NORTHLANDS Primary School recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee Year Founder’s Day with a commemorative walk, a plaque unveiling and a family fun day.

Every October, the school has a traditional flag-raising assembly with the entire school from Grade R to Grade Seven.

“This is a time for our learners and teachers to revisit the history of our school and remind us where we have come from and where we are going. Having a sense of tradition helps our learners to understand the elements in society that shape our school. Our school traditions also tie into our ethos and values as a school community. This year was especially important as we celebrated our 75th Jubilee Year,” explained school marketing manager Caroline Hockly.

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“We had incredible support from our past student alumni who turned out in full force, along with older members of our alumni from the old Northlands campus. We also had a number of past staff members come through to the flag-raising and a number of Beachwood Boys High School old boys who were in attendance for the historic walk between Northlands campus and the Northwood lower campus as well as the unveiling of the plaque in the quad and the dedication of this quad to Beachwood Boys’ High,” she said.

Hockly added that the campus of present-day Northlands Primary School was originally the site of the Beachwood Boys’ High School campus while Northlands Primary School was situated on the lower campus of Northwood Boys’ High.

“Northwood was formed when the Department of Education amalgamated the two Durban North boys’ high schools – Northlands Boys’ High and Beachwood Boys’ High. It was decided that the ‘new’ high school would be situated on the original Northlands Boys’ High School site (present-day Northwood School) This meant that the site occupied by Northlands Primary School, on what is now the lower Northwood campus, needed to be vacated to make way for the influx of high school students. It also meant that the boys of Beachwood had to vacate their school premises to make way for the incoming Northlands Primary School students. Beachwood Boys’ was the only school left without a ‘home’.

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“In celebration of our shared history, the principal at Northlands Primary School, Alistair Naidu, decided to dedicate the school quad to the boys of Beachwood Boys’ High School. So much of the school remains as it was in 1989 (when the move happened). We thought this would be a good way to honour those boys and to make them feel that they did indeed still have a ‘home’ and that they were welcome in it. Our quad will now be known as ‘The Beachwood Quad’. The boys of Beachwood Boys’ High will forever remain a part of Northlands,” he said.

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