St Theresa's Primary School

4th Street, Welcome, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa

(021) 637-4020

The school and church were founded on the 3rd of October, 1935, the feast day of St Theresa, the Little Flower. Initially the church building was used as the same venue for classes, and was cleaned for mass and rearranged as a classroom on Mondays. Sister Brigid, later known as Sister Vera Marie, was the first principal and was joined by two founding educators and four learners. After 1945 the school received a grant from the government and also received a free feeding scheme. The school grew with the help of Father Alban and we were very proud to introduce our first 'coloured' principal, Sister Alphons Padua in 1953. The school continued to grow and by 1969 the school was so overcrowded that Sister Mary Agnes had to let 500 learners and educators go to Vanguard Primary, however they all returned the very next day. More classrooms, as well as kindergarten classes, were built to accommodate the growing number of learners from the surrounding areas. In 1977 the late Bishop Naidoo ...
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Cape Flats, Cape Town, Cape Metropole, Western Cape, South Africa
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