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.
It neighbours Nagle House Girls High School.
Headmasters / mistresses:
Mr T E W Bullock,
Mr E J Sharples,
Mr Scott ,
Mr P M Robinson
Mr. Chigwedere et al,
Mr. Mutsigwa,
Mr. Mufambisi,
Mr. Chinake
Mr Nyamayaro.
The current acting headmaster is Mr. Madyangove from St Ignatius College.
Founded in 1960 as Marandellas High School, the school catered for the Marandellas farming community and the surrounding towns.
The first headboy was G Brown, headgirl J Todd, in 1964.
The school has five boarding houses named after British Royal Navy County Cruisers.
Cumberland
Sussex for boys
Kent and
Cornwall.
The school post 1979 also includes day schooling with Stallion House for the girls and Tiger House for the boys.
The games houses are named after popular heroes from Zimbabwe. The houses are now represented with the colors red, green, yellow and blue respectively.
The houses were originally bigger than just sporting houses and were known as Nelson, Drake, Frobisher and Rodney, all Royal Navy Admirals..
The school had a very competitive academic and sporting routine that encouraged teamwork par excellence: points were awarded to each pupil's house for their classroom and sports achievements and the house with overall best academic and sports performance each month of the year was made public on the noticeboard outside the head's office, the overall winner each year was awarded the Dux prize.
In 1979 the dux house winner was 'the Reds', Nelson, captained by T Searson for the boys and W Hall for the girls.
The school has offered a variety of sports over the years which include soccer, rugby, cricket, netball, handball, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, hockey, cross country, athletics, and swimming.
It has included are a variety of clubs: chess, bridge, art, library, +++ which enrich the students culturally and socially.
The school uses the symbol of the lion on its badge. Its blazer is green.
The most notable sport event on the current 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. 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 Dairy Board Rugby School Festival.
School plays have included
' The Gondoliers' produced by Miss J Archer in 1968
' Oliver: produced by Mr B M Stone in 1977
'Pygmalion' produced by Mr J Tyers in 1979
National sporting honours have been awarded to:
M de Jongh, E Bell, R Houghton, J Dodd, B Nilson for athletics,
K Curran for cricket,
J Campbell for polo,
S Grove & B Grove for show jumping,
M van den Berg for boxing.
The school warcry in 1979 was "shumba wa, shumba wa, shumba shumba win by far!

Notable alumni

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