Dear Camps Bay Community and Friends,

As we celebrate 120 years of Camps Bay Primary School, we are excited to share an ambitious and meaningful initiative: the much-needed restoration and renewal of the Symmonds Sports Field.

This project will directly benefit our learners during school hours through increasing capacity of sports fields and, importantly, will also provide valuable community access to the improved facilities after hours and during school holidays. As our school continues to grow, investing in safe, high-quality sports facilities for our children and community has become essential.

To achieve this goal, we need the support of our parents, alumni, and the wider community. There are several ways you (or your company) can get involved:

1) Sponsorship (Tax-Deductible)
We offer sponsorship opportunities that can be tax-deductible. Contributions can be made in your personal capacity, through your own business, or via a company you are associated with. 

Snapscan Donation Link: Click here

Alternatively please fill in the form below and we will send an invoice (Tax deductible certificate from R2 000+).

For Donations of R10 000+ we would like to offer a 12-months membership for after-hours, weekends and school holidays for the re-newed Tennis / Multi-Sports Courts; as well as a Family / Name Legacy Plaque on school grounds.

2) Partnership Packages (Advertising / Sponsorships)
We offer advertising opportunities on selected school assets, with all proceeds directly contributing to the Symmonds Field Restoration Project, including:

School fence boards (e.g. along the Drive / Prep school)
Swimming Hall and Sports Fields
NEW branding opportunities on the Symmonds Sports Field (once completed)
Selected digital assets
If you own a company — or work for a company seeking visibility within the Camps Bay community — this is a meaningful and practical way to support the project.

3) Combination Option
A combination of sponsorship and advertising is also possible, allowing businesses to benefit from potential tax deductions while receiving brand exposure within the school and community environment.

Additional Partnership Benefits
In return for partnerships, the school is also open to offering venue hire opportunities for suitable corporate events across our sports fields, facilities, and indoor halls (outside of school hours and during school holidays).

In celebration of 120 years of Camps Bay Primary, a Black-Tie Gala will be hosted in October to honour the partners, sponsors, and community supporting the Symmonds Field Project.
This will be a premium fundraising event, with further details to follow.

(See More FAQs around the WHAT, WHEN and WHY at the bottom of the form.)

✅ Please complete the short form below to indicate your interest to donate or advertise, share ideas, or suggest a potential sponsor — and we will get back to you shortly.

Thank you for your help to create a lasting legacy for our learners and our community.

Warm regards,
Camps Bay Primary School

FAQs

We will update these FAQs as new questions come in. As this is a developing legacy project, not all details are finalised yet, but we will communicate openly and keep our community informed as plans progress.

Q: What are all the elements we are looking to improve at the Symmonds Field and why? 

A: Following Elements:⁠ ⁠⁠

• Resurface the current hard-courts - surface and fences⁠ ⁠⁠- Additional Capacity Increase
• New cricket facilities
• New bathroom and clubhouse facilities
• Rehabilitate the sports field

Potential enhancements:

•⁠ ⁠Field overuse relief: swap asphalt for astro on courts so that field sports can overflow to courts. Basically turn courts into multisport fields including netball and tennis.
•⁠ ⁠⁠Spectator facility establishment: Spectator stands, scoreboards, coffee shop / clubhouse

 

WHY? While always prioritising the safety of our children and community, we recognise that as Camps Bay Primary School and the wider community continue to grow, our facilities should grow with them. We aim to offer world-class sports and recreational facilities, allowing us to proudly host other schools and welcome our community and international visitors to enjoy our recreational spaces.

 

Q: Why did the school choose the Symmonds Field as the big project to rally behind this year?

A: As we celebrate 120 years of the school, it felt like the right moment to identify a meaningful legacy project that could benefit both the school and the wider community.

Symmonds Field emerged as the natural choice. It is a well-loved space with great potential, and the scale of restoration and renewal required makes it a project worthy of the whole community coming together behind one shared goal.

Large-scale fundraising of this nature is also relatively new for Camps Bay Primary. We see the Symmonds Field project as an important starting point — a meaningful kick-off that can help build momentum for future asset and capital projects the school will need in the years ahead.

Importantly, most of the work focuses on restoring and renewing existing elements of the field, allowing the project to begin as early as 2026 without complex structural approval processes.

 

Q: What does the timeline for this project look like?

A: We will provide monthly updates to stakeholders on our fundraising progress. Status September 2026: Synsports has been selected as Service Provider and appointed! Actual Phase 1 Implementation start on the Field during this December / Jan school break.

 

Q: Why R1.2 Million and is this enough?

Whilst R1.2 Million will only cover a part of the elements we have in the BIGGER plan, we believe this is an achieavble Fundraising Target for the school and community for this year and to Kick-Start a substantial part of the project.

 

Q: What happens if we raise less than the R1.2 Million?

A: Should we raise less than the full amount required - we can still roll out restoration & renewal on parts of the field - and move the remainder of the works to 2027. 

 

Q: What does the School's Fundraising Efforts this year entail? I.E. is this the main event or will there be other requests for Donations? 

A: The School is standing united behind the Symmonds Field Campaign as this year's main event. There won't be any other significant fundraising efforts or donation requests.

 

Q: What sort of Advertising (and event venue usage) options are there?

A:

R5 000 once-off. Includes: One Newsletter Feature per year plus Selected / Allocated Events Exposure. (choose one from Music Concert, Market Day etc.). Name on digital supporters' wall.

R25 000 once-off (or in instalments). Includes the above exposure + Branding board visibility for 12 months. (Fence/Wall branding outside Grade R - THE DRIVE. (branding needs to be approved by and in partnership with school - appropriate for a primary school environment).

 R100 000 once-off (or instalments) Headline Partner (Category Exclusivity): Includes: A) Branding at restored & renewed Symmonds Sports Fields for 12 months. The advertising can commence from timing of completion of restoration of the Symmonds sports field and will count from then for 12 months. B) Additional allocation of 2 x year (event) space usage of CBPS properties during non-school hours or holidays. Spaces include school buildings, sports fields, play fields, swimming hall. C) Branding of CBPS Sports Kit D) Prominent branding at the Celebratory Gala Event (including 4 tickets).

OTHER - Custome made package.

Example: fence branding on The Drive Camps Bay. Each sign size is 1745mm x 905mm.

 

Q: What are the Event Venue Hire Options (outside of school hours)?

A: There are a multitude of outdoor and indoor venues to choose from. Please see our comprehensive brochure here to browse. Our headline sponsor advertising package includes 2 x event space usage per year. 

 

Q: Who is the operational team behind this initiative?

A: This initiative is being driven by a dedicated subcommittee of parent volunteers who are contributing their time and expertise on a pro bono basis, with the support of the School Governing Body (SGB) and the CBPS Principal.

As with many great school initiatives, the strength lies in the community coming together. If you would like to contribute your time, skills, or ideas, we would love to hear from you. Please reach out to the team at projects@campsbayprimary.co.za — extra hands are always welcome. 

 

Q: Tell me more about the School's heritage? 

A: On Monday, 28 May 1906 the first 7 pupils were enrolled with Mrs Edith M. Adcock as principal and only teacher. These seven pupils included one boy in Std 4, one boy and one girl in Sub B, and two boys and two girls in Sub A. By 1912 the school had grown to 42 children and a new school building was erected. This charming stone building is part of the present Camps Bay Preparatory School building. The school continued to grow and in 1955, they moved to a new building – the present Camps Bay Primary building – with Mr Botha as principal. The school now had nearly 300 pupils in the primary classes and this is when the High School split away.

Over the years several new facilities were added to the existing Primary School building: a heated, enclosed swimming pool, 5-a-side soccer court, computer laboratory, a library and a sports field on the Symmonds Field.

The past 116 years of excellence in education have been the product of many dynamic and visionary principals, dedicated and innovative teachers, incredibly hard-working support and office staff, enthusiastic and talented pupils as well as an actively involved and supportive parent body.

1906 Anglican church used as original school building

‘The Drive’ building 1912