Category: Alumni Stories

The Gaudy Dinner for the year groups 1968, 1988, 1998 and 2008 was held in May. It was a superb evening, where many friendships were rekindled, and much fun was had!

In February, WPPS hosted the Prep Schools Cricket Festival. Ten schools from around the country took part. On the final evening, the players, coaches and headmasters were treated to a wonderful supper in the Stansbury Hall, and listened to our special guest speaker, Springbok rugby player, Dillyn Leyds (2005). Dillyn inspired the boys and encouraged...

We came together as a community to celebrate our Founders’ Day. The whole school from Grades N to 7 was involved, as we were reminded how the school was started. Geoffrey Stansbury was at a party in England in 1912 when he met Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, who spoke passionately about South Africa and suggested to...

Congratulations to William Linley, who has been chosen to be head boy at Bishops in 2019 and head of Founders House. Sachin Chagan will be deputy of White House, and Kieran Seggie and Charlie Yates will be head and deputy of Kidd House respectively. Joshua Elliott will be deputy of Birt House. Well done, boys....

Martin Luther King said: “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of education” and Theodore Roosevelt said: “To educate a person in the mind but not in the morals is to educate a menace to society”. Clearly, character education is exceptionally important for our children, and this is an aspect that we, at Wetpups,...

In February, old boy Matthew Pearce (1982) came talk to the Grade 1s about his days at WPPS. Water saving was the name of the game at the beginning of the year, and the Grade 7s were involved in a solutions-based water-saving workshop with old boy David Perrott (2003). The boys came up with innovative...