Every year we hold a Prayer Day, where we invite parents and friends of the school to join us in giving thanks for the year and the progress made from year to year. As a faith-based school, we see it as important to have this time to give thanks to the One that carries the school throughout each year and bestows favour and grace to everyone. Our prayer day is held every September, since 2009 and our stakeholders enjoy the festive and celebratory day. As the years have passed, the number of attendees has increased and we appreciate this show of support from our community – we do thank them for their encouragement throughout these years.

Step Ahead’s staff and learners come from various rich backgrounds and cultures and we thrive in the diversity. As an institution that enjoys a close relationship with all its stakeholders, we take advantage of the opportunity to recognise and celebrate the African cultures represented by our stakeholders every year in our Africa Day Celebrations. Learners and staff dressed up in traditional attire share and entertain the school with poetry, speech’s and short skits as a way of taking pride in our beautiful and diverse continent.

As a community that has experienced xenophobic tensions in the recent history, we see it important to broaden our learner’s view of the continent and to take pride in the many rich cultures and in what each language, traditional food and customs of this land.

The success in the celebrations are seen in how the learners interact with different languages and people from other countries, no longer negative but with interest and tolerance. This is one of the several ways we try grow global citizens.