Our History
OUR HISTORY – Est. 2015
Whitfield Academy is an independent Christian School of class from Grade RR-12. It first began to operate on the 11th of January 2016 with only 209 learners. Initiated and driven by the founders, Ms Elnette Viljoen and Mr Devaris Gatsi. Situated in Sun Village, the school accommodates 727 learners as of 2025. This initiative is in response to an increasing shortage of independent co-educational primary schools in the Moses Kotane east area and the need to provide education appropriate to the changing local and international environment. The school has a pre-school with 60 learners with an aftercare as well.
Extra Curricular Activities
To ensure that our learners are afforded the chance to explore outside their immediate environs; tours are arranged on a termly basis which involves outdoor education and adventure learning programmes. This allows our children to be exposed to a wide range of social and physical learning experiences. Various educational productions take place in the hall to help learners deal with the many socio-economic perils they face in their daily lives.
The school does have a compulsory extramural programme that varies according to the sports season.
The School Today
Currently the majority of our learners come from the previously disadvantaged communities of Ledig, Chaneng and Mogwase, who gain valuable and holistic educational instruction that enables them to cope in our diverse society and to be able to enter secondary schooling with confidence.