The Regent School, Abuja, Nigeria, is a Primary School of 460 pupils. There is a teaching staff of 60 and a further 25 administrative and support staff. The School was founded in 2000, with the express intention of offering high-quality, British-style education to the children of Nigerian and expatriate families. It is situated in Maitama, a pleasant, residential district of the fast-developing capital city of Abuja.

The School offers its own curriculum, which is very closely modelled on the British National Curriculum. French is introduced from Year 1 and the children have weekly lessons in Art, Music, Design Technology and P.E., as well as the normal range of core curriculum subjects.

The teaching staff are all qualified degree-holders; some hold, or are reading for, Masters’ Degrees. A rigorous ongoing programme of in-house staff training ensures that all staff are familiar with the British approach. In addition, a number of staff are sponsored each year by the School to attend courses in Africa and in the United Kingdom. The Regent School also has prospective membership of the Council of International Schools.

Classes are kept to 20 pupils, except in exceptional circumstances, and every class has both a Class Teacher and a full-time Teaching Assistant. The School is organised into three departments: Early Years, covering Playgroup, Nursery and Reception years; Lower Primary, embracing Years 1 - 3; and Upper Primary, providing for Years 4 - 6. Thus, each Department looks after the education and well-being in nine classes.

The school campus is arranged so that within a close-knit, “family” environment, the three Departments maintain their own identity and have their own space. This is particularly so for the Early Years children, who are self-contained in their own attractive, courtyard setting a little apart from the older, bigger children. The very youngest children have their own separate Playgroup House and secluded garden.

All classrooms are air-conditioned and in addition to these rooms the School has an ICT Room, a large, air-conditioned Hall and a beautiful feature Library, decorated with African murals and imaginatively designed for maximum child-friendliness. A second, spacious Library has been added, for the use of older children. Outside is a playground, outdoor stage and a large, very well-kept sports field planted with European-style grass and kept in peak condition by its own pop-up automatic sprinkler system. Exciting adventure play equipment has been recently installed in two locations on the campus.

Each of the three Departments is led by an expatriate British teacher, combining knowledge of the British National Curriculum with international teaching experience. The Heads of Department, together with the Nigerian Senior Teacher and the Headmaster, make up the Senior Management Team. Children proceed from The Regent School to a variety of secondary schools locally, in other African countries and in the United Kingdom. A large number, of course, now transfer to The Regent Secondary School!

The Regent School enjoys an excellent reputation in Abuja for providing high-quality education in a friendly, child-focused environment. As Headmaster, I am determined that the child will be right at the heart of everything we do and that this will be a place where education is exciting, values for life are learned and everyone is respected for the person that they are.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” (W.B. Yeats)

I hope very much to have the opportunity of welcoming you and your child or children to the family of The Regent School.

Stephen A. Robinson B.Ed. (Hons)
Headmaster