Pro Arte Alphen Park

Pro Arte Alphen Park
Address
Pro Arte Alphen Park C/O Roeline & Selati Street Alphen Park 0081 Menlo Park, Pretoria Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
Coordinates
Information
School type	Public school
Motto	Latin: Vigor et Veritas
Religious affiliation(s)	Christian
Established	1994
Authority	Gauteng Department of Education
School number	0124606221
Principal	Mr Johann Güldenpfennig
Grades	Grade 8 - Grade 12
Gender	Co-Ed
Houses	Phoenix, Sphinx, Pegasus, Gryphon
School color(s)	Blue, Maroon and White
Newspaper	Oracle
Website	www.proarte.co.za

Pro Arte Alphen Park is a bilingual high school in the eastern part of Pretoria, South Africa. It also has boarding facilities.

General information

Located in Pretoria's leafy eastern suburbs, Pro Arte Alphen Park is school. The school provides a learning environment which is diverse and represents South Africa's demographic heritage.

History

The history of the school began in 1964, when a commercial, Afrikaans medium school was built in the suburb of Alphen Park across the Ashlea Gardens estate. The school was successful in attracting students who wanted to pursue a career in the financial services sector which was growing steadily at that time. The school accommodated over 800 students and operated for 30 years until 1994.

Concurrently, the Pretoria school of Art, music and ballet was operating on the grounds of Pretoria Boys High School which is now the Pollock campus of Boys High. The arrangement was temporary as it seems that the state was planning on financing the construction of a new art school in Pretoria with its own grounds and facilities.

By the 1980s, the state of South Africa had great economic pressures due to the political context of the time and as a result, there was a shortage of funds that could be utilized to construct a new arts school from fresh. A decision was taken by the Transvaal department of education to move the art school from Pollock campus to the grounds of the commercial school in Alphen Park. The process of integrating the two schools was completed by 1992 and by 1994, the school started operating as a new, fully integrated Pro Arte Alphen Park.

The school was to be a focus school with attention paid to the arts and enterprise management.

Today, the school continues in its tradition of arts that it obtained from the Pretoria Art School alongside a tradition of enterprise management that it got from the commercial school. The school thus has six study fields including art, music, dance, drama alongside enterprise management and hospitality studies.

Subjects offered

Grades 8-and 9

Compulsory subjects

• English HL
• Mathematics
• Social Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Technology
• Afrikaans FAL
• French SAL
• Life Orientation
• Economic and Management Sciences
• Arts & Culture

Optional subjects

One of the following

• Drama
• Arts
• Music
• Enterprise Management
• Hospitality
• Dance

Grades 10 to 12

Compulsory subjects

• English HL
• Afrikaans FAL
• Life Orientation
• Mathematics OR Mathematical Literacy

Optional subjects

• Physical Sciences
• Computer Applications Technology
• Information Technology
• Economics
• Geography
• Business Studies
• Life Sciences (Biology)
• French SAL
• Tourism
• Visual Arts
• Dramatic Arts
• Dance Studies
• Hospitality Studies
• Accounting
• Music
• Design
• History

External links

• Official website
• Pro Arte Alphen Park on Facebook