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followed, plus our usual habit of taking the steps in huge bounds on being released from

school, remain in the memory bank.

I wonder where Miss. Manning qualified? She certainly was an amazingly able teacher.

MISS KEMP’S SCHOOL

Arthur Harrison

This small primary school was conducted in the ‘parish room’, a wood and corrugated iron

building behind Holy Trinity Church. Miss Kemp was one of three sisters who came to South

Africa from Cornwall, England in the early part of this century. One of the sisters, Miss
Caroline Kemp, became the well-respected headmistress of Rustenberg Girl’s High School in

1916. Miss Ethel Kemp had already established her school in Kalk Bay by the middle 1920s.

When I went there as a six-year old in 1920 in ‘Sub A’ she had as an assistant teacher a Miss

Harvey who was the daughter of Mrs Harvey the librarian of the Carnegie Library,

Muizenberg. They were a Kalk Bay family.

I can remember learning to read from Beacon Readers and learning to write from Phillips

copy books. I don’t remember much about the arithmetic but there was an emphasis on
‘tables’.