Light International School

Light International School (LIS) is a unique co-educational day and boarding school that offers the British National Curriculum from Kindergarten (Aged 3-5) through to A- level (from Year 7 to Year 13) to students from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. The school has roots in the highly successful and popular Light Academy schools located in different cities across Kenya and is dedicated to the international curriculum. At LIS we go beyond producing academically competent students (which is part of our culture) and also bring up socially responsible and culturally sensitive individuals who are truly worlded citizens. Located in the serene Karen suburb of Nairobi off Lang'ata Road, LIS boats a quiet environment conducive to richly rewarding learning experiences as our students have very few distractions to contend with. Our school pays particular attention to offering students opportunities to participate in national and international project Olympiads, opportunities that have seen a great many of them go on to shine in different fields in events hosted in different countries across the globe. Also, we have been keen to bring some of these competitions home to Africa and in this regard, we take pride in being the first school to host the East African Round of the world-famous World Scholar's Cup. We have since hosted this annual event that brings together primary and secondary school 'scholars' from all over East Africa and beyond to showcase their mastery of world events, debating and writing skills as well as engage in intercultural exchanges. In addition, aware of the urgent need to secure and save our environment for future generations, we founded a popular, unique project Olympiad dedicated to the environment-Golden Climate International Project Olympiad(GCIEPO)-which we host annually. GCIEPO is the biggest competition of its kind in East and Central Africa. It attracted participants from over 30 countries on its inauguration in 2011 and has consistently enjoyed an average participation of 20 countries each year since. It is a completely non-profit competition aimed at promoting a global understanding of environmental issues and the realisation of sustainability of the same, while also providing challenges and opportunities for students that will equip them with the skills and knowledge needed to be the leaders, scientists, and engineers of the future, agents who will promote and contribute to the promotion and protection of the environment throughout their lives. Our warmly home-like hostels have something unique about them-the availability of a loving and caring team of carefully selected former students and other more mature members of staff, working under a dorm master, to keep order there. These students' 'brothers' help to ensure that the students are responsible and orderly whenever they are in their hostels. LIS boasts of a highly motivated staff from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds that work in harmony, tapping into the richness of this diversity. This highly motivated, dedicated team works unsparingly to ensure that the students entrusted to us leave the school with value added education. It is to this great learning experience we open our doors to eligible students every single year.