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Academics

One path, from the first day to the final certificate.

The Nigerian national curriculum at every stage, from the pre-primary years through Primary 1 to 6, then JSS 1 to 3 for the Basic Education Certificate and SSS 1 to 3 for the WASSCE and NECO examinations.

Learners in a bright classroom

Our Approach

How a lesson runs here.

Lessons follow the national scheme of work term by term, and it is the same scheme on all three campuses. Written work is marked against the standard of the examination a pupil is heading for rather than the one they sat last, so a JSS 1 script is judged by where it is going.

Standards on their own produce a good script and not necessarily a good person. We pair them with what the crest already claims: honesty, punctuality, and finishing what you have started.

Our Programmes

Every stage, thoughtfully designed.

Four connected stages that carry each child from playful early learning to confident, examination-ready study.

Young children at play
Ages 2-5

Nursery

The Nigerian pre-primary curriculum, taught through play, routine and early phonics. Children leave able to recognise their letters and numbers, hold a pencil properly, and manage a full school day away from home.

Pupils in collaborative study
Primary 1-6, ages 6-11

Primary

Six years of the Nigerian national primary curriculum, built on English, Mathematics, Basic Science and Social Studies. Pupils leave reading fluently, writing at length, and ready to sit for a place in junior secondary.

Pupils working on a science project
JSS 1-3

Junior Secondary

The national Basic Education curriculum, ending in the Basic Education Certificate Examination. Pupils leave with the BECE and a broad enough grounding across the sciences, arts and commercial subjects to choose a senior secondary track knowing what each one asks of them.

Students at work in the laboratory
SSS 1-3

Senior Secondary

Three years to the WASSCE and NECO examinations, with a subject track chosen at the start of SSS 1. Students leave with the certificates a Nigerian university asks for, and with the study habits to use them.

The school library

Beyond the Textbook

A curriculum that goes further.

A timetable says when a subject is taught. It does not say whether a child has understood it, and the part of this school that matters most is the hour after a lesson, when the pupil who did not follow it says so and is taken back through it.

Music, art, computer studies and sport are taught rather than left to chance, each in a room meant for it.

Assessments and lessons are moving online through ResultPeak and JDSmartLearn. Both are being set up for Unifac now, so the portal pages describe what is coming and link nowhere until the sign-in is genuinely ready.

Why Unifac

How we teach.

Three things we hold to, on all three campuses.

The National Curriculum, Taught Fully

The BECE at the end of JSS 3, the WASSCE and NECO at the end of SSS 3. The certificates a Nigerian university asks for, taught to the national syllabus.

Three Campuses, One Standard

Whichever campus a child sits on, the syllabus, the terms and the examinations are the same. A family moving between them loses nothing.

Strong Pastoral Care

We know each learner as an individual, supporting wellbeing and character alongside academic progress.

Our Facilities

Learning you can put your hands on.

A syllabus is only half of it. These are the rooms where the practical papers get practised and the reading gets done.

Science Laboratories

Practical work for the physics, chemistry and biology on the WASSCE and NECO syllabuses, so an experiment a pupil has only read about is one they have also run.

Computer Laboratory

Where pupils meet a keyboard properly, work through the computer studies syllabus, and sit the practical papers that now expect a screen.

Library

Reading for its own sake alongside reference shelves for coursework, and a quiet room for the SSS 3 pupils revising towards their certificates.

Music Studio

Singing, instruments and practice for the performances that punctuate the school year.

Art and Craft Studio

Drawing, painting and craft, with room for the messy work that a classroom desk cannot take.

Sports Facilities

Space to play, inter-house competition, and the ordinary business of running about between lessons.

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Find the right stage for your child.

Tell us the year group you have in mind and we will tell you what is available, on which campus.