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 […]
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Click on the link below for our Term 1 – 2019 news! Highlights include our excellent Gr12 results for 2018, the launch of a new Lawhill video (view it on our YouTube channel on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbe6z0u_xUM), an update on the Marine Sciences pilot and our rowing, sailing and cycling programme news. Please take a moment to read about these […]
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and so many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.- Mark Twain So true is this statement. Good evening all, my name […]
Newsletter – Aug to Dec 18 A round up of some of the many highlights.. Please click on the link above to see how we are investing in a future maritime generation- and some of our exciting plans for the new year .. thank you for your support!
Simon’s Town School was honoured to have world renowned economist, Dr Iraj Abedian as our guest speaker at our annual awards. We had several requests for his keynote address – pse click here to read it. KeynoteSpeechLawhillCentre12Oct2018
Lubaqa Ngongoma (Gr 12 student funded by Captains Keith Pletschke and Anne Till) and two General Botha Old Boys Bursary Fund Gr 11 students, Apelele Ntshinka and Thapelo Moletsane, have spent the October 2018 school break in Spain learning all about the superyacht industry- and alot more!. Our grateful thanks to Captain Anthony Just and […]
We are delighted to announce Professor Doctor Captain Ed Snyders as our new Maritime Economics Educator! Mr Brian Ingpen, who has been with the Maritime Studies Programme since it was formalised in 1997, will work alongside Professor Snyders before handing over the reins at a date still to be determined. Much of the success of our […]
Interested in an update from the General Botha Old Boys Association bursary fund? Their latest newsletter is available on the link below… GBOBA BF Newsletter August 2018
Twenty seven year-old Nicole Gouvias has become the first female alumnus of the Simon’s Town School’s Lawhill Maritime Centre to obtain her internationally-recognised Master’s Certificate of Competency (Unlimited), the qualification which permits her to command a ship of any size. Nicole – who dreamt of being a ship’s captain from a young age – is […]
Click on the PDF link below for our January newsletter which provides an update on the successful BBWP fundraising event held at the Royal Cape Yacht Club in December, our ride with a former Tour de France yellow jersey winner and past and current student ‘good news’! Lawhill Newsletter – Jan 2018 (Remember to visit the […]