This vision has been combined with academic excellence and individual expectations based on international standards to produce an education that is not only richly entrenched in its South African roots, but also sets global standards. Core values and innovative future planning are hallmarks of St Stithians College. A highly professional staff corps. Professional staff development is also actively encouraged. Cultural activities, drama and music form an integral part of the curricula and St Stithians College has a proud sporting tradition, offering a wide variety of sports, with the emphasis on maximum participation and healthy competition.
Effective education is about bringing children out of themselves, it is inside out.
What is best for the children is that they grow and develop at their most appropriate pace in a space with which they identify, feel secure, loyal and committed. The facts of early teenagehood are that boys and girls develop at different paces. International research has shown that boys and girls perform best when they are taught separately in the early teenage years. In a nutshell, co-ordination means that sharing and separation can take place on one campus, i.e. single sex schooling, when maturation of girls and boys require it, and mixing, where this would be of benefit.