The spirit and camaraderie that King Edward VII School has engendered sets us apart from most other schools. Our School remains at the cutting edge of holistic education, ever mindful of our ethos, values and heritage. The rounded and balanced environment for which our School is famed combines legacy with leadership, high moral standards with high-tech facilities, all focused on an unrelenting goal for the boys we teach and mentor – Academic, Cultural and Sporting Excellence.

While formal and informal aspects of education are interwoven, extra-mural activities teach lessons that cannot be learnt in the classroom - legacy, leadership and loyalty. The School’s loyal men have fought in many wars and won many military honours. Not all came home. The School has the highest number of fallen outside Great Britain from the two World Wars. Alumni have fought for freedom and democracy in South Africa and for justice throughout the world. Above all our alumni have a loyalty to their friends and schoolmates and a generosity of spirit, which cannot easily be matched.

Of the Financial Mail’s eight greatest achievers of the past century, three were educated at King Edward VII School – an achievement unmatched by any other South African school. Over the past century, thousands of youngsters have come to us as boys and left as men. Men with the education, confidence, morals, discipline, passion and courage to shape our nation’s progress.