Girls' College Matric Results 2025

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January 12, 2026 | Girls’ College, Campus

We are delighted to announce that the St Stithians College Class of 2025 has 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 his best. We thank our Saints Family - teachers, parents and community for pulling together with our students to enable them to achieve excellence and make a world of difference.

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 her best. We thank our Saints Family - 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 learning needs. 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 Girls’ College 2025 Matric results

Candidates: 112
Pass rate: 100%
Qualified for Bachelor Degree Studies (BD): 100%
Distinctions (Level 7 or 80% and more): 390 excluding Further Studies, 398 Further studies included (average of 3.55 distinctions per candidate)
Students achieved 4 or more distinctions: 50
Students achieved the College's Academic Honours Summa Cum Laude award which is an average of 90% or more: 5
105 (93.7%) of our students achieved 1 or more distinction
92 (82.1%) of students achieved 7-% or more

Message from the Head of School

To the Girls’ College Matric Class of 2025 - A Message from Ms Du Plessis

Dear Matric Class of 2025

The long-awaited moment has arrived—we celebrate the Class of 2025 and the remarkable Matric results that mark the close of your school journey. This milestone is more than an academic achievement; it is the foundation for your next chapter as confident, independent young women ready to embrace the future. Today, we share in the deep joy and gratitude felt not only by our matriculants but also by parents, guardians, and teachers. These results reflect the unwavering support, countless sacrifices, and the love of those who have always had your best interests at heart.

As a College community, we honour every individual who stands proudly at this extraordinary point in her unique journey. Congratulations—you have reached a moment that will forever form a significant part of your story.

I would like to honour the contribution you have made to Girls’ College. Your overwhelming spirit and zest for life was evident not only in your everyday activities but also as you serve the school as the Matric Class of 2025. Alongside the passionate leadership of the Head Girls team, and under the thoughtful guidance of Head Girl Bukelwa Biko, you developed your vision of “respect, representation and passion”.

Underwritten by the Girls’ College’s pillars of Belong Learn Lead Serve, you honoured the philosophy umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu, recognising that your humanity is the sum of those who have (and will) cross your paths. You acknowledged that your school journey is not solitary and that it “takes a village to raise a child”. You have worked hard to cultivate the respect not only for self, but for the growth journey, knowing that you are part of a greater community that surrounds you with love and support.

You focused on creating Girls’ College as a place of belonging. Representation to you meant ensuring that those who have a seat at the table, speak to the needs of One and All. As the Class of 2025, you represented the diverse spaces and opportunities for belonging, not only for yourself and your grade, but the greater community. Knowing that you have the opportunity to come into your own being in a safe space, provided you with the confidence to step out of your comfort zones.

As the Class of 2025, you certainly were passionate about the journeys on which you embarked: in the classroom, on the sports field and in the visual and performing arts space. You lifted the spirit of the school to new heights, challenged and debated, making your voices heard and advocating for change and for understanding. Passion connected journeys, relationships and learning.

Reflect on the friendships forged, the lessons learned, and the personal growth experienced during your time at the Girls’ College. Cherish the memories you have created and use them as a foundation for the exciting journey ahead. Life’s journey will undoubtedly encourage you to look back to the “village” that walked alongside you. This will allow you to consider the circle of support, which will always hold a seat for you.

As you celebrate this milestone with your family, friends, and teachers, take a moment to express gratitude for the support and guidance you have received throughout your schooling journey. Many believed in your abilities, guided you to your success, and supported you over the past thirteen years. Today’s celebration pays tribute to One and All, who have journeyed alongside you: a Family of Schools and a School for Families.

Let us collectively express our gratitude to your Girls’ College teachers for their dedication, encouragement, admonishment and high-quality tuition and for their unwavering determination to support you. Similarly, gratitude is given to your families who walked alongside you, lifting you up when needed and celebrated you in your success.

I would also like to extend this gratitude to the foundations of your journey. Take time to reflect and give thanks to those who nurtured you in your formative years: the teachers in the Junior Prep, Girls’ Prep, and our feeder primary schools. I know that they will watch from afar and celebrate you too!

I would like to congratulate Mr Du Toit, his team of staff and our brothers at Boys’ College on their excellent results. We have developed incredible bonds, enjoyed many moments of joy and celebration over the years. Thank you, BC Matric Class of 2025, for walking alongside Girls’ College on this precious journey. Our successes are intertwined, and as leaders we continually strive for the collective good: umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu.

Gratitude is also extended to the team at Kamoka Bush School, who have played an integral role in crafting the unique and holistic learning experience synonymous with the College. I also acknowledge the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) for their meticulous administration of the examination process and their commitment to ensuring fair, valid, and reliable high-stakes assessments.

Matric Class of 2025, I have watched you become the young women you are today. I have admired your spirit, and my wish for you is that you channel this passionate spirit into “making a world of difference” wherever your journey may take you. I will miss your voices, either united in the school “war” cries, beckoning each other in the corridors or practising vocal items in classrooms. Always remember that as GC Alumnae, much is expected of you, and I have no doubt you will rise to the challenge.

I would like to leave you with John O’Donohue’s poem For a New Beginning:

FOR A NEW BEGINNING

by John O’Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the gray promises that sameness whispered,

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,

Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream,

A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;

Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,

For your soul senses the world that awaits you

Once a Saint, always a Saint. May you always be cradled in the embrace of God’s grace and guided by His enduring love.

Warm wishes

Ms Anné du Plessis

Head of School: Girls’ College

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

Katherine Leschner

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Saskia Pearse

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Maite Hamese

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Sophie Naidoo

Honours Summa Cum Laude

Morgan Reardon

Honours Summa Cum Laude

National IEB Achievements

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

Katherine Leschner Afrikaans First Additional Language, English Home Language, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences (In the top 1% for 6 of her 7 IEB subjects).
Saskie Pearse Dramatic Arts, History
Kutlwano Msiza Dramatic Arts, English Home Language)
Maite Hamese Dramatic Arts, Sesotho First Additional Language
Madison Ooteman Life Orientation, Visual Arts
Sanele Gumede isiZulu First Additional Language
Nelisiwe (Tamia) Mqalanga isiZulu First Additional Language
Kopano Mokone History
Cleo Lin Life Orientation
Morgan Reardon Life Sciences
Julia Cocciuti Life Sciences
Isabella Geyser Mathematical Literacy

The following students were 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):

Katherine Leschner

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

Maite Harmse
Sophie Naidoo

Distinction candidates (in order of number of distinctions achieved):

9 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7): 2 Students

Katherine Leschner

Afrikaans First Additional, English Home Language, Further Studies Mathematics (Extended), Information Technology, Life Orientation, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, TCL Practical 7.