Nairobi School
| Nairobi School | |
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| Location | |
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Nairobi Kenya |
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| Information | |
| Type | National, Public |
| Motto | To The Uttermost |
| Established | 1902 |
| Principal | Mr. Paul Kibet |
| Number of students | 1100 |
| Campus | Westlands, Nairobi |
| Color(s) | Blue, Yellow, Grey and White |
| Website | http://nairobischool.ac.ke |
Nairobi School is a national secondary school in Nairobi, Kenya. It was founded in 1902 by the British settlers who had made Nairobi their home after the construction of the Uganda Railway. In 1925 Lord Delamere and Sir Edward Grigg, then Governor of Kenya, separated the European Nairobi School into a senior boys' school (Prince of Wales School), a senior girls' school (Kenya High School) and a junior school (Nairobi Primary School).
In 1931 a new school was built at the 250-acre (1.0 km2) site at Kabete, the main school buildings being designed by Herbert Baker. The school was then named the Prince of Wales School but following Kenya's independence the school was renamed to Nairobi School in 1965. The school is popularly referred to as 'Patch'.
Nairobi school was initially started in the year 1902 around the present day Nairobi Railways club as a European school to serve the families of the I.B.E.A Company and awhile later the white settler community. Out of the foresight of the late Lord Delamere in proposing the building of a senior Boys school (now Nairobi Primary), and the support of the then governor, Sir Edward Grigg, the railway reserve grounds near Kabete were set aside for the future planning.
In 1928, Sir Herbert Baker was commissioned to plan a school similar to Britain's Winchester school, attended by both Lord Delamere and the then Governor-Kenya colony, in Winchester, an old town in Southern England dating from about 516AD, after the Romans left England. It was a major administrative and silver minting center, and hence, a Saxon Capital of England from 1066AD. Captain B.W.L. Nicholson from Royal Naval College Dartmouth was appointed Headmaster of the European Nairobi School while planning for the New Boys School to be built at Kabete. Captain Nicholson designed the School uniform and discipline based on the British Naval system, meanwhile Mrs. Nicholson and Rev. Gillett worked on the gardens of the new School.
On 24 September 1929 the foundation stone was laid by his Excellency Lt. Col. Sir Edward Grigg K.C.M K.C.V.O, D.S.O, M.C, Governor of Kenya colony, for a school with a capacity of 80 boys. Interestingly under the stone were preserved a copy of the day. The School opened in 1931 not only for the 80 boys it was designed, but with 84 boarders and 20-day boys. The headmaster felt the old name 'Kabete Boys Secondary School' was too clumsy and it was given the name 'Prince of Wales School' as a special case, the Prince of Wales feathers were to be inserted between the horns of a Royal Impala as the School badge, accompanied by the school motto "TO THE UTTERMOST".
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