SARNIA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Sarnia Government School as it was then known, was officially opened in 1959 as a dual-medium school with 59 pupils, most of whom spoke Afrikaans and were the children of the railway workers. Mr Rousseau was the school's first Principal. By the end of 1960 the school had grown to 83 pupils and held its first sports meeting on the 2nd September 1962. By 1975 the school had 246 mainly English-speaking pupils... Sarnia Primary School originally started in a house in Stapleton Road in Pinetown on the site, which is now part of the Pineville Junction Complex. From there, the school moved to its present site, which was the old Albers Dairy Farm. The dairy farm had three palm trees in front of the farmhouse. These same three palm trees still thrive in the school grounds to this day.