From this small beginning, the 817 strong Wynberg Boys' High School of 2006 has emerged.  John McNaughton was eventually granted an assistant to help him run his school, while the current headmaster, Keith Richardson, has nearly 50 full time and part time teachers to help him in the task of educating hundreds of young men.

 

Proud of its traditions and confident in its role of producing worthy future South African citizens, the school reacting to a burgeoning demand, has moved three times over the years until it eventually found a splendid home in 1980 on the top of the Wynberg Hill  - a mere kilometre away from its original home, Glebe Cottage. Plato's injunction of "Education should take place amongst beauty" is certainly applicable in the case of the 2006 Wynberg Boys' High School.

 

Every year, in the last week of August, the school celebrates its traditional Founders Day.  The history of South Africa is reflected in the schools history.  When necessary, they have answered the call to arms in all the major conflicts which have afflicted this country in the last 165 years and the Role of Honour above the Garden of Remembrance recognises those who have made the supreme sacrifice.

 

Thousands of others have made the school what it is today and we bask in their reflected glory -  Headmasters, Teachers, Coaches, Governors, Old Boys.  Their contribution is acknowledged in the two school museums as well as in the two books written on Wynberg: 'The History of a School' (1961) by Doug Thompson who was a teacher of English at the school and 'A School Reflects' (1991) by Old Boy Roger Goodwin.

 

The School's motto 'Supera Moras' can be translated literally from the Latin as 'Overcome Difficulties'.  Generations of Wynberg Men have taken a less stilted translation : 'A Wynberg Man Never Gives Up.'  This motto is given life in all four pillars of the school :  Academics, Culture, Sport and Service.

 

For the past 16 years, Wynberg has once again gone back to its original roots and number amongst its pupils boys of all races and creeds.  The future South Africa is being built in this school.  John McNaughton would be proud.