Thought in Action
Even at school level, Parvis believes ideas must be tested against reality.
The Parvis Research Institute coordinates pupil and staff projects that regularly publish or present beyond our gates:
- Annual macroeconomic forecasts produced by our AP Economics cohort have outperformed several professional banks in recent SARB prediction challenges.
- Our machine-learning team’s early-warning model for Gauteng load-shedding stages, built on open Eskom data, is now consulted by two municipal energy departments.
- Composition premieres from AP Music are performed at the National Arts Festival and broadcast on Classic FM.
- Sustainability design research from AP Visual Arts students has been adopted by Bedfordview primary schools for water-harvesting systems.
Staff research leave and doctoral supervision partnerships with the universities of Witwatersrand, Pretoria, and Stellenbosch keep teaching fresh. The bi-annual Parvis Symposium sees Year 12 researchers defend theses before panels that include reserve bank deputies, orchestra conductors, and Silicon Cape founders.
We are a school, not a university – mistakes are made, hypotheses fail, egos occasionally bruise. Yet it is precisely in that imperfect striving that genuine scholarship is born.