Phil Wade and the Marine Inspirations team have issued an invitation to the maritime community to support a very special event – a fun-filled evening of delicious food, great entertainment and excellent wine to raise funds to support the students at the STS Lawhill Maritime Centre in Simon’s Town. The BIG BOTTLE OF WINE PARTY is […]
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MARINE INSPIRATIONS – SEPT/OCT 2017 Participants from Lawhill – All Grade 12: Olwethu Maneli – from PE Lizwi Ncube – from Durban Nkazimlo Mxitsha – from Khayelitsha Siphuxolo Mlaba – from King Williamstown Plus: Navigating officer, Aubrey Sosibo (Lawhill alumnus) Report provided by Captain Phil Wade: REPORT Day 1 Monday 25th September 2017 I am […]
It was an honour to have Professor Jonathan Jansen as our guest speaker at the Lawhill Annual Awards event held on October 12. Prof Jansen is highly respected, both nationally and internationally, for his views on education and we are delighted to learn that he was most impressed and inspired by our programme …(He even […]
BY BRIAN INGPEN. THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE CAPE TIMES ON 26 JULY 2017 “My mother told my father that I had taken girls to bioscope,” Captain Bill Damerell told me during one of my visits to this amazing old salt who passed away last week. “The following Saturday, my father told me to […]
LAWHILL News – Term 2 2017 Please click on the link above for a recap of the exciting happenings at the STS Lawhill Maritime Centre during Term 2, 2017! These include the launch of our very own yacht, the many visits and ‘beyond the classroom’ experiences which enrich our students education – and more!
Transfers -june and july2017 Dear Lawhill ‘Amaboarders’. We are looking forward to having you back at Lawhill on Sunday 23 July for another busy term. Please make sure you have your bus ticket and your ID book/birth certificate with you when boarding the bus – and be sure to give yourself sufficient time to get to […]
Interested in applying for our maritime studies programme and staying at the Lawhill boarding house? Applications are open to those studying Grade 9 in 2017 to apply to stay and study with us. Please download both these forms, complete them IN FULL and post them via registered mail before the closing date (end of August) in […]
MARINE INSPIRATIONS REPORT – JUNE 2017 – BY CAPTAIN PHIL WADE Tuesday 20th June 2017 At 10.00 hours we reported to the massive sailing yacht “Aquijo” docked in STP repair yard. This is an amazing sailing yacht, 86 meters long, displacing 1,700 tons and the two mast stretching 96 meters into the sky, more […]
(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, […]
Anything but junk … Opening new, world-first educational facilities, competing in our first duathlon (and winning the school’s challenge), celebrating academic excellence – read about all this and more in the TERM 1, 2017 newsletter of the Simon’s Town School’s Lawhill Maritime Centre! Click here .. Lawhill Term 1 -2017 -NL