FLIPPING BOOK CHRONICLE 2024

MESSAGE FROM THE RECTOR

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the work of the Old Boys’ Club, and, from this year, those boys in matric have been linked judiciously with Old Boys who have left school five to seven years previously. A matriculant going to, say, Stellenbosch University to study a BCom degree is now linked to an Old Boy who has graduated in that area and is moving into the world of work. Advice and help is given in this mentorship programme, which is taken one step further as the Old Boy graduates – when he moves into the world of work, he is mentored by another Old Boy, perhaps in his 40s, who is well-established in, say, the financial services industry, and he, in turn, for example, could be nurtured by an even more senior Old Boy in such an area. This is an exciting development for the school and expands on the original intention of the cop-cack system to the benefit of all Old Boys, as well as current pupils.

024 has been another remarkable year of growth for Michaelhouse, with the enrolment at an all-time high, and with boys and staff working in tandem and striving for the highest levels of attainment in every field of endeavour. The contribution of Old Boys to the school in many different areas has continued to be outstanding. This was exemplified in the development of the mentorship programme through which a boy passes as he moves from school to university and then, as an adult, into the world of work. As most will know, the Michaelhouse tradition is that a boy’s prefect helps him carry his trunk up to his dorm on his first day here at school and that, thereafter, the younger boy fetches the prefect’s laundry and makes toasted sandwiches for him, whilst the prefect helps him settle in and liaises with the boy’s family. This tradition of support up and down has been advanced through

The widening and re-modelling of the Chapel has been a project

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