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, preparatory, boarding and day school , streetaddress = Bishop Gaul Avenue,

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Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

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, denomination = Anglican , founder = Rt Rev. E. F. Paget , oversight = Ruzawi Schools (Pvt) Ltd , headmaster = Richard Crook , gender = Girls , lower_age = 4 , upper_age = 12 , pupils = 387 (2015) , campus_type = Suburban , houses = 4 , tuition = , affiliations = , website = , footnotes = Bishopslea Preparatory School for Girls (or Bishopslea) is an all-female

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

, preparatory, boarding and day school in

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...

. The school was founded in 1932 as Bishop's Lea, St Mary's Diocesan Preparatory School by the Rt. Rev. Edward Paget at the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral in Harare. Bishopslea Preparatory School is a member of the Association of Trust Schools (ATS) and the Head is a member of the Conference of Heads of Independent Schools in Zimbabwe (CHISZ).

Sport

The following sporting disciplines are offered at Bishopslea:

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Houses

Bishopslea has a house system consisting of four houses which are Beaven, Gaul, Knight-Bruce, Paget. The houses and the house colour are * Knight-Bruce—Yellow * Gaul—Green * Beaven—Red * Paget—Purple The houses are named after Bishops

Frederic Beaven Frederic Hicks Beaven (11 April 1855 – 22 January 1941) was bishop of Mashonaland from 1911, through 1915 when his title was changed to bishop of Southern Rhodesia, until his retirement in 1925. History Born in Rodwell, Wiltshire, he was the e ...

William Gaul William Thomas Gaul (1850–1927) was Rector of All Saints Church, Du Toit's Pan, Kimberley, afterwards of St Cyprian's Church, Kimberley, Rural Dean of Griqualand West, and Archdeacon in what was still the Diocese of Bloemfontein, before being ...

, George Knight-Bruce and Edward Paget.

Notable alumnae

Elana Hill Elana Susan Hill (born 28 May 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean rower. She represented Zimbabwe at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. She went to school at Bishopslea Preparatory School and Arundel School in Harare. She excelle ...

- Zimbabwean rower

References

External links

*
Bishopslea Preparatory School Profile
on the ATS website {{Private schools in Zimbabwe Schools in Harare Private schools in Zimbabwe Girls' schools in Zimbabwe Anglican schools in Zimbabwe Day schools in Zimbabwe Boarding schools in Zimbabwe Educational institutions established in 1932 Member schools of the Association of Trust Schools 1932 establishments in the British Empire

Sport

Houses

Notable alumnae

See also

References

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