Marondera High School
Marondera High School is a co-educational high school located one and half miles from the Marondera town centre, in Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe. The school was established in 1960.This school is one of the first schools in Marondera. It lies opposite Nagle House Girls High School. Previous headmasters have been Mr. Chigwedere, Mr. Mutsigwa, Mr. Mufambisi, Mr. Chinake and Mr. Nyamayaro. The current acting headmaster is Mr. Madyangove who just from St Ignatius College.
Founded in 1960 as Marandellas High School, the school catered for the Marandellas farming community and the surrounding towns. The school has five boarding houses named after English counties. The boarding houses are Cumberland (The Sables), Hampshire (The Kings) and Sussex College (The Bulls) for boys and Kent and Cornwall for girls. The school also includes day schooling with Stallion House for the girls and Tiger House(dhebhan'a) for the boys.
The school uses the symbol of the lion on its badge. The most notable sport event on the school calendar is the annual Chinamasa Inter-hostel rugby tournament held in March. Cumberland, Sussex, Hampshire and the tigers go head to head where winner gets a trophy and aid to an annual celebratory braai (bbq). The tournament also serves purpose to identify and select players who go on to form the schools' Rugby first team and represent the school at the annual Mwana Group International Schools Rugby Festival
The games houses (Nehanda, Chitepo, Tongogara and Mutapa) are named after popular heroes from Zimbabwe. The houses are represented with the colors red, green, yellow and blue respectively .
The school offers a variety of sports which include soccer, rugby, cricket, netball, handball, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, hockey and swimming. Also included are a variety of clubs which enrich the students culturally and socially.
Comparing to what it was like in the last century, The school has massively degraded.The roads have many potholes, the hostels look like buildings of a ghost town especially Cumberland and Hampshire and Mr. Madyangove(Jari) is busy eating the school's money.Also the swimming pool now hordes contaminated, discoloured and polluted rainwater.Sports like hockey, cricket and squash are no longer supported, almost like they never existed.
Science lab apparatus now has rust and there is lack of chairs.Children especially boarders face water crisis and some of them go to lessons without bathing and with dirty uniforms(pulling) which are not ironed(scruffing) known as scrumhalves.
Notable alumni
[edit]- Graeme Hick - cricketer
- Harry Roberts (rugby union, born 1960)
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