Peterhouse Group of Boarding Schools
The Peterhouse Group of Schools is based in Marondera, Zimbabwe.
The Peterhouse Group of Anglican boarding schools has 1,045 pupils on 1200 Ha (3,000 acres) in Marondera, Zimbabwe, and comprises Peterhouse Boys, Peterhouse Girls, Springvale House the Preparatory School, Peterhaven at Nyanga and the 800-acre (3.2 km2) Gosho Park and Calderwood Park conservation education projects and wildlife sanctuaries.
The Boys' School
The boys' school is the oldest member of the group. It was founded in 1955 by Rector Fred Snell, who had previously been headmaster at Michaelhouse in South Africa.
The school has an enrollment of approximately 510 boys, all of whom are boarders. This means that they live at the school, leaving to visit their parents over the 3 fixture free weekends and 3 'floating weekends'. A fixture free weekend is a weekend on which no sporting matches against other schools (fixtures)are planned. Traditionally there are three of these in each term, and they are scheduled so that they divide the term into roughly 4 equal quarters of 3 weeks each. In addition, to the 3 fixture free weekends when all boys are required to leave the school, a boy's parents may opt to take him home for up to 3 additional 'floating' weekends per term.
The boys are organised into six houses named after people who were significant in the history of the school or the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe. They are, in order of founding:
- Ellis, named after Sir Ellis Robbins. He was Chairman of the British South Africa Company.
- Paget, named after The Most Rev Edward Francis Paget who was a Zimbabwean Anglican Bishop in the middle part of the 20th century.
- Grinham, founder and former headmaster of Ruzawi
- Malvern, named after Sir Godfrey Huggins who became Lord Malvern. He was a Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (1933–53) and first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–56).
- Founders, named in honour of all the schools founders.
- Snell, named after Fred Snell, the school's founder.
Each boy is allocated a house upon enrollment, and he remains a member of that house until he leaves. In addition to the houses being buildings in which the boys reside, they the boys compete on a sporting academic and cultural front.
In the late 1980s an additional house, Tinokura was created to house D Block boys (aged 13 and 14) in their first year at Peterhouse. Tinokura is organised so that each boy shares a dormitory with other D Blockers from his house for the year; its purpose is to allow the new boy to adjust to the Peterhouse 'system' before exposure to the strict regimental functioning of the main houses.
Notable alumni
- Stuart Carlisle (1991) - Zimbabwe International cricketer.
- Scott Gray (1996) - Scotland International rugby player.
- Ken Harnden (1991) - Zimbabwe Olympic hurdler.
- Audius Mtawarira (1995) - multi-ARIA Award winning Australian record producer.
- Tendai Mtawarira (2002) - Professional rugby player with the Sharks. Plays for South Africa at international level since 2008.
- Brian Mujati (2002) - Professional rugby player with the Lions.
- Rupert Pennant-Rea - former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
- Richard Tsimba (1982) - represented Zimbabwe at the Rugby World Cup in 1997, gained 20 caps for his country.
- Munyaradzi Chidzonga (2004) - contestant on Big Brother Africa seasons 3 & 5.
- Graham Boynton - Telegraph Group travel editor.
- Jason Wallace (1987) - Costa Book Awards winning author.
- Gary Ballance (2007) - England International cricketer
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