Sporting and Cultural Education
Sports offered are: Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Chess, Cricket, Cross-Country, Golf, Handball, Shooting, Hockey, Indoor Hockey, Judo, Karate, Rowing, Rugby union, Shooting, Soccer, Squash, Swimming, Table-Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball, and Water Polo.
Every scholar is encouraged to participate a club or society and is expected to choose at least one sport every term. Ex-headmaster, Raymond Suttle, (born 1929, deceased 2007; headmaster 1972 -1983) established the credo that each student should participate in 1) his academic studies, 2) the cultural life of the school (drama, the choir, debating, etc.), 3) a sport, 4) a hobby (such as chess club, natural history club, etc.), and 5) always be an ambassador for the school, perhaps by doing community service but at the very least by behaving in an exemplary fashion even off the school grounds (at least whilst wearing the school uniform!). Mr. Suttle was a keen sportsman and fine sports coach as well as being a published Latin scholar and he often reminded people that sport may be exciting in the moment, war may have a devastating impact on a country but it is always the cultural achievements (art, literature, music, architecture) of a civilisation that remains when all else has faded. The school offers the following cultural activities:
Archives, Art, Bridge, Chapel, Chess, Classics Society, Junior and Senior Choirs, Christian Union, Computers, Craft and Design, Careers, Creative Writing, Current Affairs, Debating, Dramatics, Economics, Environmental Protection, First Aid, Guitar,Greenpeace Human Rights, Interact, Library, Literary Society, Maneco, Music, Magazine, Natural History, Orchestra, Ornithological Society, Prince Edward School Times (PEST), Photography, Printing, Public Speaking, Quiz, Science and Technology, Scribe and Printing, Shona Dramatics, Snooker, UNESCO, Variety, Website Club, Weightlifting, Woodwork, Young Farmers, and Young Physicists.
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