Churchill School
(Harare)
Churchill School is a public, day and
boarding school for boys aged 12 to 19
located in the Eastlea suburb of Harare,
Zimbabwe. The school had the first school
pipe band in Zimbabwe and produces
cricket players of national and
international calibre.
Churchill School
Location
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Information
Type
Public, boarding and
day, high School
Motto
Bulldog for ever
Established
1950
Headmaster
Patson Mugwanda
Staff
83
Number of students
1487
Colour(s)
Purple, grey &
platinum
Mascot
Bulldog
Alumni
Winstonians
Website
www.churchill.ac.zw
(http://www.churchill.
ac.zw)
At one time, the school's pipe band was in
the Guinness Book of Records for the
longest piping hours. Pipers Neville
Workman, Patrick Forth, Paul Harris and
Clive Higgins blew their pipes for a
combined 100 hours in July 1976,
breaking the previous record of eighty
hours.[1] It has also produced Legendary
athletes like Fabian Muyaba who was the
13th fastest in the world during the early
90s and the fastest in Zimbabwe that
time.
History
Founded in 1950 as Eastlea Boys' High
School, headmaster E.J. 'Jeeves'
Hougaard helped inspire most of
Churchill's traditions. Hougaard is credited
with establishing the name of the school
and its affiliation to Winston Churchill and
his family, and the school mascot, the
bulldog. The school was established using
the name Eastlea Boys High School and
operated at Roosevelt Girls High for the
first two terms while a block was being
built at Eastlea Boys High. It happened
then that the headmaster, Mr. Hougaard,
wrote to the then Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom, Sir Winston Spencer
Churchill, to rename the Eastlea Boys High
School after him and the permission was
granted. Since then the school has been
known as Churchill School.[2]
Houses
Two boarding houses, which had about
180 pupils, were named Winston and
Spencer houses. The games houses
(Akroyd, Beaumont, Cardell, Hamilton,
Maxwell and Wakeham) recall pilots who
died in the Battle of Britain. These houses
compete in sports and cultural activities
for the prestigious Governor's Cup.
Sport
The school offers a number of sporting
disciplines such as rugby, baseball,
hockey, cricket, basketball, tennis, soccer,
water polo, volleyball, golf, swimming,
athletics, cross country, squash, chess
and, at one time, shooting. It has a very
passionate sporting culture which has
been carried on for generations. It is
regarded as one of Zimbabwe's best
sporting schools and competes for top
honours with Harare's other big sporting
schools, mainly St George's College, St
John's College and Prince Edward School.
The bulldogs hold a top ten spot in every
sporting discipline that they offer.
Their cricket team is the most successful
high school cricket team in Zimbabwe as it
has held the number one spot in
Zimbabwe's Schools Cricket One Day
League and has produced players like
Prosper Utseya, Hamilton Masakadza,
Tatenda Taibu, Elton Chigumbura,[2]
Douglas Hondo and Lameck Mufambisi.
Their baseball team was ranked as one of
the best teams in Zimbabwe since 2015.
The team has produced top players In the
sport including Joel Tenderere, Cuthbert
Nyamangara, Ashlon Chibvuri, Courage
Chaibva and Tafadzwa Kasiyamhuru who
have all managed to play for Zimbabwe's
first team.
Their soccer team is also one of the most
popular teams in the country and has gone
on to produce soccer stars such as
Samson Choruwa, Norman Maroto and
Eddie Mashiri.
The volleyball team has also been the
backbone of the Churchill pride, being the
best team in the country. Their glory is
credited from more than 5 years of an
undefeated streak of the 2006 to 2011 era.
During this period national team players
like Nyasha (Rasnas) Takawira, Tatenda
(Nhapsy) Mapigoti, Tawanda (Dzugi)
Pamire, Misheck Mutambirwa, Tawanda
(Pladzva) Mafuwa to mention a few came
out of the great institution Churchill. It was
the first school to form a schools club
volleyball team that competed in the
national volleyball league of Zimbabwe,
and crown the national clubs champions
2006–8. In 2008 Churchill Volleyball team
toured Toowoomba, Australia for schools
cup and finished second in division 1 and
was always in the top three of the league.
Churchill become Zimbabwe volleyball
power house directed by Head Coach Mr.
Arron Mutede who joined Churchill in
1999. It is popularly known as the Bulldogs
Volleyball.
The rugby team, which is popularly known
as the bulldogs, enjoys a relative amount
of success and like the cricket team, is
highly rated. It is the most important team
in the school and has also produced
excellent rugby players, namely Tendai
Mtawarira, Tangai Nemadire, Jed, Shingie,
Sibanda, Madondo, Dan Hondo, and Bryan
Taylor of the then Rhodesia Boys' U21 1st
XV and captain of the school's 1st XV
(1960).
Boxer Derek Chisora attended during the
1990s and went on to fight for a World
title.
See also
Schools
portal
List of schools in Zimbabwe
List of boarding schools
References
1. Guinness Records, Guinness superlatives
Ltd.,(1984) p182
2. Makonyonga, Trevor; Tapureta, Beaven.
"Churchill High School Celebrates 60th
Anniversary" (https://web.archive.org/web/
20101207030642/http://www.zimbojam.co
m/lifestyle/out-and-about/2038-churchill-hi
gh-school-celebrates-60th-anniversary.htm
l) . The Zimbo Jam. Archived from the
original (http://www.zimbojam.com/lifestyl
e/out-and-about/2038-churchill-high-school
-celebrates-60th-anniversary.html) on
2010-12-07. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
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