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, founded = 1955 , founder = Fred Snell , sister_school =

Peterhouse Girls' School , location = , province = Mashonaland East , country = Zimbabwe , coordinates = , type = Independent, boarding, high school , denomination = Anglican , patron = Saint Peter , founded =1987 , sister_school = Peterhouse Boys , over ...

, oversight = Peterhouse Group of Schools , rector = Jonathan Trafford , grades_label =

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, grades = I—VI , gender = Boys , lower_age = 12 , upper_age = 18 , pupils = 449 (2016) , system =

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, campus_type = Rural , houses = 6 , colours = Royal blue and White
, nickname = Peterhouse Kings , tuition =

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Springvale House Springvale House Preparatory School (commonly known as Springvale or Springvale House) is an independent, preparatory, boarding and day school in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe that was established in 1952. The school shares facilities with Pete ...

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, boarding

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for boys in Mashonaland East,

. The school was founded by Fred Snell in 1955 and is located on an estate that is shared with Calderwood Park, a conservation area and game park, outside

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. The school is one of the schools under the Peterhouse Group of Schools, the other schools being

, Springvale House Preparatory School and Peterhouse Nursery School. Peterhouse was ranked as one of the Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe in 2014. The Peterhouse Group is led by the Rector, who also has responsibility on a day-to-day basis as Headmaster for Peterhouse Boys' School. The school is a founding member of the

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(ATS). The Rector is a member of the

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(CHISZ) and an international member of the

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(HMC) which represents over 250 independent schools in the

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and worldwide.

History

In September 1951,

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, Bishop of Southern Rhodesia, wrote to the Rector of

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in Natal, offering him the headship of a school that did not exist. Six months later, Fred Snell started working with Canon Robert Grinham and the Ruzawi School Board toward the creation of an independent senior school. Peterhouse opened in 1955 under the rectorship of Fred Snell with 55 boys and within five years the number had risen to 360 according to plan. Peterhouse was founded as an Anglican boys’ country boarding school. When the school opened in 1955, the major building programme had been completed; the Chapel had been dedicated; the staff were accommodated in houses around the grounds; and the grounds themselves had been developed, with the playing fields spreading across the slope below the school, and beyond them, plantations of gum and pine. During the rectorship of Fred Snell, the first black pupils joined the school. Bruce Fieldsend, who joined Peterhouse at the beginning, succeeded Fred Snell as Rector in 1968. Under Bruce Fieldsend, Peterhouse continued to flourish and in 1976, the school had an enrolment of 389 pupils – the highest it had ever been. In 1972, the

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had begun to cast a shadow over the land. In 1976 the enrolment began to drop and by the beginning of 1980, Peterhouse was barely half full. After

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, the school began to grow again, and in 1984 Bruce Fieldsend was succeeded by the Reverend Doctor Alan Megahey. Under his rectorship not only did the boys’ school grow to over 500 pupils, but in 1985, Springvale House, a preparatory school for boys and girls, was opened and in 1987 Peterhouse Girls' School started. These two schools are both situated on the site of the old Springvale School which had closed during the war and which was on the other side of the main Harare / Mutare road from the boys’ school. The three schools now occupy a site of 3 000 acres, of which 700 acres are taken up with Gosho Park, Peterhouse’s conservation area and Game Park. In 1994, Mike Bawden succeeded Alan Megahey as rector. In 2002, Jon Calderwood was appointed rector after Bawden returned to England. Calderwood was head of Springvale House from 1985 to 1993 and Head of Peterhouse Girls from 1994 to 2001 before he was rector. He retired as rector at the end of 2012. In 2013 Howard Blackett, formerly headmaster of the

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, was appointed rector. Jonathan Trafford, an old Peterhouse teacher and headmaster, took up the position in January 2020.

Coat of arms

On 19 April 1956, Peterhouse was given its name. Then as Fred Snell recorded, much thought and discussion was put into the choice and design of the "Coat of Arms" for the new school. Its name linked it with Michaelhouse, but its symbols the cock, the cross and the crown honoured St. Peter.

Houses

The boys are organised into six boarding 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 House, Paget House, Grinham House, Malvern House, Founders House, Snell House. Each boy is allocated a house upon enrolment, and he remains a member of that house until he leaves. In addition to the houses being buildings in which the boys reside, they compete on a sporting academic and cultural front. In the late 1980s an additional house, Tinokura was created to house D Block boys (aged 12–14) in their first year at Peterhouse.

Sport

Sporting activities on offer include

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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

, soccer,

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swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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, and weight training.

Activities

The cultural activities on offer are: Art Club, Bridge,

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, Christian Fellowship, Conservation, Dance (both Ballroom and Hip Hop),

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, Engineering,

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, Kukura neShungu Club,

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, Music,

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, Quiz, Social Responsibility, Woodwork. Peterhouse Boys' School offers the

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to boys in C Block (Form 2) upwards.

Environmental parks

The school, for educational and recreational purposes uses Gosho Park, a conservation area named after Patrick Gosho that is owned by the Peterhouse Group which is situated on the Springvale Estate (being adjacent to Peterhouse Girls' School and Springvale House). Geography field trips, Biology research projects and leadership courses are some of the activities that take place in Gosho Park. Calderwood Park, a conservation area opened in 2012 on the Peterhouse Boys' estate is also used by the boys with infrastructural developments in progress.

Chapel

The Peterhouse Boys chapel was built along the lines of Coventry Cathedral in England. The school was named after

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. The foundation stone was laid by the first Archbishop of Central Africa, and one of the school’s founders, Edward Francis Paget, in November 1956. The Chapel was dedicated in November 1958 by the then Bishop of Mashonaland (The Right Reverend

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) in the presence of Archbishops Hughes and Paget. The Chapel seats over 600 and is fitted with an organ; the small pipes in the range were brought into the country by ox wagon in the late 1890s. The full organ was installed in 1966.

Relationship with Peterhouse Girls' School

is the

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of Peterhouse Boys' School. The schools, both owned by the Peterhouse Group, interact in various cultural activities and to a lesser extent in sports. The Fifth Form and Sixth Form are co-educational, with pupils from Peterhouse Girls' having lessons at the boys' school.

List of rectors

List of rectors of Peterhouse Boys School.

Alumni

Petrean Society

A Petrean is any pupil who has been a member of the school, normally for a minimum of two years; any person who has been a member of the staff of the school for at least three years; or any person who has been a member of the Executive Committee of the school for at least three years.

Notable alumni

* Gary Ballance (2007) - England International

er. * Peter Beaumont

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QC (1961) - British barrister and retired judge * Graham Boynton - author, former travel editor of the

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(1991) - Zimbabwe International

er * Rick Cosnett, actor * Munyaradzi Chidzonga (2004) - NAMA Award-winning actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur. *

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(1972) - British film director, founder of

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* Martyn Day (1973) - British lawyer, founder of

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. *

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player for London Scottish F.C. * Scott Gray (1996) -

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International rugby player. * Ken Harnden (1991) - Zimbabwe Olympic hurdler. * David Hatendi (1972) - former CEO of MBCA and NMB, founder of Hatendi Private Equity Advisors, Rhodes Scholar * Nyasha Hatendi (1998) - American actor and producer * Tonderai Kasu (1997) - Substantive Director of Health and Environmental Services for Chitungwiza and Former Acting Town Clerk (Acting

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) for Chitungwiza Town Council * Audius Mtawarira (1995) - multi- ARIA Award winning Australian record producer. *

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(2002) - Professional rugby player with the

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. Plays for

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at international level since 2008. *

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(2002) - Professional rugby player with the

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and the

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. * Tawanda Muyeye – cricketer * Bharat Patel - lawyer, former Attorney General of Zimbabwe *

Andrew Peebles Andrew Peebles (born 9 January 1989) is a Zimbabwean rower. He placed 25th in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disc ...

(2007) - Zimbabwean Olympic rower *

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(1965) - former Deputy Governor of Bank of England; former editor of

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. *

Nicholas Roditi Spencer Nicholas Roditi (born August 1945) is a British hedge fund manager for George Soros, turned real estate developer. He grew up in Rhodesia Zimbabwe (now Zimbabwe). Early life Spencer Nicholas Roditi was born in August 1945. He was educated ...

(1963) - British real estate developer and hedge fund manager *

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- former Vice President and acting President of

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Richard Tsimba Richard Utete Tsimba (Salisbury, Rhodesia, 9 July 1965 – 30 April 2000) was a Zimbabwean rugby union player. He played as a centre. He was nicknamed "The Black Diamond". Tsimba was the first black player to represent his country. He had 5 cap ...

(1982) - represented

at the

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in 1997, gained 20 caps for his country. * Jason Wallace (1987) -

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winning author