Our Cause:
Equipping, empowering and advocating for tomorrow’s leaders, professionals and thinkers.
The Vision
To ensure that the Sierra Leone Grammar School continues to provide secondary school education that is on par with the best offered anywhere in the West Africa subregion
Our Mission
Provide the best facilities within which students can learn
Our fundraising efforts will focus on obtaining equipment or funds to support the school in providing modern facilities to support learning. This will include refurbishing the existing buildings, providing sustainable power supply and uninterrupted internet access
Boost the school's education output through an inclusive STEM programme
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
They are not just four individual subjects; rather they represent broad categories of important skillsets that can equip our future generations in collaborating to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Scientists: Independent and critical thinkers to hypothesise – experiment – analyse – evaluate to solve a problem
Technology: Innovating to make every-day tasks more effective by providing facilities
Engineers: Problem solvers that work on executing solutions for worldwide challenges
Mathematics: Simply quantify the use of data to understand how physics dictates the world around us.
Creating a STEM capable environment will ensure our graduates catch up and keep up with the evolving pace of technological advances today.
How:
STEM activities provide hands-on and minds-on lessons for the students. Making maths and science both fun and interesting and helps the students to do much more than just learn.Students gain 21st century learning skills in the STEM Lab by engaging in projects that develop:
Communication
Collaboration
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Information literacy
Adaptability
Skills are developed in a project-based learning environment where students apply technology to projects of their own design. A curriculum that is STEM based has real-life situations to help the students learn.
Provide nationwide leadership on education provision
We will produce a “receive in order to give” ethos to all aspects of our work and fundraising. As we develop our facilities and programmes, we will strive to serve not just ourselves and our students but the wider Community. We want to be an incubator of excellent learning. To achieve this, we will make our programmes and facilities available to all students, whether or not they attend the Grammar School.
Our Projects
Our ethos is all about empowering change that is positive but also sustainable.
Great Buildings
Facilities that are fit for producing excellent scholars.
Great Teachers
Teachers that are not only inspiring but well equipped.
Great Programmes
Innovative, comprehensive, relevant, future-proofed tuition.
Here are our current portfolio of projects at the School:
1. Our Building Refurbishment Program
The Current State of the Chemistry, Physics and Biology Labs
SLGS has produced many astute scientists, doctors and professors including the Nobel nominee;Professor Christopher B Lynch. The previous generation of alumni have made significant contributions to the world of science and we want to provide the current generation of pupils with the same level of
training and innovation that will allow them to be intellectually curious about science, explore and have fun with it. Unfortunately, the science building which houses six labs is in a very bad state and in desperate need of repairs. There is no source of electricity or running water, the windows are broken and the roof leaks badly whenever it rains. This is not the kind of environment to nurture our young scientists. Thus, we have initiated this campaign to restore the science building in collaboration with the global alumni community, the PTA and the School board.
The lack of rain between the months of October and May is also a serious hazard, in addition to creating and unsightly and unwelcoming environment. Tarring over the roads outside has also been an area of focus for our Buildings Refurbishment Team.
We need to:
- Renovate the biology, chemistry and physics labs and equip them to support and enhance their practical and experimental experience.
- Refurbish the entire building with new electrical wiring, water, gas, furniture, internet connection and lab equipment.
Work with the teachers on incorporating science experiments into the curriculum.
As part of our school building project, we have implemented an extensive set of solar panels to facilitate sustainable power.
2. Computer Lab Upgrade
What we have achieved so far. . .
We have worked together with our Principal, Rev. Canon Leonard Ken Davies to transform the School’s ICT capability. Our ICT strategy is to ensure the School has the tools to provide the pupils with 21st century skills. To achieve this, we developed a plan of action to reinforce the foundational components required to make more use of ICT at the School.
We worked with a number of organizations who gave us used equipment that we refurbished and repurposed for the ICT labs. Some of the equipment we received were desks, chairs, whiteboards, desktop computers, monitors, internet broadband connectivity etc. Members of the alumni community also gave their time, free of charge, to fix the computers and set up the school wide campus network.
The alumni Associations collectively funded the cost of packing, shipping and clearing of these equipment to the School.
3. Summer Bootcamp
Our annual summer school kicks off this year on the 28th of July, running through to the 22nd of August. The course is aimed at pupils of all backgrounds and schools, not just the Sierra Leone Grammar School and is our contribution to promoting STEM based learning across the whole country.
Please Note: This event is open to pupils from all schools, not just the Grammar School.
Who are we
OUR MISSION
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Our pilot ‘Innovation’ programme for this academic year 2019/20 is currently running and ,Our aims are to ensure every pupil develops some STEM skills
...but our facilities are not yet up to the job..
In order to harness the considerable potential of STEM learning at the Sierra Leone Grammar School, our science facilities desperately need modernising. Please donate today to continue our vital work. We can enable a generation of learners capable of realising West Africa’s huge potential as a 21st century technology hub.