In June 2004 a vision for a new, high quality independent school in the south of Johannesburg was born, for three main reasons:

• to keep our exceptional young people in the south, who at the stage felt the need to travel to schools outside the area for their education
• due to the massive growth in population south of the N12 in the last decade, and yet with no new schools having been developed
• to provide a school which offered a well-balanced education in a Christian environment, where the tenets of Christianity are "caught" rather than taught, and where every child has the opportunity to find and begin to fulfil their God-given purpose.

Starting a school, however, is no quick or easy task (especially when the person tasked with the job is both young and virtually penniless), and it took the next 18 months to locate a suitable piece of land and to find investors willing to take on such a massive project. By early 2006, after many difficulties, much frustration and more than a few mini-disasters, God had provided both investors who had a heart for the children in the area, and a beautiful 18 hectare property on the banks of the Klip River.

We opened in January 2007 with 120 learners from Grade 0 to Grade 8, which by 2008 had risen to 350 learners from Grade 00 to Grade 9. The school has developed from an old farmhouse and some classrooms to a fully fledged school, which by January 2010 had 64 classrooms, an auditorium, a 680-seater hall, Admin Block, computer laboratories, Technology Centre, four fields, six tennis/netball courts, therapy rooms and a 1200-seat amphitheatre.

We are very proud of our school, yet we continue to remember that it is not ours, but God's.

Soli Deo Gloria