A Welcome from the Founding Principal

Thank you for taking the time to discover Granada School.

I am delighted to have this opportunity to welcome you, and to give you an impression of myself, our school, and all that it offers to our daughters.

I spent much of my career teaching and leading girls' schools, and I have seen what a strong education can do for a young woman. It gives her a mind she can trust, a voice she is willing to use, and the confidence to find her place in the world. After all those years, I wanted the opportunity to build a school from the first brick, and to think carefully about what should go into a school before habit decides it for you.

That is what Granada School is.

We open in January 2027 on our purpose-built campus in Vipingo, serving girls from Grade 7 through Grade 12 — Junior School in Grades 7 to 9, Senior School in Grades 10 to 12 — as both boarders and day students. As a start, we teach Kenya's Competency-Based Curriculum with the depth and seriousness it deserves. Our science laboratories, library and teaching spaces have been designed around the work girls will actually do in them: places for experimentation, reading, discussion, making, questioning and discovery.

Our expectations are high, and we say so plainly. A girl at Granada is asked to think carefully, argue honestly, finish what she starts, and be generous with the people around her. Together these qualities form our values “ be RICH in Character” : Resilience, Curiosity, Kindness, Honesty and Respect. It is written on our walls because we intend to be held to it.

High expectations only work where a girl feels known. Every girl joins one of our four houses: Aksum, Zeila, Timbuktu and Gede, named for great African centres of learning, culture and trade, a reminder that scholarship and ambition are deeply rooted in Africa's own history. It is her inheritance too. Her house is also where she is looked after: a resident housemistress, a small house group with a tutor who knows her, medical cover on campus, and a boarding routine built so that parents always know how she is and how she gets home.

To the families joining our founding cohort: you are taking us on trust, and we do not treat that lightly. A founding year asks something of everyone. It also offers something no later year can — the chance to set the standard rather than inherit it. Your daughters will establish the traditions, expectations and character that every Granada girl who follows them will grow up inside.

Come and see the campus. Meet us, walk the grounds, step into the classrooms and ask the hard questions. We would rather earn your confidence in person.