Heideveld Secondary School
Heideveld Secondary School is a school in Cape Town, Western Cape, in a suburb called Heideveld in South Africa. The school is considered to be a widely known school due to location next to a city main road and train tracks and also one of the first e-Learning school's in the Western Cape. The education system mostly focuses on academics providing both practical and theoretical studies. The secondary school also has clubs one can join from sports, art, musical, tech and other departments from hiking and debating. After school educational programs are present for further assistance in study's.[1]
Heideveld Senior Secondary | |
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Location | |
Waterburg Road, Heideveld, Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa | |
Coordinates | 33.9626°S 18.5605°E |
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Type | High School |
Motto | Semper Paratus |
Established | July 1978 |
School district | Athlone, Cape Town |
Faculty | 39 |
Grades | 8–12 |
Number of students | 1,180 |
Colour(s) | Navy Blue |
Website | heideveldhigh |
School
Heideveld is a diverse suburb with different types of people and culture same can be applied to the students and teachers of Heideveld secondary. With students ranging from the academically achieved and physically gifted with no sign of a stupid learner. All learners are considered to be talented and able to achieve success. The school provides a standard government based curriculum issued by Western Cape government for learners to be assessed on. Subjects will differ from grades since the school provides the extended grades of the GET phase and has the FET phases for the senior learners.
Provided subjects in the institution are:
- Mathematics and mathematics literacy
- Physics
- Life sciences
- Languages: English, Afrikaans and Xhosa
- Engineering graphics and design
- Geography
- History
- Accounting
- Economics
- Consumer studies
- Business studies
- Life orientation
The school also has GET based subjects like EMS, technology for grades 8 and 9s which both serve as less complicated counterparts of their successors Economics and Engineering.
References
- "Heideveld High School, Athlone". athlone.co.za. Retrieved 2014-11-22.