Boys' College Matric Results 2021

January 19, 2022 | Boys’ College

We are delighted to announce that our 2021 Matrics have excelled in the IEB’s matriculation examinations. The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) offers a rigorous assessment of the National Senior Certificate curriculum, preparing our students well for tertiary study. We will be highlighting the achievements of our top performers below. We wish also to stress our pride in each matriculant who has done their best. We thank our teachers, parents and community for pulling together with our students to enable them to achieve excellence and make a world of difference.

Our philosophy of learning and teaching promotes an academic culture which seeks to meet and extend the needs and styles of each student, enabling personalised and meaningful learning to take place. We pride ourselves on this approach, which seeks to optimise individual learning across the academic spectrum and includes enrolling a number of students with identified barriers to learning. We are proud of the top academic achievers, among the best in the country and whose results are documented individually, as well as of each student who has excelled against personal benchmarks.

Matric is the destination of a long journey of learning. We acknowledge the contributions of the teachers at the Preparatory Schools of St Stithians College, as well as those of other Primary Schools which educated this year’s Matric cohort. We pay tribute to the impact of Kamoka Bush School on the lives of our students on their Saints journey.

At this time of focus on the academic gateway of Matric, we affirm our commitment to the education of young people of character, who make an impact as leaders and citizens, shaped by a Methodist ethos. Academic learning is complemented with a diverse and highly successful sporting, cultural, outdoor education and community engagement curriculum.

Summary of the Boys’ College 2021 Matric results:

Candidates: 143
Pass rate:  100%
Qualified for Bachelor Degree Studies (BD): 137 (95.8%)
Qualified for Diploma Studies: 6 (4.2%)
Distinctions (Level 7 or 80% and more): 343 (2.4 per candidate)
41 boys achieved 4 or more distinctions
46 boys achieved above 70% average while 35 achieved above 80%
6 boys achieved the school's Academic Honours Summa Cum Laude award which is an average of 90% or more, and join a long list of 37 top academics who have achieved the school's highest award since we introduced this in 2007.
104 of our boys achieved 1 or more distinctions
A total of 14 candidates achieved within the top 1% of all IEB candidates in a specific subject, creating a cumulative total of 24 subject marks.

Message from the Head of School

To the Boys’ College Matric Class of 2021 - A Message from Mr David du Toit about the Matric Results

Dear Matrics

I am just so extremely proud of you as a group of young Saints Knights, but also of each of you as individuals. Your final results are just fabulous. Congratulations. I shared a quote by Robert Kennedy last year in which he said: “All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” Your have risen superbly to the challenges on the last two years and have shone brightly, making the most of your situation, bringing Light into what has been a difficult time, but also providing Hope and direction to those whom you have lead in 2021.

As a class you have led the Boys’ College with vision, understanding, clarity, agility and humanity. What I too have loved about you has been your desire to keep our College united, passionate and true to who we are. As we have explored what it means to be a modern boys’ school, with fresh understanding of tradition, respectfully and maturely engaging with staff, and boldly engaging in much needed change, you have done so with courage and awareness. Thank you.

Today we celebrate your superb results. What stands out for me is that each student has had their own unique success – for some it is 7 distinctions, for some a BD pass and for some the chance to move into tertiary study. Your hard work and commitment is to be acknowledged and we congratulate you.

I do wish to celebrate the success of your sisters at the Girls’ College who have achieved outstanding results. I have enjoyed the way in which you have strengthened bonds with them and have accelerated the strength and opportunity that the relationship with the Girls’ College presents.

At this time of celebration, it is important to thank all those who have supported you, cared for you and encouraged you through your Matric year and through your examinations. I remind you that being grateful and expressing your gratitude is a mark of a Saints Knight. You owe an enormous amount of gratitude to your teachers for their care and high-quality instruction and to your families for their unwavering support and belief in you. I extend my thanks to all who have nurtured, listened, advised and pushed you along the way, in particular our Boys’ College staff to whom I am very thankful to for their commitment to your growth. And please do not forget those teachers from our Junior Prep and Boys’ Prep as well as all of those teachers in other feeder prep schools who played such important roles in setting you up for your success.

On your behalf I also thank the Independent Examination Board, who dealt with queries and issues timeously and efficiently, and ran an examination system of the highest standard.

As I bid you the very best for your future I trust that you will remember the lessons and values you have learnt at the Boys’ College, and that these will stand you in good stead in the challenging, uncertain but exciting times we face. Continue to Honour God, Honour Others and Honour Self and to live out John Wesley’s invitation to ‘Do all the good you can …, as long as ever you can.’

I look forward to hearing of your success in life, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

‘And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.’ (1 Corinthians 13)

Warm regards

Mr David du Toit
Head of School: Boys' College

St Stithians Academic Honours Summa Cum Laude (average of 90% or above):

Declan Louw
Zarret Mills
Vayun Naidoo
Cameron Robertson
Hendrik Smith
Samuel Taylor

Declan Louw

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Zarret Mills

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Vayun Naidoo

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Cameron Robertson

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Hendrik Smith

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Samuel Taylor

Honours Summa Cum Laude

National IEB Achievements:

The following student was placed on the IEB’s list for Outstanding Achievement

(i.e. achieved within the top 5% of learners in 6 or more subjects and a rating of level 7 in Life Orientation):

Cameron Robertson
Zarret Mills
Hendrik Smith

The following students were placed on the IEB’s list for Commendable Achievement (i.e. achieved within the top 5% of learners in 5 subjects and a rating of level 7 in Life Orientation):

Declan Louw
Samuel Taylor

The following students have achieved a result in the top 1% of IEB candidates in their subject:

Mafori Bapela Dramatic Arts
Jordan Carr Dramatic Arts and History
Theo Dieltjens History
Karabo Gcezengana Dramatic Arts
Montle Koka Dramatic Arts
Declan Louw History
Sebastian Lux History
Zarret Mills English Home Language, Information Technology and Life Sciences
Umar Moola Information Technology and Physical Sciences
Vayun Naidoo Physical Sciences
Matthew Ransome Physical Sciences
Cameron Robertson Afrikaans First Additional Language, Life Orientation and Life Sciences
Ryan Shepherd Afrikaans First Additional Language.
Hendrik Smith Afrikaans First Additional Language, History, Life Orientation, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences.