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State school, boarding and day school in Harare, Zimbabwe
Prince Edward School
Prince Edward School Badge
Location
Harare
Zimbabwe
Coordinates17°49′14″S 31°02′06″E / 17.8205°S 31.0350°E / -17.8205; 31.0350
Information
TypeState school, boarding and day school
MottoTot Facienda Parum Factum
(Latin: So much to do, So little done)
Established13 June 1898 (1898-06-13)
HeadmasterDr. Aggrippa G. Sora
GenderBoys
Age13 to 19
Number of students1200+
Education systemZimbabwean
Houses
  • Odzi
  • Shashi
  • Tokwe
  • Sebakwe
  • Runde
  • Save
  • Limpopo
  • Zambezi
Colour(s)Maroon, green and white
MascotTiger
NicknamePES
RivalSt George's College, Harare
NewspaperThe Hararian
AlumniOld Hararians
Postal addressP.O. Box CY418, Causeway
Harare
Zimbabwe
BadgesThe Three Feathers
Websitewww.peschool.co.zw

Prince Edward School (or Prince Edward, commonly referred to as PE) is a public, boarding and day school for boys aged 13 to 19 in Harare, Zimbabwe. It provides education facilities to 1200+ boys in Forms I to VI. The school is served by a graduate staff of over 100 teachers.

Prince Edward School was ranked 6th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility. Prince Edward School was also ranked as one of the Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe in 2014.

History

Prince Edward was established in 1898 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), as Salisbury Grammar. It was renamed Salisbury High School in 1906 and adopted its current name in 1925 when visited by Edward, Prince of Wales. It is the oldest boys' school in Harare and second in Zimbabwe after its main sporting rival, St George's College which relocated to Harare from Bulawayo.

The School's badge is a crown and three feathers, granted to it by Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII of the UK) in the 1920s. The school's colours are maroon and dark green. For its centenary, Prince Edward School adopted a new coat of arms which does not replace the school's badge. The motto of the school "Tot Facienda Parum Factum" ("So much to do, So little done") is attributed as Cecil John Rhodes' last words.

In 2010 a former master at the school, Douglas Robb, became headmaster of Oswestry School in England and developed links between the two schools.

Name controversy

In 2002, before the March 2002 presidential elections, the Ministry of Education announced plans to change names of all government schools that had colonial connotations. Scores of government schools were set to have their names changed to honour liberation war heroes, past national and African personalities and/or the suburban area in which the school is located. Prince Edward School was set to be renamed Murenga Boys High School after a Njelele high spirit said to have assisted the local heroes who fought the First Chimurenga of 1896–7. The change of names did not occur but in its wake, as a compromise, the Games Houses within the school had their colonial names changed to those of rivers in Zimbabwe.

Jubilee field

Alumni

Prince Edward old boys are called "Old Hararians". The Old Hararians Association was founded in 1922 and maintains very close ties with the school.

The Old Hararians cricket team is based the Old Hararians Sports Club in Harare, and fields a team in the Vigne Cup, the Harare Metropolitan Cricket League, as well as the National League for club cricket. Old Hararians contain many national team and "A" team, such as Vusi Sibanda, Prosper Utseya and Ryan Butterworth.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Alumni of Prince Edward School

See also

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References

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  2. "From the Headmaster".
  3. "top20highschools". Africa Almanac. Africa Almanac. 1 October 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2016. The research leading up to the publication of the 100 Best High Schools in Africa began with the launching of the website in December 2000.
  4. DarrylYV8 (9 October 2014). "Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe". Youth Village Zimbabwe. Youth Village Zimbabwe. Retrieved 5 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. D. Berens, ed. (1988), A Concise Encyclopedia of Zimbabwe, Gweru: Mambo Press, p. 317.
  6. Tim Jefferis, "Douglas Robb: This is Your Life" Archived 27 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine dated 7 September 2014 at tjjteacher.com, accessed 27 March 2019
  7. Government School names
  8. Brmtaylor.com list of club cricketers "Brendan Taylor – Zimbabwe Club Cricket Players"
  9. ^ I.P. Maclaren, ed. (1981), Some Renowned Rhodesian Senior Schools 1892 - 1979, Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, pp. 233–239
  10. ^ Hick, Graeme (1991). My Early Life. London: Macmillan. pp. 9–10.
  11. Who's Who of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Ken Donaldson. 1973. p. 1230. OCLC 1769850.
  12. Rogers, Douglas. The Last Resort.
  13. Tredgold, Robert (1968). The Rhodesia that was my life. London: George Allen and Unwin.

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