Eaglesvale High School
| Eaglesvale Senior School | |
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Eaglesvale Senior School Badge
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| Address | |
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147 Gleneagles Road, Willowvale Harare Zimbabwe |
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| Coordinates | 17°52′24″S 30°57′56″E / 17.87333°S 30.96556°ECoordinates: 17°52′24″S 30°57′56″E / 17.87333°S 30.96556°E |
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| Type | Independent, boarding and day school |
| Motto |
Diens (Afrikaans: Service) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christianity |
| Established | 30 January 1911 |
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| Oversight | RCZ Daisyfield Trust |
| Headmaster | Dennis Anderson |
| Forms | 1-4, 5, Sixth Form |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Enrollment | 466 (2016) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 25:1 approx. |
| Houses | Gryphon, Phoenix, Wyvern |
| Colour(s) | Green, Maroon (Academic/First team/Service honours) |
| Nickname | Vale |
| Publication | The Eyrie |
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| Feeder schools | Eaglesvale Preparatory School |
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| Alumni | Old Valians |
| Website | www |
Eaglesvale Senior School is a Christian, co-educational independent, boarding and day school situated on an estate approximately 100 acres in Harare, Zimbabwe. It is 12km south west of the Harare Central Business District. It shares the same estate with Eaglesvale Preparatory School which is the primary school.
There are over 500 pupils in the senior school. Students, alumni and staff of Eaglesvale call their school 'Vale'.
Eaglesvale Senior School and Preparatory School are members of the Association of Trust Schools (ATS) and the Headmasters are members of the Conference of Heads of Independent Schools in Zimbabwe (CHISZ). The schools participate in the festivals held by the National Institute of Allied Arts.
Eaglesvale’s first home was in Bulawayo where it opened as the Bulawayo Orphanage on 30 January 1911, an establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church by Reverends A.J. Botha and J.N. Geldenhuys. In 1914 the Dutch Reformed Church then moved the school (orphanage) to Daisyfield Farm in Somabhula near Gweru with the intention of establishing a farm to produce food for the orphans. The school was renamed Daisyfiled. In 1948, the Dutch Reformed Church as the responsible Authority moved the school to the present site. This was a farm 10 miles from Salisbury (now Harare). The school was built close to the railway line for easy transport. The school was renamed Bothashof School in honour of H Botha, son of Rev. A.J. Botha, also a Reverend of the Dutch Reformed Church. As the city expanded, most of the farm was sold giving in to industrial development in the early 1970’s. In 1978 the school struggled to get students resulting in the Dutch Reformed Church, Central Africa, closing the school and selling the land to National Railways of Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia Railways).
In 1982, the school reopened with one black student and the rest white. Due to the new Zimbabwean Government’s policy of education for all, the school enrolment increased to 400 in the Junior School and eight hundred in the Senior School. The principal was Mr Stokes.
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