Facilities

Maru-a-Pula is located on a beautiful, well-shaded campus situated in the heart of Gaborone, Botswana. The campus is home to academic, sport, arts, and boarding facilities as well as staff housing. These pages provide a full listing of campus facilities and recent improvements at Maru-a-Pula.

Maru-a-Pula contains the following within its 50 acre campus: 

Classrooms Available
 - English (4)
 - French (Modern Languages) (1) 
 - Setswana (1)
 - Business (1)
 - Mathematics (4)
 - Geography (3)
 - History (3)

Art Facilities
 - 2 fully-equipped art rooms
 - Additional studios

Science Laboratories
 - Physics (3)
 - Chemistry (3)
 - Biology (3)

Computer Facilities
 - PC networked labs (3)
 - Wireless campus

Library
 - Equipped with computers and study space

Audio-Visual
 - High capacity AV centre
 - Roof-mounted digital projector
 - Wall-size screen
 - Full stereo sound system

Music and Drama 
 - Maitisong
 - Additional studios
 - Moving Space drama room
 - Music room
 - Practice rooms (2)

Sports
 - Tennis Courts (2)
 - Swimming Pool
 - Netball Courts (2)
 - Gymnasium
 - Athletics Track
 - Soccer Field
 - Rugby Field
 - Softball Diamond
 - Basketball Courts (2)
 - Volleyball Courts (2)

Boarding Facilities
 - Girls Boarding house
 - Boys Boarding house

Recent Improvements

• All the old flat-roofed classrooms (10 in all) are now air-conditioned; roofs are sealed; walls plastered and painted; all old desks and chairs have been replaced; old metal doors have been replaced by aluminum frames with smaller window panes; most if not all of  the old beat-up lockers have been removed and replaced by new lockers situated on outside walls throughout the campus.
• Both the Boys and Girls Boarding Houses are served by air coolers.

• The old chain-link fence has been supplemented by an electrified fence around three- quarters of the campus, the front quarter now has a handsome, forest green, palisade-style fence along the road leading in -- from both directions- to the MaP entrance at which an electronic boom has now been put in place.

• The cinder dust track has been buried and amalgamated while the track surface has been properly graded.

• The basketball courts have been re-surfaced.

• The swimming pool has been completely re-tiled/ re-surfaced.

• The front-of-school parking lot has been paved.

• All the computer-lab equipment in the school has been replaced in the last year and our internet connection is much faster. 
• The library has been thoroughly renovated on both sides, with new furniture and all new computers.