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Summary

= History =

= Buildings and Facilities =

Jeppe Girls' facilities include a media centre with a library which holds +/-2000 books, computer centre, and music centre. The swimming pool, 25m in length, is located on the school's main grounds. The sports facilities are mainly located on the lower grounds across the road from the school. These include: 6 tennis courts, % netball courts, 2 hockey/soccer fields, a cricket pitch and 2 volleyball courts.

A new building was constructed in *insert date* to accommodate the growing number of pupils at the school and to make space for more science laboratories. The new building is located behind the main building of the school.

Swimming pool history
= Academics = Jeppe Girls has achieved a Matric pass rate of 100% for the 20th year in a row.

Subjects
The following subjects are offered at the school:

= Scholarships = Jeppe Girls is one of the schools partneres with SSP (Student Sponsorship Programme). The school is also partnered with the Old Mutual and Allen Gray scholarship programmes.

Ruth First Scholarship
The Ruth First Jeppe High School for Girls Memorial Trust is a scholarship programme set up in *insert date* in honour of Ruth First, a prominent political activist in South Africa and former student at the school. There are currently # recipients in the Trust.

Patron

Justice Albie Sachs, who was a close friend of First's, is the Patron of the Trust.

Manager

Kevin Tait, a former Headmaster of Jeppe High School for Boys, Vice Rector of the Johannesburg College of Education, as well as Secretary of the Jeppe Schools' Trust is the Manager of the Ruth First Memorial Trust.

= School song = Where plants and flowers fair

With perfume scent the air,

Where hills in endless line

Inspire with thoughts sublime -

There stands amid her glorious trees The

Jeppe Girls' High School.

Forti Nihil Difficilius

This motto shall us rule.

So let us hymn her praise,

Take courage all our days.

We'll play the game and laud the name

Of Jeppe Girls' High School.

When we from memory's store,

Recall those days of yore,

Those contests keenly fought,

On fields or tennis court,

Then we shall hymn the glorious praise

Of Jeppe Girls' High School

Forti nihil difficilius

This motto shall us rule.

So let us ne'er despair,

Our burdens bravely bear.

We'll play the game

And laud the name

Of Jeppe Girls' High School.

= Extramural activities =

= References =

= External links =
 * Jeppe High School for Girls

Jeppe High School for Boys

SSP

Johannesburg College of Education