Learning to engage and collaborate for a better world
Opportunity, not obligation
Our Community Partnerships programme immerses boys in meaningful service, fostering empathy, ethical leadership and responsible citizenship. Through deep, sustained collaboration with our community partners – including Thembelihle School and Angels’ Care in Howick – our boys engage in coaching, mentoring, aftercare support, and awareness‑raising campaigns, learning that service is opportunity rather than obligation.
From understanding to impact
At the heart of our Community Partnerships programme is the simple, transformative act of building relationships. Our boys are given the opportunity to connect deeply with people beyond their own world – to listen to stories, to understand lived experiences, and to appreciate the humanity they share. Through these authentic connections, they become more reflective about their own privilege and more intentional about using it for good. In this way, our boys are not passive observers of the world; they engage with it wholeheartedly, learn from it humbly, and seek to transform it with compassion and conviction.
Empathy that inspires action
Our Community Partnerships programme encourages boys to listen, learn, and lead – shaping changemakers for a better tomorrow.
Building bridges
Chris Kingsley is our Director of Community Partnerships. He has taught at Hilton College for more than a decade and is the co-founder of the Sport for Lives movement, which fulfils many of his heart’s desires for our country. Chris is married to Ali, also a teacher, who heads up the Amathuba Foundation, a non-profit organisation that facilitates opportunities for high school students. They share a heart for initiatives that build relationships and bridges across communities.
During Life Orientation lessons and on our ‘Heartbeat Days’, we cover citizenship-related topics and facilitated discussions about ethics and issues of social justice.
We also strongly encourage boys to participate in The Presidentʼs Award (referred to in some countries as the Duke of Edinburgh Award), the worldʼs leading youth achievement award which aims to develop committed, responsible and engaged global citizens.
How we train the mind to think rather than memorise facts
Grade 8
Required
• Estate Adventure including
the Junior Journey
• Estate activities and
campouts
• Academic estate activities
• Guest speakers
Recommended
• Service initiatives to help
with community projects
• Adventure activities and
tours
Awards
• The Presidentʼs Award
(Bronze)
• Estate Award – Basil
Crookes Memorial Prize
Grade 9
Required
• Outdoor Leadership
Experience
• Guest speakers
Recommended
• Service initiatives to help
with community projects
• IEB collaborative
problem-solving project
• Conservation Certificate of
Merit
• First aid course
• Adventure activities and
tours
• World Challenge
• Model United Nations
Awards
• The Presidentʼs Award
(silver)
Grade 10
Required
• Outdoor Leadership
Experience – journey
through the Karkloof
• Guest speakers
• Service initiatives to help
with community projects
• Minimum number of
Outreach hours helping the
less fortunate
• Inward Bound camp
Recommended
• Service initiatives to help
with community projects
• Overseas exchange
• First Aid/strapping
course/blood donation
representatives
• Adventure activities and
tours
• Model United Nations
Awards
• The Presidentʼs Award
(gold)
Grade 11
Required
• Leadership camp
• Academic Tour to
Johannesburg
• Guest speakers
Recommended
• Service initiatives to help
with community projects
• First Aid/strapping
course/blood donation
representatives
• Adventure activities and
tours
• Guest speakers
Awards
• Service ties
• The Presidentʼs Award
Grade 12
Recommended
• Service
• First Aid/strapping
course/blood donation
representatives
• Adventure activities and
tours
• Guest speakers
Awards
• Service ties
• The Presidentʼs Award
• First Aider of the Year
We are learning to engage with our communities so that we can collaborate for a better world.
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