We asked four parents from this year’s SGB to write a few sentences about what Marang has meant to their family. They wrote longer than we asked. We have edited only for length, never for tone.
Each child’s name has been changed. The parents’ names have been kept with their permission. The details — the Tuesday emails, the hand-knitted jersey, the bread on Wednesdays — are not changed.
“Ms. Botha emails me every Tuesday with one small win Karabo had at school. One sentence, no more. I have kept every email. I never had a teacher do that for any of my children. He is a different child since he came to Grade 6 here.”
“I am raising my grandson alone. The kitchen ladies know that. On Wednesdays they put aside extra bread for him because he leaves the school late, after rugby. Nobody asked them to do this. I only found out when he told me, very casually, six months later. That is Marang.”
“My older daughter graduated from Marang in 2019. We came back for our youngest because the same Foundation Phase teachers are still here, and they remembered our family. There is something steady about a school where the staff don’t leave. Tlotlo is in Grade 1 now and she walks in like she owns the place.”
“In January my son started Grade R wearing a jersey that one of the Grade 7 mothers had knitted for him because we couldn’t afford the donated one in his size. She didn’t know us. She just heard from the SGB chair. I am still finding the words to thank this community. I cannot believe my child is here.”
When you choose a primary school, you are not really choosing a curriculum. You are choosing the people who will know your child for seven years.
If you would like to hear from a current Marang parent before you apply, contact our office and we will put you in touch with a member of our SGB or PTA. There is no marketing script — just families who can tell you the truth, in their own words.