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Introduction
Aston Manor Primary School - abbreviated as AMPS - is a public primary school located in South Africa, Kempton Park. It is close to OR Tambo International Airport The school is an English dual-medium school which caters for Grade RR (5 years and older) to Grade 7 (13 years and younger)

Establishment
The school was initially established on the 21st January 1971 and was run from the grounds of Kempton Park Primary School until 1975. Mr. P. de Klerk was the first school principal. In 1975 the school was moved to it's current location [gps coords here] The official opening ceremony of the school was held on the 25th of June 1975.

From the schools opening in 1971 to August 1975 the school had an attendance of 791 pupils (397 boys and 394 girls) For a [list of previous and current staff please see the complete listing] [?] Amongst the other notable teaching staff Mr. R. J. Heyneke was appointed in 1975. After 6 years Mr. P. de Klerk resigned as principal of the school and was replaced by Mr. D. Opperman on the 1st of May 1977.

80's to 90's
In 1981 a combined Inter-school P.T.A was formed on the school grounds with surrounding schools - namely; Birch Acres Primary School, Kempton Park Primary School, Norkem Park Primary,Edleen Primary, Creslawn Primary. In the same year the school started an after-care centre. With the help of parents at that time Aston Manor Primary School raised enough money to install the first computer centre in 1984. In 1985 Mr Leslie J Steenkamp (current principal) started as second deputy. In 1988 Mr L Steenkamp was appointed as acting principal. On the 29th of November 1990 787 registered parents voted in favour of the school adopting Model C (semi-privatization) policy - 665 voted yes (85.5%) and 28 voted no (3.56%) 696 parents voted.

1991 - 1994
On the 28th of February 1991 Aston Manor Primary school received official written notification that their model C status was approved. After fifteen years at AMPS Mr. D Opperman resigned (1977-1991) and was replaced by dupty principal (Mr. L. Steenkamp)

Ukuthula
In 1994 to celebrate the end of apartheid Mr. L Steenkamp formed the idea of a school mascot which would travel the world. The mascot is a large teddy bear and signifies peace and goodwill to the world and all of mankind. The name Ukuthula was chosen after a school competition was held to see who could give the best name. Tumi ..... (at that time attending the school) won the competition. The name Ukuthula means "Peac" in Zulu.

Community Service
The school appears to actively support non profit organizations such as the SPCA [need names and newspaper articles]