{"id":144284,"date":"2017-02-14T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144284\/local-high-school-honoured\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:00:51","slug":"local-high-school-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/14\/local-high-school-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Local high school honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose High School and two of its teachers received high praise at the annual prize-giving for the Ekurhuleni North District last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The school received three trophies at the event.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The first was a second place trophy for Best Improved Public School in the district in acknowledgement of the school\u2019s 98 per cent pass rate.<\/p>\n<p>The other two awards went to teachers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The principal, Andr\u00e9 Grobler, received the award for the best tourism teacher and Dolph Willemse, the head of department for technology, received the award for the best electrical technology teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Grobler, who has been principal of Primrose High for about two years, has been teaching tourism for about 16 years and this was his first award.<\/p>\n<p>Willemse has been a teacher for 12 years and told the GCN he received numerous awards during his time as a teacher in District Six.<\/p>\n<p>He has been teaching at Primrose High for four years and was pleased to receive an award in his new teaching district.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 Primrose High also boasted the award for the best learner in electrical technology in the district which was scooped by Gerard Mupfumisi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely happy and proud of the awards and acknowledgement the school has received,\u201d said Grobler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to going from strength to strength and achieving more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141666\/primrose-high-matrics-attain-97-6\/\">Smiles, laughter and a few tears for Ho\u00ebrskool Primrose High School matrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90707\/hoerskool-primrose-high-school-gets-a-new-principal\/\">Ho\u00ebrskool Primrose High School gets a new principal<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='76a67a02dfd51c3ff692aaf693b91039'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose High School scooped no less than three awards at the Ekurhuleni North District 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