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From 1955 - 58 Sr. Paul was Principal, followed by Sr. Lawrence, who held the post until the end

of 1965. Sr. Berchmans returned to the teaching staff of St. James School in 1969 where she
remained until retirement in 1982. At this time St. James School also passed out of the hands of

the Dominican Sisters and was handed over to a lay principal.

St. James Primary is proud of its history as a community school. It has played an important role

in keeping its community together in the face of adversity over the past century. Significantly, St.

James Primary still boasts pupils with surnames like Fernandez, Pepino, Almazon, Erispe and
Delcarme, a tribute to their Filipino heritage.

Conclusion

Today, more than 120 years later, St. James Primary ironically faces its greatest challenge in

striving to continue to provide many more underprivileged and impoverished pupils with a
decent quality education, in the face of an unsympathetic bloated state bureaucracy, that it had

dreamt would provide relief and not further agony.

Reference

St. James RC Primary School (established 1874) 50th Anniversary in Kalk Bay 1947 - 1997.