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Ruzawi School is an Anglican, independent, co-educational, preparatory, boarding school for children aged 6 to 12. Ruzawi, which was founded by Robert Grinham and Maurice Carver, has a pupil population ranging from 205 to 220 depending on the balance of boys and girls and the number of pupils in each age group. In the Infants' Department there is one class each for Grade One and Grade Two. An additional entry point at Grade Three enables there to be two classes from that level up to Grade 7.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 The school is situated some five kilometres south of Marondera in extensive grounds surrounded by many hectares of indigenous miombo woodland and exotic eucalyptus plantations. ==History== In 1926, Robert Grinham and Maurice Carver decided to establish a boys' school in Southern Africa. South Africa was a possible venue but eventually it was decided to establish the school in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia). Various sites were visited in and around the capital but the most suitable venue was a few miles south of the then village of Marandellas, now Marondera.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 The old Ruzawi Inn, for many years a staging post on the carriage and wagon route from the capital to the eastern border, was up for sale. Neither the new road nor the recently built railway passed close to the Inn, which was no longer, an essential stopping place for travelers. The bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and ancillary buildings proved ideal as both accommodation and classrooms for the newly established boys' boarding school. An important use was found for the old stable building close to the inn. It was appropriately converted into the School Chapel. The building, now over a hundred years old, is equally appropriately in use as the School Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 The founders of Ruzawi enlisted academic and domestic staff to help convert the Inn to a boys' boarding school. At the time, the boys attending Ruzawi ranged in age from seven to fourteen years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 From 1932 to 1934 plans were discussed and finance arranged to replace the old buildings with the present large dormitory block. It became known as the Birchenough Building in recognition of the work Sir Henry Birchenough did on behalf of the school, particularly in the field of raising funds for the new buildings. Other major events in the school's history include the building of the Robert Grinham Hall and the Maurice Carver Music Centre, the establishment of the Computer Centre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 In 1955, the School Chapel was built. The Chapel is a memorial to the Ruzawi boys who died in the Second World War and is very important in the Ruzawi school life.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 In 1978, The Grinham Carver Trust was founded by the Ruzawi Old Boys Association (now the Ruzawi Old Pupils Association) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary and in honour of the school's founders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 In 2003, Ruzawi School became co-educational with the acceptance of girls into the school's student body.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 In 2013, Ruzawi became a registered Cambridge International Examinations centre and adopted the Cambridge Primary curriculum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ruzawi School )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruzawi School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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