St Catherine's School, Germiston 3.69

31 Piercy Ave
Germiston, 1401
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St Catherine's School is a private, co-educational school in Germiston, Gauteng named after Saint Catherine of Siena. A combined school, St Catherine's consists of a pre-primary, a primary and a high school.HistorySt Catherine's school was founded in the then new mining town of Germiston in 1908 by the Dominican Sisters of Newcastle, Natal, in order to meet the need for education of the children of the miners and merchants of this growing settlement. The school became the first convent on the East Rand and the first high school in Germiston. The first school building was built on property bought from Simmer and Jack, a now defunct gold mining company which was prominent in Germiston's early history, near the Rose Deep Mine in Hardach Street. By 1948, with the industrialisation of the old parts of Germiston and the movement from south to north of most of the town's urban population, the school was relocated to the suburb of Parkhill Gardens. Here there was also more room for sporting facilities.Towards the end of 1968 the convent decided, in conjunction with St. Dominic's, Boksburg, to cater for primary school pupils only: girls up to grade 7 and the boys up to grade 3. In addition to this, in 1970 the Transvaal Education Department recognised and registered the St. Catherine's Pre-Primary School. The first reported ghost sighting occurred on 17 August 1972, when a janitor cleaning the school hall after hours claimed to have been chased into the quad by an amorphous grey apparition or "spook" with "glowing red eyes". From the beginning of 1977, a wave of sightings followed of a "grey, hooded figure swaddled in flowing robes", often accompanied by a "wailing' sound". The 'ghost', said to haunt the school hall, the chapel, the basement and a number of classrooms in the eastern wing, was soon dubbed 'Patrick', after one of the school's houses, St Patrick's. After 1977, ghost sightings at St Catherine's mostly ceased, although stories of paranormal happenings at the school persist to the present.

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