School Life · Clubs & programmes
Band, majorette,
a football league,
and a business.
A primary school that only teaches lessons has only found out what half its children are good at. So we run the other half properly too.
A day here
Structured mornings, open afternoons.
Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 15:30. The shape of the day is deliberate: the hardest thinking happens when children are freshest, and the making, moving and doing comes after.
Arrival and assembly
Children arrive, line up and start together. Roll call is taken on the school system, so by the middle of the morning a parent can already see that their child is present.
Core lessons
English, French and Mathematics take the first and best hours of the day, every day, in every class.
Break
The yard, and the part of school children actually remember. Supervised, and long enough to matter.
Subjects and activity
Science, social studies, history, computer studies, arts & craft and physical education — rotating through the week so no subject is the one that always gets dropped.
Close
Work is set, the room is tidied, and on Fridays the week's report goes out to parents.
Clubs & programmes
Four things we run properly, not as an afterthought.
Majorette & band club
The school has its own marching band and majorette corps. Children learn an instrument or a routine, rehearse to a standard, and then perform in public — which is a very different experience from being told they are doing well. The discipline it teaches shows up in the classroom, and the pride it gives a child who is not the top of the class is the whole point.
Football club & league
Because the school has a full football field, it can run a genuine inter-class league — fixtures, tables, a season, and something to play for — instead of a kickabout whenever there is time. Children learn to win without gloating and lose without falling apart, which is most of what sport is for at this age.
Entrepreneurship programme
Children make something, work out what it costs, price it and sell it. They handle the money and they find out whether the idea worked. In Cameroon this is not an enrichment activity — a great many of these children will one day run something of their own, and starting at nine rather than twenty-nine is an enormous head start.
Arts & craft
Drawing, colour, modelling and display — a full subject here. For a good number of children it is the one where they first discover they are capable of something excellent, and a child who has been excellent at one thing will attempt the next thing differently.
The literacy programme
Every child reads. That is the promise.
Whatever level your child arrives at, and wherever they come from, they will read and write — in both languages — starting at age three.
It is the commitment the school is least willing to break, because everything else on this page depends on it. A child who cannot read cannot do mathematics word problems, cannot follow a science worksheet, and cannot sit a public examination. Reading is not one subject among nine; it is the door to the other eight.
How the programme worksSpotlight
The week, in pictures, sent to you.
Every week each class publishes its best moments to Spotlight — a child who did something remarkable, a class activity, a sports afternoon, a science session — and it arrives on the parents' phones.
It sounds small. It is not. A parent who works long hours and sees their child mostly in the evening gets a genuine window into the part of the day they miss. And a child whose work is chosen that week finds out that the school noticed.
Photographs are published to the school's own parent community, not to the open internet, and only with parental consent.
Care & wellbeing
Safe, and watched over.
Attendance that is actually watched
Roll call every morning on the school system. A child who stops coming is noticed the same week, not at the end of term — and someone calls home.
Behaviour reported honestly
The weekly report covers conduct as well as academics. Parents hear about a problem while it is still small enough to fix together.
A teacher you can reach
Parents can message their child's class teacher directly through Goddy Tabi Connect. No waiting for an open day to raise something that is worrying you.
A gated campus
One controlled entrance, supervised all day, so children stay inside the perimeter from arrival until collection.
Clean water on site
Pipe-borne water on campus — which is why children here drink enough, wash their hands, and lose fewer days to avoidable illness.
Room to run
A full football field and a large playground. Break is long enough and big enough to actually be a break.
See a band rehearsal. Or a league match.
We do not put on a performance for visitors — though you may well walk into one. Come during teaching hours and watch the school as it actually runs.