[1] In accordance with the prevailing colonial policy, the school only admitted pupils of European descent.

He persuaded the Estcourt Town Council to donate a further 8 ha of land to the school enabling it to offer the study of agriculture to its pupils.

Almost immediately he set about overcome administrative obstacles and developing strong ties with both the farming and town communities to negotiating funds for the Memorial Hall which was eventually opened in 1957.

[4] Pearse retired at the end of 1965 and Mitchell Lindsay, the former deputy head who had joined the school in 1937, was appointed headmaster.

[1] The symbolism on the shield is: The crest depicts the hill on which the school was built and has decorations alluding to aloe and acacia, plants that are typical of the area.

On the hill the English lion holding a flag showing a sheaf of wheat - the symbol of agriculture, a subject pioneered by the school.

In August 1945, at a meeting attended by parent and the local public, it was decided that the proposed school assembly hall would be a living memorial to the old boys who died on active service during the two world wars[1] and approached the Estcourt Town Council for donations.

The town council obliged, but in 1948 the National Party came to power and refused to fulfill the promises made by the previous administration and the hall was not completed until 1957.

In the event, when the railway line that ran alongside the school was doubled, the main road from Estcourt to Loskop was realigned to the other side of the railway line and the school was able to acquire the land that was formerly occupied by the old Loskop Road.

Among the exhibits in the foyer are the helmet and bayonet used by Quentin Smythe, an old boy of the school, who was awarded the VC for bravery in North Africa in 1942.