Photos of Evelyn Baring High School, Swaziland

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Evelyn Baring High School

Evelyn Baring High School in Nhlangano is a Government boarding school with excellent facilities, including wood- and metal workshops, well-equipped Science laboratories, a swimming pool and other sports facilities and many activities for the students. Its adjacent Primary school was also first class.

Dining Hall, EBHS
 
Boys singing
 
Students playing
 
Two school boys
 
Using a planer
 
Doing woodwork
 
Woodwork lesson
 
Using a saw
 
In the workshop
 
Primary school kids
 
Ready for class
 
Erecting goal post
 
Boy Scouts
 
Spray painting
 
Students and teacher
 
Polishing a hammer
 
Students at work
 
Doing metalwork
 
Form 1 students
 
Using a drill
 
Using a lathe
 
Playing draughts
 
Morning Assembly
 
School Assembly
 
Recording music
 
Hostel Assembly
 
Roll Call
 
Saying the
 
At
 
Junior boys
 

The school was co-educational but its boarding hostel was for boys only. There were two houses, Dickson for the Junior boys and Marwick for the Seniors. The Prefects, selected Senior students, would do the roll calls and generally make sure students were behaving, with a staff member to call upon only if they couldn't handle it. This worked very well. Some senior students would also organise junior boys into a scouting group, teach them songs and look after their welfare, virtually without adult supervision.

It was a happy place, the students appreciating the chance they had for a good education and organising their own activities in their spare time. These photos show what life was like at Evelyn Baring High School when the photographer was teaching science and looked after the pool there in 1974 and early 1975.