Kimberley Boys' High School
| Kimberley Boys' High School | |
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| Location | |
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Kimberley, Northern Cape South Africa |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public & Boarding |
| Motto | Per Labores Ad Honores |
| Established | 1887 |
| Locale | Suburban |
| Principal | Graham Steele |
| Grades | 8-12 |
| School color(s) | Black and White |
| Website | www.kbhs.co.za |
Kimberley Boys' High School is a state secondary school or high school situated adjacent to the Honoured Dead Memorial, in the arc between Dalham and Memorial Roads, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa – a site it has occupied since January 1914. The school was founded, along with what would become Kimberley Girls' High School, in 1887, under the name Kimberley Public Undenominational Schools. In July 1970 it gave rise to Kimberley Boys’ Junior School which in turn united with Belgravia Junior School in January 1977 to become what is today Kimberley Junior School.
Kimberley Boys' High School traces its origins to the establishment of the Kimberley Undenominational Schools (a Boys' School and a Girls' School), opened at the Woodley Street Schoolroom on 12 April 1887. The Boys' and Girls' Schools occupied separate wings of a purpose-built school in Lanyon Terrace in Kimberley from 1888 until 1913, when Kimberley Girls' High School moved to its present site in Elsmere Road. Kimberley Boys' High School moved to its present site in January 1914.
Episodes in the school’s history have been recounted in Leslie Moult's 1987 centenary book, K.H.Story: a history of Kimberley Boys' High School, relative to the terms of successive headmasters:
Many of the boys of this school volunteered to serve in the armed forces in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, some serving with distinction. A Memorial Library was built in honour of those who lost their lives. Conscripted school-leavers in the second half of the twentieth century acquitted themselves equally well in the South African Defence Force.
Kimberley Boys’ High School celebrated its Centenary Year in 1987.
The junior section of the school, which hived off as Kimberley Boys' Junior School in 1970, subsequently simply Kimberley Junior School, was served by a hostel known as Dugmore House. Leslie Moult who was hostel superintendent was also first headmaster of Kimberley Boys' Junior School.
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