Stand, Build and Lead
Junior Secondary and Senior Secondary — JSS 1 through to SS 3, on the Nigerian national curriculum.
Sure Edge Montessori Secondary School runs the full secondary course — Junior Secondary from JSS 1 to JSS 3, and Senior Secondary from SS 1 to SS 3. It follows the Nigerian national curriculum, and keeps classes small enough that a teacher knows every student's work.
The move from primary to secondary is where many able children quietly come unstuck. Subjects multiply, teachers change by period, and a student who is struggling can go unnoticed for a term. We organise against that. Subject teachers share what they see, form teachers hold the whole picture of a student, and parents hear from us before a problem has become a habit.
The motto of the Secondary School is Stand, Build and Lead. It describes what we are trying to produce: young people who know what they believe, who can make something useful of their work and their character, and who take responsibility before anyone asks them to.
The two stages
Six years in two halves. The first keeps every door open. The second lets a student go through the one that suits them.
A broad foundation across the national curriculum, completing the basic education cycle. Students carry every core subject, so that no door is closed before they are old enough to choose. The stage concludes with the Basic Education Certificate Examination.
Students specialise, carrying the compulsory core subjects alongside the stream that suits their strengths and their intended course of study. The stage prepares them for the senior school certificate examinations and for university entrance.
How the Secondary School works
We keep classes small on purpose. A teacher who knows every student catches a problem in the week it appears, rather than at the end of term.
Prefect roles, house competition and club leadership put students in charge of something real, where the consequences of doing it badly are their own.
Junior Secondary works towards the Basic Education Certificate Examination; Senior Secondary towards the senior school certificate examinations and university entrance.
The Secondary School motto
“Stand, Build and Lead.”
To know what you believe, and to hold it when it is inconvenient.
To make something useful — of your work, your character, and the place you find yourself in.
To take responsibility before you are asked to, starting with yourself.
Coming up from Basic 5
A child who has come through our Early Years & Primary School arrives in secondary already known: their reading, their confidence, the subjects that come easily and the ones that do not. No one spends a term working out what they are capable of.
Students joining us from other schools sit the same entrance assessment, and are placed with the same care.
The Early Years & Primary School
An entrance examination follows your application. Tell us the class you are applying for and we will confirm availability.
