How to Choose the Right Primary Boarding Schools In Harare Zimbabwe for Your Child

This is the list of the top ten boarding schools in Zimbabwe ranked on the pass rate from the November 2019 exams. The pass rate takes into account the number of candidates who would have passed at least 5 subjects with a C or better versus the total number of candidates at that boarding school.

Primary Boarding Schools In Harare Zimbabwe

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Topping this list of the best boarding schools in Zimbabwe is Jonh Tallach high school in Matebeleland. The affordable school has simple structures but it continues to produce great results year after year.

Zrp high school is the only school that is not run by a church on this list of the top ten boarding schools in Zimbabwe. The school is run by the Zimbabwe Republic Police. Zrp High School posted impressive results in its very first O-level examinations and it has never looked back since.

The boys-only boarding school located in the beautiful Nyanga area is synonymous with outstanding performances both in academics and in sports. It is one of the three Marist schools in Zimbabwe. The others are Kutama College & Marist Dete.

Closing this list of the top ten boarding schools in Zimbabwe is Regina Mundi High school. The Catholic-run school located in Midlands is the second girls-only school on the list after Monte Cassino. The school is a perennial top achiever and has state of the art facilities.

Introduction: On the 23rd of November 2020, 14 days after the full re-opening of schools, a student from a boarding school in Mashonaland east province had an influenza-like illness which was confirmed as COVID-19. By the 9th of December 2020, 103 confirmed cases of COVID-19 had been diagnosed at the school. We determined factors for contracting COVID-19 in the boarding school.

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Zimbabwe is one of the best country with best educational literacy in the world. This all starts from a good foundation that is ECD A and B, followed by primary, secondary and up to tertiary. This article will be looking on the best primary schools in Zimbabwe according to the Ministry of Education statistics.

"We have also made sure that our schools have adequate supplies of sanitizers and water. So, it is looking good. We have got single-seated desks now, instead of two- or three-seated desks. This is to encourage social distancing. We do not have bunk beds anymore in our boarding schools. We have got single beds and spacing of at least one-and-half to two meters. So, it is encouraging."

When Zimbabwe gained its independence from colonial rule in April 1980, the majority of her people lacked the opportunities and facilities for quality secondary schooling, most only finishing several years of primary schooling. Over the first 25 years of independence, Zimbabwe's population of over 13 million has witnessed incredible strides in school expansion, teacher training, and resource improvement. As a result, Zimbabwe continues to boast the highest literacy rate in sub-saharan Africa and sends the fourth largest number of students from Africa to the United States. There remain, however, significant discrepancies between educational opportunities for Zimbabwe's rural majority and for those who live in the main urban centers of Harare, Chitungwiza, Bulawayo Mutare and Gweru. The apartheid legacy has also left its mark on Zimbabwe's education system with formerly-white, private "Group A" schools far superior in terms of resources and trained teachers when compared to their mission and government-sponsored counterparts. Zimbabwe's education system consists of 7 years of primary and 6 years of secondary schooling before students can enter university in country or abroad. The academic year in Zimbabwe runs from January to December , with three month terms, broken up by one month holidays, with a total of 40 weeks of school per year. National examinations are written during the third term in November, with "O" level and "A" level subjects also offered in June. Teachers and nurses train for three years at nursing and teacher training colleges after their secondary schooling, with the more qualified having subsequently earning university degrees. Currently, there are seven public universities as well as four church-related universities in Zimbabwe that are fully internationally accredited. Zimbabwean culture places a high premium on education.

Most Zimbabwean children begin Grade 1 during the year in which they turn six, with a smaller number beginning either during their fifth or seventh year. In urban areas the medium of instruction is purely English, with Shona or Ndebele taught as a subject; in rural schools students begin learning in their mother tongue, but transition to all reading and writing in English by Grade 3. Curriculum is nationalized with prescribed textbooks all in English. The seven years of primary schooling culminate in four nationally-set Grade 7 examinations in Mathematics, English, Shona or Ndebele and Content, which is a combination of sciences and social sciences.

Students entering Form I, usually aged 12-13, compete for places in the private and mission day and boarding schools based on their Grade 7 examination results, as well as school-based interviews and placement tests. Government schools take students by zone and then allot the rest of the places to those with the best qualifications. Secondary School consists of three levels: ZJC (Zimbabwe Junior Certificate) which includes Forms I and II; "O" level which includes Forms III and IV; and "A" level which includes Forms V and VI. The ZJC Core Curriculum (equivalent to Grades 8-9) consists of 8 subjects: English, Shona or Ndebele, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Bible Knowledge, and a Practical Subject (ie Food and Nutrition, Fashion and Fabrics, Woodwork, Agriculture, Metalwork, Technical Drawing, etc.) Zimbabwe phased out the ZJC examinations in 2001, but has maintained the same curricular framework for general Form 1 and 2 education and plan to renew this set of examinations at the end of Form 2 education in 2008. 2ff7e9595c