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Our History

1993

A Church Hall

The pre-primary school was started in the Howick Methodist Church Hall, with 18 children from desperately poor families.

2005

The Old Parsonage

The Howick Methodist Church offered the Old Parsonage to the school and the pre-primary school moved into its own building.

2008

International Partnership

The pre-primary school was started in the Howick Methodist Church Hall, with 18 children from desperately poor families.

2010

Primary School Beginnings

The school decided to accept 120 desperately needy primary school children from Merit Christian School. Three additional classrooms were built to accommodate these children.

2011

Start Grade 1 to Grade 4

The Primary School opens with classes from grade 1 to grade 4.

2012

Media Centre

The school built a new classroom and a library/media centre, and renovated the Old Parsonage. Grade 5 began.

2014

A Full Primary School

The primary school has a grade 6 by 2014, and grade 7 by 2015.

2017-2019

School Expansion

Expansions to the school began in 2017 and were complete in 2019. There are now two classrooms per grade and facilities to compliment our STEAM curriculum.

2024

Our Expansion Is Almost Complete

In 2024 we will be completing the school expansion in terms of the number of children. We began adding on a class per grade and that expansion will be complete soon, making it a full school. We have also completed the new Angels’ Care Centre state of the art pre-primary school (Grade RRR-R) at the end of 2023, being opened and fully functional in 2024.

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.