Small enough to know every child
Ultimate Primary is a kindergarten, nursery and primary school in Akute. Two streams a year group, no class above twenty-four, and a school day planned around how children aged two to eleven actually learn.
Reading comes first
A child who cannot read fluently by Primary 3 spends the next nine years behind in every subject, not one. So the first lesson of every day is reading, and every child is heard reading aloud by an adult twice a week.
Mathematics follows in the morning, while attention is long. Science and social studies are taught where the equipment is, and the afternoons are for languages, music and clubs.
Twenty-four in a class
We cap classes at twenty-four and open a second stream rather than admit the twenty-fifth. It is the most expensive promise we make, and the easiest one for a parent to check: count the desks on a tour.
A small class is how a teacher knows every child in the room by the second week, and notices a bad morning at the gate before it becomes a bad day.
Beyond the classroom
Break is forty minutes, outside, because children who have run about learn better in the afternoon. Lunch is hot, at tables, with teachers eating alongside their class.
- Languages and music — Yoruba, French and music rotate through the week.
- Clubs — chess, choir, gardening and coding, chosen by the child each term.
- Homework — none to finish at the kitchen table before Primary 4, and never at the weekend.
Moving on at eleven
We prepare children for the entrance examinations of the secondary schools their families choose, in Primary 4 and 5 and in school hours. We do not run Saturday coaching, and we do not teach the paper for four years.
Many families look at Ultimate Secondary, our sister school for JSS1 to SS3.
See it for yourself
Tours run during lessons, so you see the school as it really is.
