St. John's College (Harare, Zimbabwe)
St John's College is a private high school in Harare, Zimbabwe.
By the mid-1970s the need for a new boys' secondary school in Harare became apparent and a committee of the St. John's Board was established by a group of governors and in 1986 St John's College opened its doors to its first intake. Numbers grew steadily and in 1990 the first Upper Sixth pupils completed A Levels at the college. Over 500 students are enrolled at the college.
The founder Headmaster, Peter Hickman started the school, and then E.J. Sharples arrived and was succeeded in 1990 by Mr Alec Dry, who was the Acting Head until the arrival of Peter Kolbe, who returned to Zimbabwe after a number of years of teaching in Australia. Under his leadership, the college continued to grow. After his retirement in 1998, Tony Eysele, was appointed at the end of 2004. Tony left for the United Kingdom and was replaced by Andrew Vincent, who had served as Senior Master in previous years. In 2002 the college was registered as the first International Baccalaureate Centre in Zimbabwe and the first girls, enrolled in the IB programme, were welcomed to the St John's community. From January 2009, Ross Fuller took over the position of Headmaster. Fuller was founding headmaster of Girls College, Bulawayo, which he ran for more than two decades.
Sport
Sports offered to students include rugby union, cricket, hockey, water polo, tennis, swimming, volleyball, squash, basketball, triathlon, cross country, and athletics, soccer
The college's rugby team, the "Rams", is consistently one of the best in the country, having had three undefeated local seasons, one in 2002 and recently in 2007 and 2008. The College's first Olympian, triathlete Chris Felgate, competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. Other notable athletes include Rory Mackie, a World Duathlon Champion and Ryan Gibbons, representing Zimbabwe in five disciplines, namely; Cricket, Swimming, Hockey, Triathlon and Squash.
College co-curricular cultural activities and societies include Debate, Chess, Choirs (the Shona and the English choirs), First Aid, Geography, Guitar, Interact, Marimba, Orchestra, Art, Bridge, Public Speaking, Drama, Photography, Pipe Band, The Ram (Newsletter), Science, Toastmasters and Scripture Union. (scripture union first known as Crossfire, now known as Impact)
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