Saints Parents in Dialogue 2019

November 22, 2019 | Campus, Girls’ College

The Saints Parents in Dialogue Breakfast was hosted and organised by our Girls’ College this year. The Breakfast was inaugurated last year, hosted by our Girls’ Prep. 

The purpose of the Saints Parents in Dialogue Breakfast is to provide an opportunity, among many other ‘parent connect’ activities, for our parents across our College of schools to meet one another and to engage with a significant and relevant theme.  This year's theme, ‘Gender Matters’, has been a focal one at St Stithians over the past six months.

As a College of co-educational schools (Junior Prep and Thandulwazi Academy) and of girls’ and boys’ schools (the Boys’ Prep, Girls’ Prep, Boys’ College, Girls’ College, Kamoka Bush School), the theme of gender is core to our identity and experience: we have much to talk and learn about, and we have the opportunity to grow together. Gender relations are multi-faceted, and it is our collective responsibility to advance honest and open conversations, to recognise the range of deep emotions, and to affirm one another in this space.

We were pleased to extend an invitation to our parents, educators and community to participate in the event and engage with an exciting panel of experts which inluded:

Graeme Codrington: A Futurist, strategy consultant and author of one of South Africa’s best selling non-fiction books, “Mind the Gap”, alongside other titles including “Future-Proof Your Child” and “Leading in a Changing World”.  

Faith Whitby: An ordained Methodist minister

Roy Gluckmann: A strategist and consultant in the diversity and inclusion space

Dr Elna Rudolph: A Medical Doctor and Sexologist 

Kea Molope: A Christian Methodist mother of a transitioning 14-year-old teenager

Shirley Harding: Principal of Wynberg Girls’ High School 

To read our Rector and Executive Head, Dr Tim Nuttall's welcoming address, please click here.

We thank our esteeemed panel and One And All who attended.