Marondera High School
Founded in 1960 as Marandellas High School, the school catered for the Marandellas farming community and the surrounding towns. The school has five boarding houses named after English counties. The boarding houses are Cumberland (The Sables), Hampshire (The Kings) and Sussex College (The Bulls) for boys and Kent and Cornwall for girls. The school also includes day schooling with Stallion House for the girls and Tiger House(dhebhan'a) for the boys.
The school uses the symbol of the lion on its badge. The most notable sport event on the school calendar is the annual Chinamasa Inter-hostel rugby tournament held in March. Cumberland, Sussex, Hampshire and the tigers go head to head where winner gets a trophy and aid to an annual celebratory braai (bbq). The tournament also serves purpose to identify and select players who go on to form the schools' Rugby first team and represent the school at the annual Mwana Group International Schools Rugby Festival
The games houses (Nehanda, Chitepo, Tongogara and Mutapa) are named after popular heroes from Zimbabwe. The houses are represented with the colors red, green, yellow and blue respectively .
The school offers a variety of sports which include soccer, rugby, cricket, netball, handball, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, hockey and swimming.
Notable alumni
- Graeme Hick - cricketer
- Harry Roberts (rugby union, born 1960)
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