page_title: Wynberg Boys' High School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wynberg Boys' High School / History
caption_attribution_description: English: WBHS Memorial Gates
context_page_description: Wynberg Boys' High School is a public English medium boys high school situated in the suburb of Wynberg of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Founded in 1841, it is one of the best academic schools in Cape Town, it is the second oldest school in the South Africa.
context_section_description: In 1841, John McNaughton re-opened the doors of his school, the "Established School at Wynberg", in Glebe Cottage with 16 pupils enrolled. McNaughton's school shared the cottage with the Lady D'Urban School of Industry for young ladies.
  Initially a co-educational school, it limited enrollment to boys in 1853. The senior and junior schools operated as one school until 1943 when they separated.
  In 1845, the school moved to Bryndewyn Cottage. In 1863, the Government relegated the school to the status of "second class elementary school" and instructed the headmaster, Mr. MacNaughton to close on 27 February. Permission was granted to change Wynberg Boys to a private school on 2 March.
  A building was purchased from the Higgs estate in 1876, and in 1891, Sir Herbert Baker designed new buildings that opened in 1892.  In 1980, the school moved to its current site on the Hawthornden Estate in Wynberg.
  The school has two museums. Two books have been written on Wynberg: The History of a School (1961) by English teacher Doug Thompson, and A School Reflects (1991) by Old Boy Roger Goodwin.
  The school's motto, Supera Moras, can be translated from Latin as Overcome Difficulties.
  There is an unofficial motto that is used frequently for marketing, "Brothers in an endless chain"
caption: Memorial Gates
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