Founder's Note
Mamu Alhaji Muhammad
Co-founder, Chairman CEO
Founder's Note: Addressing Stereotyping, Inequity and Exclusivity in Education
The School is founded by Mamu Alhaji Muhammad and his wife Rafia Abubakar Digijin with Muhammad Muhseen Mamu as the first student. The founders are concerned about exclusion and stereotyping in schools as a result of proliferation of faith based schools in Nigeria, where educational pursuits are designed with a particular religion in mind. On the other hand, we are also mindful of the fact that Nigeria is a very religious society and parents place high value on the spiritual needs of their children.
Our school, is therefore established to create a nexus between addressing exclusivity and stereotyping on one hand and meeting up with spiritual needs of children on the other hand. It’s against this backdrop that our system, is designed to be completely secular during normal school hours while it is affiliated to Islamiyyah and Bible schools, systematically structured to run as an after school program.
During normal school hours, the secular system is triangulated on the Nigerian curriculum, British curriculum and Stem education. This broad-spectrum curriculum provides a mix blend of Nigeria and British content that ensures quality learning experience and prepares students for both Cambridge and Nigerian external/terminal examinations. The school has qualified to become Cambridge licensed. The Stem curriculum on the other hand, exposes students to a world of robotics, AI, coding etc. It offers great opportunities for students to think critically and explore, in other to prepare them for the reality of the digital disruption and rapidly changing skills requirement.
The after school Islamiyyah program is run as a separate school system, structured to take children from nursery to secondary Islamic education. Students are made to read, write and speak Arabic language, memorize the holy Qur’an and learn the nuances of Islamic jurisprudence. The Bible school is also an after school educational system, structured to meet the learning needs of different ages. The emphasis is on Bible study, music, motivational speaking and French language. Through a deliberate policy of entrenching gender-responsive pedagogy, we are able to ensure gender equality in our learning system. From classroom, teaching resources, to use of language and employment of teachers, we have ensured that all are tailored towards equality and participation.
Thus, our students, from different religious, cultural, gender and regional backgrounds come together within a pure secular system to learn, tinker, collaborate and innovate, while their Individual religious and culture needs are adequately taken care of by the after-school program. All this, happening under one roof. We are succeeding in addressing the problems of stereotyping, inequality and exclusivity in our system and growing to be an exemplary educational service provider in Nigeria.
Established in October 2016 with only one classroom, and one student, the school has experienced rapid growth and now has a student population of 365 and 30 classrooms, as at September 2022.