Sierra Leone Grammar School (SLGS)

Sierra Leone Grammar School, or SLGS, is West Africa’s oldest educational institution. It has supported and developed the country’s most promising young minds since 1845, and alumni of the school include Ministers, senior civil servants, eminent lawyers and pioneering medical professionals

Though it has a proud history of excellence in learning, a decade of civil war in the region has left the school in urgent need of repair, renovation and modernisation. All funds raised in this challenge will help complete the school’s ongoing projects, such as the construction of new STEM science labs, part of a wider initiative to make the campus a hub of STEM and computer science.

With other investments including improved internet connectivity, new study spaces, refreshed ICT facilities and an ongoing Covid strategy including remote classrooms, every penny raised will have an impact on the richness of education available to SLGS’s pupils.

Other areas supported by your sponsorship include: the SLGS Gifted and Talented (GaT) scholarship fund, established in 2005 to support families experiencing financial or personal difficulties with their child’s education; the SLGS Innovation programme, immersing our students in a world standard STEM curriculum; the wider modernisation of our science facilities, replacing our outdated, crumbling classrooms with spacious, fully equipped and state-of-the-art spaces; the first Cisco Net Academy School in Sierra Leone, giving our young innovators and their teachers free access to their world-renowned ICT Curriculum; a modernised computer lab with the latest hardware and programs; increased internet connectivity throughout the school; and our exceptional response to COVID, including rapidly deployed virtual classroom learning.

Sponsorship support from events like RideLondon continue to have an impact on the richness of education available to SLGS’s pupils, and the standard of education throughout West Africa.

We are planning for a bright future, embedding STEM learning at the School. All of this is dependent on the continued belief and investment of the School’s donors. Our science facilities are currently in desperate need of renewal, and the state-of-the-art plans we have to update them simply won’t happen without the vital donations we oversee. More details can be found here: https://stemforslgs175.com/stem-at-slgs/