Today, education's role is to pursue academic excellence and motivate students to be lifelong learners, critical thinkers, and productive members of an ever-changing global society. Our school aims to convert every individual into a self-reliant and independent citizen by providing a wide range of Curricula and expansive co- and Extracurricular activities.
I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to “The Vanessa Grant Girls’ School Official Website.” Vanessa Grant is an all-girls Christian boarding school located in Nakuru County, about 1 km away from Rongai town. The school aims to provide high and modern quality education, with an emphasis on Mathematics, Sciences, and IT. The school offers both the 8:4:4 and CBC curriculum for Junior School. So far, grades 7, 8, and 9 are now part of the VGGS larger community. The school’s future is to have full CBC with both the Junior and Senior Secondary schools under one leadership.
VGGS is well known for the following key pillars of the school philosophy; Christian Values, Academic Excellence, Leadership, Individual gifts and talents, and Philanthropy, above all, it’s a happy, warm, nurturing, and receptive learning environment with caring concerned students and staff right from the gate, at the reception to the homes.
The school is built with state-of-the-art facilities, providing students with unique and sufficient modern resources such as the Resource Centre, Science laboratories, Bethel Chapel, well-spaced dormitories with cubicles, and a Home science complex, among others. The resource centre has the school's modern library, which is sectioned into three different parts; the study area, the E-learning centre, and the fiction area that students can use while reading novels and fiction literature to grow their spoken and written skills. The resource centre also provides Applied Technical classrooms such as the French, Art and Design, and Computer Studies rooms.
To provide good, quality, modern education that includes a strong component of cultural values, the school prides itself on a variety of Co and extra-curricular activities. These include Drama, Music, Sporting activities, Chess, Skating, Swimming, Robotics, Debating, Tech for Girls, St. John Ambulance, Scouting, and Modelling among others.
Other than this, the school also has different departments whose objective is to grow an all-round student. These include the Careers Department, Guidance, and Counselling, Chaplaincy, Integrity and Accountability Department Co and Extracurricular Department, Applied Technical, Science Department, Humanities, Languages, and Mathematics, among others. These aim to grow the students in both academic and out-of-classroom activities.
As an educator, I am happy and proud to be part of this transformative and inspirational journey at Vanessa Grant Girls School. To keep the staff up-to-date with the new trends in both curricular implementation and emerging issues that affect the youths, the school supports them to attend workshops and seminars externally by different bodies and organizations. For example, we have teachers attend national workshops for various subjects to interact with KNEC examiners who would share the KCSE reports with details on the new trends in marking the examination. Other than this, staff also get trained on safety and child protection measures in school, drugs, and substance abuse, and mental health, among other emerging issues that relate to teenagers and adolescents. This ensures that the staff gains skills to enable them to handle cases shared by the students professionally.
The world is changing today at such an accelerated rate, and we as educators need to pause on this entire system and motivate the late bloomers, mould the less focused, and challenge the gifted/high achievers. This can easily be achieved with the current teenager in class. The current teenage student is curious, articulate and well-spoken; she is assertive and creative in her way of thinking. She learns more with the use of technology. VGGS, therefore, offers room for the current 21st century student. The ICT department is well-resourced with sufficient computers alongside the E-learning center. Students have an opportunity to research concepts they would wish to get more knowledge about, watch videos on concepts they need to visualize like set books, and learn skills on how to program robots, among other skills.
Learning never goes well without play, leisure time, and a time to refresh and build on our talents. VGGS offers a wide range of Co and Extra-Curricular activities that students can enjoy and develop their talents. Over the weekend, they have set aside leisure time that can be used for rest, polishing their skills with the School band, and learning to play musical instruments.
Our hearts are full of joy with the growth of the school to host both the CBC Junior and Senior Schools under one umbrella. The whole environment was filled with wide smiles and warm embraces when the Junior students joined VGGS. The young girls quickly adjusted to the school’s schedule, and have been seen participate in a series of activities. The fear of parents taking their 13 and 14-year-olds to secondary schools has since been outdated since our senior girls are more than happy to receive their younger sisters. Within a short time, the girls had already loved their school and were happy to be in such a serene learning environment.
I am certain that new stories shall be told, of the JSS learners joining existing private secondary schools like VGGS, which can welcome and admit these young and enthusiastic learners.
“EDUCATION IS A SHARED COMMITMENT BETWEEN A SUPPORTIVE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TEAM, DEDICATED TEACHERS AND STAFF AT LARGE, MOTIVATED STUDENTS AND ENTHUSIASTIC PARENTS WITH HIGH EXPECTATION"