Arundel School is a

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, day and boarding school for girls aged 12–18 in

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. Arundel School was ranked 48th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumnae, school profile, internet and news visibility. Arundel School is a member of the

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(ATS) and the Head is a member of the

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(CHISZ).

Boarding

Arundel School offers boarding accommodation on two levels which are weekly boarding for girls who return home at the weekends, and full boarding places for girls whose families are further afield. There are four boarding houses, Angwa, Sabi, Shire and Kafue, each accommodating age groups of girls under the guidance and care of full-time House Mistresses, Matrons and staff, assisted by senior girls. The Boarding Mistress has responsibility for all the boarding houses and is assisted by the deputy head girl of boarding as well as the boarding prefects. Shire and Kafue hostels have recently been renovated and house full and weekly boarders forms 2 to 6. Sabi hostel houses form 1 and 2 full and weekly boarders and has also been recently renovated.

Competitive houses

The school is divided into six competitive houses, Austen, Bronte, Burney, Eliot, Gaskell and Irwin. All academic, sporting and cultural achievements earn points for their house. There are many school trophies which are awarded at the end of each term in recognition of the girls individual and collective achievements, including trophies for sporting events, academic achievements, school pride, flower arranging and deportment. .

Notable alumni

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966), is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Direct ...

OBE - publisher and literary critic * Professor Fareda Banda - Academic, scholar, author * Rutendo Chimbaru - Athlete *

Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, ''Nervous Conditions'' (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in ...

- Novelist, filmmaker and playwright * Mati Hlatshwayo Davis - Director of Health for the City of St. Louis Department of Health *

Alexandra Fuller Alexandra Fuller (born in 1969 in Glossop, England) is a British- Rhodesian author. Her articles and reviews have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' National Geographic'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Financ ...

- Novelist *

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- Novelist *

Elana Hill Elana Susan Hill (born 28 May 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean rower. She represented Zimbabwe at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. She went to school at Bishopslea Preparatory School and Arundel School in Harare. She excelle ...

- Zimbabwe Olympic Rower * Fadzayi Mahere - Advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, LLM Cambridge *

Vimbai Mutinhiri Vimbai Mutinhiri (born 18 February 1987) is a Zimbabwean actress, model and television personality. She was born in Harare, Zimbabwe but raised in Belgrade, Serbia and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to participating in Big Brother Africa (se ...

- Model, actress, television personality *

Sindisiwe van Zyl Sindisiwe van Zyl (3 April 1976 – 10 April 2021), was a Zimbabwean-born South African physician, radio DJ, columnist, health activist and researcher known for using social and mainstream media to share HIV-related, mental health, reproduc ...

- Physician, radio DJ, columnist, health activist and researcher

References

External links

Arundel School websiteArundel School Profile
on the ATS website
Arundel School's Twitter profile
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Boarding

Competitive houses

Notable alumni

See also

References

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