Every new school says some version of the same thing: your child comes first, curiosity matters, warmth and rigour together. Nairobi has that banner in a dozen fonts already. This is what it means for us on an actual Tuesday morning in Karen, in specifics you can check.
We are new, and we say so plainly
Elyton opens to its first cohort in 2026. The first people who can call themselves Elyton alumni will leave us in 2027 at the earliest.
That is an unusual thing for a school website to say. We say it because borrowing the language of an established institution, without the history behind it, is a habit parents see through fast. What we offer instead is a set of commitments specific enough to hold us to.
Attention is arithmetic before it is philosophy
Every school claims to know each child. Few publish the number that determines whether that claim is even possible.
Ours is twenty-five, and it is a ceiling on every class in our founding year — not an average that lets a class of thirty-five sit quietly at the other end of the spreadsheet. A teacher with twenty-five children can hear every one of them read in a week. Forty children is a different job, whatever the teacher's talent.
Capping classes is the most expensive decision a new school can make: it puts a ceiling on revenue before the first fee is banked. We think it is the only version of "child-centred" with any teeth.
The British National Curriculum, taught properly
We teach the full British National Curriculum — Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 — in full, not a loose interpretation and not a hybrid.
In practice that means systematic phonics, mathematics taught for fluency and then reasoning, and science in an actual laboratory. Your child's progress is reported against national expectations from the first term, measured against an external standard rather than only the class beside them.
Families relocating to or from the UK, or from another British-curriculum school, get continuity: your child steps into the year group they were already in.
A campus built for many more children than we will admit
Our campus off Magadi Road was purpose-built as a full international school, and every wing of it — the four-hundred-metre all-weather track, the playing fields, the smart classrooms, the library, the multipurpose hall — was finished long before we opened our admissions list.
One small founding cohort gets the run of all of it this year. There is a hall with a stage in it and a small number of children who want to be on that stage, so every child who wants a part gets one.
That is the one advantage we can only offer once. Next year there will be more children. The year after, more again.
Somebody has to be first
The founding cohort names the houses, sets every record, and starts as the oldest year group in the school, simply because nobody has done any of it before them.
Come and test this in person rather than take it on trust from a webpage. The campus is open on 29 August, the teaching team will be there, and nothing is off the table.
