[2][5][6] In September 1951, Edward Paget, Bishop of Southern Rhodesia, wrote to the Rector of Michaelhouse in Natal, offering him the headship of a school that did not exist.

[7] Peterhouse opened in 1955 under the rectorship of Fred Snell with 55 boys and within five years the number had risen to 360 according to plan.

[7] After Independence, the school began to grow again, and in 1984 Bruce Fieldsend was succeeded by the Reverend Doctor Alan Megahey.

Then as Fred Snell recorded, much thought and discussion was put into the choice and design of the "Coat of Arms" for the new school.

[7] The boys are organised into six boarding houses named after people who were significant in the history of the school or the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe.

Sporting activities on offer include athletics, basketball, cricket, golf, hockey, rowing, rugby union, soccer, squash, swimming, triathlon, tennis, volleyball, and weight training.

[11] Geography field trips, Biology research projects and leadership courses are some of the activities that take place in Gosho Park.

[12] The foundation stone was laid by the first Archbishop of Central Africa, and one of the school's founders, Edward Francis Paget, in November 1956.

The Chapel was dedicated in November 1958 by the then Bishop of Mashonaland (The Right Reverend Cecil Alderson) in the presence of Archbishops Hughes and Paget.

[12][13] The Chapel seats over 600 and is fitted with an organ; the small pipes in the range were brought into the country by ox wagon in the late 1890s.