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Overview

Pembroke House is a unique British boarding school in the heart of Kenya. We are a small, multicultural school of around 200 pupils, and cater for boys and girls aged 6 months - 13 years. We have a 90 year history of private education in East Africa, and our focus is on developing well-rounded, happy, independent, polite and confident pupils. Our Head is a member of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS) and we follow the British Common Entrance curriculum. Our pupils go on to top international schools in the UK, Kenya and elsewhere around the world, with a high percentage achieving scholarships and awards to their next schools. We also have a large Learning Support department, which ensures we recognise specific learning needs early on, and then have the time and expertise to help children develop key skills. At Pembroke, the welfare, safety, happiness and security of all our children is paramount. The vision is to bring out the best in every child, both in and out of the classroom. Our motivation is to provide a small, family atmosphere and instil our school values of dignity, duty and constancy. We strongly believe that the ‘Pembroke Spirit’ is something to be valued and nurtured. We believe that our broad-ranging curriculum is one of our greatest assets, and something that sets us apart from other schools. From an early age, our children take part in a large variety of subjects, giving them diversity and a mix of educational opportunities to meet different learning styles and interests. Although we offer many paid extra options, we also include many of these in our standard curriculum, to give a taste of what they involve to all pupils. This includes subjects like Adventure Learning, STEAM, Rhythm & Dance, Tennis, Squash and Design Technology. We want our children to be challenged academically, but also to be exposed to non-academic subjects that give them a break from traditional pencil and paper disciplines, and appeal to more kinaesthetic learners. We are very proud of our Kenyan roots, and children also study Kiswahili and Kenyan Citizenship. In Pre-Prep, the Junior and Middle Schools, we tend to be guided by the UK National Curriculum, albeit with the opportunity to adapt planning and learning areas as we feel appropriate and necessary, and to tie in with a Kenyan context. In Years 7 and 8, the majority of our subjects are geared towards the Common Entrance curriculum, which culminates in the children sitting their formal Common Entrance exams in June.