HARTMANN HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Harare, Zimbabwe
Hartmann House Preparatory School is a leading independent day school, providing a high-quality preparatory education for both boys and girls.
30 years after St George’s College relocated to Harare (Salisbury), it was decided to build a separate Preparatory School on the newly acquired land near the Borrowdale road. It was realised that junior pupils required different teaching styles and care compared to senior students. A fine building was opened as Hartmann House in 1957. It had three Jesuit priests on the staff- Fr Farwell as housemaster, Fr Nixon and Fr Walsh, and some lay teachers. There were 6 classes of 25 boys each in Standards 4 and 5, with 100 in boarding on the upper floors.
Fast forward to today, the boarding hostels have been converted to classrooms for the over 400 day boys in Grades 4 to 7. Hartmann House has developed extensively, with several buildings having been erected thereafter, which included the recently completed Golden Jubilee Hall. The school was named after Fr Hartmann SJ, Chaplain to the Pioneer Column, who lived at the College.