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The first divine service was held by Mr Fred Kannemeyer at Zeekoevlei on Sunday 1 May 1910 (St Philip and St James Day)
Services started in a house on a regular basis in 1911. The day school was opened on Tuesday 13 February 1912 with an enrolment of 23 pupils.
The new school chapel was dedicated on Saturday 2 March 1912 by the Venerable Archdeacon Brooke . On Saturday 21 April 1912 the Rev Lancelot W. Liddell succeeded the Rev Shelmerdine as Rector of Plumstead. The first communion service was celebrated in the chapel on 17 July 1912.
The church organ was dedicated on 4 March 1913. The dedication of the mission house and house warming took place on 14 June 1913. The first parish leaflet appeared in August 1913. The first bazaar was held on 6 December 1913 and raised a sum of R29,11.
The communion vessels were dedicated on 18 March 1914. The church bell was donated by the All Saints Burial Society and dedicated by the Rev L. W. Liddell on Friday 21 April 1916.
EXTRACTS FROM THE FIRST PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE ON THE SCHOOL'S GOLDEN JUBILEE IN 1962
"In those far-gone days there was no tarred road from Plumstead to Grassy Park, only a gravel road and that was only as far as the little bridge, from there, there was a sand track which during the rainy seasons (and it rained a lot in those days) was am awful muddy track so that one had to hang on the wire fence alomgside the way sometimes. Nor was there any conveyance from Plumstead Station to the Flats. You had to walk a distance if you hadn't a bike. And if you were a great walker it would take you a long hour.
Today you have big and proper school buildings. At the end of 1911, I qualified and was asked to stay on and start a school at the beginning of 1912. But there was no school building, so we started with a little wattle-and-daub building, with a sand floor. We had no equipment to start with, so we , i.e. the pupils - only a handful comparatively speaking - started to learn the alphabet and learned to write the letters in the sand. That was a small beginning indeed. The first - and very first - building of wood and iron , for services and school came later , as well as equipment."
F.KANNEMEYER