When it comes to excellent education and learning opportunities, Lynnwood Glen offers a boys’ school and a college that both deliver in spades.
St Alban’s College
www.stalbanscollege.com
With a rich history that spans 50 years, St Alban’s College prides itself on affording each and every student the opportunity to enjoy a positive educational experience that is aimed at meeting their evolving stages of cognitive development. Here, academic excellent goes hand in hand with top-notch sports opportunities – and the school offers everything from rugby to cricket, hockey, basketball, rowing and water polo. Rowing is particularly popular and the school has even excelled at national level in this sport.
Arts and culture is an equally important facet of life at St Alban’s, and their award-winning arts programmes include their band, choir, visual art and photography.
As a values-driven school, the college’s mantra – if you’re not growing, you’re dying – is a constant souce of inspiration to reinvent the curriculums, cultural and sporting practices, and the teachers. What’s more, parents are considered as essential educational partners and are consistently encouraged to participate in the education process.
Finally, the ability to be an ambassador for our country is something that’s not taken lightly at St Alban’s and during a recent choir tour to the USA, the choir made a huge impression that resulted in various letters of praise for the way the members of the choir conducted themselves.
Varsity College Pretoria
www.varsitycollege.co.za/pretoria
Student life at Varsity College’s Pretoria Campus is pretty much perfect – and everything once could hope for in a tertiary institution. With a strong emphasis on academic excellence, personal development, cultural pursuits and sports, it encompasses the full spectrum one would expect from a top-notch college.
Pretoria is known for its sports stars and also home to the Blue Bulls, so it’s no surprise that Varsity College takes their sports seriously too. One of the highlights on offer is Action sport, including action netball, action cricket, and action hockey.
With teaching methods that are thoroughly adapted to and in touch with knowledge and skills requirements in the 21st century, the college offers a modern, blended-learning student experience. The unique interactive approach affords students the opportunity to participate, connect, collaborate, create and communicate – which all adds to the development of critical thinking.
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