Astra Academy

Falcon College strives to discover and develop the strengths of every student and encourages them “to reach for the stars” – sic itur ad astra.

The Astra Academy was started in 2025 for those Sixth Form students who are interested in learning subjects and obtaining skills outside of the traditional Cambridge Education curriculum.

The Academy is based at a newly built commercial farming business on the Southern Paddocks Section of the College property in Esigodini.

The students continue to live in their respective Boarding Houses, and their school life continues as normal, except that morning Cambridge A level lessons are replaced with the Astra Academy Curriculum.

The Astra Academy develops technical proficiency, critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork to prepare students for real-world careers and challenges. The aim is to expose students to potential future careers and give them the skills and confidence to graduate from Falcon College with belief and hope in their futures.

Students are assigned various farm duties where classroom lessons become practical. Lessons include broiler chicken farming, growing pigs, and ostrich farming.

Slaughtering, butchering, and processing pigs and ostriches, sports turf management, commercial animal feed mixing.

Practical hands-on courses are held throughout the year covering several topics including: metalwork, building, fencing, electrical wiring, mechanics, economics, first aid, mining, labour management, and professional guiding. Where possible independent external certificates are issued on completion of these courses.

Day visits to different farms and businesses including chicken abattoir, hatchery, feed mill, pig breeder farm, feedlot, and dairy.

Overnight tours to various farms and businesses around Zimbabwe.

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

Bejamin Franklin