Joining us on Saturday 29 August? Five things worth making time for. The campus walk and the admissions clinic run continuously through the day, so there is no wrong time to arrive.
1. The classrooms, quiet and ready
Our first term hasn't begun, so you get something an established school can't offer: the actual room your child would sit in, empty of thirty other families and any lesson in progress. Look at the light, the size, the sightlines from the back.
Ask the obvious question — where will my child sit, and how many others will be in here?
2. The track and the fields
A four-hundred-metre all-weather track wraps the main building, alongside open playing fields.
Ask how often your child would actually get onto it. At most schools with a track this size, time on it is rationed between year groups. In our founding year, one small cohort has the run of all of it — ask us to show you the numbers.
Children are welcome to run the field while you look around. We would encourage it.
3. The teaching team, at lunch
The scheduled talks are useful. The courtyard lunch is where the real conversation happens.
These are the people who will take your child's class, appointed before we opened admissions rather than hired afterwards to match enrolment. Ask where they have taught, what they think about how children learn to read, and what they will do in week one with a room full of strangers.
4. The founding address, and the questions after it
Our Head of School sets out the curriculum, the staffing, the timeline, and exactly what is finished on site and what is still being finished.
Then the floor opens with nothing off the table. Ask the awkward questions — fees, what happens if opening slips, how a brand-new school handles a child who struggles. Watch us try to answer them.
5. Fifteen private minutes at the admissions clinic
One-to-one, in a room, with your child's most recent school report in hand if you have it.
Here you get specifics: the exact entry point for your child, transport routes from where you live, the full fee schedule, what a founding place includes. Most families who take a founding place decide after this conversation.
Planning the day
Saturday 29 August, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Magadi Road, Karen. Free to attend, with free parking on site. Most families stay about two hours; allow three or four to see everything.
Arrivals are staggered across three windows so groups stay small — RSVP rather than turning up unannounced. Comfortable shoes help, since the walking route covers every learning wing and the sports precinct.
