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About Us

Motto

Strive to seek, To find and to Excel.

Slogan

Together we achieve the extraordinary

About K.G.H.S?

Founded in the year 2014, Kigali Greater Heights International School (KGH-IS) has been steadily growing from day care, nursery to grade 6 as a private school offering only the Rwanda national curriculum. Being a Christian based school, students and staff discipline has earned the school high accolades among parents and the community. The performance of our school has been among the best in the country. From the year 2020, the school was accredited to become an internationally Cambridge accredited school now proud to be serving around 350 learners. Our parents, teachers, administrative staff, support staff and learners, now come from 6 different countries in the region and beyond.

Our main campus is located in Masoro cell, Ndera sector, Gasabo district in Kigali city, adjacent to the Adventist University of central Africa. This Adventist University is home to the Adventist School of Medicine (ASOME) from which some of our parents work. We are proud to have our school campus on a piece of well-located environmentally friendly land, with appealing buildings and a rush green environment of fruit trees. Our well-planned buildings are well placed in an educationally friendly vicinity. The classrooms, laboratories and other study facilities. Each child sits on an individual chair, with moveable tables of two learners to allow space for group work in a competence-based education system. Our school facilities include a Resource Center (RC), an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Lab, Science laboratories, a Music and Art room, and Sports facilities like volley ball, basketball, netball and an array of indoor games.

Our school structure is designed to accommodate three separate sections-

  1. a) The Nursery Section with one section of nursey one to nursery three. This section uses the French language as the mode of tutorship and assessment. All methodologies of study and assessment are aligned with the Cambridge International curriculum as well as the Rwandan National curriculum.
  2. b) The Primary Division has two sections- i) the Lower Primary Section (for Grade 1 to Grade 3). This section also uses French as a language of tutorship with English as a Second Language as one of the subjects. English increases as one goes to grade 3. This section also uses the Cambridge International assessment, with the French DELF Prime and DELF Junior being the assessment for the French as a Foreign Language; and, ii) the Upper Primary Section (of grade 4-grade 6), use predominantly English as language as the language of tutorship with Cambridge International assessment. French as a second Language is studied as a subject. It is in this section where majority of learners transition to DELF Junior which continues into the secondary section. The KGHS Secondary Division with the Junior Secondary is opening soon, since we have completed the science laboratory facilities.

KGH-IS is accredited to offer the national curriculum program as well for those who donā€™t continue with the Cambridge International Assessment program.

In Kigali Greater Heights International School, teaching is an important and responsible profession, whose members have a profound and lasting influence on the development and positive life chances of our 21st century learners. As we teach with compassion, kindness, collegiality and cooperation, we are well aware that, ā€œeconomic and social wellbeing of any country, and the success of every other occupation, relies in no small part on the knowledge, skill, judgment, and commitment of teachersā€.

Our Vision

To be the leading institution in Rwanda that provides an innovative and holistic education, built on a firm foundation for high academic, technical, ethical and moral values, preparing students to excel in a globalized world.

Explanation of Vision Statement

We will provide a holistic approach to education by means of experiential learning.

  • We will focus on our mission as Christ centered school and target biblical values in our school norms.
  • We will focus on academic excellence by demonstrating, integrity, respect, fairness, responsibility and trust.
  • We will encourage leadership and active learning, and intentionally encourage critical thinking and technological skills to assist students in realizing their full potential.
  • We will focus on external factors that enable them to retain facilities that will allow for the full implementation of our mission.

Our Mission

To deliver high-quality, National and International education through a nurturing environment that fosters academic excellence, Christ centered personal growth, and ethical leadership.

OUR EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Maintain a Hight Academic Standard that:

  • Delivers a broad curriculum that draws from various teaching methods, with English and French as the languages of instruction;
  • Offers the students opportunities to develop lively, enquiring minds and independent thinking;

Promote Personal Values that:

  • Encourages participation in co-curricular activities;
  • Provides opportunities and encouragement for the professional development of staff;
  • Identifies and meets the needs of students, except when student(s) special educational needs cannot be met within the schoolā€™s resources;
  • Keeps abreast of trends in education and ensures that the curriculum remains relevant and dynamic.

ACADEMIC APPROACH

Kigali Greater Heights -International School faculty, staff and board of Governors believe that it is important to adopt a learning model that can benefit all students who enter the school. In order to provide a rigorous college preparatory curriculum for our students, we believe that students should master the material they learn in and outside the classroom. We do not want students to move through a curriculum without mastering smaller units of study. It is also equally essential for students to master-fully anchor what they have learned in the classroom through meaningful experiential learning activities, which is the academic cornerstone at Kigali Greater Heights ā€“ International School.

OUR VALUES

KGH-IS students, faculty, staff and parents understand our values. They are specific to our organization and are ingrained in how we conduct ourselves on a day-to-day basis.

  1. Respect and tolerance: to treat others as you would want to be treated. Being fair and valuing diversity.
  2. Responsibility is recognized by all to demonstrate their best effort to prepare and complete academic tasks.
  • Honesty and integrity: to live up to Christian values. Actions speak louder than words.
  1. Being responsible: taking ownership for oneā€™s actions and not blaming others. Fairness and social justice.
  2. Being caring: towards others and to the environment. Thinking globally but acting locally. Thinking of others, a sense of community.
  3. Creativity: people who think of new ideas, display innovation, enquiry and curiosity and who are prepared to take risks with their learning.
  • Learning to make choices and accepting consequences.
  • Being positive: getting involved. A ā€˜have a go attitudeā€™. A sense of fun. Optimism.
  1. Doing oneā€™s best: having high expectations and striving for personal excellence. Peak performance. Able to set and achieve goals.
  2. Perseverance: ā€˜stick- abilityā€™ and valuing personal effort.