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Fees

Please note:

The monthly fees may be paid by automatic transfer from your bank account through a debit order instruction. Should you wish to avail yourself of this facility, please contact the bursar to obtain a debit order form.

The monthly fees may also be paid by means of a direct transfer into the school bank account. The bank account number is printed on the school account and it can also be obtained from the bursar.

Those parents already using the debit order system will automatically continue with a 10 month debit order unless you notify the bursar to the contrary.

The school also has credit card facilities available in the Bursar’s office. Each parent also has a unique Easy Pay number which appears on your statement so that you can pay at any retailer
where the Easy Pay is available.

Hostel Fees 2025

HOSTEL FEES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Kindly be advised of the Hostel Fees for 2025, as approved by the School Governing Body.

Protea House is a WEEKLY boarding facility, and boarders stay from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon. Meals are provided from Monday breakfast to Friday lunch.

Fees: R 73 500 per year (R 18 375 per term, payable in advance at the start of each term).

Hostel fees are payable in advance:

The first term’s fees of R 18 375 are to be deposited by 10 January 2025. Thereafter payment is to be received termly in advance at the start of each term.

In order to assist families, after receipt of the fees for Term 1 (as indicated above), the remaining three terms may be paid monthly in advance, split as follows:

Grades 8-11: Payment may be split over 9 equal monthly installments from 1 February to 1 October 2025: R 6 125 per month. A debit order is the preferred means of payment.

Grade 12: Payment may be split over 8 equal monthly installments from 1 February to 
1 September 2025: R 6 890.65 per month. A debit order is the preferred means of payment.

Learners in Grade 12 in 2025 will be expected to pay the full fee regardless of whether they leave the hostel to study at home during the final matric examinations.

Please note that learners will only be accepted into the hostel in 2025 if all school and hostel fees in arrears up to the end of 2024 are fully paid. Should the account not be settled your daughter’s place in the hostel will be allocated to someone else and the outstanding fees will be handed over to our attorneys for collection.

Weekly Boarders must pay the termly hostel fees in advance at the start of each term.
Payments may be made via debit order, EFT, Easy Pay or credit/debit card.

Music Fees

Exclusions:

Please note that the school fees exclude the following:

Purchase a printed copy of the 2023 Magazine here!

The WGHS 2023 magazines is available for purchase in hard copy via the Karri App and can be collected from the bursar’s office upon appointment: bursar@wynghs.co.za

About our principal

Jennifer Wallace started her teaching career in 1996 at St Cyprian’s School, in the History and English Departments, and became the Deputy Principal of the school 15 years later. Over the course of her teaching career, she has been fortunate to have had many opportunities to travel – teaching short courses on Apartheid and post-Apartheid South African history in Denmark, the USA, Canada, England, and Peru, and helping to lead international service projects, cultural history tours, and conferences with learners to various countries. These experiences helped to shape her firm belief in a holistic approach to education that is of global relevance, while at the same time remaining firmly rooted in, and committed to, the South African educational landscape.

In 2014 she completed her MPhil (specialising in Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy) degree through the University of Cape Town and began her part-time study towards her PhD a few years later, graduating in 2020. Her thesis, entitled ‘The Gift of a Scholarship: The reflective accounts of scholarship recipients attending elite secondary schools in post-apartheid South Africa’, focuses on the narrated experiences of scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite secondary schools in South Africa. A book based on this research, and co-authored with Dr Jennifer Feldman, has been published by Springer Nature as a part of their international Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinary in Education series.

In January 2020 Dr Wallace was appointed the Principal of Wynberg Girls’ High School and is very proud to lead this dynamic, diverse, and values-driven public school. Her key focus areas in this position include: ensuring that WGHS constantly builds upon its fine reputation for academic excellence and relevance; empowering our learners to be self-sufficient, inquisitive, and compassionate critical thinkers and engaged, environmentally-aware citizens; creating an inclusive environment in which all can find a sense of belonging and feel valued; ensuring opportunities for growth and the building of character by means of involvement in a wide range of cultural, sporting, and service-driven activities; creating dynamic learning spaces to inspire and support our educational vision; and investing in relationships with strategic partners to the benefit of our school and our community.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

A warm welcome to Wynberg Girls’ High School! Founded in 1884, we are proudly recognised as one of South Africa’s preeminent public schools for girls, and all who consistently identify as girls. Wynberg Girls’ High School embraces a values-driven approach to education, with our identified core values of Integrity, Inclusivity, Courage, Accountability, Respect, and Empathy forming the foundation of our approach to who we are, all we do, and what we stand for. We believe in providing holistic opportunities for exploration, growth, and development through our wide range of activities offered in each of our four Pillars (Academics, Culture, Service and Sport) in addition to our two Portfolios (Communication and Sustainability).


On the academic front, we are firmly established within the annual Top Twenty Schools of Excellence in the Western Cape by means of our Grade 12 National Senior Certificate results, as awarded by the Western Cape Education Department. We recognise that in addition to cognitive engagement and curiosity, learning is an emotional experience. As such, we believe that by creating a happy and inclusive environment in which all can find a sense of belonging, and providing the physical infrastructure to support our teaching practices, our learners will be inspired to challenge themselves, and each other, in their pursuit of knowledge and understanding.


It is both an honour and a privilege to be the Principal of this wonderful school. I hope that whether you are a learner, an educator, a parent, and Alumnae, or a visitor, you are as inspired by this place as I am and that together we will continue to produce young women and leaders of character who will make a significant and positive mark on this world.