Dear Parents
We have had a very full period at the College. Our Primary Schools' Cricket Festival went extremely well with the final going down to the wire with Ruzawi winning by one run! It was wonderful to have so many visiting parents, many of whom have been incredibly complimentary about the College.
CULTURAL WEEKEND:
This weekend we host our annual Cultural Weekend, which this year
involves 13 schools. Those attending are Arundel, Peterhouse,
Chisipite, Convent Harare, Lomagundi, Prince Edward, St George's,
Speciss College, Convent Bulawayo, Girls' College, EATC, Petra
and ourselves. Workshops in Art, run by Shamilla Aasha from Convent,
Music (instrumental), run by Billy St. John, Music (singing) run
by Richard Hartnack (Girls' College), Drama - run by John Dennison
from St. George's, dance run by Heath Lambert from Gaborone and
writing, run by Tondevai Nzanga and Wendy Engelbrecht from Peterhouse,
are all taking place.
This is a massive undertaking which is always a great success
and a pleasure to host at the College.
BULLYING:
Sadly, this week I have had to ask a Fourth Form boy to leave
the College as a result of an incident in Founders House. He took
it upon himself to beat some boys, which is totally unacceptable.
He had a previous record and has left the College. I also suspended
a boy, pending further investigation into this issue. We have
had to punish a group of boys associated with this incident. We
have also punished boys in Oates for a similar kind of incident.
I have made it quite clear that this sort of behaviour is totally
unacceptable under any circumstances. We have a hierarchical system,
but we cannot have 'thugs' behind a perfectly sound system, using
the code of silence and threats to protect them. I am delighted
at how the prefect body has performed in routing out these elements.
SPORTS RESULTS:
Cross Country - This week we had our Interhouse and Individual
cross country. In this event all able-bodied boys run. It is a
wonderful opportunity for the first real Interhouse activity.
The boys performed extremely well on a cool, damp afternoon. The
whole competition was keenly contested with nearly all Houses
registering success in some area.
| Fastest Junior | Craig Bydawell (Founders) |
| Fastest Senior | Takudzwa Pongweni (Oates) |
| Junior House Competition | Chubb |
| Senior House Competition | Tredgold |
| Overall Winners | Tredgold. |
| Tennis: | |
| 1st Team Falcon vs 1st Team CBC | Falcon drew 2-2 |
| U16A Falcon vs U16A team CBC | Falcon won 6-2 |
| Waterpolo: | |
| U15 vs CBC | Falcon won 15-3 |
| U17 vs CBC | Falcon won 3-0 |
| U17 vs Petra | Falcon won 6-2 |
| 1st team vs CBC | Falcon won 11-5 |
| 1st vs Petra | Falcon won 22-0 |
| Basketball: | |
| Falcon 1st team vs Petra 1st team | Falcon won 30-11 |
| Falcon 1st team vs CBC 1st team | Falcon won 28-14 |
| Falcon U14 vs CBC | Falcon won 7-2 |
| Falcon U16 vs Petra | Falcon won 17-6 |
| Falcon U16 vs CBC | Falcon won 18-9 |
| Falcon 1st team vs Petra | Falcon won 37-17 |
| Falcon 1st team vs CBC | Falcon won 29-23 |
Cricket vs CBC:
The 1st XI won by 35 runs. Steve Macheka top scored with 25. He,
Enweren, Chitate, Mamhiyo, Brown and Beevor all took wickets.
All other teams also won.
Mhuriyengwe with 72 for the 14B's, was the only batsman to score
a 50 though Berens scored 49 for the 14 A's.
Bowling, Jack Coetzee took 6 wickets for the 3rds and Cameron
Locke 5 for the 15 B's and Michael Dodington 5 for the 14 A's
Keegan Walder took a hat trick for the 16 A's.
Next week is our half term break - we are all looking forward to that time. It will be the first real opportunity for boys to get home.
The term dates are unlikely to change, except that we would end school on Wednesday 8th April and not Tuesday 7th April, as is on the calendar. The start of next term will remain the same. It needs to be noted that we are likely to be out of "sync" with other schools' Fixture Free weekends for the first one next term. We do not believe that it is advantageous to have a break after 2 weeks because of Africa Day. We will observe Africa Day, but will not have a Fixture Free on that day. Dates to be published next week.
"Good judgment comes
from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment"
Rita Mae Brown
REG QUERL
HEADMASTER
