SUCCESSFULL SAHETIANS

Rose Dairopoulos

CLASS OF 1981

Teacher at SAHETI School

When I was in Grade 8 at SAHETI ( then named Standard 6) it was the first year Saheti had their full school ie it was the first matric class. They had classes from Nursery till Matric. Our year was the group that started from Nursey school and had gone through the entire school. Even though I did not attend Saheti until Grade 8, it's impact and memories were more previlant than those of my primary school.

We had most of our classes in prefabs that are now where the music center stands. Once matriculating, I went to Wits for a 4-year Educational degree. I then completed my honours in education. I decided to travel for some months after I finished with my honours degree but once I completed my 4 months of travel in America, I started working. At the time, the then Saheti headmaster Mr Ellis refused to take "fresh out of University" teachers. He insisted on a minimum of 2 years of Government school experience. While I gained that teaching experience, I continued with my studies and did a post-grad course in Nursery School education.

After 2 years Mr Ellis accepted me at Saheti. I taught for approx. 11 years at Saheti and then stopped to raise my girls. I owned a family-run business called La Koufeto with my mom for 14 years. Thereafter Saheti asked me back to help with some locum positions and the teaching bug bit again. I have been teaching ever since and enjoy learning more from my students more than them learning from me. I always hope that I have imparted some knowledge, some form of love of knowledge to future generations out there- no matter how big or small