Westville Girls' High School
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Motto | Incepto ne destitam Stay the course or May I not shrink from my purpose |
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Established | January 1964 |
Type | Public school |
Gender | Girls |
Principal | Mary Johnstone |
Students | c. 1050 |
Grades | 8-12 |
Location | Westville Road, Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
houses | 6 |
Website | http://www.wghs.co.za/ |
Westville Girls' High School, also known as WGHS, is a public school for girls in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The school was founded in January 1964 with 219 pupils, when Westville High School was split into two single-sex schools, and has grown to the current c. 1050 pupils. It has a house system with six houses.
[edit] Motto
The school motto, Incepto ne destitam, is Latin, and is taken from Virgil's Aeneid. According to the school's Code of Conduct for Learners, May I not shrink from my purpose is a literal translation, but Stay the course is an appropriate colloquial translation.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Westville Girls' High School - Code of Conduct for Learners Retrieved August 24 2007
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