Meet The Principle: Mrs Little, Vista High School

Charline Little is the Principle at Vista High School located at the top of Signal Hill in Bo Kaap. She was very eager to adopt School of Hard Knocks at her school because she is passionate about holistic learning and creating a better learning environment.

"I want to extend a huge thank you to you and the organisation for allowing Vista High to be a part of the programme. I have been extremely privileged to have observed the coaches interact with the learners, and it really fills me with so much joy to see the learners having so much fun, especially the ones who are extremely troublesome when in a normal class setting.

If you look at - the kids come to the school when SOHK is here. It’s changed. My class, 10C, [Tina] and them they are basically every day in school. They look forward to Wednesdays. And they ask me the day before is SOHK coming, we say they are coming and they are excited to do all these things.

Mrs Little’s colleague at Vista High added ‘if you look at the others their attitudes have changed towards the teachers, they have calmed down and they are working.’