Tafelberg School
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2 Swellengrebel Avenue, Bothasig Cape Town, 7441 South Africa |
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| Coordinates | 33°51′22″S 18°32′35″E / 33.856°S 18.543°E |
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| School type | Public, special school |
| Motto |
Nihil nimis difficile (Nothing is too difficult) |
| Established | 23 July 1983 |
| Status | Open |
| Principal | Lionel Benecke |
| Grades | 1–12 |
| Number of students | 400 |
| Medium of language | English |
| Website | www |
Tafelberg School is an English medium Grade 1–12 public school in Bothasig, Cape Town, South Africa which offers remedial activities for children with special learning needs. The school was located in Sea Point before mid–2010. As of 2014, the school accommodates its full capacity of 400 students.
Tafelberg School was established on 23 July 1983. It was originally a school for white students, and was based in Sea Point from the 1980s until 2010. The school was located at two separate sites in Sea Point and catered for children with special learning needs referred by schools throughout the Cape Peninsula. The junior school was located at 3 Kings Road, on the corner of Tramway Road. The senior school was located in a building at 355 Main Road which had previously housed Ellerslie Girls' High School from 1899. In 1989 Ellerslie Girls' High School vacated the building following a merger with Sea Point High School, formerly Sea Point Boys' High School, which had become co-educational and Tafelberg School subsequently occupied the vacant building.
Tafelberg School became racially integrated in a post-apartheid South Africa, and junior and senior sections of the school have merged and moved to a new location in Bothasig in June 2010. The construction of the new school building in Bothasig, "the first fully accessible resource centre in the province, both from a physical and curriculum accessibility point of view", cost R45 million. The move to a "more friendly learning environment" reduced the school's capacity in terms of student numbers and necessitated a one-third reduction in the number of classes per grade.
The 17,000 square metre site in Sea Point's Main Road previously used by the school and Ellerslie Girls' High School before that was declared a provincial heritage site in a government gazette dated 15 December 1989. The disused site has been proposed for redevelopment by the Western Cape Government, which says that it is suitable for a mixed-use development and has requested expressions of interest from parties interested in buying the property or leasing it for a period of up to 60 years provided that the original 1899 building and an avenue of wild fig trees are preserved.
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