The Year 2020 forced the Lawhill team to take on the seemingly impossible, to attend to an unprecedented array of logistical and technological challenges, to teach in new and unfamiliar ways and to stretch our comfort zones like never before. When lockdown was announced at the end of March, we were confronted with the challenge […]
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WATCH: Our 25th anniversary and Educator Farewell event
Please sit back, relax and enjoy this recording of our very special 25th anniversary and maritime educator event. 2020 has been an extraordinary year. Whilst the pandemic presented many challenges and brought much heartbreak as some of our students lost love ones, there were also moments to celebrate as the STS Lawhill Maritime Centre marked two […]
NEW: Gr12 Maritime Economics Video Series
NEW GR 12 MARITIME ECONOMICS VIDEOS TO BOOST FINAL EXAM PREPARATIONS A new series of Grade 12 Maritime Economics videos has been launched to assist the more than 600 matriculants across South Africa who, despite significant disruptions to their education by the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges, will sit down to write their final NSC/IEB […]
Term 2 Newsletter – Special LOCKDOWN edition
The COVID-19 has provided our maritime students with many valuable lessons and we thank them for sharing their inspiring and honest reflections on the lockdown in a special Term 2 Lockdown Edition newsletter. Our sincere appreciation too to Michele Edgecombe of Indigo Design for designing this commemorative booklet/newsletter and for agreeing to do so on a part-pro bono […]
Lockdown Newsletter Competition – The Rationale, the Results
Schools across South Africa closed early in March 2020, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and all Lawhill boarders returned home to their families across South Africa and Namibia. In May 2020, we asked our maritime students to share their best and worst lockdown experiences, as well as the lessons they’d learnt during lockdown and what they were most grateful […]
Marine Inspirations – June 2019 – Daily Reports
Thank you to the Marine Inspirations team – Captain Phil Wade, Captain Anthony Just and Terry Clark – for the daily reports on the June 2019 edition of Marine Inspirations. Our maritime students are having an incredible learning experience – read all about in the reports below. Our sincere thanks to Anne, Law and Emma […]
Thami Hoza – Doing Lawhill and SA proud
Thami Hoza (Class of 2016) – pictured here with Professor Jonathan Jansen – is the only South African to be chosen as a GLOBAL TEEN for 2018. This young man from Welkom is really going places. In January he spent time (and his birthday) in Delhi, India with Startup Safari after winning the Western Cape round […]
Lawhill Newsletter – Terms 3 & 4 2017
If you’re having that ‘end of year’ feeling and the madness of the modern world is getting to you, we suggest you take a few minutes to browse our latest newsletter. Some of the highlights of the past few months are: having Professor Jonathan Jansen as a guest speaker at our Annual Awards evening (and […]
NEWS: YACHT DONATION A BOOST TO MARITIME EDUCATION
(Cape Town, South Africa): Maritime education at Simon’s Town School’s Lawhill Maritime Centre (www.lawhill.org) has been given a boost with the donation of a 26 foot yacht to be used for practical sail and navigation training. The yacht is a donation from the international maritime mentoring programme, Marine Inspirations (www.marineinspirations.org) and yacht sponsor, […]
2015 Matric Results – 100% pass for Lawhill Grade 12 boarders!
Our 2016 has started on a high note with the news that all our 2015 Grade 12 Lawhill boarders have passed their 2015 National Senior Certificate Examinations. The best performing Lawhill student (with the highest average percentage of 84% for all subjects) was Lungelo Mkhize, followed by Bradley Felix (82% average) and Apiwe Malinga. Bradley Felix achieved […]