Rockfields Junior SchoolQuality Beginning · Donholm, Nairobi Senior School Apply
Our ethos

What we believe.

Most of what a person becomes is decided early. How they treat other people. Whether they finish what they start. Whether they think a hard question is a threat or a puzzle. We get children for the years when those habits form, so we take them seriously.

Our motto is Quality Beginning. It means we do the basics well and we do them early: reading, numbers, manners, play, and a teacher who knows your child’s name by the second day.

Primary pupils in bright T-shirts in the school hallA Grade 8 girl smiling in classTwo girls holding a violin
Four things we hold to
1

Kindness first

Children learn more from adults who are calm and fair than from adults who shout. Our staff are chosen for that.

2

Work that is finished

Every piece of work is checked and returned. Children learn that effort is noticed.

3

Bodies as well as minds

Every child skates, runs, kicks a ball or swims every week. Tired children sleep well and learn well.

4

Parents in the loop

You hear from us early, by phone or WhatsApp, about the good and the not so good.

A teacher in a yellow cardigan reading to her class
Our teachers

People who stay.

Teachers at Rockfields tend to stay for years, so a child in Grade 4 is taught by someone who knew them in Grade 1. That continuity is worth more than any single lesson.

See it for yourself.

A morning visit tells you more than a website can.

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