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A renowned educational institution in Zimbabwe that is committed to providing quality education to its students. The school offers a diverse range of academic and extracurricular activities to ensure that students receive a well-rounded education
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Our Vision
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To be the leading multi-cultural Catholic Girls’ school in the region that offers a sound holistic education and a first-rate operational climate for pupils, staff and parents in an environmentally friendly atmosphere.
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Our Mission
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The Dominican Convent, following a tradition that dates back to St Dominic, who desired the salvation of all people, is committed to the education and development of the whole person, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, physically, morally and socially.
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The school was opened on Monday 28 October 1895 as the first European School in Matabeleland with then pupils. By the second day numbers had risen to twenty two.
Classes were held in a wood and iron shanty (in present-day Fort Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues) that served as the Jesuit Church.
By 11th November, less than a month after the school had opened, there were nearly forty children.
The first two teachers were Sister Sebastian Hill and Sister Pancratius Webster.
After only a week’s holiday, school reopened in January 1896 with seventy children enrolled and classes divided between the church and Father Daisgnault’s house.
The British South Africa Company had given the Dominican Sisters several acres of ground, bounded on one side by today’s Lobengula Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, on the condition that the area be used for a school,
In due course the foundation – stone for the Sisters’ Convent and school was laid on 9th November 1897 and in 1898 the children moved int the completed school house, a single-storey building, with two from rooms, and a large hall, a dormitory for about nine sisters, (mainly nurses at the Memorial Hospital) and ten boards, a kitchen, laundry and storeroom.
Electric light was used first
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- Academia
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- Foreign Languages
- Technology Clubs
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