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Over the past three weeks or so, I have listened more carefully to the news coming out of the United Kingdom – this is due to one particular story. I never thought that in 2018 I would still have to listen and to speak about antisemitism.

The horrors of the Holocaust – and many other genocides - are now well documented and taught in schools. It is part of many World History courses, the subject of many books, tv shows and films. A final sentiment at the end of any speech on such events as the holocaust is ----- Never again.

We know that horrors of genocide are not isolated to the Jewish population and that throughout history examples of mass extermination sadly keep on occurring; the news out of Myanmar does not make great reading.

The story can be repeated for many religions – Muslims in Kosovo and Myanmar, Sikhs in India, Christians in China.

It can be repeated for tribes in Rwanda and more closely to home in Kenya. It can be repeated for colour – Indians in America, Africans in Europe and Aborigines in Australia.

Where there is a difference it frightens people - But difference is what makes us human. And a society that has no room for difference has no room for humanity.

But last week – I was shocked and horrified by an unprecedented debate about antisemitism in the British Parliament.

Several Members of the House of Commons (the Lower House) spoke emotionally about the abuse they’d received because they were Jews, or more scarily, because they’d fought antisemitism. According to the Community Security Trust, anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom have risen to their highest level since record keeping began in 1984, at an average of 4 a day. It appears to me that the eever again attitude is receding – and in a country that is very quick to point its finger at others when the political landscape changes.

Because if the people continued to hate, Moses would have taken the Israelites out of Egypt, but failed to take Egypt out of the Israelites. They would still be slaves, not physically but mentally. Moses knew that to be free you have to let go of hate. Wherever there is hate, freedom dies. Which is why we, especially leaders, have to take a stand against the corrosive power of hate.

In Paris, a month ago, just before Passover, an 85 year old Holocaust survivor was murdered because she was a Jew, the most harrowing in a whole series of such attacks in Europe in recent years. There is today almost no European country where Jews feel safe, and this within living memory of the Holocaust in which one and a half million children were murdered simply because their grandparents were Jews.

It’s happened because of the rise of political extremism on the right and left, and because of populist politics that plays on people’s fears, seeking scapegoats to blame for social ills.

For a thousand years Jews have been targeted as scapegoats, because they were a minority and because they were different.

The appearance of antisemitism is always an early warning sign of a dangerous dysfunction within a culture, because the hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. At the end of his life, Moses told the Israelites: don’t hate an Egyptian because you were strangers in his land. It’s an odd sentence.

The Egyptians had oppressed and enslaved the Israelites. So why did Moses say, don’t hate.

All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Today I see too many good people doing nothing and I feel ashamed.

Mark Durston Headmaster

Easter is a great time for reflection and this holiday was no exception. 20 years ago a week last Friday, the Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violent conflict about Northern Ireland’s constitutional status, sometimes known as “The Troubles”. Ireland has been an area of difficulty since the Sixteenth Century – a once dominant part of the British Empire – the whole of Ireland saw many episodes of riot, conflict and the loss of life. After the First World War and after some years of considerable debate Ireland divided – the southern side becoming the Republic of Ireland and the Northern part remaining in the Union with England and Scotland and fully part of the United Kingdom. Within northern Ireland the debate raged on and between 1968 and 1998 – this debate became passionate, heated and often witness devastating acts of terrorism with the province itself and on main land Britain. Over 3000 people died during the troubles. The Good Friday agreement was a real part of keeping the peace – an agreement that saw the end to sectarian violence and has tentatively maintain peace for the past 20 years.

Never more than at the end of last week – did the world need to reflect and talk but, as seems inevitable, the jestering of powerful, the chest beating antics of opposition and the cruel and often thoughtless governance within countries – even those who seem to be on their knees in poverty and an exhausted population. Whether it be in Sri Lanka, Spain or Syria – the patterns all too sadly seem to be the same.

We need to speak to our enemies, we need to understand issues from another person’s point of view and be prepared to compromise in order to win peace. And of course there can never be peace without justice. For all the conflicts around the world right now, it can be easy to assume that peace and reconciliation are elusive. The Good Friday agreement illustrated the way that costly and courageous leadership continues to be the best way forward, in spite of the difficulties.

Mark Durston Headmaster

Maintaining various aspects of the agreement for the future is focusing minds on the discussions and forthcoming Brexit arrangements – discussion of a hard or a soft boarder between the now free flowing boarder is causing much concern amongst those involved in the discussions and indeed amongst the irish themselves. Building peace and engaging in reconciliation is always costly and very hard work. After a recent trip to South Africa, I experienced first-hand the kind of efforts being made to heal memories and bring disparate and sometimes still hostile groups together.

The horrors of apartheid are never far from the surface and films such as Cry Freedom, Tsotsi, and The Bang Bang Club, and books such as A Dry White Season and Cry, the Beloved Country make all of us think about the power of division and the relentless effort to reconcile the often bloody conflicts. Humanity is often reflected poorly and Reconciliation is never cheap, but is always the result of long and often frustrating negotiations. The reality of talking with those you would rather not be talking to, is a process the world over.

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From the Director of Studies Russia Trip

Over the Easter holidays, 28 Peponi pupils were accompanied by Mrs Nightingale, Mr Ogodo and Dr du Bois on the History and Cultural Trip to Russia, Finland, Estonia, Sweden and Dubai. We departed on time from Nairobi despite one pupil forgetting their passport at home (no names mentioned) and another family suffering a flat tyre en route to the airport! After ten hours and a connecting flight in Dubai, we landed in Moscow. Our group attracted some funny looks as neither Roger nor Kian seemed to notice the snow carpeting the airport, both remaining in t-shirts until we boarded our tour bus! We arrived at our Moscow hotel and immediately set off to explore the Izmailovo Kremlin, a reproduction of the famous fortress in central Moscow that we would visit several times over the next two days. The first batch of souveneirs bought, most of us retired to bed after a quick supper in the hotel. The following two days in Moscow were packed with a frenetic itinerary – a city tour, Metro tour, Lenin’s mausoleum, Old Arbat Street, a traditional Russian folk show over dinner (including fantastic dance moves from Nyamu and Imaan), a tour of the Kremlin, the GUM department store and Bunker 42!

helped us pass the time before a comfortable night in our ocean view cabins. We arrived mid-morning in Stockholm and enjoyed a whistle-stop tour of the Gamla Stan (Old Town) before heading to the airport for our flight to Dubai.

We arrived at our hotel in Dubai shortly before midnight where we all fell into bed exhausted. The next day was spent shopping during the day, exploring the desert in the afternoon on quad bikes, followed by dune bashing on 4x4s that ended up at a traditional outdoor tented dinner accompanied by live entertainment in the evening. On our last day in Dubai, we boarded our tour bus and headed off to Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi – we spent an entire day on rollercoasters and exploring the adjacent shopping mall before heading back to Dubai in the early evening to pack and get ready for an early breakfast and transfer to the airport the next morning. Finally, after ten days and eleven nights away from home we landed in Nairobi, laden with extra suitcases, shopping bags and presents but also with memories of snowball fights, beetroot soup, Mr Ogodo’s jokes and a fantastic time spent together in a number of countries we are unlikely to ever visit again.

Dr Alexei du Bois Director of Studies

On our third night in Moscow we boarded the sleeper train to St Petersburg, taking over an entire carriage with our bags and squeezing into our cabins alongside them. After arriving in a beautifully sunny St Petersburg, we embarked on a city tour with the friendliest Russian we had met so far, our tour guide Irina. She accompanied us on our expedition to Kronstadt, as well as to the various attractions we visited in St Petersburg, including St Catherine’s Palace, The Winter Palace, the Peter & Paul Fortress and a few minutes spent testing the ice on the frozen river Neva that runs through the city (although Mr Ogodo was too apprehensive to step onto the ice!).

On the sixth day of our Russian adventure, our group caught the train to Finland where we stayed in the plush Hotel Presidentii in central Helsinki. A small group of us mustered up the energy to circumnavigate the city centre before enjoying our first meal at a hotel that excluded different forms of Russian dumplings. The next morning, a short ferry ride took us across the Gulf of Finland to Talinn where we explored the Old Town and enjoyed a city tour before boarding our overnight cruise to Stockholm. Several visits to the sauna, duty free shops and buffet, as well as an acrobatics show

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From the Director of Studies Changes to Ofsted inspection standards There are a number of changes being made to the guidance produced by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) in the United Kingdom in relation to school inspection standards. Many of these revisions relate to the overwhelming focus on examination results in many schools in the United Kingdom, as well as in British curriculum schools across the world. As a designated ‘British Overseas School’, Peponi must comply with Ofsted standards and as was clear in our recent inspection report, we both meet and exceed the academic, pastoral and extracurricular achievements of many schools in the United Kingdom.

Peponi House Common Entrance Revision Weekend On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 April, Peponi hosted 45 Year 8 pupils from our prep school, Peponi House, for the annual Common Entrance Revision Weekend. A packed programme of academics that covered the full range of Common Entrance subjects kept the group busy during the day, and swimming, a barbecue, a film in the rotunda and a night in boarding kept both teachers and pupils busy in the late afternoon and evening. We wish all our pupils at ‘P1’ all the best with their examinations and look forward to welcoming them into Year 9 at the end of August.

We will be holding an event titled ’24 Hours @ Peponi’ for Year 7 pupils from our feeder prep schools in early June that will offer a taste of the academic, extracurricular and boarding experiences on offer at Peponi.

A key feature of the Ofsted revisions is the need to demonstrate commitment to engaging with the curriculum and the “substance of education”, and not simply to prepare our pupils to jump through a series of accountability hoops at the For further details, please contact: ages of 16, 17 and 18. Indeed, the emphasis is that all chilDirector of Studies, dren should study a broad and rich curriculum. Thankfully, at Peponi we already recognise the value of this approach to Dr du Bois, at dos@peponischool.org education and we encourage all our teachers to focus on immersing our pupils in academic content that goes far beyond the formulaic public examinations. However, in light of these changes I think it is important to emphasise the following for all the members of our school community:

• Although the IGCSE and A Level examinations are important examinations that help to determine entry into university and other post-secondary education, they are not the focal point of school life at Peponi and neither should they be the sole focus of our pupils’ and their parents in Years 11 – 13.

• All of our pupils should use their time at Peponi to

explore their passions to the fullest – our most academically successful pupils are often those who are passionate about activities that take place outside of timetabled lessons.

• Similarly, developing strong networks of friends is

important for our pupils’ emotional wellbeing and we strongly encourage parents to give your children time to socialise, especially during exam periods where stress and anxiety build and can affect academic performance.

• Never be afraid to ask for help – we are a team of

dedicated professionals with expertise in the academic progress and wellbeing of our pupils.

We want all our pupils and parents to feel comfortable to ask for guidance or input on any issues that they have to deal with.

We wish all our Year 11, 12 and 13 pupils all the best with their ongoing examinations.

Dr Alexei du Bois Director of Studies

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Co-curricular Activities: Junior Boarders Cycling Trip On Sunday 29th April 2018, a group of Peponi students undertook an adventurous outdoor cycling trip to Gatundu area in Kiambu county. The sun was out and the skies were of a beautiful blue color. The group of 6 students departed from Peponi School at 8:15am and drove down Thika road to the start of journey. The terrain was hilly and rugged and filled with green luscious coffee plantations. After everyone had tried and tested their bicycles, we began the cycling trip.

The first phase of the journey was difficult and demanding, due to the steep hills that we had to tackle. The cycling group comprised of Dean, Abdul, Amani, Rahul, Roger and Donnell and all pushed themselves to the limit. In spite of the steep gradient and rugged terrain, the group managed to summit to the top of the hill where there was a small town reminiscent of the old wild-west towns in western movies.

The group had some refreshments at the local hotel which was filled with smoke but all were able to brave the fumes due to their need to replenish their energy levels. At the hotel we met a group of professional cyclists who had passed us on the uphill cycle and we shared our experiences for that morning. After the snacks, we mounted our bikes and cycled on to the end of the journey. The group as a whole really pushed their limits and we were able to complete the 20km journey in good time and without any hitches. Cycling is a very rewarding sport and instills in one, the virtues of resilience, determination and endurance. Well done to all who came on the trip and it is our hope that more participants sign up and join in these awesome amazing adventurous journeys. Our motto:- To Strive and Never to Yield!!!

Eric Kanyiri

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Year 9 Tree Planting

On Monday 30th April 2018, Year 9 had the opportunity to plant trees around the school to promote the environmental issues happening in the world. Our aim for the school’s future is to be ‘greener’ and remove the carbon footprint.

We are told that Kenya’s forests populations have decreased from 10% in the 1960s to 2% presently. This helped to grasp the severe state of our environment making the tree planting even more important. Looking at the degradation of our environment during this rainy season, it is shocking to see the flooding and the mud slides occurring, all because we have destroyed our environment. We were encouraged to exercise tree planting in our various communities around the country whenever an opportunity presents itself.

Tara Aglionby (9MWM)

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Mental Health & Wellbeing Peponi School recognises the importance of mental health and wellbeing and as such last term launched a new Mental Health Policy, which tied in with Children’s’ Mental Health Week in UK where the overarching message is “Being Ourselves”, celebrating our uniqueness as well as our differences whilst embracing diversity and tolerance. The Year 10s last term also completed a five-week module on Mental Heath in PSHE. Both adults and children sometimes find it difficult to think of positive things about themselves and to know what it is exactly that makes them the individuals they are, enabling them to feel comfortable in their own skin. This often results in low self-esteem.

Helping children and young people to have a positive view of themselves, to appreciate that they are unique with their own strengths, qualities and interests can help them to cope with life’s challenges as well as promote a sense of wellbeing.

Recognising the different qualities of others can also help us to connect with those around us, which is vital for our own and others’ wellbeing!

Parents play a very important role in helping their children understand that they are unique.

Here are a few simple ways you can encourage your children to understand the importance of ‘Being Ourselves’ Point out your children’s positive qualities determination, courage, and kindness – help them to notice what makes them unique.

Have a chat about the strengths, qualities and interests within your family over dinner, in the car or when you are playing together... it can be fun to notice how we are all different from each other!

Celebrate your efforts with your children Whether you go for a run, get promoted at work or cook a great meal, sharing your achievements, no matter how big or small, will help your children to recognise their own.

Reference: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk Karen Coyne School Counsellor schoolcounsellor@peponischool.org

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Careers News

Preview helps pupils to:

We continue to develop the Careers Department at Peponi to offer the best possible resources, guidance and support to pupils in planning the next phase of their lives beyond school.

• think carefully about their interests and to identify suitable career areas for further investigation • to develop skills and carry out detailed research into specific careers This year we have upgraded the Careers Corner in the library, • understand the likely demands careers will make on them providing more recent information on Universities across • make informed decisions about their future the world as well as posting relevant information, such as the • understand the relevance of subject choice in relation to university application process, managing university finances and changing trends in careers on the noticeboards. We have their more likely careers develop a very useful online portattended several careers fairs with the Sixth Form and invited folio of their skills, achievements and notes on work experience in MyCareersRoom, which is available up to age 24 a variety of guest speakers from UK, US and Canadian universities as well as their representatives within Nairobi to present here at School. As always, individual consultations For further information please see the website: http://www. and advice is ongoing. coa.co.uk/ Plans for next year include: • Developing a Careers Curriculum from Year 9 – UVI detailing the steps by year group towards preparing our pupils towards their career pathway.

•Hosting a Careers Cafe, where a number of professionals will be invited to speak informally to pupils about their careers over a cup of coffee, giving insights in to a variety of career paths and how they were achieved. We hope to diversify in terms of providing pupils with information on some less conventional options as well as the traditional ones.

• Developing a Careers Handbook offering guidance to both pupils and their parents on career pathways.

• Introducing Cambridge Occupational Analysts (COA) Preview and Profile Assessments for Year 11 pupils.

• Develop a Careers Newsletter each term and / or Careers Corner in the Peponi Post • Develop a bank of information on work experience opportunities.

We are delighted to announce that from September 2018 Peponi School will be offering the COA Preview Assessment to all Year 11 pupils and integrating this into the career’s curriculum. This year we will also be offering the same service to any Lower Sixth pupils who may be interested. This is a careers guidance programme designed to assess each individual’s interests and abilities in several cognitive areas.

More on the Cambridge Occupational Analysts (COA) Preview Assessment: COA previews and analyses individual student responses and produces an Interest Profile based on over 40 broad career areas. In addition, it provides: • useful information for each student on the top key career areas • a personalised AS/A level subject selection chart • a facility for structured careers research • access to MyCareersRoom • a hard copy and online version of The Careers Directory for each student • a copy of the Personal Development Guide for each student

Karen Coyne Careers Advisor / David Kimani Head of Sixth Form 2018 Leavers The university application process for 2018 is now complete and over 95% of our Upper Sixth pupils have received offers from universities of their first choice. What remains to be done is for them to continue to work hard and to their potential to achieve the required grades.

Many of our pupils will be leaving to enter some of the most prestigious and competitive courses at recognised leading universities throughout the world. All of our pupils will be embarking on courses and at universities that will lead them to exciting and inventive careers. We are proud of each and every one of them and we wish them all the very best of luck. Alongside the usual admissions to Bristol and Nottingham to read Law and Engineering, we also have entrants to Canadian Universities such as McGill (Nazaaha Ahmed), York (Munene M’mbijiwe), Western (Raihan Jiwa), UBC. Aretha Kimani is heading to Curtin in Australia. In addition, Jomo Kenyatta has been accepted to Williams College in the United States. The United Kingdom remains popular and Durham and Bristol seem to have found crowds of Peponians bolstering our numbers. Canada has drawn our North American focused pupils with many choosing Toronto over the Vancouver schools. We are delighted that Maria Wedd will be heading to Cambridge and Rahul Seedhar will be continuing our link with the LSE. Dubai will be enjoying their first Peponian ever as Asiya is off to Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences. As ever, they have been an ambitious year and we send them onwards with our best wishes and hope that they continue to be a source of pride for their families, their school and their country.

The full list of names will be published in the next edition of The Peponi Post.

David Kimani, Head of Sixth Form

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Chernobyl Remembered Thursday, the 26th of April the school hosted The First Secretary of Ukrainian Embassy in Nairobi, Mr Samvel Arustamian and Mr Nakamura a Scientist working at UNON. They delivered a presentation on the Remembrance Day of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station disaster that happened in 1986, in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

He described the horrific consequences of the deadly radiation that was released, which is still causing adverse health and environmental effects to date. Mass evacuations were ordered, in the city of Pripyat, 49000 people were displaced.

We learned about the bravery of three men who swam through radioactive water and sacrificed themselves in order to prevent a second explosion that would have made Europe inhabitable. The deaths related to Chernobyl had reached over 35000 by 2017.

The accident led to governments across Europe to invest more on alternative sources of energy such as solar and wind. There were also new safety measures that were introduced in other nuclear power plants to ensure that such accidents do not occur again.

The evening was concluded with some interesting questions asked by pupils. One pupil asked, due to the incident, should further investments in nuclear energy take place? To which Mr. Arustamian replied that we should seek to find alternative methods of energy production. This statement sparked a lively debate for and against the advancement of nuclear energy.

Overall, the evening was enjoyable and informative, and the school is very grateful to Mr Arustamian and Mr Nakamura for giving the presentation.

Waruguru Kibuga

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Assembly Speeches From VI Form Pupils I’m here to talk to you about developing sports in Africa.

elsewhere. If anything I agree, leaving ones home country and playing or competing for another country in order to achieve your From the age of 5 years, I have had the opportunity to repre- best in your preferred sport is a very hard choice. sent my country Uganda in different swimming competitions on both national and African regional levels. I have also had The number of sports men and women that are representing the chance to study in school systems that emphasise extra foreign countries are increasing and its sad for me who is anxious curricular sporting activities. This has given me a chance to see more Africans (particularly Ugandans) stand on the podium to be part of different sports teams while at the same time and have their national anthem played; not only that but to also focusing on my education. see the numbers of East African team representatives increase in size for competitions like the Olympic games and the CommonI have also trained with different coaches and attended wealth games. several camps which have exposed me to various techniques and methods that have helped me become a better and faster To achieve this, African countries should not only praise and recswimmer. ognize a few outstanding sports people who have excelled internationally, but they should put sports on their priority list because Before I continue, this is not my personal statement that I sports offers many benefits to a country’s development. will be reading for you today, although I felt the need to give you a small insight of what I used to take for granted and As Africans, together and individually, we have to strive and find what I have now come to strongly appreciate. My concern solutions to prevent loss of more of our talented athletes and comes in with those who don’t have the access to what I other sports women and men to other countries. have or don’t have the support that I have been able to reI am calling upon all people who are planning on taking upon ceive – which is also something that has driven my concerns different professions. This including lawyers, doctors, business about sports in Africa and its call of attention. people, architects and engineers even those who spend late nights waiting for their favorite premier league team to play .

Let me break it down for you.

Some might wonder how exactly these other professions impact on sports development, here is how: Over the past few years African sports women and men Those who are planning on becoming future businessmen and (East Africans in particular) have been forced to change their women: invest in local sports clubs and teams by funding equipnationalities claiming citizenship in other nations where they ment and trainers so that we can produce Neymar’s and Messi’s in can be treated better. When I say they are treated better I our very own backyard. mean they give them the recognition that they deserve, the trainers that they need to strive for better performance, funds Lawyers are useful in sports management; for example, they’re they need to be a full time athlete, and the general support needed to give legal advise to professional sportspersons and system that an athlete needs before, during and after their sports developers; and they’re often needed to assist in developing competion. contracts.

I am sure those of you who watched last Summer’s Olympic games noticed a few African Athletes like Nigerian Femi Doctors who have specialised in sports medicine, are also needed Ogunode who runs for Qatar, Kenyan Yasemin Can who to give knowledge that will prevent injuries during sports and also had been running for Kenya for 18 years but now competes treat sports related injuries. for Turkey; and lastly Kenya’s Barnard Lagat who actually won an Olympic bronze medal during the 2000 Sydney sum- Last but not least, we need future architects and engineers, who mer Olympic games and silver Medal for Kenya in the 2004 would help design sports training facilities and centers that are Olympic games in Athens, but sadly now runs for team suitable for our athletes and other sportspersons so that athletes USA. have a place to train at home as opposed to abroad.

This change in representation doesn’t only happen to African countries for example Austrian skier Kilian Albrecht who represents Bulgaria. His reasoning pretty much backs up my concern. He told a CNN sports reporter after the Vancouver winter Olympics “I skied for myself, not for my country. I just wanted to continue my job as a ski racer and that wasn’t possible so that’s why I looked for an option and ended up skiing for Bulgaria.” Kilian failed to get the support and the funds that he needed to continue being a skier back home, so he did what many athletes are doing now and are representing other countries. Am sure if you pay attention this coming summer during the world cup you will not fail to see a few .

My intention is not to criticise sports men and women who change their nationalities in order to get better opportunities

My fellow students this is “a call for action” to make sports a priority in your lives and in your home countries.

Thank you very much.

Katrina-sarah

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Week 3A

30 01 GCSE Music Composing Recordings (Course Work) AS & A2 French, German and Spanish Speaking Examination Starts

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Information Technology Practical Exams 9:30am

Information Technology Advanced Practical 9:30am Colts Rugby 7’s v Aga Khan (H) 3:30 pm Colts A Netball v Aga Khan (A) 3:30pm Colts B Netball v Hillcrest (A) 3:30pm Housemasters Meeting 4:15pm

GCE O Level Swahili Paper 1 Examination

Open Boys Volleyball v Strathmore (A) 3.00pm

PESTs Trip ( Ololokwe) Departs Upper VI Honours Dinner at MCC AS & A2 French, German and Spanish Speaking Examination Ends

Colts Netball Triangu- PESTs Trip ( Ololokwe) lar - Peponi A & B, Returns BGE, BGR (BGE) 9:00am Colts Rugby Triangular - Peponi, BGE, BGR (BGE) 9:00am NASA Sprint & Relays (GEMS School) 9:00am

U14 Boys’ & Girls’ Tennis v ISK (H) 4:00pm

Week 4B

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Year 11, Lower & Upper VI Examination Leave Begins

Start of Special Revision Timetable for Year 11 & Lower VI AS/A Level Displays Paper 1 & 2 Starts

Geography BCSK INSET, Greensteds Colts Volleyball v Premier (H) 3:30pm Colts Rugby 7’s v Premier (H) 3:30pm U14 Boys’ & Girls’ Tennis v ISK (A) 3:30pm

Year 10 Parent-Teacher-Meetings DML 7:00pm

Junior Inter House Debating Competition DML 5:15pm Colts B Netball v Premier (H) 3:00pm U14 Boys’ & Girls’ Tennis v Rosslyn (A) 4:00pm

Kayaking Trip, Sagana Departs KAIISSO U19 Boys’ & Girls’ Volleyball Tournament (RVA) 9:00am Hillcrest U14 Girls’ Netball Tournament 9:00am

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Psychology BCSK IN- Colts A Netball v Osh- ABRSM Mock Exams SET, Oshwal Academy wal (H) 3:30pm Colts Rugby 7’s v Oshwal (H) 3:30pm

Yr. 10 Geography Year 9 First Aid Course Coastal Landforms Trip to Mombasa Departs David Marshall Inter House Squash Competition 1st Leg Housemasters Meeting 4:15pm Gauss International Mathematics Contest 8:30am

KAIISSO U17 Girls’ Volleyball Tournament (Peponi) 9:00am BGE U15 Boys’ Rugby 10’s (BGE) 9:00am NASA Distance Meet

Yr. 10 Geography Coastal Landforms Trip to Mombasa Returns NASA Distance Meet (JKUAT) 9:00am

Week 6B

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Sports Fixtures Meet- AS Music examination Junior Inter House ing (Premier Academy) (9703) Colts A Netball v Rus- Debating Competition 9:00am DML 5:20pm inga A (A) 3:00pm Colts B Netball v Rusinga B (A) 3:00pm

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Colts B Netball v Imani (H) 3:00pm Colts Rugby v Strathmore (H) 3:30pm

Bronze Expedition Prize Giving Day NMS Choir Concerts at (Year 9) at Kakuzi Starts All Saints Cathedral NMS Choir Concerts at All Saints Cathedral KSF Age Group

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HILARY 2019 Boarders Return: Sunday, 6th January Term Begins: Monday, 7th January Half Term: Begins, Friday, 8th February Boarders Return: Sunday, 17th February Term Restarts: Monday, 18th February Term Ends: Friday, 22nd March

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