Berea Primary School celebrates 100th birthday

Berea Primary School celebrates 100th birthday

Durban's Berea Primary School will be welcoming 100% of its learners on its 100th birthday on Monday.

Berea Primary School celebrates 100th birthday
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The school was opened in 1921.


Principal Bridget Williams has been with the school for 40 years.


She says she's proud to have seen it go through significant changes through the years.


"Gone from being an all-girls white school to embracing the change with our democracy.


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"We've seen different curriculums come and go and yet the tradition together with embracing the modern world have remained intact.


"The traditional values of honesty and integrity, impeccable manners, presenting one's self - equipping our children for the world and never changed."


Berea Primary will celebrate its centenary in style by hosting separate grade assemblies, among other things, and blowing bubbles into the sky.

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