Highlights

KEPS Water Polo Festival | 8 March 2025 💦 KEPS Water Polo Festival | 8 March 2025 💦 King Edward VII Preparatory School proudly hosted a thrilling Water Polo Festival on Saturday, 8 March 2025, bringing together young athletes from multiple schools for a full day of exciting competition and sportsmanship. The festival showcased the growing talent and passion for water polo at the junior level, with fast-paced matches, teamwork, and determination on full display. Teams from across the region competed in a spirit of camaraderie and healthy rivalry, making it a memorable event for players, coaches, and spectators alike. A big thank you to all participating schools, staff, and supporters for making the festival a great success. The future of water polo is bright! #KEPSWaterPolo #WaterPoloFestival #YouthSport #Teamwork #PrepSchoolSport #KEPSPride #FutureChampions

Love is in the Air – Valentine’s Day Market Kids Spread Love and Skills at KEPS Valentine’s Day Market All around the world, adults scoff at the idea of Valentine’s Day, while some secretly hope that they will get a surprise floral delivery or mail sometime during the day. At King Edward VII Preparatory School, the Grade 5 learners have elevated this day of love to a new level. Every year, they host our always successful Valentine’s Day Market. The skills that the boys learn, from advertising their stalls, how to work in a team, working towards a common goal through competition, how to listen to ideas and not force their own onto the boys in their groups as well as handling money and entrepreneurial skills and thinking will stand them in good stead over the next few years. The goal of hosting this market is clear – have as much fun as you can, and make as much money as possible! This is another Community Outreach and Fundraising project. Because of the generosity of our boys and parents, we are always able to raise a good amount that allows us to contribute to many different initiatives. These beneficiaries are

KEPS Cares – Giving Back KEPS Cares: Launching Our 2024 Outreach Programme For the first time in our school history, we introduced an ‘Outreach’ program in 2024 at our school in order to allow our boys to reach out into the community and to help fill specific needs. We have, as a school, always been very community based, as our sandwich-making on Mandela Day proved. We are fortunate to have the most incredible young men who have volunteered to join our fledgling program. Primary School learners are not usually sensitive to the needs of the community around them and our learners have surprised us and made us very proud of them. We started off the year by working with Woodrock Animal Sanctuary, and also supported Gideon’s Animal Outreach. Gideon works in the informal settlements, vaccinating, sterilizing and educating the community about its animals. We donated dog and cat food, hay for the donkeys, blankets and toys and happily landed up having some of Woodrock’s animals adopted. Even Gertrude, the donkey, found her ‘forever’ home. We then moved on to our human babies and helped the El Shammah home in Primrose, Germiston with food and clothing for their nine abandoned babies.