone or set on concrete, and well motivated suggestions from the boys have led to changes over the last few years.
Boys are encouraged, but not forced, to participate widely in school and inter-house activities. Academic achievement is rewarded with a little more freedom of choice about study time than is otherwise the norm. |
