Spelling bees & debates
Standing up in front of the school and being heard is a skill. We make sure every child gets a turn at it.
Ages 5 to 11
The years that decide whether a child believes they are clever.
Basic 1 to Basic 6. Foundations laid properly, and a world that gets steadily larger.
Basic 1 to Basic 6
Why these years matter
Basic skills, built once, properly.
A child's first real exposure to learning a skill happens in primary school. Communication and collaboration are learned here. Children make friends, begin to build friendships, and start to concentrate.
The most important thing at this age is not isolated facts and exercises. It is a child's capacity to make sense of new work by connecting it to what they already know. That is what we teach for.
What they study
Twelve subjects, from Basic 1 to Basic 6.
- 01 English Language
- 02 Mathematics
- 03 Basic Science
- 04 Basic Technology
- 05 Social Studies
- 06 Civic Education
- 07 Computer Studies
- 08 French
- 09 Yoruba
- 10 Creative Arts
- 11 Music
- 12 Physical Education
Beyond the classroom
The rest of a primary education.
Excursions
Factories, cultural sites and the road. Learning that only happens once you leave the gate.
Inter-house sport
March-past, track events and a table of trophies. Houses give a child something bigger than their class.
An entrepreneurship trade
Primary pupils start on the practical programmes early, art, music, and the beginnings of a craft.
A week in Primary
More than lessons and a bell.
The timetable carries the core subjects, but the week is built to give every child something they are good at.
- Monday
Assembly & core lessons
The week opens with assembly, announcements, a hymn, and the standard set for the week.
- Tuesday
Practical & creative
Art, music and the beginnings of an entrepreneurship trade in the studios.
- Wednesday
Computer studies
Every class takes a turn in the ICT centre under the Microsoft Imagine Academy programme.
- Thursday
Clubs & competitions
Spelling bee practice, debate, reading club, and the heats that lead to inter-house contests.
- Friday
Sport & house time
Physical education, house meetings, and the week reviewed before everyone goes home.
Looking after them
Somebody notices when a child goes quiet.
Primary pupils are with the same class teacher for most of the day, which is deliberate. It means a change in a child is spotted by someone who knows what they are normally like.
Behind that sits the student-welfare unit, led by experienced guidance counsellors, and a health and nutrition programme that runs through the year rather than appearing once for a photograph.
- Class teacher. One familiar adult, all day, every day.
- Welfare unit. Counsellors available to pupils and to parents.
- Health & nutrition. Fruit days, hygiene and a medical centre on campus.
- 1 : 25. Class ratio, capped at thirty in any room.
What happens next
Basic 6 is not a goodbye.
Pupils move up into a secondary school on the same campus, taught by staff they already pass in the corridor. No new gate, no new city, no starting again.
The point of all of it
