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Greensprings offers scholarship for world-class education

Greensprings offers scholarship for world-class education

Greensprings School as part of its commitment to offer quality education to students across Nigeria, announces its annual scholarship examination for entry into Year 7 and the post-secondary International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for 2019 – 2020 sessions.

The school will offer scholarships to candidates who perform exceptionally well in the 2019 examination into year 7 and IB Diploma Programme (Sixth form) slated for Saturday 15 December 2018 by 9:00am in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos.

Lai Koiki, chief executive, Greensprings School observes that the school prides itself in its achievements and the scholarship examination is a way to support excellence by providing scholars a platform to experience well-rounded education.

Over the last couple of years, the school has shown tremendous growth in its educational services to students and parents.

Koiki said the school is consistently redefining education in Africa and strongly believe that every child deserves a well-rounded education. According to her, “Children require a solid foundation to become global citizens to enable them contribute immensely to their communities. The scholarship programme will give students the opportunity to build up skills they can draw from for the rest of their lives”.

She further stated that in partnership with Thinking School International, Greensprings is authorised as the principal Thinking School in Nigeria, deliberately training 21st Century learners in ‘thinking skills’ which is needed for helping students to build up their meta-cognition and growth-mindset capacity to the highest capacity.

Enumerating achievement from the school, the educationist said that in 2018, five students from Greensprings School were honoured at the British council where they received the Cambridge- outstanding learner awards.

These awards include; Top in Country for Arts and Design, Top in Country for Drama, Top in Country for Accounting, Top in Country for Global Perspectives and Top in Country for Literature (English).

Last year, six Greensprings students also received the Cambridge – outstanding learner awards from the British council. In that list was Honour Olatunji, who emerged top in the world for Mathematics in the Cambridge IGCSE.

Furthermore, the vast majority of Greensprings’ students are accepted by top universities in Europe, North America, Asia, America and Nigeria, as well as other parts of Africa. Every year, a high number of Greensprings students are awarded scholarships at some of the world’s top universities.

Greensprings runs a British curriculum and offers a wide range of subjects such as; Accounting, Additional Mathematics, Art & Design, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Drama, Economics, English Language, French, Geography, History, Information& Communication Technology, Literature in English, Mathematics, Physical Education, Physics, Global Perspectives and Spanish etc.