Pretoria North High School

Pretoria North High School is a Public Funded Government High School in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Pretoria North High School
Address
Corner of Eeufees Street and Berg Avenue

Pretoria
,
Gauteng

South Africa
Coordinates25.685102°S 28.16881°E / -25.685102; 28.16881
Information
School typePublic school
MottoVoor in die wapad brand 'n lig (Translated: There at the end of the wagon trial is a light)
Established1951 (1951)
AuthorityGauteng Department of Education
PrincipalC J C (Neels) Driecher [1]
Grades8-12
GenderCo-ed
LanguageAfrikaans
Colour(s)Turquoise, white and black
AccreditationGauteng Department of Education
Websitewww.pnhs.co.za

History of Schools in Pretoria North

The first school in the area was established in 1890 by Theodore Erasmus at his farm " Wesfontein ". In 1895 Jan Booysen established a school on the east side of the Apies River, Pretoria. Since 1904 the English Anglican Church in General Beyers Street has been used as a school. The first classrooms of the Pretoria North Parallel Medium School (Primary Danie Malan today) were founded on 20 May 1909. [2]

Pretoria North High School founded

On January 19, 1943, the Junior High School Pretoria North seceded from Pretoria North Parallel and the standard six to eight students went over to House Zealand. The construction of the school started in 1944 and was completed in 1946. Pretoria North High School was officially founded in 1951. [3] [4]

Language and gender

The school caters for both sexes, and is an Afrikaans medium school

Alumni
  • Carl Martin (Kallie) Kriel (born 14 September 1969) - Head of a civic organization [5]
gollark: Now to make a mod called \@everyone.
gollark: ***THE WRATH OF YEMMEL***
gollark: This is quite funny. The claim which was apparently "blocking" his expansion and which has been removed? He's not (visibly) using the land there. At all.
gollark: Never mind, he did, eventually.
gollark: <@&198138780132179968> Dany is refusing to return the fake lava blocks taken from my claim which got removed.

References
  1. "Hoërskool Pretoria Noord".
  2. "Pretoria North". Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. "Vision of the Apies river" (PDF). Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. "Hoërskool Pretoria Noord". Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  5. "Afrikaner Aspriration". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
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