Kenya High School
The Kenya High School.
General The Kenya High School was founded in 1908, originally known as European Girls' School and was renamed after Kenya got its independence in 1963. It is an all girls secondary education institution located in the Nairobi suburbs of Kileleshwa in Kenya. The Kenya High School has very high academic standard sand for a long time been ranked among the best public high/secondary schools in Kenya, enjoying high and competitive enrolment from students of all walks of life in the country. It also has has a rich multi-cultural history, and has also sometimes been referred to as a ‘finishing school’. The school's motto, servire est regnare (to serve is to reign) is the backbone of the education and training the girls receive at the Kenya High School. The Longest Serving Principal of The Kenya High School was Mrs. Margaret Wanjohi (fondly referred to by her students as ‘Wabuz’) and the current principal is Mrs Saina. The Kenya High School is also known as ‘Boma’ by other schools around the country. Curriculum KHS has enjoyed a good standing among other schools academically, as gauged by the Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education [KCSE], a national exam undertaken by every fourth form student in the country. The School’s curriculum is designed to help shape/prepare students for their university/college education and careers thereafter. The Kenya High School has consistently been ranked among the top since the education system 8-4-4 was instituted in 1986. The Kenya High School curriculum consists of the below subjects Mathematics, Chemistry, English, Geography, History, Christian Religious Education (C.R.E.), Kiswahili, Social Education & Ethics, Biology, Computer Studies, Agriculture, Physics, Art(Drawing and Design), Electricity, French, Music, German, Accounting, Commerce, Home-Science and Typing and Office Practice. The school also offers to its language students and opportunity to participate in an annual student exchange programme to enhance and build their language handling skills. Extra-Curricular Activities and Sports Annual activities/ceremonies include a sports day in early spring [first term], swimming gala in the summer [second term] and Speech day in the fall/autumn [third term]. The school also offers a wide range of sporting activities form hockey and basketball to badminton, Tennis and Netball. It boasts a gymnasium, a swimming pool, tennis courts, hockey pitches and basketball courts. The schools activities also consist of after school clubs such as a drama, school choir, Scouting, Wildlife club, Debating club, Presidential Scheme Awards etc. Enrolment, Housing and Student Life Kenya High School has an enrolment of about 800 students each year. The school has both day scholars popularly known as "day-bags" and boarders. It has ten houses each having within it dormitories, flats and cubicles, which act as home to the majority of students, during the term/semester i.e. when schools are in session.
The houses are: Tausi[Huxley]/Sabaki[Cubbie], Chania[Beale]/Yala[Nightingale], Nyali[Mortimer], Suswa[Mitchell], Sagana[Hamilton]/Naivasha[Bronton], BP/Mara[Curie].
The school also boasts large beautiful grounds known within the school as ‘five acre’. It also has a beautiful school chapel which is the centrepiece. The school has traditions that are ingrained into the way of life and has even throughout the years come up with its own popular in-school language known as ‘boma-slang’.
Best Of Boma/Icons of Boma.
Kipsi – the longest serving and well loved Kenya High School Cook Kamau- the longest serving and well loved Kenya High School Bus Driver. (RIP) Kisinzi-the longest serving and very strict but well loved Librarian Boma-Bu- the School- Oldest Bus in the World that could not go up the Hill. The Gong. Danger Steps.