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Falcon College Aims for self-sufficiency
With food shortages becoming widespread in Zimbabwe, the
College has adopted an aggressive policy towards ensuring food security at the
college. We have embarked on several projects in order to realize
this. The poultry project has now made us self-sufficient in
chickens. Every two weeks 500 day-old chicks are brought in
for feeding and an equal number is slaughtered, creating a continuous cycle. The picture
shows some of the chickens nearly ready for the Falcon tables..
The plush garden on the right is just a small part of
the vegetable project. In a few months time we will be self-sufficient in all
vegetables, with the exception of potatoes.
 Bread
Bread supplies from town have become too erratic and
the quality of bread being supplied rarely satisfies the discerning
taste buds of our boys. The kitchen now bakes bread daily
from Sunday through to Friday. The picture shows one of the
workers on a nightly baking shift. About 200 loaves are baked every day
to. This satisfies our daily requirements.
Interhouse Singing Competition results
The Interhouse singing competition took
place on the evening of Friday 30th September despite the fact that we
have no music department just now.
Mrs Lesley de Noronha put a great deal of work into making it a success
and it was a very happy event.
The set song was River of Dreams by Billy Joel.
The competition was won by George Grey who song with enjoyment and whose
choice of song was Lean on Me which they dedicated to Mrs and Mrs
Marais.
Interhouse Fishing Competition
Twenty-four pupils participated in the second and final round of the
Inter-house Fishing competition held at Lake Cunningham on Sunday 2nd
October. Conditions were ideal and some excellent catches were recorded.
The largest bass of 4.15 kg was caught by I Learmonth (Oates)
while G Beahan (Chubb) landed a bream of 1 kg.
On the right:: I Learmonth proudly shows his 4.15 kg bass.
The Interhouse Fishing Competitions are organized by the Falcon
College Angling Society.
Final results of
the 2005 competition are as shown below:
| House |
1st Round |
2nd Round |
Total |
Placing |
| George Grey |
700 |
0 |
700 |
6 |
| Tredgold |
500 |
940 |
1440 |
5 |
| Founders |
10 |
3720 |
3730 |
4 |
| Chubb |
375 |
5950 |
6325 |
3 |
| Hervey |
625 |
7140 |
7765 |
2 |
| Oates |
750 |
7130 |
7880 |
1 |
Waterpolo
The Accorsi Cup U16 Waterpolo tournament was held at CBC on Saturday 1st
and Sunday 2nd October 2005. Six schools participated.
The final positions were as follows
versus St George's Lost
12-3
versus CBC
Lost 4-9
verus Prince Edward Won 11-10
versus St Georges Lost 4-8
versus Peterhouse Won 10-3
Final position - we finished 4th out of the six schools.
Zimbabwe U16 Waterpolo Team Qualifiers
Nick Foley (Captain of the Zimbabwe U16 team) and Marius Marais
qualified for the U16 Zimbabwe waterpolo side. The two will participate
in the Zimbabwe U16 tour to South Africa in December.
Falcon clinches the Hart Trophy
Falcon took the Hart trophy. This trophy had eluded Falcon since
1991.
The Hart trophy is for the Southern region Senior boys' Waterpolo
tournament.
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