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Introducing SCS Uvule Fund
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Aligning SCS Uvule with St Cyprian’s School’s needs
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St Cyprian’s School Legacy Plan
The SCS 150 Built Environment Campaign Restating the vision - What’s been delivered? The way forward Whole-school competition-standard sport facilities Astroturf Aquatic Centre Multi-purpose Hall Netball & Tennis Courts
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The SCS Diversity and Transformation Pathway Personal Story Bursary & Endowment Campaign
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An invitation to partner St Cyprian’s School
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Why support St Cyprian’s School
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Giving back to St Cyprian’s School Investment and Donation Possibilities Tax-efficient Giving
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Be Involved
Since 1871, St Cyprian’s Diocesan School for Girls has lived its ethos of ‘teaching not for school, but for life; training not for time, but for eternity.’ We are that school that sets about unlocking intellectual and physical ‘smarts’, developing talents in all. Possibility, opportunity, celebration of potential and realisation of autonomy are the struts of the framework that provide the ‘St Cyprian’s Edge’. Assisting our students to discover their brilliant brains and special gifts, we shape independent thinkers who dare to dream of applying their intellect to creating professions that have yet to be created.
We applaud explorers, disruptors, job creators and change agents. We are a proud, independent school committed to transformative change, embracing and advancing diversity. We have a strong anchor that connects our Anglican tradition, values and heritage. It is from this frame that we grow and hone purpose, intellect, character and agency in our students. St Cyprian’s School offers a holistic, global, personalised educational approach, informed by a Round Square paradigm and an IEB assessment framework. We imbue the philosophy ‘There is more in us than we know’. (Kurt Hahn, founder of Round Square).
As a school of global significance, attuned to the needs of change, we play a pivotal role in guiding our girls on the ‘Journey of Becoming’ – such that they will influence the future as women of strength and stature. We are that school. The school that unlocks potential and intentionally grows individual brilliance, unique to each student. Soon to celebrate our 150th birthday, SCS Council, together with senior school management, has committed to a vision that sets up our school for the next 150 years. St Cyprian’s School’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity, human talent, and human adaptability. It is our vocation to spread the power of optimism and hope. By delivering a 21st Century campus that supports and enhances our holistic educational philosophy, we aim to expand our current capacity to grow a community of young women who will question assumptions, think deeply, apply knowledge and wisdom in seeking solutions, and act with integrity – leaders of the future. The SCS Uvule Fund is our vehicle to unlock the vision and make this aspiration a reality. The SCS Legacy Plan explains our strategy and we invite you to journey with us and help us bring it to life.
INTRODUCING
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Uvule Fund
For close to 150 years, St Cyprian’s School has played a significant role as a leading educational institution for girls. It has remained relevant to time and place, while expanding its influence in a global context. The value of girls’ education is generational and has been proven to bring about positive change in community and country. Evidence supports the assertion that an educated woman has an incrementally positive effect in the arena in which she operates, and our many extraordinary alumnae corroborate that fact.
It is however a new world and a new dawn! It is time once again to stand up and make a difference – a difference that will impact the future. It requires a new approach and it requires consolidated support.
Our aspiration is to intentionally create that microcosm where diversity and the value of difference can be experienced and explored – to intensify the development of individual talent through the power of the educational offer and to capitalize on the power of the collective. The wider definition of an excellent educational offer with significance for the future requires an educational experience where mastery of the intellect is the given, the honing of the body, the exploration and mastery of creativity, the development of character through the values of faith, hope and love, respect, integrity, compassion and accountability will need to accompany an appreciation for diversity and transformational thinking and being. Adaptation, mutuality, authenticity, collaboration, equity, social justice are the discriminators between (wo)man and machine, between those who will flourish and those who will struggle without purpose or hope. It starts with intent. Our intent requires facilities and circumstances to enable individual growth and development to facilitate the change. Our approach is two-pronged:
Provision of facilities to enable experiential learning and discovery of self; and Creation of a diverse school community to enable first-hand commonality and diversity in the human condition, and the development of talent from such an enriched base for the growth of opportunity.
Aligning SCS Uvule with St Cyprian’s School’s needs 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of St Cyprian’s School. Anticipation of this milestone has led to the call to action articulated in our mission. Critical conversations, which have included reflection of past success, anticipation of future, sustained relevance and the desire to re-establish the base for the future have coalesced into the identification of a new strategic vision with new strategic imperatives. The funding for the realisation of these imperatives, through the support of the past and present community, provides an opportunity to create a new legacy. An independent, legal entity, SCS UVULE Fund enables the collection of funds to support the strategic vision of St Cyprian’s School. Its role is to assist the school to implement two imperatives, The SCS 150 Built Environment Campaign and The Diversity and Transformation Pathway. These two whole-school imperatives, while different in approach, are aligned in purpose, and will materially impact the school’s future and longevity. To realise ambitions in constituting a more reflective student body, a more diverse staff complement, to build physical capacity, to expand an academic programme that extends to the Arts, Sport, boarding, growing citizenship and developing individuals, and to strengthen meaningful, reciprocally transformative and collegial partnerships with other schools, St Cyprian’s School will require financial assistance that cannot be fulfilled through the collection of school fees.
The two critical imperatives are positioned to impact five desired outcomes:
The SCS 150 Built Environment Campaign We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put into place the fundamentals of a transformed, functional, userfriendly campus that delivers on the physical and structural requirements of a student-centred environment. The infrastructural building programme will create a physical environment to facilitate the realization of the mission while providing capacity to extend opportunity and fellowship to a wider sector of the Cape Town community. Diversity for Transformation - Improving diversity in student intake requires the raising of bursary money; and Creating internships across the multi-disciplinary employment requirements of the school, needs funding. Funding Partnerships - To create collegial partnerships with public schools and create fellowship and community to advance the sharing of best practice, resources and facilities, requires funding. Transformative educational opportunities - To ensure all students (regardless of socio-economic status can capitalize on opportunities offered by the school) a discretionary fund is required. Such opportunities will encompass the realms of the academic, the cultural, sport, technology, and Round Square.
St Cyprian’s School Legacy Plan THE SCS 150 BUILT ENVIRONMENT CAMPAIGN In anticipation of the realisation of SCS 150 (Council’s strategic vision established in 2016) a Development Framework Plan was created in advance of a comprehensive Site Development Plan by a team of professionals who understood the school’s long-term educational vision. The focus of the strategic plan was:
• additional classrooms in the Preparatory and Pre Schools; • ongoing modernization of Katherine House (Boarding); • competition-standard sport facilities as well as improved capacity for sport development; • the provision of a multi-purpose hall; and • a commitment to assessing the needs of our exceptional Performing Arts offering in order to deliver capacity and improved facilities, long term.
Application was made to the City of Cape Town for additional development rights on our heritage campus; School Council approved the acquisition of additional land for sporting facilities, and an application to upgrade Upper Orange Street field to accommodate a competition-standard Hockey Astro, was presented.
RESTATING THE VISION - WHAT’S BEEN DELIVERED? Purchase of a residential property on our boundary Town planning application for an additional 7 500 sqm of floor area Partial accommodation for the growth in the Preparatory School Oakhurst development – two additional classrooms and Pupil Support Centre Converted and modernisation of six classrooms and a Discovery Centre Additional classroom at School-in-the-Woods securing Preparatory School intake Water security with installation of a borehole capable of delivering a large percentage of the school’s needs, and a policy for rainwater harvesting and grey water usage A proven and up-to-date maintenance programme
Having successfully delivered on supplementary and improved teaching spaces in the Pre- and Preparatory School spaces, Council has restated their commitment to prioritising the delivery of sporting facilities, while ensuring that the delivery of six new classrooms at the Preparatory School remains an ongoing precedence. In delivering our holistic education philosophy that sets about unlocking intellectual, creative and physical ‘smarts’, Council has determined to proceed with plans that deliver ‘fit for purpose’ facilities for the widest possible range of school activities.
THE WAY FORWARD
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Our professional team has reviewed all design and cost options for each component on the wish list The Council and school management has agreed to a preferred timeline for infrastructural delivery We have a clear vision, the rights to continue, the design solutions, and we know the costs Our ability to achieve this vision is dependent on the availability of funds
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE COMPRISES FOUR ELEMENTS:
ASTROTURF
INDOOR POOL
WHOLE SCHOOL COMPETITION-STANDARD SPORTING FACILITIES Adopting a scientific approach to sport eight years ago has brought about a thrilling and exciting performance transformation in the standard of St Cyprian’s School competitive sport. Critical to the successful implementation of transformational, long-term strategies was the premise that our sport programme would devote itself equally to participation for enjoyment and well-being as well as competitive sport in pursuit of excellence. Our sport capability and standard of excellence has surpassed the facilities we currently offer, and the cost (financial, time, personal, traffic) is not sustainable. Creating the appropriate physical environment - through The SCS 150 Built Environment Campaign - will ensure that our current vision for sport can be maintained. Having home facilities, many of which will be shared with a sister state school, Good Hope Seminary School, will enhance the partnership between the two schools and bring about much needed amenities for both schools. Moreover, this dovetails with a core precept of our mission.
MULTI-PURPOSE HALL
TENNIS & NETBALL COURTS
ASTROTURF HOCKEY FIELD Work has commenced on the construction of a competitionsized, artificial sand-based surface, Astroturf to FIH (International Hockey Federation) standards. The surface, while optimised for hockey, can host other sport disciplines. This Astro is significant in two respects: it enables St Cyprian’s School to host matches and derbies that will further showcase the school, expanding our reputation for excellence and growing St Cyprian’s desirability as a school of choice, and it places us in the position to partner with schools and share our facilities and our skill, thus furthering the development of sport in another school with lesser and limited facilities. Owing to budget constraints, our ‘wish list’, which includes warm-up areas, spectator seating, team shelters and floodlights will form a second-phase installation as we need to raise funds to install these fixtures.
GOALS
• Development of skills in formative years; life • • • • • • •
skills of motivation, discipline, dedication and teamwork; Premier league U19 inter-school matches; Inter-school matches – home-ground advantage and community support; ‘Home’ training and practice ground – whole school development of talent and enhancement of participation; Mini-hockey, 5-aside soccer facilities for competition; Small club house and tuck shop and ablution facilities; Combined teams with GHS; A home for our Hockey Academy that serves the school and wider community.
AQUATIC CENTRE The new swimming pool has been designed to meet competition specifications for swimming and water polo. In line with our sport philosophy and implementation of our scientific approach to sport, learning fundamental movement skills includes teaching swimming during school hours to our School-in-the-Woods and Foundation Phase girls. The pool has been designed to the size 25 x 20 x 2 meters and will provide 8 competition width swimming lanes. It is a rim-flow heated pool to FINA (International Swimming Federation) standards of around 26/27 degrees. The depth and size also easily accommodate water polo training and match hosting. The Aquatic Centre will provide spectator seating for 280 people.
GOALS
• Water survival skills and recreational swimming; • Swimming as sport Gr 1-12; • Water polo as sport Gr 8-12; • Inter-house competition; • Inter-school competition; • Ablutions and changing rooms; • A training facility for our Swimming
Academy that serves the school and wider community.
THE MULTI-PURPOSE HALL A Multi-Purpose Indoor Sport Centre that can accommodate multiple sport codes will provide much needed physical space to meet a myriad of activities required at a school with the aspirations that St Cyprian’s School has.
GOALS
• Meets the needs of sport briefs across all three schools • Accommodates indoor basketball, tennis and soccer; • Accommodates indoor physical education space during winter season; • Accommodates significant curriculum-related •
school activities such as high school exam venue, an additional hall to accommodate the Preparatory and High Schools; and Provides additional office space for Sport department – across all levels of the school and storage facilities for sport equipment.
TENNIS & NETBALL COURTS The netball and tennis courts will reside on St Cyprian’s School’s Gorge Road campus with additional space secured at Good Hope Seminary School. Once again, collaboration becomes an imperative in a congested urban landscape and presents an opportunity to partner with Good Hope Seminary School to meet both schools’ requirements and vision. Work has commenced on the refurbishing court programme at Good Hope Seminary School, which will provide four courts, and plans are in place - as funds allow - to build three new courts (including an indoor court in the Multi-purpose Hall) at St Cyprian’s School’s main campus. Two existing courts on SCS’s western boundary, as well as a smaller Astro court, will be retained.
GOALS
• Augmented Tennis and Netball programmes • • • • •
that meet growth demand across all grades; Accommodation of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model’s skills requirements, which teaches physical literacy, fundamental and sport-specific skills; Hosting league fixtures and sport festivals; Hosting inter-school, regional, national and international competitions; Accommodation of specialist Tennis, Netball Academies; Accommodation of increasing numbers of students participating in both sports for recreational pursuit.
The SCS Transformation for Diversity Pathway St Cyprian’s School intentionally cultivates a sense of belonging for all members of our community. Within a fractured society we represent an oasis of mutual respect, a microcosm of diversity, a crucible of possibility for a normalised society. We consciously strive for an equitable and just culture, one where transformative values and habits of the heart are entrenched, and historical norms, policies and processes are challenged and changed. Our students are critical thinkers and creative problem solvers, conscious of the dignity of all people and aware of their responsibility to engage positively and meaningfully with social justice issues. Aware of their privilege they are taught to use it for change, to give voice to it by making a difference in the world. As a school, in the spirit of equity and redress, we are committed to providing an outstanding education to talented previously marginalised students through our bursary/scholarship programme, knowing that with such opportunity comes the gift of diversity, and of hope for the future. Our Teacher Intern Programme has been devised to train talented and passionate people to become excellent teachers and role models for all our students.
PERSONAL STORY As teenagers, most of the time we are unsure of ourselves. One often finds oneself in new and unfamiliar territories: from different school events to new leadership responsibilities, all the way to young womanhood - and at times it can all be overwhelming. Knowing that the world is reeling backwards, unemployment is at a high, discrimination is rearing amongst us, sometimes one just doesn’t know what to do. We ask ourselves questions like what am I doing to contribute to the world around me, what is my purpose? At St Cyprian’s School, there is no doubt of the vision, “We teach not for school but for life” and this is seen by the strong values we encompass. We are encouraged to disrupt faulty systems, to remold the foundations of not only our country but the world, into one where there is a space where we are all recognised, and our differences are celebrated. It’s rare to be a part of a community in which the aim is to understand, challenge and celebrate diversity. Over the years we have learnt that there is an unspoken truth about women and how we navigate throughout the world - and that is that we are revolutionaries. We are able to excel in whatever field we are in. Our presence is able to break barriers and create a space for a fuller existence. St Cyprian’s School has given us, a cohort of remarkable young women, that space to play, thrive and live freely. St Cyprian’s School has expanded our views of ourselves and encouraged the act of listening to people’s stories or views too.
It can be easy to think that being a girl is being told what to do and who not to be and constantly being redefined by a social patriarchy which states that our rights are not something we should advocate for. But what’s even more special at our school is that to be a girl is to be a universe of a sort, and that our womanhood is not defined by our exteriors but by our commitment to each other, and by our identities that overlay it all. We need to create more environments where the expectation for women is to follow their passions and to know their worth. So, as we go into a new phase of life, we know that our purpose is to “let our own light shine” and by doing that,” we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”- Marianne Williamson
Lethabo Manoto GRADE 12 STUDENT 2018
THE BURSARY ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN St Cyprian’s School is committed to growing its bursary programme and through the SCS Uvule Fund, seeks to create an ongoing conduit for funding for students who will bring the desired diversity to the school. The vision is to attract talent and potential in diversity as well as target historically disadvantaged students. Such an endowment plan also enables us to assist current girls – whose families are facing financial distress - to remain at the school. Growth in funding over the past decade has been promising but there is room to do much more. Available funding in 2010 was just over R1 million, and this year, St Cyprian’s School has expended R5,7 million on our bursary and scholarship funding.
BURSARIES
SCHOLARSHIPS
3 000 000
2 500 000
2 000 000
1 500 000
1 000 000
500 000
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An invitation to partner St Cyprian’s School “To whom much is given, much will be required,” is a maxim that is true for our school and dominant in the Round Square paradigm. We acknowledge our privilege, hold ourselves responsible for what we have, and recognize our obligation to practise conscientious custodianship while remaining relevant and significant in a challenged world. If we are blessed with talents, wealth, knowledge, or time, it is incumbent on us to use these well to benefit others. St Cyprian’s School manages and contains costs, responsibly and ethically. To realise our mission, funding beyond school fees is required. The school does not receive funding from any quarter other than fees, and fees cover costs only. The independent school landscape is a competitive one and under prevailing economic circumstances, a difficult one within to operate. The proliferation of private, franchised, lower fee schools adds further pressure. St Cyprian’s School will have to mine a list of individuals, friends, enterprises and business who share our vision and have the foresight to support our mission, if we are to continue to impact the future. Your gift to The SCS Uvule Fund is an investment in the future – not just of the school but of the world. Administered outside of the operating budget of the school, these gifts will be used to help bridge the gap between where the school is today and what it can become in the future.
Why support St Cyprian’s School
We promise to teach ‘not for school, but for life; train not for time, but for eternity’ in the myriad forms and circumstances that a relevant education requires in an uncertain world. We believe intrinsically that ‘there is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.’ We instil this self-belief in our students in order to unlock and nurture their talents and passions. And through your generosity, something will be unlocked in your identity and altruism. We energise intellectual, emotional and physical potential, and social economy and generative change. We shape explorers, disrupters, job creators and change agents, and celebrate their potential and the realisation of their unique talents. We foster courage, resilience and fortitude. We ignite and hone purpose, character and agency to shape independent thought, conceive vision and cement community values. We pursue transformative change, the kind that furthers sensitivity and empathy, tolerance and respect, and understands and promotes social justice so that we contribute to creating an equal and just society for all. We believe in the significance of women, in growing women who question assumptions, think deeply and meaningfully, apply knowledge and wisdom, and in their contribution to the world, act with integrity, compassion and conviction.
Giving back to St Cyprian’s School Support through financial donation to St Cyprian’s School contributes to the school’s future success and richness of thought, courage and diversity. We need support to affirm SCS as a foremost provider of excellent independent education for girls. Generosity will contribute to making St Cyprian’s School more than simply a good school but rather, a place of significance, driven by a vision to do good and effect meaningful changes. Giving to St Cyprian’s School will enable the growth of influence across our community. It presents an auditable opportunity to improve the prospects of many through our school partnerships and our commitment to diversity (with its offer of opportunity through funding).
DONATION POSSIBILITIES A Strategic Partner of St Cyprian’s School This opportunity, for an ongoing partnership, is open to Corporate and Private sponsors who are able to step-change the development of facilities and bursaries at the school through sizeable donations. Naming rights can be agreed for the area upon which the investment is conferred. Arum Lily Gift Corporate and private individuals who donate R500 000+. Circle of the Mitre Recognition Corporate and private individuals who donate in the range of R100 000 to R499 999. Friends of St Cyprian’s School Corporate and private individuals who donate up to and including R99 000. Bequests and Legacy Giving, and Commitment Giving
TAX-EFFICIENT GIVING The SCS Uvule Fund, formerly registered as the St Cyprian’s Foundation, is a charitable trust registered with the Master of the High Court, Cape Town. The Trust is also registered as a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) with the South African Revenue Service in terms of the Income Tax Act, which affords it numerous tax benefits and advantages. It holds Section 18A status which ensures donors enjoy tax deduction benefits in respect of donations made in cash and in kind to the Trust. The Foundation has intentionally been formulated as a separate fundraising structure from the operational aspect of St Cyprian’s School. The trust is managed independently by a professional team of trustees who assume full fiduciary responsibility for its execution and administration.
BE INVOLVED If you would like to learn more about St Cyprian’s School’s Legacy Plan and how you can contribute, please contact: PAUL FINLAYSON
paul@mavenwealth.co.za 082 789 4125
FIONA BICCARD
biccard@me.com 082 553 7937
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