North Coast College Welcome

North Coast College

Message from the Executive Head:

A warm welcome from Crawford College North Coast. We strive to nurture our students to become well-rounded, confident people. Our campus located in the sugarcane belt along the Dolphin Coast of KwaZulu-Natal provides a caring, friendly and inclusive environment in which we celebrate all our students’ achievements.

Our reputation as a centre for academic excellence has enabled us to grow and flourish over the past twenty-one years. As a co-educational school, we are well placed to guide your child with his/her emotional and educational development.
The successes of our students both past and present bear testimony to the ways in which we approach education. Ultimately, we aim to develop students with a strong moral compass and ethical approach to life, who will make a lasting and positive contribution both to our community and our country. We instill the values of commitment, dedication and diligence to enable our students to overcome any obstacles in their voyage to achieving their potential.

A few years ago we introduced LIGHT as our Core Values at the College: Love of Learning, Inspiration, Grit, Humility and Trust. It coincided with our 20-year celebrations and reflected what we have become: an academic institution on the brink of coming-of-age in an ever-changing world.
At Crawford North Coast, we believe that the path to success lies in accepting challenges as opportunities for growth. We expect our students to strive for excellence and set high personal and academic standards for themselves. We encourage our students to think freely and play an active role in the learning process. Mutual respect is the cornerstone upon which our College community is built. Our focus is to develop well-behaved and self-disciplined students who wear their multiform with pride; students who respect themselves, their peers, their teachers and their parents. The College Code of Conduct ensures a controlled environment in which students can construct their own individualities.

In order to achieve our objectives, we employ experienced and highly qualified professional teachers and staff who are dedicated to maintaining high standards. Everything we do at Crawford North Coast is in the best interests of our students.

The College offers a broad range of extracurricular activities. Our students are encouraged to participate in a variety of sporting activities, which develop both the individual and the team and encourages a healthy spirit of competition. We are also widely respected as a centre for cultural excellence with strong dance, music, visual and performing arts departments.

The College is actively involved in several Community Outreach Programmes through which the students’ service to the community and their school is encouraged and recognised.

The daily School Communicator, weekly CNC newsletter, and Crawford Times keep parents updated on activities in the College. They also document the successes and activities of our students.

We guide our students to develop their potential in these very important formative years in every way possible. Wherever our students excel, may it be academically, in the sporting arena or on the cultural front, the staff at Crawford North Coast will be there to guide and support them.
Crawford College North Coast has a boarding facility that provides a safe and secure living environment within a supportive, extended-family-set-up that boasts a “home-from-home” lifestyle. We encourage boarders to approach their life in boarding in a positive manner, that ensures support and supervision for their academic performance, encourages participation in sport, culture and community services activities. Boarder students enjoy enriching lives in all spheres of College life.

I am very proud of CNC and I am absolutely confident that we can cater for your child’s individual needs.

If you would like to enrol your child into Crawford:
Debbi Wagner (032) 9433240 
dewagner@crawfordschools.co.za

• What is a promise? It is declaration that one will do something pledged or that there is a reason to expect something in the future. That is what Crawford North Coast embodies. It is a promise to help students embody the virtues that it champions and to help them during their tenure at the school discover and realise their latent potential. A commitment to learn always and in all ways. 

• Discipline equals freedom. That’s something we believe at CNC. What does this mean? Discipline is faith in action. It is pledging to self-mastery. Discipline demands we master ourselves and look beyond what is probable to what is possible. It is believing that we can be better and then doing the things that make us better. Discipline in our student’s lives empowers them with the freedom to grow into resilient and actualized adults.

• Imagine a place that accepts you for who are, and helps you become the person you want to be. Imagine a place that welcomes you like family and raises you to grow stronger and smarter. If you want to reach further, become a life-long learner and climb higher than most, then come join us at Crawford College North Coast. What is it that makes a place special? Is its location, the people you find there or is it the meaning that you have created and invested in it? Maybe it’s a combination of all three. The one thing I can be certain of though, is that I know special when I find it.

• Our teachers engender and build trust. How do they accomplish that? By showing their students a genuine sense of concern for their well-being. By having their words and actions demonstrate beyond doubt that they have their best interests at heart. This doesn’t mean pandering to protect people’s feelings when hard truths need to be heard. We challenge students directly AND we care personally. Our motto is Tutum Te Robore Reddam meaning ‘I will give you safety by strength’. Our school provides a safe haven for our student to nurture and develop their strengths. They must develop their will and skill. In their actions and interactions, they learn to pause, ponder and then perform. Insight before Foresight. They build their competence and with that, they earn their confidence.   

• Humanity has always strived for an ideal. At CNC we aspire to an idea, a standard, an approximation, a ways and means to become the best possible version of ourselves. We don’t do this because we are vain or arrogant, we do it because it is part of our god given right to hope to be the best possible version of ourselves.



Kind regards, 

Vernon David 
Executive Head Crawford North Coast 


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