First group of English speaking pupils at Gimnasium
On Monday morning the Headmaster, Nelis van Dyk, welcomed the first group of Grade 8 English language learners who will be receiving classes in English.
VEREENIGING. – Monday, February 5 marked a historic occasion in the existence (and perhaps the continued existence) of Vereeniging Gimnasium as the headmaster, Nelis van Dyk declared that the school is now a parallel medium school.
The school took on its first English Grade 8 learners at the beginning of the school year.
With the start of the 2024 school year, Vereeniging Gymnasium has become a parallel medium school, where the mediums of academic instruction will henceforth be both Afrikaans and English.
The school had been an Afrikaans single-medium school since its creation in 2013, when Hoërskool Vereeniging and the Hoër Tegniese Skool Vereeniging, merged to form a new Afrikaans school known as Vereeniging Gimnasium.
This has now changed. On Monday morning the Headmaster, Nelis van Dyk, welcomed the first group of Grade 8 English language learners who will be receiving classes in English.
Afterwards a short speech, learners were welcomed to the school in traditional fashion with a bell ringing ceremony.
“A lot of people are scared of change and are worried that Afrikaans as a medium of instruction will disappear.
Today, I would like to assure all of you that the norms and values for which Vereeniging Gymnasium is known, will always be passed on to our children.”
