Queen's College Boys' High School

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Queen's College Boys' High School
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Queen's College school crest
Address
Queen's College Boys' High School
16 Berry Street, Top Town

Komani
,
Eastern Cape

South Africa
Coordinates 31°53′23″S26°52′35″E / 31.8898°S 26.8765°E / -31.8898; 26.8765
Information
Former nameProspect House Academy, Public School for Boys, Queenstown Grammar School
School typeAll-boys School
Motto Esse Quam Videri
(To be, rather than to seem to be)
Established21 April 1858;166 years ago (1858-04-21)
FounderMr. C.E. Ham
StatusGovernment subsidised, fee paying public school
Sister school Queenstown Girls' High School
School districtChris Hani West District
OversightSchool Governing Body
Chairman Allister Van Schoor
Headmaster Janse van der Ryst (1 January 2018 (2018-01-01) - present)
Staff50 full-time
Grades8–12
GenderMale
Number of students596 boys
Language English (main)
Xhosa (Additional language)
Afrikaans (Additional language)
Sesotho(Addition language)
ScheduleMonday - Friday 07:30 - 13:30
CampusUrban Campus
Houses  Beswick [Boarders]

  Mallet [Day Boys]

  Russell [Day Boys]
Colour(s)  Black
  Old Gold
  White
SongThe College Song & Queen's Forever
Fight song Ingonyama (War Cry)
Sports Athletics
Basketball
Cricket
Cross country
Football
Hockey
Rugby
Squash
Tennis
Golf
Swimming
MascotKudu
Nickname QC, Queen's
Rivals
AccreditationEastern Cape Department of Education
NewspaperQueen's Quote
YearbookThe Queen's Quire
AffiliationsInternational Boys' School Coalition, Queenstown Education Foundation, Four Schools One Family
Website www.queenscollege.co.za

Queen's College Boys' High School, more commonly referred to as Queen's College (or simply QC), is a fee-paying government English medium high school for boys situated in the town of Komani in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Established in 1858 first as Prospect House Academy, [1] it is the oldest school in the Border region and among the 100 oldest schools in South Africa. [1] The college is associated with Queen's College Boys' Primary School, which was established on 15 November 1957, a year before the high school marked 100 years of existence.

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History

Queen's College started as Prospect House Academy when Mr C.E Ham first opened the doors to his school on 21 April 1858 at 6 Shepstone Street in Queenstown. The school was situated in an outbuilding on the property and consisted of a single room with a mud floor and holes in the wall for ventilation. The enrollment had reached 30 boys by 1859 and was also known as the Queenstown District School. [2] It was in receipt of a government grant of £50, backdated to the initial opening of the school. [2] From inception the school offered boarding facilities, in the home of Mr Ham, conveniently situated directly across the road from the schoolhouse.[ citation needed ]

In 1864, a dispute regarding financial support for the school by the district council, led to the abrupt closure of the school by Mr Ham and he ceased teaching in order to open a general store in the town. Boys returning from their holiday in July 1864 discovered that their school house had been let to another tenant and their schoolmaster had become a haberdasher. [3] Public concern was such that a committee was formed, which decides that St Michael's Grammar School should assume the mantle of Prospect House Academy by accepting the status of a government-aided school. The resulting amalgamated school becomes the Public School for Boys and classes are held in a billiard hall. [4]

It was only in 1910 that the school was renamed Queen's College.

Headmasters

School facilities

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Hostels

The school currently has three hostels; Whitson House, Athlone House and Connaught House. Whitson caters for students in Grades 8–9, Connaught for students in Grades 10–12 and Athlone for Students in Grades 9–10. Athlone was reopened in 2021 after many years of closure. All hostel boys belong to Beswick House, a name taken from the school's fourth headmaster.

Originally, Whitson House was the first hostel of the school and was built in 1904. It was later renamed Connaught House. In 1932, this hostel was closed leading to the later opening of hostels Athlone and De Vos Malan in 1939. In 1975, Connaught House was renamed Whitson House after old boy Mr H Whitson. The new Connaught House was built in 1979. After a decline in boarders in the early 2000s most of the hostels were closed and converted into classrooms. Hostels outside campus were sold. [6]

Sports and cultural programmes

Sports

Queen's College has long-standing annual derby days for both summer and winter sports with traditional rivals such as Dale College, Grey High School, St Andrew's College, and Selborne College that stretch back to at least the 1900s. Grey College was also a rival of Queen's, but the yearly derby between these two rugby giants lost momentum and 2006 was the last of the yearly derby.

Queen's College is one of only 2 schools in South Africa with an 8-lane tar-tan track.The track's construction was finished on early 2024.The track was verified to have the cretirior to host national athletics events and Queen's will host the National Junior Athletics Championships 2025.

The main sports fields are the Queen's College Victoria Recreation Grounds (rugby and athletics), the Chris Harker Astro (hockey) where first team matches are played. [7] And the Parry-Davies Field (rugby and cricket) where the first cricket team matches are played. The naming of the astroturf being a misnomer which suggests that it is solely owned by the school, when it is actually a shared facility amongst Queenstown Girls High School and Balmoral Girls Primary-School.

Cultural

Notable Old Boys

Sport

Rugby and Cricket

Rugby Players
Name & SurnameYear MatriculatedTeamsNotes
Allan Beswick 188849th Springbok [8]
Jimmy White 1928217th Springbok [8]
Dick Muir 1982642nd Springbok [8]
Robbi Kempson 1992669th Springbok [8]
Kaya Malotana 1994687th Springbok [8]
Owen Lentz 1998American Rugby
Carlo del Fava 1998Italian Rugby
Rocco Jansen 2004Emerging Springboks Rugby
Lionel Cronjé 2007South Africa U20 (2009 Player of the Year), South Africa 'A'
S'bura Sithole 2008South Africa Sevens
Allan Dell 2010South Africa U20, Scottish Rugby, British and Irish Lion #834
Andisa Ntsila 2011South Africa 'A'
Johan Meyer 2011Italian Rugby
Juan-Philip Smith 2012South Africa U20
Cricket Players
Name & SurnameYear MatriculatedTeamsNotes
Ken McEwan 1970Eastern Province and Essex cricketer
Daryll John Cullinan 1984South African Test Cricketer
Justin Kemp 1996South African Test and limited overs Cricketer
Tony Greig 1965English Test Cricketer
Ian Greig 1974English Test Cricketer

Other sports

  • Glen Dell, Advanced World Aerobatic Champion in 2004 and Red Bull Air Race competitor (1974)
  • Le-Neal Jackson, South African field hockey player [9]

Business and the arts

Politics

Military

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  4. ↑ Queenstown, 1824–1994. Holliday, E. W. Queenstown [South Africa]: Queenstown and Frontier Historical Society. 1995. p. 17. ISBN   978-0-620-18933-0. OCLC   34414151.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ "School Facilities".
  6. ↑ "Queen's College : Whitson & Connaught House Gallery".
  7. ↑ "QC on Travel Ground".
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