Headmaster's thoughts for the start of 2012
It is wonderful to have a fully subscribed staff and a bursting at the seams boy contingent for 2012. I believe from a personal point of view that Falcon College has never been as well poised as we are now. Read more...
2012 Prefects
Front row, left to right: T
Ndlovu, B Mason (Deputy Head
Boy), L Sibanda
(Head Boy), D Gibbons.
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Nyanga
Headmasters' Conference
This is a picture taken at the
recent Headmasters conference
in Nyanga and
contains Falcon Old Boys who
are now either Headmasters or
Governors in our
independent schools.
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Servcor
Calendar Winner
A picture of Ralph Hwenjere,
form 3A, who had his art work
selected to feature on the Servcor
caledar for 2012
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Speech
Day 2011
A picture from Speech Day. It
features Mr Laing, the board
Chairman and Old Boy who Mr
Steyn taught, Mr Peter Steyn
our Guest and Mr Patrick Mavros
a board member and Old Boy who
Mr Steyn taught.
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Servcor
Equipment Demonstration
The Falcon and Girls College
hierarchy at a Servcor demonstration
of their new oven and other
equipment at their show kitchen
in Harare. View
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Falcon re-establishes
shooting clubThe shooting club was invited by HQ1 Brigade Rifle Club in Bulawayo to attend a bench rest shoot with their club members on Sunday 5 June. 13 boys took part and the results were as follows: View pictures and shooting results...
Falcon Old Boys Golf Day
Current affairs test
While you relax, you may want to check how good your current affairs knowledge is. Click here to view the questions.
Form One Adventure Course 2011The annual Form One Adventure Course, run by Mr. Will Randle, was held last week in and around the College Estate. Very simply it involved all the Form Ones participating in a series of exercises, designed to take them out of their comfort zone with the emphasis on developing dorm (team) spirit, having fun and testing their own individual abilities. The exercises ranged from bush cooking, to first aid, to knots, to orienteering and tracking, to ropes, to mention but a few. Two nights out, in Quiet Waters, (in house groups) is always a challenge to those who have not experienced the bush, particularly as they had to cook their own suppers and breakfasts! It was a tired, but generally happy, bunch who reluctantly returned to the classroom 2 days later. View the pictures...
Lower six trip to Chimanimani It was decided to take this year's group to the Outward Bound School for a 6 day team building course during the period leading up to the release of results. The trip was made compulsory and, other than 3 boys, all Lower 6 attended and clearly benefited from the course. Download the full report...
Cricket achievements in 2010
344 - The highest partnership recorded for any
wicket for any age-group against any opposition for Falcon by S
Snyder and A Keefe vs Milton. Previous record : 314, G Mamhiyo
and C van Rensburg U14 A vs Lomagundi, 2005.
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Design and Technology Centre
A wide range of interesting projects were embarked upon at Form
4 and Sixth Form
level. Some of the work was of an extremely high standard and in
line with
expectations for Design and Technology at IGCSE and A Level. The
final display
which was mounted at the Technical Centre attracted a large amount
of interest. Read more...
Victory at last!
A picture of the Acorsi Cup winning team, the Falcon U17 side. This
is the first time that we have won the tournament.
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Falcon wins the Schools SuperTwelve trophy
The 1st X1 Hockey team won the Schools Super Twelve Trophy. This is the top schools in Zimbabwe trophy. Congratulations to them. View full-size picture..
South African Independent Schools'
Rugby Festival Report
The schools that attended were: St. David's, St. Stithian's, St. John's (Johannesburg), St Andrew's (Bloemfontein), St. Andrew's (Grahamstown) and Uplands. The Zimbabwean schools were Falcon College, St. John's (Harare), Peterhouse and CBC. Read more...
Founders Day
The Roe brothers at their Karate demonstration. They are going to the world Championships. View more pictures...
After the Primary Schools Cricket Festival
After the cricket Ruzawi school played paintball, thus the pictures of boys in overalls with guns. Click here to view more pictures.
Quest Africa
Quest Africa was born out of a growing awareness of the gap between
the conventional education curriculum and the next stage in a young
man's life.
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Headmaster's newsletter, week four of first
term, 2012
Thank you for the feedback after the weekend with your sons. I am very pleased at how positive this has been. Please keep this up - communication is the key. Read more...
2012 in brief
Deelan Doolabh with his proud parents - Top 'A' Level achievements from 2011.View more pictures...
Falcon Win at Country Club
Overcast skies and moist conditions suited the Falcon College
Golf team this Sunday, when they faced a pair's matchplay
challenge against the Bulawayo Country Club. This youthful
and energetic group of young men equipped themselves admirably,
winning the encounter 3-1 against an experienced Country Club
side. Read
more...
African Rock Python
An African Rock Python was recently rescued by the Falcon
College Snake Club from a neighbouring farm. It had just regurgitated
a small goat. The snake will soon be released back into the
wild. View
full-size picture...
Woodsmoke Club Cycle Ride
These pictures are of various boys from the Woodsmoke club, on a cycle ride from one side of Zimbabwe to the other which they did in a continuous relay. It took 48 hours and it ended in Victoria Falls. They then ran a half marathon directly afterwards. This was as a fund raiser for the Argentina expedition where they intend climbing one of the major peaks. View pictures ...
New Water Cannon for Falcon College
Our new water cannon working in the new cricket nets which
were sponsored
by Savoy Investments.
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picture ...
Shooting Club attends FN shoot
Eleven members of the shooting club attended an FN shoot with HQ1 Brigade Rifle Club on Sunday 31st July 2011. The boys shot from a prone position at 200m and from standing and sitting positions at 100m. The following boys did well: Read full more ...
Form 4 Geography Field Trip
Thursday the 28th of July saw a full busload of sixty form four boys on their way to Great Zimbabwe at 5.30am. The journey of approximately 3 hours gave the boys an opportunity to answer a questionnaire about geographical landmarks and places of interest along the way, it was an exercise in awareness and the winner of the quiz was gastronomically rewarded. Read full report ...
Tour de Falcon 2011
The Tour de Falcon was very well attended with 438 riders taking part. It was probably the biggest cycle ride in Zimbabwe. The festivities at the end of the ride have also become fairly legendary. Thank you to all those who were involved, especially Mr. Peter Ward and the Parents’ Committee and the Staff of Falcon, specifically Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Heymans, who put a lot of work into the occasion. View some of the pictures...
Chilufya captains Zim U17 squad
Pictures of Khuphukile Chilufya who captained the Zimbabwe Athletics U17 Athletics team to the World Championship in France last week. View the photos...
Crediton Rugby Club visits Falcon
Pictures of Falcon and Crediton Rugby club boys after our match on Thursday. Crediton was on tour from Devon, England. View the photos...
Falcon gets Secretary's Merit Award
Dr Mahere, the Permanent Secretary of Education presented Falcon College with the Secretary's Merit award. View the photos...
Falcon gets new hymn books and alter
cloth
"The college recently took possession of a set of 450 new hymn books for the chapel replacing the well used and now worn out books bought back in 1994. The new books are a hardback and much expanded version of our old Mission Praise books and should give us a much expanded repertoire of singing. They were funded in part by a donation from St Mary’s Church, Upton, UK, the church formerly attended by chapel organiser, Richard Harrison. We thank them for their generous gift."
Our new Altar cloth which as you can see from the pictures is spectacular was made by Mrs Norma Heymans. We are incredibly grateful to her for what she has done- it really does make for a very "Falcon" Chapel.View the photos...
Falcon poets awarded Honours at the Girls'
College Literary Festival
From left to right: M. Moyo, B. Dhana and D. Ndlovu. Read their poems...
Falcon College Chess Festival
Falcon recently hosted a schools chess festival and here are a few photos. View the photos...
Inter-house Fishing Competition,
2011
The first leg of the 2011 inter-house Fishing Competition was held on Saturday and Sunday 3rd & 4th April 2011 at HighAcres Dam on Red Rose Farm adjacent to Falcon College. We are grateful to Mr. Mike Stone for making the venue available. Read more...
2011 Cross Country season
During the first half of the first term 3 main cross-country events were held. The first of these was the Inter-House Relay event held on 25 January, followed by the main event on 9 February the Long Course Inter-house Cross Country competition in which the majority of the boys participate. Read more...
Legendary
Turner family visits Falcon College
Mr Turner is the son of the late Mr D. Turner the former legendary Headmaster of Falcon College. Mr John Turner was born at the College and grew up here. He had come up to the College to identify the place where his fathers' ashes and plaque would be placed in the chapel. He spoke to the whole school in Chapel. His speech was inspirational. View full-size picture...
FOB The Falcon Old Boys: continuing
our community values and making us proud! Click the falcon to visit
the site.