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The Banda School

Kenya, Nairobi

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Extra-Curricular Activities

Clubs, activities, and opportunities to explore interests and passions

Academic and Intellectual

The Banda School has Flight programme that supports academic and intellectual development through Future Learning and Grasping New Skills. Future Learning includes Planet Warriors, Headspace, and Healthy Habits, addressing environmental issues, wellbeing, and healthy routines. Grasping New Skills introduces Sign Language, Simply Sums, Baking, and the Chinese Club to develop language, numeracy, and practical problem-solving.

Arts and Creative

The Banda School has Flight experiences in the arts and creativity, including Broadway Bandits, African music, and Stop Motion Fun for performance, rhythm, and animation. Banda Comics enables visual storytelling, and Travelling the World provides virtual explorations of art and culture.

Cultural and Language

The Banda School has Sign Language to learn basic signing and communication, and Chinese Club for introductory Mandarin. The programme includes language-focused activities that support cross-cultural communication.

Social and Hobbies

The Banda School has Flight activities such as Bird Watching and Baking as social and hobby pursuits. Travelling the World offers virtual explorations of places and cultures with peers, while Broadway Bandits and Banda Comics encourage group creativity outside classroom learning.

Community and Service

The Banda School has Beyond Banda Borders as a community outreach programme that plans and delivers a programme of fun for less privileged school children.

Leadership and Professional

The Banda School has Flight activities that develop leadership and professional skills through Banda POD (recording, editing, and publishing a podcast) and Banda Skeptics (debating). Fundi Club creates and makes, Banda Bush Guides build a relationship with nature through survival techniques, and Banda's Grand Masters enhances chess and strategic thinking.

Lifestyle and Wellbeing

The Banda School has Flight activities that promote wellbeing through Headspace (mental and physical health), Zen Den (Yoga) and Healthy Habits. Headspace promotes a healthy mental and physical state, Zen Den offers yoga exercises, stretches, and poses, and Healthy Habits focuses on good healthy habits and routines.

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The school at a glance
Instructs in English
Fees KES 0 - 2,508,000
Ages 1 - 13 years
Pupil numbers 490
Type Co-educational
Opened 1966
Bus Service No

The Banda School is an international school in Kenya offering the British Curriculum for ages 1–13, with EYFS. In Lower School (Years 1–4) the National Curriculum of England & Wales is taught by class teachers, with daily Phonics and specialist instruction in French (Year 2), Kiswahili, Music, Computing, PE and Art. Classes are small, and Years 3–4 are grouped by ability for Mathematics and spelling to tailor pace. Upper School (Years 5–8) combines the British National Curriculum with an independent curriculum aligned to the ISEB 13+ Common Entrance; pupils sit the Common Entrance at the end of Year 8. The timetable covers English, Mathematics, Science, languages, Geography, History, Art, Drama, Music, Computing, Design & Technology, PE and PSHE, with Religion/Philosophy & Ethics in Years 7–8. The 35-acre campus includes science laboratories, Arts Centre, Performing Arts space, a library complex, pool and a hockey pitch. Flight enrichment programme underpins holistic development.

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