Charles Ogwo
Grenville School is an institution founded on the fulcrum of education as a preparatory ground to make the child become thoroughly grounded in contents and character (academics and morals) in preparation to becoming a responsible citizen.
Location and History: Greenville School is a day and boarding institution established in 2011. It is located at 15 Joel Ogunnaike Street, and 18 Ladoke Akintola Street; both in GRA Ikeja.
Philosophy behind the School: To mould children who would trust in God, excel and lead in every aspects of human endeavours.
The Greenville’s philosophy runs on a template that believes that building a child’s character should start early in life. Consequently, Grenville children are taught from the very beginning that beauty lies not just in intelligence but also in the whole character of a person. Steadily and progressively, Grenville begins to imprint these values in its children. The school believes that t its students will go out into the wider world and influence even more people into developing sound and good moral and leadership values. The school has as its motto: Trust in God, Excel and Lead. This buttress its belief in the fact that knowledge of the creator is the starting point of any child’s educational development as it impacts the needed characteristics that make up the human kind.
Type and curriculum:
Greenville School is a crèche and playgroup, nursery, primary, secondary and A-levels/ OOSD education institution. Its five stages are well integrated and tailored to give a holistic development of the child as a future leader.
For its Crèche and Playgroup, Greenville School provides high quality integrated education for children between the ages of 3 months to 18 months while its Nursery section caters for children aged 2 years to 5years and above for its Nursery.
Greenville curriculum is a clinically blended of the British and Nigerian curricula. The school teaching and learning approach in classroom management encompasses the 4Cs learning skills (Creativity, Communication, Collaboration and Critical thinking). This enables the teachers to inculcate systematic knowledge and skills in the students and thereby creating a consistent support that helps easy transition from one stage to another.
Greenville School believes that adopting a particular curriculum needs to be accompanied by the requirements set for its delivery. To that end, school has equipped its class rooms with teaching aids and technology that will ensure that its children are up to-date with the outside world. Besides, Greenville teachers are encouraged to extend their knowledge through further education and continuous training. Greenville has identified programmes that will ensure that its teachers are not just among the best in the country, but also pace setters to be emulated by other schools’ teachers.
Greenville School is a blend of day and boarding school.
Extra-Curricular Activities: At Greenville School, sports and education are well integrated to help develop a total child with extracurricular activities such as sports, music classes, swimming classes, judo/karate, quiz/debate, and others given great attention.
Club Activities: Greenville School has in place the enabling facilities and human resources for its students to adequately engage in club activities such as Literary/Debating Club, Drama Club JET Club, Chess Club, Charity Club, Home Makers, Swimming, Karate, and others.
Staff: Greenville’s staff is made up of 105 (teaching and non-teaching), men and women of genial, experienced and trained background. This team is guided by a seasoned educationalist, and an advocate of qualitative education.
Facilities: Greenville School boosts of qualitative facilities and educational infrastructure. There are 39 air-conditioned standard size classrooms with electronic smart board in each of them. The school has 2 ICT centres adequately equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, which are expertly used by the educators to impart knowledge on the students. Besides, the school is furnished with a big well equipped music studio, 2 big indoor swimming pools, outdoor basketball and volleyball courts and a big well equipped art studio for extracurricular studies. There are also three well equipped laboratories for Physics, Chemistry & Biology. There is in place in Greenville a 1,000 seaters well equipped hall with gallery for conferences, seminars and other academic and social activities. To aid the transportation of students to and from school, there is a school bus fleet, with 10 air-conditioned buses. There is provision for boys and girls hostel with a big well equipped kitchen and dining hall.
Edge: Greenville School graduates can easily be absorbed into any university in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America and other European countries. Besides, Greenville facilities make learning easy and fun for students and teaching easy for teachers.
Awards and Achievements: Greenville School has produced the youngest pilots in Nigeria today. Many Nigerians children, who used to study abroad are currently enrolled Greenville schools because of the school’s facilities and curriculum.
Prospects /Future plans: Grenville’s plan is to be the foremost international school that will stand out amongst its competitors, especially in term of sustained academic excellence and exceptional leadership skills by its students. Besides, the school is positioned to produce the best students every academic year.
School Details:
Name: Greenville Schools
Type: Crèche/playgroup, Nursery, Primary, Secondary and A/levels/OSSD)
Address: 15 Joel Ogunnaike Street GRA Ikeja
18 Ladoke Akintola Street GRA Ikeja
Tel: +234 706 072 4877
Email: greenvilleschoolsng@gmail.com
