About Us

70+

years of school
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About Us

Empowering Minds, Inspiring Futures

At Sunlands Primary School, we believe in the future of our learners. Therefore, we pursue every channel to enable each learner to reach his or her fullest potential.
 
Since 2006 Sunlands Primary School has become a Brain-based school. Staff incorporate several teaching methods and brain smart activities to wake up the brain in order to optimize the learning process of each learner. Movement is included in lessons as it is critical for cognition. It unifies brain levels and provides learners with an opportunity to utilize both sides of the brain which results in whole-brain functioning, as the passing of information between both hemispheres maximizes the storage thereof.
Applying Brain-Based Education Principles at Sunlands Primary School:
Our teachers manage stress factors (purposefully decrease or increase stress) in class are likely to create a positive classroom environment. We incorporate the ‘fun’ element into our teaching methods and manage stress factors by playing baroque music when needed, by integrating stretching exercises or movement, making use of Brain Gym, incorporating recess, teaching coping skills, and utilizing physical education.
As evidence suggests, moderate glucose levels enhance learner’s memory-making. learners are having a snack break early during the mornings when they consume healthy snacks to keep their glucose levels balanced. By maintaining balanced glucose levels, energy is provided for the brain to function optimally.
 
Hydrating the brain is important. To keep learners brain hydrated they are allowed and encouraged to have bottles filled with water in the classroom. This enables them to take frequent sips to allow hydration of the brain.
why choose us ?

At Sunlands Primary, we believe in the future of our learners.

Our Vision Statement

At Sunlands, we nurture self-disciplined and motivated learners who constantly strive towards excellence in all areas, thus preparing them to become valuable members of an ever-changing society.

Our Mission Statement

At Sunlands we are proud to encourage the values of respect, honesty, compassion, inclusivity, responsibility and self-discipline. Our professional and dedicated team strives to promote a safe, inclusive, and positive environment where personal growth will ensure that the whole child’s full potential is realised. We value the unique qualities of each individual and seek to nurture their particular talents and to empower them to confidently overcome their challenges. Our learners are being exposed to a school environment where self-discipline and a positive self-image are encouraged. We aim to equip learners with the appropriate skills to think critically and work diligently both cooperatively and independently. The integration of academic excellence based curriculum and the acquisition of skills for life and learning to promote the development of a well-balanced individual who will make a positive contribution to society. With these ideals and maximum parent involvement, Sunlands Primary will be renowned as an example to others.

At Sunlands Primary School, we believe in the future of our learners.

Innovate. Educate. Transform

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RESPECT

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Honesty

(Including Integrity and Trust)

3

Compassion

(Including Empathy and Care)

4

Responsibility

(Including Accountability and Pride)

5

Self-Discipline

(Including Self-Control)

About Us

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In December 1952 the foundation was cast for a prefabricated building consisting of five classrooms on the corner of Newent Street and Maybury Road. The school opened in June 1953 with three classes. Some 20 pupils in Sub A and Sub B and approximately 15 in Standards 1,2 and 3 combined.
 
The first Principal was Mrs. Irwing assisted by Mrs. Hutchinson. The first School Committee was elected in January 1953 with Mr. George Smith as Chairman. The first permanent Principal was Mr. J.S. Gericke who was appointed in January 1954 and passed away in 1960, soon after the completion of the first permanent building.
 
In August 1954 the first PTA committee was elected. In 1955 the first Afrikaans Medium classes were started at the school. The School Song- music and Afrikaans words- were written by Mr. Hannes Uys for the opening of the first phase of the permanent building on 24 May 1958 by Mr. D.L. Liebenberg, the Chief Inspector of schools at the time. The second Principal, Mr. A.E. van der Vlies, was appointed in 1961 and left in 1968.
 
The second phase of the permanent building, consisting of 23 classrooms, a hall and change rooms was opened by Mr. J.C. Heunis in March 1968.
The third Principal was Mr. Jan R. Koker who was appointed in 1968. Under his leadership the school gardens were laid out, a school bus was purchased and the swimming pool was officially opened in February 1977 by the Director of Education at the time, Dr. P.S. Meyer. A start was made with the development of the new sport fields. Mr. Koker passed away in 1981.
 
Mr. C.F. de Witt was appointed as the school’s fourth Principal in 1982. The sport fields were completed and inaugurated on 30 April 1982 as the Jan R. Koker sport field. Change rooms were built and officially opened on 19 October 1984.Mr. de Witt left the school at the end of 1984. The first Pre-Primary Class started in March 1984. From July 1985, Mr. A.W. Simpson was appointed as Principal until 1996.
 
Mrs. A van Heerden has been at Sunlands since 1976, and was appointed as Principal in 1997. She retired after serving 24 years as Principal of Sunlands. Under her leadership, The Alta Van Heerden Resource Centre was opened by the Superintendent-General of the Western Cape Educational Trust Department, Mr Brain Schreuder on the 14th January 2020. As part of her unwavering commitment to Sunlands Primary School and the field of education, the centre was dedicated to Mrs. Van Heerden.
 
Mrs. M. Rhode, our 7th and current Principal, was appointed in 2021.

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OUR SCHOOL SONG

Sunlands boys and girls together,
Do their best at work and play.
Mindful that their country’s future,
Rests within their hands today.
 
School’s a place where every nation’s
Future citizens should take shape.
Sunlands school lays firm foundations,
Worthy of this fairest Cape.
Prudens Futuri