Headmaster’s Desk | Maritzburg College

News and Views from Our Headmaster

The Headmaster’s Desk is the best way to stay updated on what is happening throughout our school. Find out more about the themes covered in our weekly assemblies, staff, sport, and cultural news. The Headmaster’s Desk is the helm of leadership of our school. Get to know our Headmaster and the values he imparts as part of the greater school ethos by following this news channel – from desk to lectern to you.

September 9, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 5 September: The Good Man Journay

This week we resume our focus on the Good Man Journey which will be covered in your mentor classes this week Being a good man is something you do, not something you are.” - ~ Luyvie Asay

September 1, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 27 August: Perseverance

The theme for this week is Perseverance and will be covered in this with your mentor in character education lesson this week considering aspects of grit and determination “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot (Scottish politician)

August 23, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 20 August: Leadership

What is leadership? A simple definition: “Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.” Put even more simply, a leader is the inspiration and director of the action. He or she is the person in the group who possesses the combination of personality and skills that...

August 18, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 15 August (Special Assembly)

In today's assembly we launched the QLTC programme at College and celebrated a Khanyisa Outreach to Umvuzo High School. The theme for the week is Honesty. Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and has the connotation of positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, trustworthiness, loyalty, fairness, and sincerity. This year we...

August 12, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 8 August

Every very year, on 9th August, our country marks Women’s Day, where we pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. 2022 marks the 66th anniversary since the march. This year we celebrate Women’s Month...

August 5, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 1 August

The theme for this week’s character education programme is bullying and focusses on various aspects of bullying at the different forms. This theme followed on from last week’s focus which was Respect. “Bullying is not a reflection of the victim’s character, but rather a sign of the bully’s lack of character”

July 25, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Assembly 25 July

Last week we focused on the theme of respect and self-respect as well. You were addressed by an OC Mr Galtry on this topic as well and he also requested that we abide by these guidelines The theme for this week’s character education mentor programme is the core value and core tradition as per our...

July 22, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

Start of Term 3: Dedication Assembly

Welcome back to all boys and staff and to our guests here today; namely Rev Collin Moore and Mr Devin Galtrey [OC1995] a member of MCOBA Executive and a current parent of two boys, who will address the school later in the assembly

June 27, 2022From the Headmaster’s Desk

End of Term 2

We have come to the end of an extremely busy and demanding term, which has produced a number of challenges, as we worked through the expectations of a full co-curricular winter sport and cultural programme once again.

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