Curro Salt Rock is celebrating its strongest academic results to date, with a 100% IEB pass rate for the Class of 2025.
Top-performing learners include Luka Venter, who achieved eight distinctions; Damian Kluza and Emile Kriek with six distinctions each; Johan Conradie with four distinctions; Brendan Bartels, Charlotte Wilde and Kylin Lundie with three distinctions each; and Micha Talanda, Jacques van der Merwe and Thato Shange with two distinctions each.
In education, there is often talk about facilities, resources and reputation. These certainly matter. But increasingly, it is becoming clear that what matters most is something less tangible: the belief that a child’s potential should not be limited by the physical walls of their school.
Traditional models ask learners to choose from what is available. But what if a passionate scientist wants to study subjects beyond the timetable? What if a future engineer needs access to specialised courses? At Curro, different questions are being asked.
That is why an expansive subject selection is offered – designed to match individual ambitions, not limit them. Whether a child is drawn to the creative arts, pursuing technical expertise or exploring cultural and linguistic diversity, the curriculum provides the pathways they need.
It is understood that learners have unique interests and life goals and elective subjects play a key role in helping them get there. At Curro Salt Rock, learning is not confined to a timetable. Through Curro Choice, learners have access to over 21 subjects, from robotics to advanced sciences, choosing paths that reflect their passions and ambitions.
These subjects are delivered via live, virtual lessons on Microsoft Teams and Moodle, hosted by experienced educators. Learners may take them as part of their regular electives, or as eighth, ninth or even tenth subjects outside regular school hours. This is not about being different for its own sake, it’s about expanding what is possible.
Here on the North Coast, something intentionally comprehensive is being built. Learners move between science labs and sports fields, engage in cultural programmes and robotics clubs and receive support from on-site therapists and career guidance counsellors.
In classes capped at 25, teachers know each child not as a number, but as an individual with unique strengths and aspirations.
When limits are removed, something shifts. Learners begin to see education not as something done to them but as something they actively shape.
The school’s open day on February 11 2026 will showcase Connect@Curro, which offers insight not only into what they offer, but how they prepare young people for real life. The event is open to all current Grade 7 learners from Curro and the broader Ballito community as they look ahead to Grade 8.
Visit www.curro.co.za to learn more.
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