Salt River High School is celebrating their 50th anniversary

Salt River High School is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and inviting all ex-students to jump on board with their upcoming events. On Saturday, the school hosted a food fair which attracted over 200 ex-students and people within the community. "We are fortunate and honored to still have our ex-students and alumni on board assisting with various events for the past few years. This has helped the school tremendously and we are grateful for it," said principal Russell Bell.

The event was jampacked with entertainment, including marimba bands, car shows, jumping castle, learners performing on stage and over 50 stalls. “We are currently trying to raise funds for our latest projects for the school where we are looking at starting our own bursary fund ,library and media centre,” he said, adding that they have been asking the Western Cape Educational Department (WCED) to support them on this project for the past few years and that they are still waiting on a reply.

Because of the alumni, the school was able to start a feeding scheme recently which feeds the majority of the learners. He said most of them come from poor households and at most times, have no lunch. Most of the fundraising will go towards the feeding scheme in the week. Bell added that some of the fundraising that they have managed to raise for the past few months will go towards the commemorative year book and marimba classes they recently started, in order to buy appropriate equipment for the band.

The school will host a number of fundraising events throughout the year and are asking the Salt River community and ex-learners to help out. Bell said that this is also an opportunity for all ex-learners to meet up and actively contribute. If you would like to participate in any way you can contact the secretary of Salt River High School on 021-448 1405. VOC (Aishah Cassiem)