Waterford Kamhlaba
| Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa |
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| type of school | United World Colleges |
| founding | 1963, since 1981 UWC |
| place | Sidwashini |
| District | Hhohho |
| Country | Swaziland |
| Coordinates | 26 ° 18 ′ 11 ″ S , 31 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ E |
| student | 600 |
| management | Laurence Nodder |
| Website | www.waterford.sz |
The Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa (UWCSA for short) is one of 17 United World Colleges worldwide , a group of schools that teach tolerance and social responsibility through international education and social commitment. Typically sixteen to eighteen year olds take the International Baccalaureate (IB) after two years of schooling , but Waterford College also teaches grades 6 to 10 students who want to earn an IGCSE .
history
The school was founded in 1963 by the British Michael Stern in response to the education system in South Africa, which was heavily influenced by apartheid . When King Sobhuza II attended the school in 1967, he named it "Kamhlaba". Kamhlaba is siSwati and means “to be of the world”, “to be one's own world” and “to be all of one world”. Waterford gained international fame when Nelson Mandela , while he was in prison, and Bishop Desmond Tutu sent their children there. The college was one of the few schools in southern Africa where students, regardless of skin color or nationality, studied together. In 1981 the school received the title “United World College”.
campus
Waterford Kamhlaba College is located on a hill in Sidwashini near the city of Mbabane in the Kingdom of Swaziland . The main buildings were designed by the Portuguese architect Pancho Guedes . The center of the campus is the plaza, which is bordered by the auditorium, the teachers' room and secretariat, the amphitheater as well as the Center for Creative Learning - Drama, CCLD for short, and the Center for Creative Learning Music, CCLM for short. The building, which houses the CCLD on the first floor and the CCLM on the ground floor, was built in 2005 in memory of Jane Holland, daughter of David Attenborough , and her mother who died during the tsunami disaster in December 2004 .
The IB boarding school students are housed in the two different residences, Emhlabeni and Elangeni. The boarding school students in grades 6 to 10 live in Esilveni and Ekkukuleni. Due to the growth of the school, the classroom building was expanded and two more houses were built in Elangeni.
Curriculum
As part of the IB curriculum, the school offers the following subjects.
- Natural sciences: physics, chemistry, biology and environmental studies (since 2009 Ecologic Systems and Society - ESS)
- Humanities: History, Geography, Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, and Business & Management
- Languages: English A1, English A2, Selftaught within the scope of the subjects offered by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), French B, Spanish B and ab initio as well as siSwati A1 and ab initio
- Art: visual arts, music and theater studies.
Mathematics is offered as Higher Level , Standard Level and as Maths Studies .
The school also offers a variety of extra-curricular activities known as Creativity, Action and Service (CAS).
Former students
- Ian Khama , President of Botswana
- Lindiwe Sisulu , Minister, South Africa
- Professor Alan Whiteside , Founder and Director of the Health Economics and HIV / AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
- Xochitl Torres Small , US Congressman from New Mexico
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bursary Brochure des Waterford Kamhlaba (page 13). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 3, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ South African Government Information - Profile Information Lindiwe Sisulu. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; accessed on June 3, 2010 (English).
- ^ UWC Prof. Alan Whiteside. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 ; accessed on June 3, 2010 (English).
- ^ Inspired Alumna Runs for Office in New Mexico. UWC, accessed November 21, 2018 .
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